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Earlier this week, much of the Czech Republic woke up to the acrid smell of smoke. Not from a fire in the neighbourhood or one town over but more than a hundred kilometres away: in Hřensko and the Bohemian Switzerland National Park. The scale of the fire shocked the country.
As of 1 July, the Czech Republic has taken up the Council of the EU presidency, a time when the bloc faces key issues of international importance. Charles University is contributing to the public discussion through a debate series entitled Task Europe.
The Trans-Atlantic Training 2022 organized by NASA, ESA and Charles University, focusing on Remote Sensing, will take place from 5 to 9 September 2022 in Prague, Czechia. Lectures and exercises will be given by leading scientists from the USA and Europe. Students and early-career scientists are free to register till July, 25.
An archaeological team from the Czech Institute of Egyptology discovered the tomb of an ancient Egyptian dignitary during fieldwork in Egypt, in the spring of 2022. Although it was already looted in antiquity, the site is neverthless invaluable.
One of the most important personalities of European, Czechoslovak and later Czech pharmacy, the first dean of the Charles University Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, the father of the scientific and medical field of clinical pharmacy, Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Květina, DrSc. dr.h.c., has left us forever at the age of 92.
In a fortnight, Czechs will take up the presidency of the Council of the EU, prompting an official visit to Prague by the president of the EP, Roberta Metsola. She was the main guest in a debate at Charles University on the future of Europe.
"Many think that only about half of medical doctors believe in vaccines against Covid-19. In fact, it's 90 percent! Communicating this is a simple way of increasing vaccination rates," summarize Michal Bauer and Julie Chytilová, co-authors of a new study in Nature.
Please register to the international seminar under the auspices of the Rector of Charles University. 17 June 2022 from 9 am at Karolinum. Speakers: Peter Kuhn, USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience; Vladimír Bobek, First Faculty of Medicine, CU; Daniel Georgiev, Sampling Human, Inc.; Pavel Ostašov, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, CU.
After a two year break, the Rector’s Sports Day made a big comeback last week at Charles University. Classic sports s featured prominently. Students and lecturers gave up the classroom for activity outside on what turned out to be a beautiful day in May.
Charles University, in conjunction with the French Embassy, the Education Ministry, DZS and Erasmus+, has just hosted a conference on the importance of university alliances. More and more, alliances are gaining recognition as crucial for universities in Europe.
“Having children during one’s studies is not a sign of resignation about one’s academic ambitions,” says Aneta Ženíšková, a Ph. D. student at Charles University and a mother of three. Ženíšková is the founder of the new Association of Student Parents.
In the frame of the French Presidency of the council of the European Union, the MSMT, the DZS and the French Embassy in the Czech Republic invite to an event bringing together universities, local and national authorities and representatives of civil society to discuss the role of EUA in civic engagement.
A banana peel has become the central motif of the Czech round of the international student competition Map the System. The winning team, consisting of four students from different disciplines at Charles University, dealt with the problem of bio-waste. They will represent the Czech Republic at the Oxford final in June.
Charles University will support up to 10 projects through so-called student mini-grants, seed funding for teams from the 4EU+ universities. The deadline for submitting requests for support is 15 May, 2022.
The Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU is about to start. How does it feel to be part of the event? Find out and join in a meeting and a discussion with the representatives of Czech GOs. The career options at the EU institutions after the presidency will be part of the discussion.