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On Tuesday, 10 October, Charles University hosted an international Czech-American conference on the topic of "Value and Quality in Healthcare: Czech and American Perspectives." The event was co-organized by Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (LHMC).
Czech trilobites are in Nature! Palaeontologists from The Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and their colleagues describe a 465-million-year-old trilobite with preserved gut contents. This unique fossil, three-dimensionally preserved in a so-called Rokycany ball, was found more than a hundred years ago. But it has revealed its secrets only now.
This Tuesday, Charles University hosted a much awaited conference organised by Science|Business and the Science|Business Widening initiative. The event was part of a series of debates on how to transform the Widening Programme as European and national policy makers shape the next EU Framework Programme for research and innovation.
According to the latest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024, Charles University is among the top 500 universities worldwide. Compared to the previous two years (where it ranked among the top 600), the school has moved up into the top 500. CU remains the highest-ranked university in the Czech Republic.
One of the panel members made everybody chuckle during the interview when he said that I had cleverly designed a project on the joys of what most of us do most of the day - and what everyone would like their children to find pleasure in as well," says Anežka Kuzmičová. She has won a prestigious ERC Starting Grant of one and a half million Euros.
Charles University has placed 86th in the new international comparison of European universities, QS World University Rankings: Europe 2024, Together with the University of Warsaw, it is the only university from the former Eastern European bloc to be among the top 100 universities in Europe.
An event entitled Bethlehem Chapel II was held this week at the UMPRUM auditorium, organised by the Czech Rectors' Conference, the Council of Higher Education Institutions, the Czech Academy of Sciences and many others impressing the importance of resisting cuts in education and science.
Represent Charles University and engage with prospective applicants from all over the world! Help us to create a welcoming and inclusive environment for all the international students! Student ambassadors can either work on the outside or within the university. They represent university on social media or during various events, they are involved with the university PR group, and more.
Amid growing international competition, Charles University (CU) has maintained its position and again been ranked among the best four hundred best universities in the world in a prestig-ious global evaluation that further highlights CU’s excellent placement in comparison with the best universities in the Central Europe region.
Some fish that come ashore at night have an unusually high number of olfactory receptor genes that might allow them to smell in the air. Scientists at the Faculty of Science of Charles University present a new study published in BMC Biology addressing this topic.
Daniel Palouš accomplished a research stay in the Global Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory led by prof. Tom Crowther at ETH Zurich with the support of several foundations and the Laboratory of Plant Ecophysiology under the guidance of prof. Jana Albrechtová, Faculty of Science, CU. He co-authored a study recently published in the journal Science.
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this year's edition of the Biology Olympiad was extraordinary in many ways. It was originally scheduled to take place in Russia. With the great efforts of Lenka Libusova the chair of the International Biology Olympiad, a new host country was obtained.
According to the QS World University Rankings 2024, Charles University is the only Czech university to place among the top 250 universities worldwide. It thus ranks among the top 1.5% of educational institutions in the world.
For the third time, Charles University participated in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2023, an international comparison of how universities approach Sustainable Development Goals.
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the death of prominent Czech ethnologist and CU legend in humanities, linguist, Ibero-Americanist, translator, dean emeritus of the Faculty of Arts and associate professor, František Vrhel.