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Call for the submission of proposals for publication to be supported by the Major Publishing Grant for 2026

The Dean of FUD UJEP hereby announces a call for the submission of proposals for publication to be supported by the Major Publishing Grant for 2026. The support is intended for authors from among members of the academic community of FUD UJEP, in accordance with Dean’s Directive No. 1/2017.

Evaluation criteria:
a) the significance of the publication for the development of the Faculty’s creative, research and artistic activities
b) the significance of the publication for the representation of the Faculty
c) the possibility of including the publication in the RIV or RUV evaluation system
d) the significance of the publication for the development of the fields of Fine Art, Design and Visual Communication

Proposals shall be submitted to the Chair of the FUD Editorial Board via the Editorial Office in electronic form to the following email address: klara.mrkusova@ujep.cz, and simultaneously in printed form with the approval and signature of the Head of Department, Šárka Novotná (Office No. 327), no later than Friday, 27 February 2026.

Proposals for publication and the requested amount of the publishing grant will be assessed by the FUD Editorial Board no later than 31 March 2026. The Board will propose a selection of publications for inclusion in the 2026 Publishing Plan.

The form “Proposal for Publication”, to be completed by the author or editor of the proposed book, is available as an annex to the above-mentioned Directive and can also be found on the Publishing section of the website under “For Authors”.

We invite you to the Faculty Round of the Student Research Conference

We cordially invite you to the faculty round of the Student Research Conference, where doctoral students of the Faculty of Art and Design will present their student projects.

The conference will take place on Tuesday, 17 February 2026 at 10:00 in the Lecture Hall 537 at the Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.

Experiment by Cast Iron

“Experiment by Cast Iron” is an international symposium expanding on the momentum of its 2019 and 2021 editions. Between December 8 and 17, FUD UJEP will host a full program dedicated to the methods and possibilities of the material. The Studio of Natural Materials, in collaboration with educators and artists from the Czechia, Moravia, Slovakia, and the United States, will engage in processes associated with cast-iron art production.

The House of Arts Ústí nad Labem will open a new exhibition by artist Ilona Németh

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition, which will take place on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at 6 pm at the House of Arts Ústí nad Labem. A guided tour of the exhibition with the artist and the curator will be held at 5 pm. Prominent Slovak artist Ilona Németh presents in Ústí nad Labem a complex authorial project that critically reflects on the current climate crisis through the metaphor of dying thuja trees—the “trees of life.”

GRADUATION CEREMONY OF FUD 2025

The Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem invites you to the Graduation Ceremony of the Bachelor´s, Follow-up Master´s and Doctoral study programmes graduates of FUD UJEP 2024/2025 which will take place on 26 June 2025 at The North Bohemian Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Creative Space Called FAD

We consider the Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem to be an art and design school respectful to the history of art, philosophy and science as traditional academic values ​​to be vigorously developed and framed into innovative artistic and theoretical views, while coping with current social and cultural challenges.

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