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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The inimitable performer talks about the electronic music scene and the success of Disco Science.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.