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ERC Workshops - last places available

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 2024


New ERC brochure

We 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


Matyáš Fendrych and his second ERC grant

"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


How do deep-sea fish actually see? Zuzana Musilová and her new ERC CoG will find out

"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 2023


Faculty of Social Sciences student Matěj Prášil wins Essay Prize

Charles 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.

20 November 2023


1st CALL CFA TANDEM launched

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


The prestigious ERC grant was awarded to Anežka Kuzmičová

Prestigious ERC Starting Grant for a five-year research project exploring children's affective engagements with facts and nonfiction, making her the first ever recipient of an ERC grant in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Charles University.

5 September 2023


The ERC’s plan for 2024 adopted

The ERC’s 2024 Work Programme has been adopted by the European Commission. The plan includes new elements in the assessment of research proposals and candidates’ CVs, and in the evaluation process. It also introduces lump sum funding in Advanced Grants and makes changes in the structure of evaluation panels.

11 July 2023



Nerd Art Prize 2023

Chaperon ERA Research Club invites you to participate in the Nerd Art Prize 2023 photo contest!

26 June 2023




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