Charles University, founded in 1348, is one of the oldest universities in the world. Now it has 17 faculties (14 in Prague, 2 in Hradec Králové and 1 in Pilsen)
In connection with today's tragic attack at the Faculty of Arts of CU, we would like to inform all mourners about the possibility of expressing their remembrance in front of the Rectorate of Charles University at Ovocný trh 3, Prague 1.
Statement of Charles University on the shooting at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University
Today in the afternoon, a completely unprecedented situation occurred at Charles University (CU) and its Faculty of Arts, where not only injuries but also casualties occurred.
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The Endowment Fund of Charles University announces a fundraiser to support the families of the victims, teachers and students affected by the shooting at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University.
You can donate here:
We keep the families of the deceased and injured in our thoughts.
Leadership of Charles University and the Faculty of Arts
You can read the full statement here:
🕊️ Today, the Tibetan flag traditionally flies over the Charles University.
This international campaign commemorates the anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. It aims to symbolically express solidarity with the Tibetan people.
The University grieves and continues to provide assistance and support
Our thoughts are with you all in these difficult Christmas times marked by pain and loss. Thank you for being with us during this difficult time.
You can read the full statement here:
Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who ran in the 2020 presidential election against strong-arm leader Lukashenko, is in the Czech Republic. On Monday, she was a guest at Charles University, discussing the situation in Belarus. Exclusive in Forum!
Word from the Rector of Charles University on the tragic event at the Faculty of Arts
Expression of condolences and thanks for the support for the tragic situation at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University.
For up-to-date information, please visit
We mourn the loss of life of members of our university community, express our deepest condolences to all the bereaved and our thoughts are with all those affected by the tragedy.
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🇫🇷 President
@EmmanuelMacron
paid tribute to the victims of the shooting at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University last December.
🕯️ He was accompanied to the building on Jan Palach Square by
@prezidentpavel
. He also spoke briefly with Rector
@KralickovaM
and Dean of the…
PF 2024
Traditionally, the holidays and the new year bring joy and celebration. This year, more than ever, we are reminded of the importance of supporting one another, sharing empathy, and comforting those suffering.
We wish everyone a peaceful and safe 2024.
We now ask everyone to try to remain calm and composed, and we again extend our condolences to all those whose hearts have been broken by the loss of loved ones.
Further information will follow shortly in view of the constantly evolving situation.
Charles University Management
The management of the University together with the management of the Faculty of Arts in cooperation with the security forces have been dealing with the situation since the first moments, and the crisis staff of the University was established.
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At the same time cancelling today's evening and tomorrow's events with an expected attendance of more than 20 people, and called for an adequate and sensitive approach to tomorrow's possible exams or credit examinations.
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There are and will be networks of contacts for HELP lines (psychological help), e.g. a crisis chat is currently running where support is provided from trained psychologists - crisis interventionists and crisis and psychological support and help.
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👑 The new promotional identity of Charles University is here!
From the new academic year onwards, you will not only encounter our traditional historical seal, but also a new promotional identity.
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We would like to thank everyone who came today to the “Carrying of Light” procession, which was the opening event of the Four Weeks for the Faculty of Arts of Charles University initiative, and honoured the memory of the victims of the tragic event at the Faculty of Arts.
👑 We are one of the 250 best universities in the world!
👏🏻 According to the QS World University Rankings, Charles University is the only Czech university among the top 250 universities and is thus among the top 1.5% of the best educational institutions in the world.
Today, Professor Milena Králíčková
@KralickovaM
, who was elected in the autumn as the next head of Charles University (and first rectress in its 674-year history), was appointed by President Miloš Zeman at Prague Castle.
Congratulations!
Read more:
Two weeks after the tragic event on 21 December, we will come together to honour the memory of the victims.
On January 4, we will meet at 1:30 p.m. at the Ovocný trh. After the opening words, we will walk in silent procession to the main building of the Faculty of Arts of CU.
👑 Charles University celebrated its 675th anniversary yesterday afternoon with a festive session on Friday. After the opening speech by the Rector of Charles University Milena Králíčková, a lecture by the Vice-Rector for Academic Qualifications Jan Kuklík followed.
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❤️ I would like to wish all women to be constantly aware of their uniqueness and strength, not only on this one day. To not underestimate their abilities and to always have the courage to pursue their dreams both personally and professionally.
- prof. Milena Králíčková, rector
🕯️ Tuesday, 16 January, marks 55 years since Jan Palach set himself on fire at the top of Wenceslas Square in protest against the suppression of freedoms and the passive attitude of the public after the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops.
Join us in remembering his courageous act:
🇩🇪 Today at
@CharlesUniPRG
we welcome the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
@OlafScholz
, who is here to give a lecture on the topic - The Future of Europe.
🎥 Live stream is here:
💐 Today marks 104 years since the founding of independent Czechoslovakia and the Czech Rectors' Conference marked the occasion by laying flowers at the statue of the first Czechoslovak president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, in Prague's Hradčany Square.
These days, it's more important than ever to take care of our mental health - both our own and that of our loved ones.
Charles University wishes you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas holidays.
For all the latest information, visit
The management of
@CharlesuniPRG
has prepared concrete steps to help students, and other staff from the areas affected by the conflicts, but also, if necessary, their families:
👉
#WeStandWithUkraine
Charles University has today honoured Jan Palach, the student at CU, who in an act of protest in January 1969 doused himself in petrol and set himself alight.
If you would like to learn more about this Czech hero, browse into
@ukforumcz
magazine:
🏛️ The Faculty of Arts is one of the four founding faculties of Charles University. As such, it is a traditional centre of education in the Czech lands for almost 800 years. With more than 200 study programmes, the faculty takes real pride in diversity of its academic community.…
🌱 The Faculty of Science of Charles University is one of the largest scientific research institutions in the Czech Republic, both in terms of the number of scientific results and quality assessment.
@science_charles
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👑 You are welcome to visit the permanent exhibition introducing the history of Charles University. You will learn more about the story of Charles IV. and the university's establishment. The exhibition is located in the gothic cellars of the Carolinum building.
🕯 On Thursday, 4 January, fourteen days after the tragic event at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, a commemorative procession with the transfer of light, a symbolic embrace of the faculty took place.
📌 You can read the report here:
Myanmar’s Aung Sang Suu Kyi says it is duty to achieve peace in her country... In address at CU, says she is aware that many obstacles remain to resolution of problems. Briefly discusses Rakhine state. Touts progress in infrastructure as vastly improving quality of life for many.
All funds raised will be used to provide targeted assistance to those affected by this tragedy. The use will be coordinated with the management of the Faculty of Arts.
“Our university is a complex, intricate organism. It has a long and glorious history, but I want it to also flourish in the future,” says in her inaugural speech new rector of Charles University 👑, Milena Králíčková.
🇨🇿 Do you need help learning Czech?
📲 Recently,
@FF_CUNI
rolled out what it hopes will be a game-changer:
@ProCzeFor
, an online state-of-the-art pronunciation app that is making it easier to learn Czech.
👉 Read more in our article here:
Statement by the Rector of Charles University
@KralickovaM
on the conflict in Ukraine 🇺🇦
“As rector, I strongly condemn any form of aggression, by Putin's Russia right now.”
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🎊 Today is an important day for the university. Charles IV, the founder of Charles University, would have been 707 years old today, 14 May. At the same time, Mother's Day falls on the same date this year, so we wish our Alma Mater all the best! ❤️
🖤 The Four Weeks for the Faculty of Arts culminated yesterday with a concert at the Rudolfinum and a symbolic event at the memorial fire on Jan Palach Square, which served as a memorial to the victims of the shooting at our Faculty of Arts.
Ondřej Dušek
@tuetschek
from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics was this week awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the
@ERC_Research
for research on natural language generation. Congratulations! 🥳
Read more in
@ukforumcz
article:
👑 Today, in the Czech Republic, we celebrate an important Day of Education, which commemorates the founding of Charles University.
📜 It is exactly 674 years since the founding of the first university in Central Europe by the Czech King and Roman Emperor Charles IV.
“Universities need to fight intolerance, fake news and manipulation of public opinion” says Professor Ludovic Thilly, Chair of Coimbra Group
#rectors18prg
Yesterday took place Neuron Awards
@cenaneuron
, honouring excellence and ground-breaking contributions in science research. Seven recipients have ties with, or work at, Charles University.
Congratulations!
New
@ukforumcz
article:
🇮🇹 Ciao!
🇪🇺 This year's
@4euplusalliance
Annual Meeting in
#Milano
just ended!
🙌 Many thanks to
@lastatale
for the excellent hospitality and organisation of the past days and we look forward to next year's
@UniWarszawski
!
Prof. Kurt Deketelaere, Secretary General Leru says democratic and humanist values are endangered in Europe even today and that some clearly have not learned lessons of the past
#rectors18prg
@LERUnews
@KurtDeketelaere
The STARS 🌟 program provides fully-funded PhD positions at the Faculty of Science
@science_charles
. Available specializations are Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Geology and Environmental studies.
The deadline 📅 for application is on 13 March 2022.
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🔭An exobiologist seeking signs of life🔬
Does life exists beyond planet Earth? Did it exist in the past?
These are the questions Professor Jan Jehlička from CU’s Faculty of Science, a last year Donatio award winner, is trying to resolve.
Would you like to know more, who is the new rectress-elect
@KralickovaM
? Read this new
@ukforumcz
article by
@PavlaHub
, which describes the life path of the first rectress at Charles University.
A unique research underway in Czechia on how babies, even still in the womb, learn languages and how it could influence our ability to learn other languages.
@katerina_chk
studies the earliest stages of language acquisition.
👉
@ukforumcz
Nina Špitálníková is not only a specialist in North Korean studies, activitist and feminist, she is also a student of Oral Contemporary History at the Faculty of Humanities of CU. Read more about her and her life in this
@ukforumcz
interview with her:
The international conference SCIENCE COMMUNICATION will take place on 22 February. You will learn how science is popularized in the UK and it will be possible to watch online, registration is already on, here:
@UKinCR
@vedavyzkum_cz
@ukforumcz
🇺🇦 It has been two years since the Russian attack on Ukraine began on the morning of 24 February 2022. Immediately after its outbreak, Charles University began helping Ukrainian citizens, scientists, and students. Because war does not stop science.
🧑🔬 This is proven by concrete…
The automatic translator between Czech and Ukrainian was developed in record time by scientists from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. The aim of the project is to help refugees from Ukraine to overcome the language barrier in the Czech environment.
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🥳 We are in the TOP 400 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023!
👑 Amid international competition, we have maintained our position and again been ranked among the best 400 best universities.
📌 More information here:
🇹🇼 Supply Chain Resilience Center: cooperation between CU and Taiwan
🤝 In collaboration with
@nccu1927
in Taiwan, we have started a joint project and established the Supply Chain Resilience Center.
📌 More information here:
🙏🏻 Study Protestant Theology at the cradle of Bohemian Reformation. From the Hussite movement and the Unity of Brethren, up to the Moravian Church – you can visit all the historical sites of Protestantism while studying in Prague, at the oldest university in Central Europe.
🌍…
Jan Palach, the student who set himself on fire in January 1969 to protest against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, would have turned 70 years old today.
5 years ago, human torch number 1 was lit, Jan Palach wanted to awaken the people.
🕯️ Yesterday, the traditional commemoration of Palach's deed took place in Karolinum. Representatives of Charles University, headed by the rector Milena Králíčková, paid tribute to his memory.
🙌 Would you like to meet Czech students from all our faculties? Maybe you already have a Buddy or want to meet new people.
☕️ Then, this regular series of events is just for you or all our students - Czech and international. As the name suggests, informal meetings will be held…
As usual, today we joined the international
#flagfortibet
campaign and hoisted the Tibetan flag at Karolinum.
The aim of the campaign is to point at the long-standing human rights violations in Tibet.🕊
#FreeTibet
👑 Charles University celebrated its 674th birthday with a ceremonial meeting yesterday afternoon.
🏅 During the ceremony, awards were presented to important personalities of Charles University.
How programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia used games to mock the regime
This is a fun and informative interview with Jaroslav Švelch for anyone interested in underground computing in communist Czechoslovakia.
#themitpress
On Thursday Kampus Hybernská hosted an online panel discussion Experts vs. “experts” - Scientists in the Media. Panellists discussed the difficulties of their fields, where they overlapped and much more. Read in new
@ukforumcz
article:
The Maersk Tower - the site of a two-day conference bringing together members of 4EU+ - in Copenhagen.
#4EU
+
Organizers a little sorry for the weather but although it’s rainy and 50 shades of gray it’s still ok. Beautiful city, great school.
👑 Prague attracts foreign students!
@StudyInPragueCZ
signed a memorandum with
@PrgCityTourism
.
🎓 The purpose of the cooperation memorandum is to deepen the existing cooperation on joint projects.
📌 Read more here:
“[It is] the second oldest Baroque apothecary in Central Europe,” says doctor of Pharmacy Jana Karlíčková from the Faculty of Pharmacy 🩺 in Hradec Králové about the pharmacy named At the Pomegranate. Browse in
@ukforumcz
article:
Professor Babor, who had conducted research concerning alcohol and drug policy which has resulted in developing Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) has been awarded by CU. If you want to find out more information, read in
@ukforumcz
here:
Ladies and gentlemen, the new academic year is fast approaching and for some of you, it has already begun. Let me welcome you most warmly and wish you every success.
With warmest regards
Milena Králíčková
Rector of Charles University
🏛️ Charles University's Protestant Theological Faculty is one of our three theological faculties. Housed in the historical venue of Marathon Palace, the faculty holds the most extensive collection of theological literature in the country, making it an ecumenically open space…
🏛️ Charles University's Faculty of Humanities is guided by the idea of general education in humanities and liberal studies. It follows the artes liberales – the liberal arts that were cultivated at the university in the Middle Ages. The artes liberales can be understood as an…
🎖️ The university professor, world-famous science promoter and writer Václav Smil, a graduate of the Faculty of Science of Charles University, was awarded
@CharlesUniPRG
- his alma mater - and the Czech Geographical Society.
📌 Read more here:
Professor
@HyllandErisken
from
@UniOslo
was honoured by Charles University for his life’s work last week. In this new
@ukforumcz
interview, he describes his research on globalisation, the importance of slowness and much more.
We updated the Coronavirus guidelines and information about organisation of teaching and study (November, 12 2021). 🦠
So, please, check the link below for more information and guidelines. 🙏🏻
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People don’t choose their sport – the sport chooses people. In other words, your genes suggest you what sport you have an aptitude for.🏋️🤺🧗
A new article by
@PavlaHub
in CU Forum magazine:
Buongiorno from beautiful Milan 🇮🇹. University representatives, UK staff and students, together with the entire
@4EUplusAlliance
community, kick off the three-day Annual Meeting of the Alliance. This year it is being held at
@LaStatale
.
🟠 25 November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. To mark the occasion, Charles University joined other institutions and wrapped itself in orange.
#OrangeTheWorld