The partnership between the University of New York in Prague and the Czech Olympic Team officially launched on January 1st, 2022. The University of New York in Prague will be the Czech Olympic Team’s official educational supplier from 2022 to 2026, in a cooperation which focuses on educational provision and strengthening the Czech Team’s Dual Career program for athletes. In addition […]

In the region of the Western Balkans, donors and international implementing agencies have played a crucial role in supporting the development of independent media – i.e. media free from government, business, or political influences over editorial decisions. These are mostly small classic media outlets, such as local or regional radio and TV stations, but also […]

(Especially wheneverythingseems to be Priority 1) Here’s one that almost all of us have faced at one time or another: A mass of work or projects to accomplish, limited time available, and every task and every project pushing to be Priority 1! As the work stacks up and we get farther and farther behind, the […]

“The MBA of the University of New York in Prague is re-inventing Management education”, says Juwana Jenkins, EMCC accredited Senior Practitioner Coach and leader of the innovative coaching program GROW to Flow. UNYP helps MBA students set smarter goals related to issues and challenges they face at work. In today’s digital world, any kind of management information […]

Philanthropy is an important UNYP tradition, and every year we mark the holiday season by collecting for a charitable cause. This year, the UNYP Student Council has worked with the UNYP library and the university community to collect Christmas presents for children at the Dolní Počernice Children’s Home (DDDP). On December 17th, we delivered the […]

Studying abroad at UNYP can bring many unforgettable experiences. Of course, you will meet classmates from over 60 countries and learn their culture, but while you are in the Czech Republic, you have the opportunity to learn about Czech traditions as well. For those of you who will be staying in Prague in December, we have […]

“Ha ha, you’re not going to get rid of me that easy!” It will surprise no one that this was the first sentence Ciaran Kelly said to me a week or so after the first signs of his health concerns. It was “classic Kelly” on the phone that day, words flooding out of his mouth […]

On Thursday, November 18th, the University of New York in Prague hosted its first webinar in cooperation with the Economic Olympiad – GetReady4EO with UNYP – for high school students that will be taking part in this year´s competition. Economic Olympiad and its partnership with UNYP is a great project with a specific mission to educate and […]

For a long time, Africa has been a major focus of my research. My research interests include, inter alia, the modern and contemporary history and politics of Ethiopia, with particular attention to nation-building, nationalism, ethnic identity, ethnic federalism and related issues, the issue of conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, Euro-African relations, and Czechoslovak-African relations.  Recently, I […]

Over the past few decades, English-medium universities like UNYP have admitted increasingly diverse groups of students, many of whom speak English as an additional language (Lea & Street, 2010; Thesen, 1997). The transition from high school to university is often challenging, even for students studying in their primary languages (Clerehan, 2002). For students who are […]