Projects

Projects are an increasingly important component for the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague (UMPRUM), they help to implement mainly scientific research, artistic and applied research.

The goal of the UMPRUM Grant Department is to provide information, administrative and methodological support for scientific research and development projects. Our main providers of projects and grants currently include:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, specifically the program ÉTA. These projects aim to test innovative processes or products from different areas;

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, supporting primarily fundamental scientific research;

The Ministry of Culture currently provides UMPRUM, with two project calls. Národní a kulturní identity (NAKI) is a program focused on art research that supports the applied research and development of national and cultural identity.

 The Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports are where UMPRUM draws on the call of the Operational Program Research, Development, and Education (OPVVV) focused on the support of universities.

Current Projects

Research in the field of digitization of sewing glass components on textiles
Interconnection and rejuvenation of technological processes in the textile and glass industry.

Art and design as a solution to changes in transport with the arrival of autonomous driving
Proposals for functional solutions regarding means of transportation and transportation systems.

Hidden forms of directing: Ester Krumbachová's work in the context of film, literature, costume design, and artwork. Processing of her estate.
Research into the interdisciplinary work and legacy of film and theater costume designer, screenwriter, writer, director, and artist, Ester Krumbachová.

Searching for Identity: Architecture of Czech Germans 1891–1918
Research into the architecture of Czech Germans in the period around 1900.

Development of teaching methods at UMPRUM
The innovation of the educational process and improvement of educational infrastructure at UMPRUM.

Development of effective management principles at UMPRUM
Project of strategic management in the environment of a public art university.


Modernization of UMPRUM's facilities
Modernization of technological equipment of UMPRUM’s studios/workshops.

Architecture and Czech politics in the 19th - 21st century
Research into the dynamic interaction between Czech architecture and politics.

Industry and art: neglected regional personalities and entrepreneurs as driving forces of economic progress within Czechoslovakia, their importance, and cooperation with artists, architects, and designers.
Detailed research of four business families whose activities overlapped with art.