Aktuality

  • Tomáš Havránek received the professorial decree

    At the end of last year, the President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman appointed eighty new university professors. Yesterday, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, the new professors received the decrees. The Faculty of Social Sciences has one new professor: Tomáš Havránek from the Institute of Economic Studies received the professorial decree in the field of Economic Theory.
  • IES students won the local round of the CFA Research Challenge

    On February 4, 2022, a team of four students of the Institute of Economic Studies, Jakub Bobysud, Matej Leško, Peter Palovič and Ondřej Rosický, won the local round (Czech and Slovak finals) of the prestigious international competition CFA Research Challenge, which is organized annually by the CFA Institute. 
  • Charles University is launching a new website

    This website will serve as a signpost for all the assistance activities that the University can offer. There will be information helplines, psychological help etc.
  • Dean's statement on the invasion of Ukraine

    Tomáš Karásek, Dean of FSV UK, issued a statement on the invasion of Ukraine. Звернення декана факультету соціальних наук Карлового університету щодо актуальних подій в Україні.
  • Tomáš Pacovský, an ICSJ FSV UK student, awarded by Hlávka foundation

    The foundation “Nadání Josefa, Marie a Zdeňky Hlávkových” awarded exceptional personalities from Charles University. An ICSJ FSV UK student Tomáš Pacovský is among the awarded for a practical project of a bachelor's thesis on the topic of LGBT - minorities within the Vietnamese community living in the Czech Republic.
  • Podcast De Facto with researcher Zachary Kramer

    What is political economy?  Are post-soviet countries dependent on Russia? And can Ukraine fully reorient itself to Europe without economic losses? New episode of podcast De Facto with Zachary Kramer, a PhD candidate in International Relations, whose general research interest is the political economy of the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe.