One of the largest investments in Charles University’s history has been completed. The new Mephared 2 campus in Hradec Králové will serve as a link between Charles University’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Pharmacy and provide state-of-the-art facilities for teaching and research.

Marie Vestenická from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University dominated this year’s Czech round of the Falling Walls Lab international science competition. She will present her project in November at the Falling Walls Lab world final in Berlin before an international panel of experts, alongside other finalists from around the world.

From European law and digital transformation to artificial intelligence and Old Norse studies. Charles University academics and students have received the first funding under the new 4EU+Synergy scheme, with their projects demonstrating the diverse forms that collaboration within the 4EU+ Alliance can take.

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.