Personal & Professional Development
Competitions and awards
Taking part in competitions and challenges will give you new motivation and ideas to work on, valuable experience and, last but not least, financial support for your projects.
The competitions and challenges are regularly updated on the website of the Counselling and Career Centre .
Sharing professional experiences – Mentoring
The mentoring programme offers you the opportunity to create an informal relationship with a more experienced practitioner and take a step further on your journey.
Mentoring is available for Bachelor, Master and PhD students and graduates.
Courses, lectures and workshops
- Counselling and Career Centre – soft-skills oriented courses and workshops taking place directly at the university, such as communication and presentation skills, financial literacy, leadership, as well as stress management and relaxation techniques. Please note that not all events may be available in English.
- Coursera – online courses from prestigious universities around the world, covering a wide range of topics and fields.
- National Library of Technology – courses and workshops dedicated to academic writing, citation, information search and filtering, or presentation skills.
- Maker Institute – technical skills in practice, 3D printing, and projects with social impact using technology.
Life-long Learning Courses (LLL)
You can also take various lifelong learning courses that will broaden your horizons in topics outside your field, such as project management or media communication. These courses are free, and you can earn a certificate for some of them. The regularly updated offer can be found on the Czech webpage here.
Courses where the language of instruction is English are listed in English.
Language courses
The Department of Languages offers courses that students can take as optional subjects.
Optional courses include General English, French, German, Russian and Spanish, as well as Business English.
Foreign and Erasmus programme students are offered Czech Language for Foreigners.
The Department of Languages also provides regular and intensive language courses designed for academic staff, UCT employees and PhD students.
Taking part in university clubs
Taking part in university clubs is an opportunity for personal development, gaining new skills and competencies, e.g. team communication, leadership, event organisation, financial management, and event production.
What is right for me?
Don’t know what would interest you? What would be good to develop? Where your steps after school should lead? We offer free-of-charge career counselling to UCT Prague students, where you can discuss your strengths and weaknesses, interests and orientation, expected career direction and other questions to guide your next steps. Studying at UCT opens many professional and personal possibilities – it would be a shame not to make full use of them!