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Masaryk University guarantees an income amounting to 1.2 times the minimum wage for all full-time doctoral students who are meeting their study obligations and are within the standard period of study.

Looking for ways to strengthen Ukraine’s research and higher education sector in the post-war period will be the focus of the Conference on Ukraine’s Reconstruction in Research and Higher Education, bringing together dozens of experts from across Europe and Ukraine on 17 September in Brno.

The traditional summer tour of Masaryk University dormitories, regularly attended by the university leadership and a representative of the Student Chamber of the MU Academic Senate, highlighted the diversity of student housing this year.

Czech-Slovak team of students from Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology managed in record time to raise funds for the registration fee and will participate at the end of October in the prestigious global competition iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris.

At Masaryk University comes already the sixteenth ERC grant. Support of the European Research Council (ERC) for establishing own research group obtained Tomáš Fiala, who will from October work at the Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science, MU. 

Fifty-seven years ago, on 21 August 1968, Czechoslovakia was occupied by the armies of five Warsaw Pact countries led by the Soviet Union. The invasion put an end to free debate at universities and crushed hopes of a more open society.

Starting this September, PhD students in the Czech Republic will see a major change — they will be legally entitled to a minimum income amounting to at least 1.2 times the minimum wage.

In this year’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Masaryk University improved its score in the indicator measuring the number of articles published in Nature and Science.

With the support of Google.org, Masaryk University is set to launch the main phase of a unique cybersecurity project in the autumn semester of 2025. This initiative will see collaboration between the Faculty of Informatics, the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Social Studies, and the Faculty of Economics and Administration.

The MUNI BioPharma Hub marks a major step forward in pharmaceutical education and research. Besides providing high-quality facilities for teaching clinical pharmaceutical care, it will also facilitate cutting-edge research and the development of new medicines.

Study abroad has become a little easier for Masaryk University students. It is the only Czech university that the European Commission has recognised for digitalisation. It has thus confirmed its role in simplifying the administration of Erasmus+ study placements.

The MUNI Award in Science and Humanities (MASH) are the extraordinary grants intended for successful or exceptionally promising researchers.