Academics

The Aurora Scientific Council is meeting at Palacký University

Written on 5. 6. 2025. Posted in Academics.

More than 50 projects, including 15 with the involvement of Palacký University, have been submitted to the second round of the Aurora Open Call for Incentive Research Collaboration, which aims to foster closer cooperation between European universities. Applicants can receive up to €25,000 for a joint international project. The call also supports the organisation of thematic summer schools and the mobility of early-career researchers. Members of the Aurora Research Council met at Palacký University,...

Palacký University launches new international Master’s programme: Digital Society

Written on 13. 5. 2025. Posted in Academics, Featured, Students.

Digitalisation, artificial intelligence, and new technologies are fundamentally changing the way we live, work, and communicate. And so Palacký University Olomouc has now launched the new Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship (DIGISOC) Master’s degree programme, jointly developed with the University of Innsbruck and University of Naples Federico II. It will provide students with key skills for the future via some of the best experts from the three universities in order to understand...

UP to Join the Leadership of the Euridice Project

Written on 29. 3. 2025. Posted in Academics, Students.

The Euridice project (EURopean Inclusive education for Digital society, social Innovation and global CitizEnship) is undergoing significant changes that will shape its future direction and development. Palacký University will newly take part in leading the project, which will result in a substantial increase in its budget. The upcoming joint degree programme DIGISOC, whose proposal was approved by the UP Educational Committee in December, is scheduled for final approval by the UP Internal Evaluation...

Call for Incentive Research Collaboration

Written on 14. 1. 2025. Posted in Academics, Featured, Students.

The second year of the open call of the Aurora alliance aims to contribute to closer cooperation between European universities. Up to 25,000 euros can be obtained for a joint international projects. The call also supports the organization of thematic summer schools, with an amount of up to 20,000 euros. The third supported activity is short-term mobilities aimed at young scientists. In last year’s call, three projects connected with UP succeeded. This call will be repeated on an annual basis...

UP organises Aurora BIP on How to increase the Social impact of Teaching by using LOUIS Competencies

Written on 31. 10. 2024. Posted in Academics, Events.

UP is organising its first Aurora Blended Intensive Programme entitled How to Increase the Social Impact of Your Teaching: Using the LOUIS Competence Framework to Improve Your Course. This BIP is organised by Maxim Tomoszek at the Faculty of Law with the support of the Aurora education developer, Markéta Šemberová. Maxim Tomoszek leads the Aurora 2030 programme’s LOUIS component. LOUIS is a tool that supports academic teachers in articulating learning outcomes for general academic and...

International scientific meeting in Innsbruck combines natural sciences and humanities

Written on 30. 10. 2024. Posted in Academics, Events, Students.

Under the auspices of the European universities united in the Aurora Alliance, the University of Innsbruck organised a completely unique Erasmus double BIP (Blended Intensive Programme) from 20 to 25 October 2024. More than 40 educators, scientists and administrative staff from Palacký University, the University of Innsbruck, the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Université Paris-Est Créteil, the University of Iceland and, last but not least, the Universitat Rovira i Virgili combined the two areas...

An increasing number of students from Aurora universities attending UP courses. We want to welcome more for the summer semester!

Written on 16. 10. 2024. Posted in Academics.

There is an increasing interest in UP education from across eight Aurora partner universities. A record 20 students registered for the courses offered by UP (8 courses in total, 3 of which require physical attendance, 5 are in a hybrid format). The most popular courses were those taught by Dr. Ankush from the Faculty of Science (Free radicals in Biology and Biomedicine) and Dr. Voráč from the Faculty of Education (Media Education). Students also further registered for the courses taught by Dr....

Aurora Staff Training in Kosice: Ways Forward in Fostering Inclusive and Enriching Practices and Policies at the Aurora Universities

Written on 7. 10. 2024. Posted in Academics, CDS-Network, Students.

On September 24, the second Aurora Capacity Development Training Event of this year was held in Kosice, Slovakia, titled “Diversity and Inclusion – Ways Forward in Fostering Inclusive and Enriching Practices and Policies at the Aurora Universities.” The event gathered 65 participants, including senior management, academics, administrative staff and international and domestic students from Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (UPJS). Representatives from South-West University “Neofit Rilski”...

UP succeeds in Aurora’s open call and receives support for projects, summer schools, and researcher mobilities

Written on 7. 10. 2024. Posted in Academics, Featured, Students.

The first open call aimed at fostering international scientific and academic collaboration, research mobilities, and thematic summer schools, was very much welcomed across the Aurora network. UP is the coordinator of one of the seven supported projects and participates in two others as a partner. It will also participate in the organisation of a summer school and will send two students for research mobilities at partner institutions. The Call for Incentive Research Collaboration was launched...

International hybrid study programme of the Euridice project heads to accreditation

Written on 27. 9. 2024. Posted in Academics, Students.

The international study programme Digital Society, Social Innovation, and Global Citizenship, which is being developed within the Euridice project, has successfully started the accreditation process. It will be implemented at UP under the auspices of the Faculty of Law and will be taught in a hybrid way in collaboration with the Universities of Innsbruck and Naples. Members of the project met in September at the Vienna University of Technology, where they also presented an online teaching platform...