📚 @karolinumpress.cuni.cz has launched a new online store! 📌 Explore the new online store: knihkupectvikarolinum.cz/en Happy browsing and discovering interesting books! 📖

🔬 Pavla Tichá from CU and the University Hospital Královské Vinohrady led an international team that uncovered a mechanism helping cancer evade the immune system. Congratulations on this important scientific achievement. 💙 📌 More information is available here: link.cuni.cz/UspechPavlaT...

📢 Applications are open for 4EU+ SEED4EU+ & Visiting Professorships 2026! 🌱🎓 Funding for joint research, academic mobility & long-term collaboration across the Alliance. 📅 Deadline: 13 Oct 2026, 16:00 CEST 🔗 Apply: bit.ly/calls_2026 #4EUplus #4EUplusAlliance #ResearchCollaboration

🇺🇳 Professor Veronika Bílková from CU LAW, has been elected a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 173 States Parties. 📌 You can read more about this achievement here: prf.cuni.cz/en/news/prof...

🚀 Lead a new research group at @charlesuni.cuni.cz, Prague! Seeking an ERA Chair (R3/R4) in Integrative Metabolic Physiology & Bioenergetics. 💰 ~€2.5M budget 📩 Informal chat: katerina.chmelikova@natur.cuni.cz 📅 Deadline: 30 Sep 2026

From honorary recognition to public debate: Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion at @charlesuni.cuni.cz and CERGE-EI. Watch the public lecture: tinyurl.com/k6z2t48k

🎓 We have awarded an honorary doctorate to Professor Philippe Mario Aghion, the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics. 📌 Read more here: link.cuni.cz/HonoraryDoct...

🎶 Gaudeamus igitur! 🎓 Huge congratulations to all fresh graduates of Charles University ❤️ 🤝 Your journey with CharlesUni doesn’t end with graduation – join the Charles University Alumni Club and stay part of our university family. 📌 Register here: alumni.cuni.cz

How do innovation and competition shape long-term prosperity? Few economists have influenced this question as deeply as Philippe Aghion. The Nobel laureate and CERGE-EI ESC member will receive an honorary doctorate from @charlesuni.cuni.cz. Congratulations, Professor Aghion.👏 tinyurl.com/3tebp7pt

💙 Carolinum is shining blue today! To mark Europe Day on 9 May, we illuminated the historic Carolinum building in the colours of the European Union. The blue light symbolises cooperation, solidarity, and unity across Europe. 🇪🇺

✨ Golden Graduations celebrated once again at Carolinum On Saturday, 11 April 2026, the traditional Golden Graduations took place in the Great Hall of Carolinum for graduates celebrating 50 years since completing their studies at Charles University.

🌍 Are you thinking about going abroad? Charles Abroad has been helping students of Charles University navigate study and internship opportunities abroad for over six years. You can find an overview of opportunities, practical tips, and experiences from fellow students here: www.charlesabroad.cz

🇬🇧 Charles University strengthens its partnership with University College London @ucl.ac.uk. 🤝 Now across 8 fields of study and involving 4 faculties. Students can expect new exchange opportunities starting in 2026/27 under Erasmus+. 📌 More info: link.cuni.cz/UCL_UK

🐣 Happy Easter! We wish you joyful holidays full of peace, spring energy, well-deserved rest before the rest of the semester, and new beginnings. 🌸

💙 Carolinum lit up in blue. On April 2, for World Autism Awareness Day, Charles University joined the Czechia Lights Up Blue campaign, supporting people on the autism spectrum and their loved ones.

Last week, on March 18 and 19, we were hosted at @charlesuni.cuni.cz by our friends from Linking Arms, a project studying arms production in Austria and Czechoslovakia in the years 1954-1994 and based at @recetvienna.bsky.social.

💰 One hundred thousand Czech crowns in cash was given to forty people experiencing homelessness. Did it pay off? 📈 The New Leaf Czechia project, led by Melania Zajacová from @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz brings data that challenges long-held myths. 📌 Read the interview: www.ukforum.cz/en/main-cate...

Meet Ondřej Císař - Professor of Sociology at @charlesuni.cuni.cz in Prague and lead of Work Package 6 in CIDAPE

🎓 Edita Poláchová from Kvído Stříšovský group has successfully defended her PhD thesis "Inhibitors of rhomboid intramembrane proteases and their use in cell biology" at @1.lf.unikarlova.cuni.cz (@charlesuni.cuni.cz). Congratulations! #phd #phdatIOCBPrague

🚀 4EU+ Synergy Projects fund initiatives uniting teams from ≥3 member universities, coordinated by @charlesuni.cuni.cz 💡 Support covers meetings, workshops, conferences, research & educational projects. 📅 Deadline: 15 April 👉 More info: bit.ly/CU_synergy

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Join us this Friday for a book presentation of the @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook of Contemporary Belarus with its editor Aliaksei Kazharski (@charlesuni.cuni.cz), @sofiebedford.bsky.social, Maria Katarzyna Prenner (Uni Graz), moderated by Wolfgang Mueller.

🥳 We are once again the highest-ranked university in the Czech Republic in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026! 🌍 The ranking evaluated nearly 6,300 universities from 100 countries, with 1,912 institutions included in the final results.

Rusové na paralympiádě opět soutěžili se svou vlajkou a hymnou. „Je to věc, na kterou si musíme zvykat (...) Jsme v situaci, kdy ty zákazy spíše nebudou přibývat, naopak budou mizet,“ říká v @zaminutusest.bsky.social sociolog sportu Vojtěch Ondráček z @pedf.unikarlova.cuni.cz @unikarlova.cuni.cz

Plíživý návrat ruských sportovců: „Zákazy budou mizet,“ říká expert

Vedle špičkových výkonů upoutala zimní paralympiáda v Itálii také plnohodnotnou účastí Ruska a Běloruska. Expert Vojtěch Ondráček popisuje, že jde o součást širšího trendu a že je potřeba si na návrat...

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👑 The new Rector of Charles University, Jiří Zima, ceremonially took over the university leadership yesterday in the Great Hall of Carolinum. 📌 You can read the full report here: www.ukforum.cz/en/main-cate...

🤩 Take a look inside the Aula Magna of the Carolinum, where the inauguration of Professor Jiří Zima, the new Rector of Charles University, is taking place: youtube.com/live/oD_OSOz...

Slavnostní inaugurace rektora Jiřího Zimy

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🕊️ Today, the “Flag for Tibet” is once again traditionally flying above the Carolinum. This international campaign commemorates the anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese occupation. Its aim is to highlight human rights violations and symbolically express solidarity with Tibet.

Speakers will include Frederick Friscourt (@univbordeaux.bsky.social), Jan-E. Bäckvall (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social), and Jiří Míšek ( @charlesuni.cuni.cz). You are warmly invited to attend ► www.uochb.cz/en/event-cal... 4/4

Chemistry That Connects Us – a symposium honoring Prof. Pavel Kočovský on his 75th birthday

Chemistry That Connects Us – a symposium honoring Prof. Pavel Kočovský on his 75th birthday. Place: IOCB Prague, Lecture Hall. Date and time: 17 March 2026, 1 p.m.

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🥈 Huge congratulations to Simona Bubeníčková and her guide David Šrůtek, a graduate of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport at Charles University. They have won silver in the individual para biathlon race.👏 📸 Czech Paralympic Team

🌸 International Women’s Day is an opportunity to highlight inspiring women whose determination and work enrich both academic and public life. One of them is Eliška Vaňcová, a graduate of the Faculty of Protestant Theology at CU. Since childhood, she knew she wanted to become a pastor.

The public can pay their respects to the memory of the emeritus rector of Charles University, Professor Karel Malý, by signing the book of condolences placed on the ground floor of the Carolinum at the entrance to the Imperial Hall (Ovocný trh 560/5, Prague 1, 116 36).