Charles University is launching the first call for applications for the Kellner Research Chair Programme, which aims to attract top researchers from abroad to Czechia and provide them with the conditions to build their own research teams.

In her ERC Starting Grant, Petra Johana Poncarová will explore the phenomenon of authors who decided to learn Celtic languages in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and to use them for their creative work. A researcher from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Petra has been working on Scottish Gaelic literature for a number of years. 

He might not be able to find more free space on hard drives or cabinets. Still, the notion of using already occupied memory space as a computational resource might bring ground-breaking results. That is why ERC backs CU’s promising computer scientist Ian Mertz.

Digital technologies, automation and artificial intelligence are reshaping how we learn, work and produce new knowledge. But how profound are these changes, and who is affected most? A new research project led by Prof. Štěpán Jurajda of CERGE-EI examines how technology is entering education, research and the economy, and how it is changing the skills people will need in the future.

How can we reconstruct the history of prehistoric populations when ancient DNA is poorly present or absent due to adverse conditions? An international team, including Czech Egyptologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists, has shown that the answer may be hidden in a surprising place: the human inner ear.

What happens when PhD students leave the familiar environment of their research fields and start working on problems they have never encountered before? The 4EU+ Project Management programme brings together researchers from eight European universities and a wide range of academic backgrounds.

He is one of only ten scientists working in Europe who secured the prestigious EMBO Installation Grant this year. Immunologist Matouš Vobořil recently returned to the Faculty of Science at Charles University to build his own team and advance research focused on the development of immune cells.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Thanks to a prestigious Advanced ERC grant worth €2.5 million, Assyriologist Jana Mynářová’s team at CU ARTS will focus on understanding the real scope of everyday violence in ancient Mesopotamia.

As an international student, American-born Mitchell Hoffman experienced firsthand the challenges people face when arriving in a foreign country. But he chose to stay in the Czech Republic and decided to help other international students financially.

Charles University has expanded its network of strategic partners to include two Taiwanese universities: National Taiwan University (NTU) and National Chengchi University (NCCU). These partnership agreements were signed by Vice-Rector Karel Kouba, who is leading a group of Charles University representatives in Taiwan as part of a delegation headed by Miloš Vystrčil, President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.

On 28 May 2026, Professor Philippe Mario Aghion was awarded a Charles University honorary doctorate. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics laureate has been a member of the CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Committee since its inception in 1991. Philippe Mario Aghion received his honorary diploma and medal from the hands of his long-time colleague and the one who invited him to found the CU economics institute, chairman of CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Committee Prof. Jan Švejnar.

When a tennis player prepares to return a serve, or a boxer slips a punch, a lay observer sees speed above all else. Fast hands, fast feet, a fast reaction. Yet neuroscientist Ryo Koshizawa, from Japan’s Nihon University, is interested in something that happens even earlier: in the first fractions of a second, when the eyes and brain process the direction, speed and future location of a moving object.