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On Tuesday 4 June students in the ESC summer intensive course on Behavioural Economics visited the economics laboratory at the Prague School of Economics (Vysoka Skola Ekonomicka). The laboratory was built in order to facilitate the use of experiments in economic research. The students were introduced to a game in which they played the roles […]

Even though the current flooding does not affect our school and UNYP is operating as normal, and we are aware of no student emergencies, please take note of the following information regarding current and future flood situation in Prague: Flood update can be found at http://www.praguewelcome.cz/en/praguewelcome/news/542-flood-update.shtml. This source provides information in English. Additionally, the Prague City […]

This semester Professor of e-Commerce, Jeff Medeiros brought in a few real-world e-Commerce and Technology leaders to watch and give feedback to this semesters’ student projects for the e-Commerce and Marketing Technologies course.   At the beginning of the semester, the students in the class form teams and come up with business ideas leveraging the Internet and related marketing concepts covered during the […]

President of the United States Barack Obama suffered a verbal misstep in 2012, when speaking to a group in Roanoke, Virginia.  The clip can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKjPI6no5ng. Specifically, the words that he used, that were focused on as insulting to entrepreneurs, were: “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that […]

Viewing the state of economic policy in the developed world these days, one is reminded of the old joke about the gentleman drunk  stumbling around under the lamppost looking for his lost keys. A policeman comes to help and after some time asks the gentleman if he is sure he lost his keys here. “No”, […]

To those familiar with the make-up of classes at UNYP, the idea of teaching courses in intercultural or cross-cultural communication could seem to be a curious activity, since every single class is made up of students from quite often a surprisingly broad range of ethnic origins, and the interaction among students and faculty of a […]

The Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy (and Painting) exhibition took place on Tuesday 14th May at UNYP. The class was taught by Natasha Sutta. The exhibition was opened by Dr. Andreas Antonopoulos, the Rector of UNYP.  Two UNYP students, Ta Thuy Dung (Susie) and Nguyen Mai Linh delighted their audience with Chinese, Korean and American songs, accompanied by guitarist Daniel […]

On Friday, May 10th, the Psychology Department of the University of New York in Prague held its first student research conference, entitled: International Student Research Symposium: Building a Global Community in Psychological Science for the 21st Century. The event was held in partnership with New York University, and invited students to present their original research in panel […]

On Thursday 2 May Jan Bures, Chief Economist of Era, part of the CSOB banking group, gave a guest lecture at UNYP. Jan talked to students in the IER and Business Administration majors about the crisis in the Eurozone. His talk, about the ethical dimensions of the crisis, was followed by a lively question and […]

On Friday 3 May students in the International Money and Banking course at UNYP visited the Czech National Bank. The visitors learnt about the work of the bank and about the history of central banking in the Czech lands. The visit also included the People and Money exhibition on the history of Czech money, from […]