Aktuality
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ESU: Expert Group for Ukraine
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).
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Announcement of the loss of Bořivoj Hnízdo
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.
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2021 Rector’s Extraordinary Prize awarded to FSV UK student Ronan Wordsworth
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.
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Infomore.cz research team from FSV UK won the Miloslav Petrusek Award
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.
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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.
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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.
