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This year's PhD graduate of the Faculty of Science, Martin Toul, received two important awards for his research work at the end of the year: the Minister of Education’s Award and the Doctorandus Prize at this year's Česká hlava scientific awards.

Jiří Macháček, winner of the “Česká hlava – Invence” (Czech Head) award in November, has big plans for the coming years: modernisation and completion of laboratory facilities and the creation of an archaeogenetic research centre in the BioPharma Hub.

This year, Masaryk University became an official examination centre for the Czech as a Foreign Language exam, which foreigners need in order to obtain permanent residence in the Czech Republic. This makes it one of four places in the South Moravian Region where the exam can be taken.

Last week, Czeducon, a conference on internationalisation in higher education, took place in Brno, attended by over 500 representatives of Czech and universities from abroad. The evening programme included Alumni talks with international graduates from Masaryk.

Masaryk University has won two more prestigious awards. The Minister of Education’s awards for higher education, science and research went to the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Science.

She always thought that studying for a Master’s degree abroad would cost her a fortune. But Masaryk University and the Czech Republic had a surprise in store for Indian student Sandhiya Suresh.

Assistance in the protection of rights, guarantees for both the reporting person and the accused, impartiality, independence and confidentiality are among the principles of protection of rights at Masaryk University.

On 13 November, representatives of Masaryk University will pay tribute to the victims of the Nazi occupation at a memorial meeting of the MU academic community in the Kounic Residence Hall.

The University-wide Rights Protection Office was established at Masaryk University on 1 April 2023. 

The protection of the rights of students and staff at MU has so far been covered by many mechanisms and processes across different departments. Now the University has centralised the protection of rights in one person and office. The new position is held by the Ombuds Eva Janovičová.

Shanghai Ranking, a leading ranking company, recently released an international comparison of higher education institutions by subject area. Masaryk University secured a spot in the world’s top 200 in two subjects, and it is currently the top-ranking institution in the Czech Republic in three subjects.

The list of recipients of Masaryk University’s doctor honoris causa has grown by two new names.