This Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the period of liberalization known as the Prague Spring. Late August 20th and early August 21st, some 250,000 Soviet-led troops and 2,000 tanks entered the country.
21 August 2018
A student at Charles University in January 1969, 20-year-old Palach doused himself in gasoline and set himself alight at the top of Prague’s Wenceslas Square. He took the drastic decision to lay down his life as a form of protest – five months after Soviet tanks had rolled into Czechoslovakia.
10 August 2018
Founded in 1348 by the King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, Charles University is one of the oldest universities in the world. Today, it is a modern, multi-disciplinary and research-oriented public institution and the largest and most renowned university in the Czech Republic.
26 July 2018
Two scientists, Matyáš Fendrych from the Faculty of Science and Ondřej Pejcha of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, have each received prestigious ERC Starting grants awarded by European Research Council. Funds in both cases will greatly boost current research projects, with one studying cell division and growth in plants and the latter focusing on the interactions of binary stars.
20 July 2018
Representatives from the Sorbonne, Heidelberg, Charles and Warsaw universities have met in Prague to kick the wheels of the 4EU alliance further in motion. The alliance, building on existing ties of all four institutions, two years in the making, is aiming to boost research, infrastructure, curricula and the ease of mobility of students at all four institutions.
29 June 2018
Officials at Charles University have unveiled two historic documents to the public dating back to the founding of the university in Prague 670 years ago. The documents resurfaced only recently and were acquired from a private collection. Both are of enormous historic significance.
29 June 2018
Charles University (CU) has become the first university in the Czech Republic to found its own 100 percent-owned subsidiary, called CUIP (Charles University Innovations Prague), taking inspiration from a number of cutting-edge international institutions.
28 June 2018
This week saw the start of the 6th Summer Seminar on Nationalism, Religion and Violence co-organised by Charles University and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Prague.
19 June 2018
The European Commission recently proposed that 100 billion euros should go towards research, science and innovation for the years 2021 – 2027. If approved, most of the sum will go to Horizon Europe, touted as the commission’s most ambitious research program to date, which could position the EU at the forefront of global research in the years to come.
13 June 2018
The Historical Geography Research Centre invites you to the Military and Postmilitary Landscapes conference that is held under the Central European Conference of Historical Geographers series. The conference takes place in Prague on February 14–15, 2018. You can submit a paper as well as complete session proposal or you can just participate at the conference. The extended deadline for abstract submission is December 10, 2017.
29 November 2017
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