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We are happy to inform you that CERGE-EI is hosting an exhibition called “Pictures from Microworlds,” installed in our foyer until the end of June.

Read more …“Pictures from Microworlds” at CERGE-EI

Jakub Steiner appointed a docent by Charles University, Christopher Sims awarded the Karel Engliš Medal. 

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One of the most important scientists of today, Professor Avram Noam Chomsky from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, appeared on Monday, 2 June 2014 at the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic with a lecture entitled “What Can We Understand?” On this occasion, he received the honorary medal “De scientia et humanitate optime meritis” from the President of the Academy of Sciences, Prof. Jiří Drahoš.

Read more …Prof. Noam Chomsky at the Academy of Sciences

Patrick Gaulé , an Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter) and at CERGE, Charles University, and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, has been awarded the Otto Wichterle Award, an honour given by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic to stimulate and encourage selected, exceptionally outstanding, promising young scientists at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for their remarkable contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge in a given area .

Read more …Patrick Gaulé Awarded the Otto Wichterle Award 2014

IMD, a business school based in Switzerland, has announced its annual world competitiveness rankings for 2014. As part of its ranking of 60 economies, the IMD World Competitiveness Center also looks at perceptions of each country as a place to do business. Czech Republic has come in at 33^th in 2014 and thus become the most competitive country of the Visegrad Group. The partner institution for IMD in the Czech Republic is think tank IDEA.

Read more …IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2014