Academics

Presentation of Aurora best practices at EARMA Conference Prague 2023

Written on 28. 4. 2023. Posted in Academics.

At the 2023 EARMA Conference in Prague, Aurora’s Marie Jadrnícková from Palacký University Olomouc, and Ignasi Salvadó-Estivill on behalf of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in Tarragona, presented and led a discussion on how Aurora developed tools to support research and innovation, such as the research infractructure map and the SDG Dashboard. Their session focussed on concrete best practices and tools to increase collaboration in international projects, as well as the barriers and obstacles...

UP and Aurora moving forward with the European University initiative

Written on 23. 3. 2023. Posted in Academics, CDS-Network, Students.

Palacký University Olomouc is happy to announce that the Aurora Alliance submitted its new proposal under the European Universities Erasmus + Call, for the intensification of prior deep institutional cooperation aiming at the systemic change of European Higher Education. By setting innovative and diverse models of long-term institutionalized cooperation between higher education institutions across Europe, the European Universities initiative supports higher education institutions to achieve greater...

Summer School Remote Ethnography – a methodological tool-kit

Written on 14. 2. 2023. Posted in Academics, Events, Students.

This summer school is divided into two parts. The first part will take place online as a preparatory meeting on Friday 14 July 2023. The second will be held at Palacky University Olomouc 31 July – 4 August 2023. It connects introductions to Open Source Research, remote sensing, interviewing, oral history, source criticism and decolonial theory. Description: This summer school is intended to provide students and junior researchers with a basic toolkit in remote ethnography. It aims...

Call for Nominations – Aurora Fellowship at UDE

Written on 10. 2. 2023. Posted in Academics, Students.

If you are interested in deepening your cooperation with your partners the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, sign up now for the Aurora Fellowship at UDE! The Aurora Fellowship is a two-week programme that we were able to establish with the support of the Förderverein der Universität Duisburg-Essen (the University of Duisburg-Essen’s sponsorship association). The aim of this programme is to invite internationally renowned researchers working within the Aurora European Universities Alliance...

Presenting Aurora’s Capacity Development and Eastern Partnership at ACAs “What’s New in Brussels”.

Written on 6. 2. 2023. Posted in Academics, CDS-Network.

On the 2nd and 3rd of February, Selma Porobic was invited to ACA’s (Academic Cooperation Association) seminar “What’s new in Brussels? – Recent Developments in European Policies and Programmes” to share Aurora’s pioneering work on Eastern Partnerships exemplified by its Capacity Development Support (CDS) programme with special focus on its institutional support to the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. In her session, “Working with Global Regions –...

CALL – Aurora Staff Mobilities

Written on 30. 1. 2023. Posted in Academics.

It is our pleasure to announce our ongoing call for UP Aurora Staff Mobility, which will allow selected applicants a short staff mobility to any Aurora University (except associate partners). Due to the nearing end of the first funding cycle, all staff mobility travels need to be finished by 6/10/2023 so reimbursement and accounting procedures are finished until the end of October. This scheme is open for all UP employees and can be used for a variety of different purposes, such as teaching,...

Aurora representatives met in Amsterdam to discuss perspectives on collaboration

Written on 4. 1. 2023. Posted in Academics, Events.

At the close of 2022, members of the European university alliance Aurora, of which Palacký University is a member, discussed further possibilities and prospects for cooperation in higher education. The two-day meeting was hosted by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Palacký University was represented at the meeting by Rector Martin Procházka and Selma Porobić, Aurora’s institutional coordinator for UP. The agenda of the meeting in the Netherlands included several meetings and discussions of representatives...

Looking back at the European Universities Forum

Written on 22. 12. 2022. Posted in Academics, Events.

On the 1st and 2nd of December, Palacký University Olomouc organised the European Universities Forum. This high-level event, organised in the light of the Czech EU presidency, provided its participants an opportunity to discuss and assess the role of European Universities Initiative pilot phase in the Czech higher education context and within the European aims of building the Higher Education Area. This forum was opened by the Czech Deputy-Minister for Education Radka Wildova, who stressed the...

Olomouc hosted international forum: a meeting of universities’ representatives

Written on 12. 12. 2022. Posted in Academics, Events.

Seventy representatives of universities from EU countries met in Olomouc at the beginning of December. Palacký University hosted a two-day forum on the future of higher education. The aim of the meeting, which was held under the European Universities Initiative, was to exchange the experience of partner schools and discuss how to improve the quality of the participating universities in order to compete internationally. A stimulating programme of lectures and discussions in the UP Faculty of Law...

European Universities Forum at Palacký University Olomouc

Written on 29. 11. 2022. Posted in Academics, Events, Featured.

On the 1st and 2nd of December, Palacký University Olomouc will organize the European Universities Forum. This high-level event, organized in the light of the Czech EU presidency, will provide an opportunity to discuss and assess the role of European Universities Initiative pilot phase in the Czech higher education context and within the European aims of building the Higher Education Area. This event will be an incubator for new ideas on the mobilisation of universities, in the broadest sense,...