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On Friday June 26, 2020 representatives of Charles University marked 70 years since the execution of Milada Horáková, Icon of Freedom and Democracy in Czechoslovakia.
The Open Science Support Centre aims to develop the agenda of the open access (OA) publication model and thus bring Charles University closer to the good practice of major world universities. In order for the Centre's activities to reflect the real needs of our researchers, a questionnaire of the needs of the scientific community in the field of open access at Charles University was prepared. Its purpose is not only to collect feedback and describe the publishing behavior of the authors, but also to find out which areas of the open access agenda are essential for them.
Charles University and the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic have joined the international research initiative Antwerp University International COVID-19 Student Well-being Study, which in cooperation with a total of 26 countries focuses on you, the college students and how the pandemic affected you in the area of your studies, but also mental well-being and related topics. Our goal, except international comparison is that your university and faculty can also use the information from an anonymous questionnaire and better target help to you as students. Please click to the link below.
https://uantwerpen.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_20v5EtSQe00GGFv
Charles University has selected Dr Alena Marková's 4EU+Alliance joint project "Eastern Europe from the Post-Socialist Perspective: Changes and Challenges" to support in the form of seed funding. The project is focused on research-based education.
The Coursera educational platform provides access to selected online courses from universities around the world from a variety of disciplines, from natural to humanities to health and nutrition.
There are 5 000 licences for users from Charles University.
Trial expires on 31.07.2020, with courses that have been started available until 30.09.2020.
The journal focuses on the history of historiography, methodology and its transformation, with an emphasis on polemical nature and criticism.
Between 2004–2010 the journal was published by Masaryk Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in cooperation with the Institute for Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague became the exclusive publisher in 2011. The journal is published twice a year.
Hynek Bartoš (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities) and Colin G. King (
Providence College, Rhode Island) have published a new book titled "Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science" (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Czech urban anthropology journal Lidé města / Urban People invites authors to submit proposals for articles to be included in the journal’s 2020 annual English edition.