He is one of only ten scientists working in Europe who secured the prestigious EMBO Installation Grant this year. Immunologist Matouš Vobořil recently returned to the Faculty of Science at Charles University to build his own team and advance research focused on the development of immune cells.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Thanks to a prestigious Advanced ERC grant worth €2.5 million, Assyriologist Jana Mynářová’s team at CU ARTS will focus on understanding the real scope of everyday violence in ancient Mesopotamia.

As an international student, American-born Mitchell Hoffman experienced firsthand the challenges people face when arriving in a foreign country. But he chose to stay in the Czech Republic and decided to help other international students financially.

Charles University has expanded its network of strategic partners to include two Taiwanese universities: National Taiwan University (NTU) and National Chengchi University (NCCU). These partnership agreements were signed by Vice-Rector Karel Kouba, who is leading a group of Charles University representatives in Taiwan as part of a delegation headed by Miloš Vystrčil, President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.

On 28 May 2026, Professor Philippe Mario Aghion was awarded a Charles University honorary doctorate. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics laureate has been a member of the CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Committee since its inception in 1991. Philippe Mario Aghion received his honorary diploma and medal from the hands of his long-time colleague and the one who invited him to found the CU economics institute, chairman of CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Committee Prof. Jan Švejnar.

When a tennis player prepares to return a serve, or a boxer slips a punch, a lay observer sees speed above all else. Fast hands, fast feet, a fast reaction. Yet neuroscientist Ryo Koshizawa, from Japan’s Nihon University, is interested in something that happens even earlier: in the first fractions of a second, when the eyes and brain process the direction, speed and future location of a moving object.

The recognition of the completion of secondary education obtained at secondary schools abroad on the basis of so-called “alternative” assessment methods is currently particularly relevant with regard to applicants from countries affected by the conflict in the Middle East.

Justin Douglas Hart, a student of Liberal Arts and Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities, has become an important part of the CU HUM community. Now he has been awarded the Miroslav Vlček Exceptional Scholarship.

Charles University made a strong impression at the Erasmus Generation Meeting 2026 – Europe’s largest student-led conference about mobility. In discussions with the European Commission, the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) and partner universities, Charles University shared its experience in cooperation between international office and ESN, support for inclusive mobility, and the promotion of sustainable travel.

Want to go on Erasmus, do an internship, or maybe try summer school? There are plenty of options — but how to navigate them? For more than six years, Charles Abroad has been helping students at Charles University find the right path abroad. The website offers clear information, up-to-date opportunities, and a student platform for sharing unique international experiences.

“One of my long-term priorities is the construction of the Albertov Campus and resolving the entire situation regarding the loan,” says new Charles University Rector.

By issuing the charter on 7 April 1348 that established a university in the heart of his empire, Charles IV ensured that Prague became one of the centres of European learning, a status it retains to this day. Exactly 678 years later, members of the academic community celebrated this significant day at the historic Carolinum.