Join us for the National Information Day on ERC Grants, taking place on November 19, 2025, at the Charles University Rectorate in Prague. The event will offer insights into ERC calls, proposal writing tips, and a panel discussion on the Czech research environment. ERC President Prof. Maria Leptin will deliver an online address.
3 November 2025
The Academic Senate of Charles University elected professor Jiří Zima as candidate for rector for the next term. Zima, an analytical chemist from the Faculty of Science, will take office on February 1, 2026, after being appointed by the Czech President.
31 October 2025
In his speech, Oxford University professor and historian Timothy Garton Ash emphasized the importance of truth and recalled the historical ties between the universities of Oxford and Prague.
15 October 2025
Charles University hosted the annual CEDMO conference, bringing together researchers, investigative journalists, policymakers, political analysts, fact-checkers, and other professionals dedicated to analysing digital transformation, information sources and propagation – and disinformation.
26 September 2025
For the second time in the past year, a project developed by researchers at Charles University’s Faculty of Law has received grant support from the European Research Council. The ERC Starting Grant, worth €1.5 million, goes to Jakub Drápal, who focuses on the issue of criminal sentencing across continental Europe.
4 September 2025
Charles University’s First Faculty of Medicine is receiving its first prestigious ERC Starting Grant. It was awarded to biophysicist Andrea Gálisová, who also worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. As an imaging methods expert, it was there that she came across her current research topic: extracellular vesicles, which until recently were considered a kind of “cellular waste.”
4 September 2025
Victor Ambros, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2024, is renowned for his pioneering discovery of microRNAs. His groundbreaking work has transformed biology’s understanding of genetic regulation and opened paths toward new therapeutic strategies. He has long collaborated with his wife, Candy Lee Ambros, his co-researcher for decades.
27 August 2025
On 1 March 2025, an amendment to the Higher Education Act, adjusting the conditions for doctoral studies, came into force. “The reform is a step in the right direction, even if it hasn’t been handled so well in terms of process,” says Ladislav Krištoufek, CU’s Vice-Rector for Research.
14 August 2025
Memory studies explores how societies relate to the past and how the meanings of that past evolve in the present. It takes a deeply interdisciplinary approach, and reveals unexpected implications for our present as well as future.
6 August 2025
The Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies of Charles University opens its doors every summer to participants from around the world through three distinct summer schools for the general public, offering programmes that combine language learning with deep cultural immersion.
1 August 2025
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