Data science is sometimes called the most interesting profession of the 21^st century. That it is a complex and diverse field with a bright future is confirmed by Irena Holubová of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at CU and Dominik Matula from the company Profinit.

Victor Ambros, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2024, is renowned for his pioneering discovery of microRNAs. He has long collaborated with his wife, Candy Lee Ambros, his co-researcher for decades. Forum magazine had the opportunity to ask both a few questions.

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.

Kateřina Čapková from Charles University’s Faculty of Arts will explore the inclusive history of Central and Eastern Europe—examining the past through the perspectives of Roma, Jews, and people with disabilities—thanks to an Advanced ERC grant.

More than 160 researchers have received support through the ground-breaking Primus programme ( launched in 2017) enabling them to establish independent labs focused on innovative frontier research. 

“Our main goal is to produce a language model that will compete with existing models and, moreover, will work very well for all European languages,” says Professor Jan Hajič from the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at CU.

"Academics of the 20th century were personalities. We should be inspired by them and support originality and the search for one's own path, because it leads to knowledge and great ideas," says Libuše Heczková from the Faculty of Arts.

"I think archaeology is an integral part of working with ancient texts," says Filip Čapek of the Protestant Theological Faculty. In our one-minute video, he reveals what the discovery of the temple at Tel Moca means.

"We study how the smallest babies, who don't speak at all, learn language, what they understand and what they know about their language," says Kateřina Chládková from the Faculty of Arts in our video series. The findings are then used, for example, to help adults learn foreign languages better.