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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.
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.