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Motivating Czechs to get the jab
Medici PRO OÄŤkovánĂ (Med Students for Vaccination) is an initiative begun more than three years ago before anyone had heard of Covid-19. The pandemic has put the group front and centre. It’s aim is to provide the public with honest and factual information about why it’s important to get the jab. Forum spoke to the organisation’s JaromĂr Astl.
Author: Jan VelingerPhoto: Medici pro oÄŤkovanĂ, Shutterstock
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Women in Science highlights change
Last Thursday, Charles University hosted the long-awaited Women in Science seminar, examining conditions of female experts in the Czech scientific and research environments. Invited speakers discussed both opportunities and barriers and as well as what needs to change.
Author: Pavla HubálkováPhoto: VladimĂr Ĺ igut
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Experts vs. “experts” - How to report science
Thursday 25. November 2021Experts vs. “experts” - Scientists in the Media was the title of an online panel discussion on Thursday hosted by Kampus Hybernská. Four invited speakers – two well-known science journalists and two scientists, discussed the difficulties of their fields and where they overlapped, as well as the damage caused by some experts spreading denial.
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Trainer: Youth soccer needs role models
Monday 22. November 2021Football is not just Messi and Ronaldo. Many exceptional players over the years emerged even from modest conditions in Czechia. Jan Kozel, a young football coach and CU graduate, says famous Czechs athletes should be role models for up-and-coming talent today. And not just from the world of soccer.
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In pictures: Czechs mark 17 November
Wednesday 17. November 2021Czechs have been marking 17 November, commemorating the courage of students and citizens who stood up to two different totalitarian regimes: against the Nazi oppressors in 1939 and the Communists 50 years later. Students, teachers and representatives of Charles University all took part.
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CU's discovery service: Searching made easy
Sunday 14. November 2021Charles University recently launched its new discovery service, UKAĹ˝, facilitating the simultaneous and smooth search of printed, digitised and electronic resources. The system was a complete redesign of its forerunner, integrating the catalogues of more than 60 CU libraries. Searching for books has never been more convenient.
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Podcast – The impact of Covid on education
Friday 12. November 2021“Have we learned anything new about the education system during the pandemic? And why is the economics of education becoming more important these days?” are questions host KatarĂna StehlĂková put to CERGE-EI’s Daniel MĂĽnich in the latest Talking Economics.
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Life is all about managing risk
Sunday 7. November 2021As a little girl, she dreamed of working as a veterinarian and animal conservationist in a national park in Africa. Her love of animals led her to study zoogeography. Today, Dagmar Dzúrová teaches about One Health at the Faculty of Science, a transdisciplinary approach to optimal health that recognises balance in nature as crucially important.
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FORUM EN10 1/2021
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