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Since this September, Anežka Kuzmičová, Markéta Supa and colleagues are conducting research at ICSJ investigating how children experience information texts such as encyclopaedias and how they enjoy this type of literature. Last year Anežka Kuzmičová’s project, WONDRE, won the prestigious ERC Starting Grant amounting to 1.5 mln EUR, making her historically the first ERC grantee within the humanities and social sciences at Charles University.
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Michal Smetana from the Institute of International Studies has been awarded a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) of more than one million euros for his MICROCODE project, which will study the stability of military alliances. "For FSV UK, winning the ERC Starting Grant is a confirmation of the ever-increasing quality of its research in a challenging international competition," emphasized Tomáš Karásek, FSV UK Dean.
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Michal Plaček from the Institute of Sociological Studies FSV UK received a professorship in the field of public and social policy this year. He is not idle on his academic path, which he closely connects with practice – he cooperates with a number of research institutions, foreign universities and domestic public administration. In the interview he speaks about his research and his plans for the future.
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Tomáš Havránek and Zuzana Havránková, researchers from the Institute of Economic Studies won the Editor's Award for the best article published in the journal Experimental Economics in 2022 from the Economic Science Association. They worked with IES graduate Jindřich Matoušek on an article entitled Individual discount rates: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence.
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The results of the 9th round of the Primus competition have been announced. Two projects implemented at FSV UK succeeded in it: the project by Markéta Kocmanová from IPS and the project by Matěj Bajgar from IES. Congratulations!
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The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TACR) has published the results of the fifth public competition of the Program for the Support of Applied Research and Innovation SIGMA. Within the research topic Impact of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning on Society, a project A Beneficial Multi-Agent AI Avatar in a Small Democratic Society in which our faculty is the main applicant was successful.
