Since 2020, Masaryk University’s Vice-Rector for Research has been awarding a prize for outstanding achievements in research. This year, the MUNI Scientist award was presented to 39 researchers and research teams.
Since 2021, MU has awarded the Career Restart grant to help people reintegrate into the research environment after a long career break.
Students at Masaryk University once again have the chance to receive support for their business ideas. Applications for the Start Your Business competition are open until 16 January.
A ceremony was held at the Augustinian Abbey on Mendel Square, during which newly habilitated academics from Masaryk University received their appointment decrees. A total of 14 experts from eight MU faculties successfully completed the habilitation (appointment) process.
In September, Daniel Stašek, a graduate of the doctoral program at ECON MUNI, received the Dean's Award for outstanding dissertation work. In his research focused on volatility prediction, he demonstrated that more reliable results can be achieved through a sophisticated combination of hundreds of models. It is also advisable to include market liquidity indicators in predictive models and to consider that underestimating volatility is more costly than overestimating it. The result is more realistic and economically accurate predictions.
MU ranks among the top 100 best-rated world universities in the categories of Good Governance and Knowledge Exchange.
This year´s Open Day offered an expanded programme across all ten faculties of Masaryk University, as well as two workshops. A total of 3,500 prospective students registered.
Support for Ukraine, the situation in Slovakia, the risks associated with social media, questions about Russia and Belarus, the role of the traditional media, and questions about the new government – these were the topics that resonated during Czech President Petr Pavel’s meeting with MU students.