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Join us for the National Information Day on ERC Grants, taking place on November 19, 2025, at the Charles University Rectorate in Prague. The event will offer insights into ERC calls, proposal writing tips, and a panel discussion on the Czech research environment. ERC President Prof. Maria Leptin will deliver an online address.
30 October 2025
CU’s First Faculty of Medicine is receiving its first prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant. It was awarded to Slovak biophysicist Andrea Gálisová who researches extracellular vesicles. These can deliver therapy directly to cells.
4 September 2025
For the second time in the past year, a project developed by researchers at CU’s Faculty of Law has received grant support from the European Research Council. The ERC Starting Grant, worth €1.5 million, goes to Jakub Drápal.
4 September 2025
Kateřina Čapková from Charles University’s Faculty of Arts will explore “alternative” histories of Central and Eastern Europe—examining the past through the perspectives of Roma, Jews, and people with disabilities—thanks to an Advanced ERC grant. This is the very first ERC Advanced Grant in the social sciences prepared in the Czechia.
17 June 2025
Erin Carson from the Department of Numerical Mathematics and Marc Fehling from Department of Mathematical Analysis have received awards from the international Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The award ceremony was part of the CSE25 conference, which took place in early March in Texas, USA.
14 March 2025
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
10 March 2025
