Press Room
Most of CERGE-EI's media presence is currently in the Czech language; CERGE-EI also appears in the local English-language media and in the international media. Additionally, our students, researchers and faculty occasionally feature in the media of one of the two dozen countries of their origin.
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Featured News and Releases
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5 Jun 2014 —
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 CR 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 ASCR, Prof. Jiří Drahoš.
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5 Jun 2014 —
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 .
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27 May 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 33th 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.
