Aktuality

The 27th public competition was announced for Josef Vavrousek Award.  Students, doctoral students and young university graduates in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, including international degree students, can submit their Bachelor and Master theses and PhD dissertations for the competition. The submission deadline for this year is Friday 29 July 2022, 12:00p.m.

On Tuesday, 17 May 2022, during the Academic Senate FSV UK meeting, the Golden Courses for the best courses of the Winter Semester 2021/2022 according to the student evaluation were awarded to the lecturers. The award is accompanied by financial reward. Congratulations to all recipients!  

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 Faculty of Social Sciences shares with deep sadness the news of the loss of prof. Bořivoj Hnízdo. Prof. Hnízdo was a university lecturer and a member - and from 2003 to 2010 also the director - of the Institute of Political Studies FSV UK. He passed away at the age of seventy on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.

On Tuesday, April 12, 2022, the Carolinum became the venue for a ceremony of exceptionally gifted and creative students and graduates, who were awarded the Bolzano Prize and prizes awarded by the Rector. The Rector’s Extraordinary Prize for 2021 was awarded to FSV UK student Ronan Peter Wordsworth.

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.