Activists protested at CEVRO University in Prague against institution’s sponsors

Several dozen young activists protested on Wednesday evening at the CEVRO University building on Jungmannova Street in the centre of Prague against the major sponsors of the private university, the entrepreneurs Pavel Tykač and René Holeček. During the event, they handed out leaflets to applicants about what they see as the problematic financing of the university. They claim that a university striving for recognition in the academic world should not function through money from Mr. Tykač and Mr. Holeček.

According to a ČTK reporter, CEVRO representatives called on the activists to leave the private property. When some of them stayed, they called the police. The protesters then left at the police's request. "We had an Open Day, which was infiltrated by left-wing activists who placed banners and shouted slogans. We asked them to leave the building because they were disrupting our Open Day. They didn't listen, so we called a police patrol, who dealt with them," CEVRO University's marketing director Radek Ježdík told ČTK.