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The last places are available at the ERC Workshops for applicants. If you are interested in attending and getting feedback from the ERC Expert Group, please register as soon as possible.
11 March 2024We have recently updated our brochure How to Write a Strong ERC Proposal! In addition to basic information about the ERC, you can also find there instructions on how to fill in the electronic Part A, tips on how to write both B1 and B2 parts or useful information on finance and budget.
11 January 2024"We have previously described rapid auxin speciation in the root of a model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Now we want to focus on this pathway in other parts of plants and other species, such as grasses that are closely related to cereals, which brings us closer to possible practical applications," says Matyáš Fendrych from the Faculty of Science of the Charles University.
18 December 2023"Our primary goal is to understand the limits of what the vertebrate eye is capable of! Most vertebrates have a very similar – evolutionarily conserved – eye structure. It is by studying extremes such as the eye of deep-sea fish that we can also learn many useful insights about the human eye, or gain inspiration for the design of telescopes, for example," says Zuzana Musilová from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, who has now been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator grant.
18 December 2023Charles University and the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics (BIG) are happy to announce the winner of 2023 Essay Prize. Following a competitive selection process, we are thrilled to reveal that the winner is Matěj Prášil from the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University was awarded this prestigious honour for his outstanding essay on the question Which partners in the ‘Global South’ are the most strategic for the European Union and why? Matěj will have the unique opportunity to spend six months as a research assistant at the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics.
Charles University, the French National Research Center (CNRS) and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CEFRES) are launching the first call for applications for the TANDEM incubator program dedicated to researchers from CNRS and Charles University.
Deadline: 20 Nov 2023
20 October 2023