Are collective commitments within military alliances such as NATO being upheld, or do the representatives of the countries decide based on public opinion? CU's Michal Smetana clinched an ERC grant to try and answer the question.

“Realistic expectations are necessary when applying for an ERC grant but there's no point in being overly modest,” says Pavel Veselý from the Institute of Informatics, CU. The researcher was awarded a prestigious ERC CZ grant in June.

In the latest episode, we explore the world of criminal behaviour and the Czech justice system with a CERGE-EI alumnus Michal Šoltés, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Empirical Legal Studies at CU’s Faculty of Law.

A total of 26 Czech scientists, students or representatives of non-governmental organizations have succeeded in the prestigious competition for the Fulbright Scholarship. Among them are nine colleagues from Charles University.

"For excellent science you need money, freedom, high-quality infrastructure and a good academic environment," says Maria Leptin, president of the European Research Council (ERC), who recently visited Charles University.

"Cybersecurity is not just about technical knowledge, but includes a wide range of disciplines incl. diplomacy, international law, int'l relations or psychology," explains Lucie Kadlecová in one minute, who returned to the Czech Republic after working abroad.

In Talking Economics, we discuss labour markets in developing countries with Andreas Menzel, an Associate Professor at CERGE-EI. Andreas’s research projects focus on development economics with fieldwork in Ghana, Tanzania, and Bangladesh.

Explain your research clearly in one minute. This is exactly the task given to scientists from Charles University in the new video series Science at CU. The first to take on the task was mathematician Erin Carson, who is inventing new algorithms for supercomputers.