Aktuality

Our students, Jakub Bobysud, Matej Leško, Peter Palovič and Ondřej Rosický represented the IES FSV UK, the Faculty and Charles University at the 12th edition of the prestigious international investment competition, CFA Research Challenge. They won the challenging sub-regional round, and became also the winners of the EMEA region semi-finals. In the history of the competition, only one team from the Czech Republic has managed to do so. Finally, they also took part in the EMEA finals, where according to the jury they placed 3rd - 6th overall.

The Expert Group for Ukraine (ESU) has  been newly established at the Faculty of Social Sciences. It is an interdisciplinary policy group consisting of experts and academics from the FSV UK. They will regularly offer expert and research-based contributions to ongoing debates in the society in the form of expert articles (so-called policy briefs).

The Infomore research team from the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism FSV UK won the Miloslav Petrusek Award for presentation, which is awarded for a positive achievement that has a significant impact on the perception of Charles University. The academics received the award during a ceremonial meeting on the occasion of the 674th anniversary of the founding of Charles University.

In the fourth edition of the call for 4EU+ mini-grants, the selected projects to recieve seed funding were announced. Four teams from the Faculty of Social Sciences succeeded. They will cooperate in the preparation of research and research-educational projects.

FSV UK has two newly accepted European projects. In the new program of the European Commission “Horizon Europe“, we have the Demo-Trans project represented by doc. Petr Janský from the Institute of Economic Studies and the AUTHLIB project represented by dr. Petry Guasti from the Institute of Political Science.

UNCE Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP) project issued the annual review for 2021. It contains information about all of its recent achievements and activities as well as the plans for the upcoming year.