Aktuality

Charles University announced the best publications for 2022. Three publications authored or co-authored by FSV UK academics are among them.

Our students, Jakub Bobysud, Matej Leško, Peter Palovič and Ondřej Rosický represented the IES FSV UK, the Faculty and Charles University at the 12th edition of the prestigious international investment competition, CFA Research Challenge. They won the challenging sub-regional round, and became also the winners of the EMEA region semi-finals. In the history of the competition, only one team from the Czech Republic has managed to do so. Finally, they also took part in the EMEA finals, where according to the jury they placed 3rd - 6th overall.

The 27th public competition was announced for Josef Vavrousek Award.  Students, doctoral students and young university graduates in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, including international degree students, can submit their Bachelor and Master theses and PhD dissertations for the competition. The submission deadline for this year is Friday 29 July 2022, 12:00p.m.

On Tuesday, 17 May 2022, during the Academic Senate FSV UK meeting, the Golden Courses for the best courses of the Winter Semester 2021/2022 according to the student evaluation were awarded to the lecturers. The award is accompanied by financial reward. Congratulations to all recipients!  

The Expert Group for Ukraine (ESU) has  been newly established at the Faculty of Social Sciences. It is an interdisciplinary policy group consisting of experts and academics from the FSV UK. They will regularly offer expert and research-based contributions to ongoing debates in the society in the form of expert articles (so-called policy briefs).

The Faculty of Social Sciences shares with deep sadness the news of the loss of prof. Bořivoj Hnízdo. Prof. Hnízdo was a university lecturer and a member - and from 2003 to 2010 also the director - of the Institute of Political Studies FSV UK. He passed away at the age of seventy on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.