DEAN'S DECREE NO. 05/2025, CONDITIONS AND COURSE OF ADMISSION TO DOCTORAL STUDIES IN THE COMBINED FORM OF STUDY IN ENGLISH AT HAMU

Article 1 Introductory Provisions

In accordance with Articles 18 and 19 of the Statutes of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Dean of the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU) announces the following rules for the admission procedure and the conditions for admission to study in combined doctoral study programmes in English in the academic year 2025/2026.

Article 2 List of open HAMU doctoral study programmes for the academic year 2025/2026 in the English language

Study in the English language is subject to a fee in accordance with the current Dean's Decree.

Study programme Composition

Article 3 Admission procedure 

• Date of the entrance examination: 1 - 12 September 2025
• Deadline for applications: 15 August 2025
• Administrative fee: 967,- CZK, (nine hundred and sixty-seven Czech crowns), the fee can be paid by credit card or bank transfer to the HAMU bank account No. 19-5373180297/0100, v. s. 64911, spec. s. = application code. Each applicant is obliged to pay the fee for the actions connected with the admission procedure at any time from the moment of submitting the application for study, but no later than 15 April 2024.
• Applicants are not refunded the fee paid for the admission procedure (see AMU Statutes, Article 20, paragraph 2).
• The applicant shall fill in the application form truthfully and completely and submit it only in electronic form in the AMU application form (at: https://prihlaska.amu.cz/apps/kos/prihlaska/wpr_webapp_pg.main?p_session_id=&p_view=&p_action=changeLang&p_lang=AN) and pay the application fee; in the event of failure to properly complete the application form in the system or submit it in another way, the application will be considered invalid and the admission procedure will be terminated.
• Mandatory attachments in paper form only, a list of which is given in the Annex to this Decree, shall be sent by post to the following address: Malostranské nám. 13, 118 00 Prague 1, or deliver it in person to the AMU mailroom, Malostranské nám. 12/259, 118 00 Prague 1, opening hours see https://www.amu.cz/cs/vse-o-amu/kontakt/
• The deadline for submitting the application, including mandatory and optional attachments, is 15 August 2025.
• The AMU study system web application "Application" is open from 15 July to 15 August 2025.
• For more information see https://www.hamu.cz/en/studies/admission-procedures/

Article 4 Admission Procedure Rules and Conditions for Admission to Study

• Each disciplinary board sets specific dates on which the admissions process will take place. Invitations with further information will be sent to applicants by the clerks of the respective subject councils to the e-mail address indicated in the applicant's application form at least 10 working days before the admission examination.
• The candidate is obliged to confirm receipt of the invitation electronically.
• The candidate is obliged to register at the HAMU Study Department before the entrance examination according to the instructions in the invitation.
• In case the departmental board requires additional materials for the first round, e.g. video recordings, scores, recordings, electronic records, links to internet storage, possibly CD/DVD media, the candidate is obliged to send these materials directly to the relevant departmental board secretariat, for exact instructions see the conditions of entrance examinations for individual study programmes/specialisations https://www. cz/en/studies/admission-procedures/
  • Failure to deliver the required materials by the deadline coinciding with the deadline for the submission of applications, i.e. 15 August 2025, will be considered as a failure to meet the conditions of the first round of the admission procedure and a decision will be made not to admit the student to study.
• Admission to the doctoral programme is conditional upon the proper completion of the master's degree programme, the award of an academic degree, successful completion of the entrance examination in English and fulfilment of all the conditions of the admission procedure.
• All the conditions for meeting the set criteria and for determining the minimum and maximum examination scores for admission to individual programmes or profiles are published, see https://www.hamu.cz/en/studies/admission-procedures/

Article 5 Alternative dates for entrance examinations

• There is no alternative date for the admission procedure. If a candidate is unable to appear for the entrance examination on the regular date for health reasons and submits a medical certificate within 3 days of the date of the entrance examination, the Dean will consider the excuse and in exceptional and justified cases may, on the proposal of the relevant department and in agreement with the relevant admissions committee, set an alternative date for the entrance examination.

Article 6 Publication of the results of the admission procedure

• Within 30 days of verifying that the conditions have been met, the dean will issue a decision. Upon receipt of the decision on admission or non-admission to study, the applicant has the right to inspect his/her file, always by prior arrangement with the HAMU Study Department on a specific date of inspection. The applicant is obliged to present his/her identity document before the inspection of the file, and the study department will draw up a report on the inspection process.

Article 7 Specific Conditions for the Admission of Foreigners to Study Programmes conducted in English

• The admission procedure is conducted in English. Applicants are required to demonstrate proficiency in English according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) as a condition of admission to study in English (the exception is applicants whose native language is English). Required English language proficiency according to the CEFR at level B2. Applicants must demonstrate this knowledge during the admission procedure.
  The required proof is either:
  a) an official examination certificate from an accredited institution (assessed by the AMU Language Training Centre) or
  b) a certificate of completion of another Master's degree programme accredited in English in the Czech Republic or abroad.

Without fulfilling this condition, the applicant cannot be issued a decision on admission to study.

Article 8 Final Provisions 

• This decree was discussed and approved by the Academic Senate of HAMU on 31 March 2025.
• An integral part of the decree is its annex.
• The Decree shall become valid upon signature of the Dean and shall become effective on the date of publication on the HAMU website and official board.

Praha, 1 April 2025
prof. Ivan Klánský
Dean of the Faculty of Music and Dance
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Mandatory attachments to the application for doctoral study programmes, academic year 2025/2026

Candidates for studies fill in the electronic application form completely and send it to the Faculty's study system (KOS). Mandatory attachments are sent in paper form by post or submitted via the AMU mailroom.

Required attachments for applicants:

1. A project of doctoral studies including a clear intention of creative and artistic research activities,
2. An inventory of representative examples of their previous compositional work in electronic form (.pdf) and any recordings (.waw, .mp3) or functional internet links to them, sent to the following e-mail address: prijmacky_k.skladby@hamu.cz
3. A professional CV signed in their own hand with a portrait photograph
   (among other things, an overview of previous professional activities, a list of published works or artistic performances, evidence of public acclaim of the work),
4. Proof issued by an appropriate certified institution of having passed an examination in two foreign languages, not older than 5 years - in English at level B2 - the applicant shall provide evidence in accordance with Article 7 of the Decree, in another foreign language (German, French, Italian and Spanish) at level B1.
   The required document is either:
   a) official international certificate of examination from an accredited institution (assessed by the AMU Language Training Centre) or
   b) confirmation of completion of another master's or doctoral study programme accredited in English in the Czech Republic or abroad or
   c) confirmation of passing a fee-based language examination at the Language Training Centre.
   If the applicant cannot prove that he/she has successfully passed a foreign language exam in the past 5 years (see above for details), he/she is obliged to take this exam, e.g. pass it, after consultation with the HAMU Study Department, at the AMU Language Training Centre.
5. A certified copy of the Master's diploma and the supplement to the diploma is delivered to the study department or a certificate issued by the study department about the final year of study at the university and the date of the Master's degree in the current academic year (in the box on the application form) is uploaded to the application form. After graduating from the Master's programme and obtaining the Master's diploma and the supplement to the diploma, certified copies of the diplomas must be delivered to the HAMU Study Department without delay. Without fulfilling this condition, the applicant cannot be issued a decision on admission to studies.
   Additional mandatory attachments to the application form in case the applicant has completed previous education at a foreign university in a master's programme:
   a) A document of general recognition of the equivalence or validity of a foreign document of attainment of a master's degree in the Czech Republic (so-called nostrification) or
   b) A foreign document of a foreign master's degree, if it is automatically equivalent in the Czech Republic according to its international obligations without further official procedure (master's degree and supplement to the diploma from Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia) or
   c) A document of a foreign higher education, which was obtained by completing studies in a master's higher education programme at a foreign higher education institution operating under the legislation of a foreign state and which entitles its holder to access to a doctoral study programme in that foreign state, which AMU shall assess itself. For information on how to prove that university graduates have fulfilled the conditions for attaining a previous degree, see https://www.amu.cz/cs/studium/nostrifikace/.

Documents provided are not returned. All documents are required in English or translated into Czech.