On Thursday, 27 June 2024, the graduation ceremony of the Bachelor and Master students of the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences took place in the Aula of the Czech University of Agriculture, which was the culmination of several years of efforts of our students and a reminder of the importance of education and scientific research in the field of tropical agriculture.

A total of 69 students from the undergraduate programmes (Tropical Agriculture and ICARD) took the national final examination this year, of which 66 successfully completed their studies.

The Dean's Prize for the best bachelor thesis was awarded to Bc. Nicole Dřímalová for her thesis "Antiproliferative effect of common Nepenthes species on adenocarcinoma cells".

A total of 12 bachelors received awards for outstanding academic achievements.

A total of 58 students passed the State Final Examination of the Master's degree programmes and 44 students were awarded diplomas, while 10 students postponed their thesis defence to September 2024.

The prize of the Minister of Agriculture for the best diploma thesis was awarded to Ing. Dumitru-Claudiu Săndu?ă for his thesis "Why people buy food directly from farmers.

Two students received awards for outstanding academic achievements.

The representatives of the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences would like to congratulate all the graduates and wish them success in their future careers, while looking forward to many more successful years full of promising students and inspiring graduates.

The Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences announces the additional stage of the admission procedure for the Master's programme International Development and Agricultural Economics (IDAE). Online application must be submitted by 15 July 2024.

Tropentag, the conference on tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development is an annual conference organised by ATSAF e.V. in collaboration with European universities since 1999 (www.tropentag.de). Tropentag 2024 will be organised as a hybrid conference by University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria.
We will have an in-person conference, but all oral presentation sessions will be live-streamed via an online conference platform. The Tropentag 2024 conference will summarize recent disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to address “Explore opportunities... for managing natural resources and a better life for all”. To increase the outreach of the event, ATSAF e.V. sponsors a team of 12 student reporters to give an account of the event.