Academic Recognition
Academic recognition is the recognition of foreign education for the purpose of accessing further education at Czech universities. Academic recognition is a procedure that can only be used for the recognition of qualifications to access to further training and education for professional recognition performance for non-regulated occupations . It does not apply to the recognition of the exercise of regulated professions .
Sources of law:
- Act No. 111/1998 (Amended and Consolidated) on Higher Education Institutions and on Amendments and Supplements to other Acts (the Higher Education Act), Articles 89, 90, 105, 106
- Act No. 500/2004 Coll., Code of Administrative Procedure, as amended
- Agreement between the Government of the Czech Republic and the Government of the Republic of Hungary on the mutual recognition of educational documents and documents relevant to academic degrees and titles issued in the Republic of Hungary (Budapest, 6 May 2004, published under No. 92/2005 Coll. of International Treaties).
- Agreement between the Government of the Czech Republic and the Government of the Republic of Poland on the mutual recognition of educational documents and documents relevant to academic degrees and titles issued in the Republic of Poland (Prague, 16 January 2006, No. 104/2006 Coll. of International Treaties).
- Agreement between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Federal Assembly (Skupština) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the mutual recognition of educational documents and documents relevant to academic degrees and titles issued in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Belgrade, 12 September 1989, No. 89/1991 Coll. of International Treaties) – applicable only to Slovenia.
- Agreement between the Government of the Czech Republic and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany on the mutual recognition of higher education documents (Prague, 23 March 2007, No. 60/2008 Coll. of International Treaties).
- Agreement (Czech only) concluded between the governments of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic on mutual recognition of educational documents issued in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (Prague, 23 March 2001, No. 33/2001 Coll. of International Treaties),
- Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region (Lisbon Recognition Convention) no. 60/2000 Coll. of International Treaties)
- Mutual declaration of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic and the Federal Minister of Science and Research of Austria on recommended procedure of mutual academic recognition of qualification in the area of higher (university) education (Prague 9.10.2008). The text of the declaration has been published in the Journal of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (11/2008). The declaration is not considered binding but recognition authorities should take it into account. Austria is, in addition, a contracting state of the Lisbon Convention.
