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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.
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.
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.
The Department for Asylum and Immigration Policy of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic today opened a new branch of the Foreigners’ Residence Unit on the premises of the Charles University Komenského Student Residence. This gives international students another option for arranging their residency documents for the Czech Republic.
On May 29, 2015, a new research center of the Charles University in Prague was officially opened. It’s focused on Czech-German literature, and pays homage to Professor Krolop by bearing his name - Kurt Krolop Center for German Literature in Bohemia.
The 39th world finals of the academic programming contest, ACM ICPC, took place in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh between May 16th and 21st, 2015. The Charles University team, composed of three students of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics — Filip Hlásek, Miroslav Olšák and Štěpán Šimsa — was one of the 128 participating teams.
First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University Institute of Anatomy would like to invite you to the Ecumenical Service of the World. Requiem for the Donors of the Bodies for Students of Anatomy will be celebrated by Brother Josef Šplíchal, SDB, for The Roman Catholic Church, Brother Zdeněk Susa for The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren in the Small Lecture Hall of the Institute of Anatomy.
Without further ado, discussion will start throughout the Czech Rectors Conference on further actions and coordinated steps in this regrettable matter of repeated and deliberate interventions to the academic freedom of Czech universities.
Deutsch Security Square, a research centre at the Department of International Relations, is pleased to announce the launch of the Deutsch Security Square website. The Centre aims to engage in collective research of security in the best tradition of the scholarship of Karl Deutsch seeking, in his words, "more knowledge for greater competence and more compassion." Explore the website to learn more about the new research centre, its mission, team, projects and publications.
As summers and vegetation seasons pass by, plant remains accumulate and in waterlogged areas they turn into peat bogs. These bogs contain thousands of years of paleo information from which we are able, using specific techniques, to reconstruct environmental conditions persisting in the past. Actually, this was the science which, in the early 19th century, revealed the existence of the green-house effect. But back to our recent article.
Smoking Cessation Counselling Centre at the 3rd Faculty of Medicine announces with the support of the Institutional Project of Charles University 2015 4th year of creative competition on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day with the theme “Motivating medical students and health professionals to nonsmoking“
The 2015 IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Jan Švejnar, the James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy and Director of the Center on Global Economic Governance at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, New York and a chairman of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI in Prague.
Lab of Silence, Laboratorium silencii. This is the name of the AV installation project for the Czech pavilion at EXPO 2015, taking place in Milan, Italy, May 1 to October 31. The exhibits were taken to Milan just a few days ago, and the staff of our university, among many others, took part in the preparation.