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.
Having considered foreign students, MUNI DAY organisers have prepared several dedicated events.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All runners are invited and they do not have to be MU employees or students: MUNI RUN in the Bohunice campus on 13 May is open to adults and children alike.
Starting this year, Masaryk University has introduced a groundbreaking innovation: contracts with its faculties and institutes. The contracts will be linked to the funding of research at MU.
Masaryk University confirms that it is the most successful institution of its kind in the Czech Republic in obtaining support from the European Union; currently within the framework of calls for postdoctoral projects.
The Brno Ph.D. Talent Award supports aspiring doctoral students in science and engineering in their research. This year, the top twenty-five were awarded a prize of CZK 360,000.
Tereza Jeřábková, winner of last year’s MUNI Award in Science and Humanities, has been working at the Faculty of Science since February. Her decision to return to the Czech Republic was strategic and motivated by her desire to contribute to the development of the local scientific environment. The astronomer seeks to link the physical processes of star formation and evolution with the broader context of the galaxies where the stars are born.