Project contracts and amendments

The Department of Project Support of the UP Faculty of Science asks project investigators/co-investigators to deliver project contracts and amendments to the key user (silvie.savrnakova@upol.cz) for entering into CES, in which the content intended to be classified information (the so-called blacking out) such as a trade secret, etc. will already be marked. This description can also be indicated briefly on the request form for signing of the contract/amendment by the rector (by inserting a note during filing under "Make the passage unreadable when published") or by email, as it has been done so far. Information to be kept confidential should be agreed with other contractors in advance or consulted with the Rector's Legal Office by making a request to that department. The Legal Office blackens personal data on contracts and amendments by default when published in the Register of Contracts of the Ministry of the Interior (this still applies).

TA CR - Call schedule for 2024 – 2026

Schedule 2024-2026 can be found on the provider's website.

TA CR - Clean Energy Transition (CET) Partnership Joint Call 2024

The CET Call 2024 Partnership call focuses on research in the field of energy transition (clean energy). It aims to contribute to the EU’s ambition to become the first climate neutral continent by 2050. The Partnership has created seven thematic configurations, the so-called “Transition Initiatives” (TRIs), within the framework of this call. More on the provider's website.
Faculty deadline: 14 November 2024.

TA CR - International Water4All Call 2024

Water4All partnership is pleased to announce its Call 2024: Water for circular economy is now open. This Call aims to deliver new solutions to develop new circular feedstocks and value chains, increase water resource efficiency, improve water allocation, and optimize water use in water-dependent sectors. The 2024 Joint Transnational Call will also focus on the barriers to the adoption of proposed solutions and the deployment of outputs, and to the impact in inland and coastal water environments. More on the provider's website.
Faculty deadline: 6 November 2024.

TA CR - Biodiversity Partnership Joint Call 2024

The European Biodiversity Partnership is pleased to announce that its BiodivTransform Call for Transnational Research Proposals on “Biodiversity and Transformative Change – BiodivTransform” is now open. This Call aims at supporting research and innovation projects to identify, analyse, and comprehend transformation processes that may halt and reverse biodiversity decline. More on the provider's website.
Faculty deadline: 1 November 2024.

Dean's Award for authors of prestigious scientific publications

The Dean of the Faculty of Science will award the authors and author groups of teaching and popular science texts, monographs and original scientific publications for 2024. Submitting the publication will be possible from 16 September 2024. The publication (publication set) is submitted by the author via a web form on the Portal. You can find the application form here (in Czech). If the publication is already listed in OBD, it is possible to use automatic data loading from OBD when filling it out. The printed and signed application must be delivered by internal mail to the Department of Science and Research of the UP Faculty of Science to Bc. Barbora Krudencová no later than 24 October 2024.

Submitted publications must meet the following conditions:

• The scientific publication is in a professional journal with an IF value in the top 10%, including journals that belong to the same subject class (subject class on Web of Science) as the journal in which the publication appeared. The condition must be met for at least one subject class.
• The main or corresponding author is an employee of the UP Faculty of Science with at least 0,5 workload or a student of the FS UP.
• The prize will be awarded to members of the author group who have listed the UP Faculty of Science as their main workplace in the affiliation, i.e. have listed it in the first place.
• The publication was published in 2024. Works published in 2023 can also be submitted, if they were not submitted to the competition in the previous year.

Rector's Honorary Mention

The Rector of Palacký University announced this year's award intended exclusively for students of doctoral study programmes. Proposals for the award of the UP Rector's Honorary Mention to doctoral students for a professional article can be submitted by the relevant vice-deans (with the approval of the Subject-Area Board) and director of the university institute until the end of October 2024.

For the Faculty of Science, the Vice-Dean for Doctoral Studies is prof. Ondřej Bábek (ondrej.babek@upol.cz), to whom you can send the nomination of doctoral students until 30 October 2024 at 12:00. Honorary mention is associated with the scholarship in the amount of 10 000 CZK. For each nomination, please fill in the Cover Sheet, and attach the professional article in electronic form. Late submissions will not be considered.

Werner von Siemens Award

The 27th year of the Werner von Siemens Award for students, teachers and young scientists in engineering and science has been announced. In the best thesis and dissertation categories, the thesis supervisors will receive an award along with the students. Candidates can apply through the website www.cenasiemens.cz until 30 November 2024.

Fulbright scholarship

Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship is intended for study or research at the Master's or Ph.D. level in the United States for all disciplines except clinical medicine and MBA and LLM programs. You can apply for a research stay of 4-9 months until 1 February 2025 and you need to arrange a corresponding letter of invitation from the US. Completion of bachelor's degree at the time of the deadline and good command of English are a prerequisite. Details here.

Choose your ombudsman! Based on the initiative of student senators in the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Science, elections have been announced for new student ombudsmen (=student rights defenders) who act as advisors, mediators or mediators between students and teachers (e.g. in cases of harassment or disagreements between students and teachers).

Students always nominate a pair of academic staff (a woman and a man). Candidates for ombudsman must be academics or emeritus professors who are from different fields (mathematics and computer science, chemistry, physics, biology and ecology, earth sciences). The nominee must not hold the position of dean, vice-dean or head of department. He/she cannot also be a senator or a member of the Ethics and Disciplinary Committee.

Every student can make a nomination for ombudsman by midnight on 18 October 2024 by sending a scanned nomination sheet by e-mail to Mgr. Alžběta Andrýsková (alzbeta.andryskova01@upol.cz) or by handing in the nomination sheet to the mailbox of the faculty's Academic Senate on the ground floor of the Faculty of Science (next to the Student Affairs Office).

After the nominations, the candidate profiles will be posted during the week. Then an electronic poll will be held in which students will be able to vote for the pair for the position of Ombudsman and Deputy Ombudsman. Based on the results, the student senators will propose the selected pair of candidates to the Academic Senate of the UP Faculty of Science for approval.

Teaching Awards UP

For the first time ever, students of Palacký University can decide who they consider to be the best teacher. Nominations for favourite teachers who can receive the UP Teaching Awards are open until 31 October 2024.

Each student can nominate one teacher. Nominees will be divided by length of experience into candidates for the Teaching Junior Award, which is for educators with up to five years of experience, and the Teaching Senior Award for those who have been teaching longer.

Nomination votes from students alone are not enough for educators to win the award. However, they are an important step towards a teacher making the shortlist. The five nominees with the highest number of votes from both categories will then present themselves in front of a pedagogical committee. The committee will choose the winner based on a presentation of their teaching practice and portfolio. The best teacher from each category will receive an award and a financial reward from the Rector during the UP Academic Week.

Registration of courses in STAG

It is necessary to register for courses in STAG for the academic year 2024/2025 by 30 September 2024. See the Schedule of the Academic Year.

Online confirmation of study

You can print your confirmation of study online directly from your Portal (not STAG).
Go to Portal - Electronic forms - Confirmation of study (online with signature) - Print.

Individual study plan of the doctoral students
Students in the first year of the doctoral study programmes have to submit their individual study plan by the end of September 2024 to their Student Affairs Officer. The plan has to be signed by the student, his/her supervisor and the chairman of the Subject-area Board. At the same time, students must enter the dissertation topic in STAG.
Go to „STAG – My study – Thesis topics“, find your topic through the search engine and fill out the necessary data. If it’s not there, add the new topic and fill out all the data. Then check everything with your supervisor if the data are correct. If the supervisor approves, in the section “Approval status“ select „Thesis registration finalized by student“ and save it. Then, on the top of the page click on „Print the document for dissertation registration“, print it, have it signed by the necessary people, and deliver it to your student affairs officer.

The Support Centre for Students with Special Needs

The Support Centre for Students with Special Needs offers accessibility to the university environment for students with specific needs who study at the Palacký University Olomouc. The aim is to increase the study comfort of students and alleviate possible difficulties in their studies. In case you are troubled by personal, study, work or other problems and feel the need to solve them, you can use several professional and specialized workplaces that are focused on helping with short-term and longer-term difficulties. With a few exceptions, these are provided free of charge. More information here.

Researchers's Night

One evening, dozens of venues across the Czech Republic and a varied programme for children and adults, introducing science in a fun and playful way. The Researcher's Night, which will take place on 27 September 2024, this year takes inspiration from the works of Franz Kafka and chooses Transformation as its main theme. Visitors can expect interactive experiments, fun games and quizzes, exciting screenings and lectures packed with surprising discoveries. All this is completely free of charge.

MEET UP

The beginning of the academic year traditionally belongs to MEET UP. This year's event will take place on Tuesday 24 September in the charming surroundings of the Josef Jařab Embankment (Olomouc's waterfront). The afternoon and evening programme will offer performances by buskers, rockers and dulcimers, alongside stands of student associations and university organisations, there will be a gastronomic zone and a boat ride and silent disco. The programme will also include the presentation of the winners of the 2024 Volunteer Awards. For more information, visit www.meetup.upol.cz.

MEET UP will also include a Sustainable University Bazaar. Get your home in order as the semester begins and bring us clothes, books and study materials, and household items that you no longer use but are still functional and undamaged. You can bring them in advance to the Student Club or directly to the venue - details here.

Sustainable Palacký

Are you interested in sustainability and want to do something about it together with like-minded people? Come to the recruitment event on Monday 30 September and join the new generation of Sustainable Palacký! Find more information about the meeting on our social media.

Roll up your sleeves, Donate blood with the Rector

A battle in which everyone is a winner - that's Roll Up Your Sleeves, an event in which Palacký University students and employees donate blood to help save lives. The fourth year of the university-wide competition will be combined with another traditional event, Donate Blood with the Rector. Everything will start on Monday, 30 September at 7:30 a.m. in the Transfusion Department of the Olomouc University Hospital. More information here.

UP Crowd

Are you an enthusiastic student and want to develop yourself? Meet new people with the same focus? Learn new skills? Come to our meeting (Spolkoslet) on Tuesday 8 October, where you will be introduced to the best student societies at the university! We look forward to seeing you in the atrium of the Faculty of Science from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The next faculty Newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 8 October 2024.