Prestigious ERC Starting Grant awarded to Botany Department
9 October 2019
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites you to the presentation of the latest issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal Litteraria Pragensia. The topic of the 56th issue is “Frankenstein at 200: A Literary Celebration”.
14 March 2019
Charles University students Lucie Kohutová (First Faculty of Medicine) and Erik Klemš (Faculty of Law) competed and won two silver medals in bridge at the 14th European Youth Pairs Championships in Opatija, Croatia in the summer. Now, as part of the Czech team at the World University Championships in China just days ago, they placed third. In our interview, taped earlier, I asked the champions to tell us more about themselves, before we discussed what’s great… about bridge.
12 November 2018
Anyone interested in the history of hot chocolate, tea and coffee would be thrilled to sit down with Karel Černý - the head of Prague’s Institute of Medicine and Foreign Languages at Charles University's First Faculty of Medicine - as we did. Barring that, the next best thing may be to pick up his soon to be published history about caffeinated beverages in Central Europe in the 16th century.
10 November 2018
Charles University announced on Tuesday it is receiving its third ERC grant in 2018. Grants are awarded by the European Research Council; previous CU candidates enjoyed similar such success back in July.
23 October 2018
If you are one of the two thousand or so people who attended the První republika festival organised by Charles University (and the First Faculty of Medicine) last weekend, you probably caught sight of a poster of T.G. Masaryk, as drawn by Jaz. He is the anonymous author of Opráski sčeskí historje – an irreverent comic strip that has achieved cult status through an unusual take on Czech history and the Czech language.
9 October 2018
Interest in studying in foreign study programs at Prague’s Charles University significantly increased over the last five years. While in 2012/2013 the number of applications stood at 2,600 the number has since risen to the current 6,400. Some 970 students from abroad successfully enrolled.
2 October 2018
De Monfort University in Leicester has cooperated for years with Prague’s Charles University within the Erasmus program, under which students apply to study in Prague in English or other languages for one or two semesters during the regular academic year. The summer months understandably offer fewer opportunities, given that students and staff largely have time off. Still, organisers decided something could be done to fill the gap.
20 September 2018
The inimitable performer talks about the electronic music scene and the success of Disco Science.
4 September 2018
The Human-Level AI 2018 conference, bringing top researchers to Prague to discuss the recent advances and different approaches to artificial intelligence has just wrapped up. For anyone interested in the development of general AI, over the last few days Prague was the place to be.
27 August 2018