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.
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.
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.
At CU SPORT, Japanese neuroscientist Ryo Koshizawa, from Nihon University, has been exploring what happens in the brain during sporting contests and matches.
Justin Douglas Hart, a student of Liberal Arts and Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities, has become an important part of the CU HUM community. Now he has been awarded the Miroslav Vlček Exceptional Scholarship.
“One of my long-term priorities is the construction of the Albertov Campus and resolving the entire situation regarding the loan,” says new Charles University Rector.
“I like resilience and sharp humour in Czechs,” says linguist Masako Ueda Fidler of Brown University, who has collaborated with CU for over fifteen years and recently received a Gold Medal of CU ARTS.
Polish filmmaker and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland received the Charles IV Award, presented to her in January by Charles University and the City of Prague. On that occasion, she looked back on the late 1960s, which she spent in Prague as a student at FAMU.
American studies scholar Jana Sehnálková, alumna and lecturer at CU’s Faculty of Social Sciences, heads the Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic. She explains how to succeed with trips to American universities.
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.
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