Events

Looking back at the Aurora Fall Biannual 2023

Written on 27. 10. 2023. Posted in Academics, CDS-Network, Events, Featured, Students.

Last month, Palacký University Olomouc hosted the Aurora Fall Biannual 2023 on October 17th and 18th for in Olomouc, Czechia. The event brought together over 200 participants hailing from 18 universities from within the Aurora community and beyond. Watch the Aurora Fall Biannual aftermovie The Aurora Fall Biannual focused on taking stock of Aurora’s achievements as part of the European Universities initiative. These European developments took center stage in the plenary sessions and panels: Aurora...

Aurora Fall Biannual at Palacky University Olomouc

Written on 30. 5. 2023. Posted in Academics, Events, Featured, Students.

Join us at the Palacký University Olomouc on October 17th and 18th for the highly anticipated Aurora Fall Biannual 2023 in Olomouc, Czechia. More information on the biannual can be found here. Experience a retrospective of Aurora’s remarkable accomplishments and delve into the exciting prospects that lie ahead. Engage in thought-provoking high-level panel discussions on the future of European Higher Education and connect with colleagues from across Aurora and much more. Don’t miss this opportunity...

Palacký Summer Law School: Human Rights Policy Legal Clinic

Written on 22. 2. 2023. Posted in Events, Students.

From 24 July to 4 August 2023, the Palacký University Faculty of Law organizes the Human Rights Policy Clinic within a 2-week-long Summer Law School. This Summer Law School will allow you to experience the Human Rights Policy Legal Clinic, which normally takes a whole semester, condensed in two weeks intensive schedule. Program Description A Legal clinic is a special form of legal education, combining theory and practice, designed to teach not only knowledge, but also develop skills and instill...

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...

Aurora Summer School at UDE – The Enkelfähig Economy: Sustainable Transformation of Business Models

Written on 6. 2. 2023. Posted in Events, Students.

Our partners at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany are organizing a Summer School on the The Enkelfähig Economy: Sustainable Transformation of Business Models. This summer school will take place between 19.06.2023 and 07.07.2023. The summer school looks at the ways companies can be made more sustainable, by looking at the following factors: Impact Measurement Business Model Analysis Business Model Optimization For more detailed info, take a look at these files: Flyer –...

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,...

BEVI Training Workshops: Basic, Intermediate and Advanced

Written on 16. 11. 2022. Posted in Academics, Events.

The Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI) is an accessible, adaptable, and powerful analytic tool that can be used to measure the impact of teaching, learning and training activities on the mindsets of students and staff. When: Basic Training: 25th November 2022, 17.30 – 19.30, CET. Intermediate Training: 1st & 2nd December 2022, 12.30-14.00 & 17.30-19-00 CET. Advanced Training: 2023 (Dates TBD) Where: Basic BEVI Training: Virtual via Zoom; Intermediate...