Practical Information for Incoming Students - UJEP

Chapters from Our History
Our history dates back to 1954 when
the Higher Teacher Training College
was set up to become the Pedagogical
Institute in 1959, and to 1964,
when the Pedagogical Faculty in Ústí
nad Labem was established . Under
Act No . 314/1991 Coll ., the University
of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí
nad Labem was set up and solemnly
inaugurated on 28 September 1991,
comprising three faculties and an
Institute . Those were the Faculty of
Education, the Faculty of Social and
Economic Studies, the Faculty of the
Environment (or Faculty of the Environmental
Studies), and the Institute
of Slavonic & Germanic Studies .
1993 – The Institute of Art Culture
was established as an art
school of an artistic and industrial
orientation .
1998 – The Institute of Technology
and Production Management
was set up as part of UJEP
2000 – The Faculty of Applied Art
and Design was established,
being transformed from the
Institute of Art Culture .
2003 – The Institute of Health Studies
was founded .
2005 – The Institute of Humanities
and Institute of Natural Sciences
were established . The
Institute of Natural Sciences
was transformed into the
Faculty of Science
2006 – The Institute of Humanities
was transformed into the
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