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Incomes of Masaryk University PhD students to undergo revolutionary change

MU has developed a new system for supporting PhD students. An income amounting to 1.2 times the minimum wage is guaranteed to all full-time PhD students who fulfil their obligations and study within the standard programme duration regardless of the language of study.

MUNI DAY attracts foreign students for quiz and TED-talk

Having considered foreign students, MUNI DAY organisers have prepared several dedicated events.

MU approves a record 2025 budget of CZK 13.7 billion

On Monday, the MU Academic Senate had two key items on the agenda of its 286th meeting: a scholarship regulation that provides more support for PhD students, and the MU budget for 2025, which amounts to a record-breaking CZK 13.7 billion. Both were approved.

Faculty of Sports Studies to implement ESA astronaut health project

When Czech astronaut Aleš Svoboda goes into space in 2027 or 2028, he will be able to wear the smart ISS T-shirt with integrated sensors developed at Masaryk University.

Czech Market Calls for AI Experts. Masaryk University Responds with the New Digital Talent Lab

Digital Talent Lab offers informal, public, free, and practical training in data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Now, everyone can learn by doing – through experiential learning in the form of a Datathon now, or corporate internships later.

3D printing on SIMU: this is how models for teaching are created

The Simulation Centre of the Faculty of Medicine features a facility for 3D printing of anatomical and teaching models for simulation medicine. The models are cost-efficient and constitute valuable innovation of teaching methods.

Return of expedition from Antarctica was complicated by weather

Thanks to the Czech Antarctic Research Programme led by Masaryk University, nine women and sixteen men of five nationalities worked in five locations on the southernmost continent last year as part of an international expedition.

Masaryk University has established two new spin-off companies

An innovative solution in primary school education and a diagnostic device that can detect chlamydial infection. These tools will be commercialised and put into practice by two new spin‑off companies: Invenio Plus and ACTOSens.

Returns that are just right: Monika Čechová back at the Faculty of Informatics

Masaryk University has recently hosted the ceremony of the second annual Czexpats in Science Award. Monika Čechová, who returned to her alma mater from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), is one of the three winners.

MUNI BioPharma Hub: Where innovation meets ambition

The traditional topping-out ceremony to mark the completion of the structural shell of the MUNI BioPharma Hub, a strategic project of Masaryk University, took place on Monday 14 April. The complex, which will house the Faculty of Pharmacy and have three underground and six above-ground levels, has now been decorated with ceremonial ribbons.

Brno confirmed as Czech cybersecurity hub with approval of two major EU projects

Two Brno universities – Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology – have been selected to lead two new EU-funded cybersecurity projects. Both initiatives stem from their collaboration within the Cyber-security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia (CHESS), a project that has brought together the leading cyber-security institutions in South Moravia and Estonia.

MUNI DAY will once again connect university in sports and tours

In just 5 weeks the biggest university-wide sports and social gathering of students and employees of Masaryk University – MUNI DAY – will start. The Bohunice University Campus will welcome MU alumni for the first time on Wednesday 14 May.