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• CU sports
• Humans of CU
• photos
• hockey

• Jiří Novák
• Vladimír Šigut

Charles University’s hockey team successfully defended its title from last year in the Battle of the Universities. In the final this time, the team defeated players from the Czech Technical University in Prague. The triumph is the team’s ninth in the traditional competition of Prague universities.

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• religion
• history
• politics
• Russia

• Helena Zdráhalová
• Vladimír Šigut, Shutterstock

From the Freemasons to the mysterious Illuminati, take your pick: throughout history there has been no shortage of conspiracy theories suggesting most of us live with a veil over our eyes. Not knowing there are shadow organisations operating to overthrow society.

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• women of CU
• sports
• competition
• military training

• Jiří Novák
• Jakub Grohar, D. Hysková's personal archive

When she was born, Dominika Hysková says she was a whirlwind that swept into her otherwise largely quiet family. She is eloquent and full of energy and her enthusiasm as the sole female student studying Military Physical Education in Czechia is contagious. One question? Which military unit she’ll serve with upon completing her Master’s degree.

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• medicine
• history
• medical students
• Kuks
• tour guides

• Marcela Uhlíková
• Vladimír Šigut, Marcela Uhlíková

“Being a tour guide at the historic Kuks Hospital taught me a lot,” says Jaroslav Matějka, a third-year student at the Third Faculty of Medicine of Charles University. Above all, he credits it with teaching him how to communicate better with others.

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• parenthood
• student parents
• student associations
• child care

• Marcela Uhliková
• Aneta Ženíšková, Shutterstock, V. Šigut

“Having children during one’s studies is not a sign of resignation about one’s academic ambitions,” says Aneta Ženíšková, a Ph.D. student at Charles University and a mother of three. Ženíšková is the founder of the new Association of Student Parents.

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• Oxford
• sustainability
• Map the System
• recycling

• Helena Zdráhalová
• Hynek Glos

A banana peel has become the central motif of the Czech round of the international student competition Map the System. The winning team, consisting of four students from different disciplines at Charles University, dealt with the problem of bio-waste. They will represent the Czech Republic at the final in June.

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• innovation
• health
• carpal tunnel syndrome
• Red Bull Basement
• markets

• Marcela Uhlíková
• Kuba Zeman, Shutterstock

Burning, tingling, and a loss of sensation in the fingers – these are common symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Students Vasil Kostin from the Third Faculty of Medicine of CU and Tomáš Trejdl from CTU are looking to prevent this occupational disease.

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• sports
• Olympic Games
• competition
• archery
• journalism

• Jiří Novák
• Hynek Glos

She might have been a mathematician or a lawyer, but in the end Klára Grapová decided to study journalism. She is in her third year at the Faculty of Social Sciences and is set on a career as a sports journalist. She is also archer on the national squad.

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• film
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• invasion
• WW II
• 1968

• Helena Zdráhalová
• Vladimír Šigut, Unit+Sofa Praha

The 2021 Czech film Occupation underperformed at the box office but eventually began picking up awards such the Czech Film Critics’ Prize and the Czech Lion. The script was co-written by Marek Šindelka - a Ph.D. student at Charles University.

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• hockey
• volunteering
• competition
• medical students
• Ukraine

• Jiří Novák
• Martin Pinkas

Students from Charles University across all faculties have been helping to raise money for refugees from Ukraine. Most recently, students from two medical faculties at Charles University organised a charity hockey match that helped raise hundreds of thousands of crowns in support.

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• Ukraine
• humanitarian aid
• refugee crisis

• Marcela Uhlíková
• Martin Pinkas

Following the pandemic, Charles University students are once again helping in tough times, providing aid to Ukrainian refugees arriving in the country. “Their efforts are remarkable,” says Charles University Chancellor Michal Zima.

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• Ukraine
• invasion
• humanitarian aid

• Helena Zdráhalová, Marcela Uhlíková
• Personal archives, Shutterstock

“The Russian occupiers are dropping bombs on civilians,” says Tamara Bardina from Chernihiv, Ukraine, a student at Charles University. Her indignation was in immediate response to the invasion on 24 February. Since, the situation in Ukraine has only grown worse.

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• CU sports
• law
• Olympic Games
• doping
• legal profession

• Helena Zdráhalová
• Martin Pinkas, Shutterstock, archive

Jan Exner has taken part in more Olympic Games than many, first as a volunteer and later as a lawyer for the Czech Olympic Committee. He was in PyeongChang and Tokyo, but he won’t be headed to Beijing; he discovered he enjoys teaching at university most of all.

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• photos
• hockey
• popular culture

• Jiří Novák
• Monika Navrátilová (Televize Seznam)

The TV hockey series Lajna (Line) starring Jiří Langmajer as a despotic head coach at a crossroads in his life, proved popular each week among viewers online and ran three seasons. What you might not know is that a number of Charles University students were extras on the show as players on the team.

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• history
• women of CU
• Magnesia Litera
• oral history
• North Korea

• Lucie Kettnerová
• Vladimír Šigut

A specialist in North Korean studies, activist and feminist. That is how the Czech media describe Nina Špitálníková, a student of Oral and Contemporary History at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University. Her book Witnessing Life in the DPRK (2020) became a bestseller and won the Magnesia Litera Award in the category of journalism.

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