New materials for energy acquisition and storage, nano-robots detecting or eliminating germs in the human body or substances accelerating and streamlining a number of chemical reactions in industrial production will be developed by a revolutionary method of single-atom engineering as part of the Technology Beyond Nanoscale (TECHSCALE) project. Palacký University (UP) has succeeded in the prestigious Excellent Research call in the Jan Amos Komenský Operational Programme, with partners from Charles University and CEITEC-VUT.
World Teachers Day was proclaimed by UNESCO in 1994 on 5 October. In Slovakia and the Czech Republic, however, Teachers Day falls on 28 March, the anniversary of the birth of Jan Amos Komenský. .
New revelations on the laundering of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda through local actors in the Czech Republic point to an underresearched aspect of influence operations. The CCP’s tactic of “borrowing a boat to go out to sea” (借船出海, jie chuan chu hai), i.e., coopting local media outlets to serve as proxies, has long been known to involve organs in the …
Four months after its inauguration, an exhibition dedicated to Czech theologian, educator and philosopher Jan Amos Komenský, also known as Comenius, finally opened its doors to the public, following the easing of anti-coronavirus restrictions earlier this week.
The exhibition presents some 500 artefacts on loan from around 80 museums and collectors from the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Austria. It is being organised within the framework of the 350th anniversary of the death of Comenius, considered the “father of modern education”.