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Dear students,

the rain hissed on the hot rooftops. If you don't feel like walking among the drops anymore, it might finally be the right time to reach for a summer reading from UP Publishing (in Czech). Other tips in the Reading for Summer series are also posted on the UP Library's Facebook (in Czech) page, whose main building in the Armoury (Zbrojnice) will reopen on Tuesday 1 August after a break in July.

WHAT'S GOING ON AT UP?

At the last management meeting (July 12), the upcoming Corporate Volunteer Day or the upcoming methodology of sustainable events at UP were discussed. It is also known who will give this year's Fischer Lecture. Read the full summary (in Czech) (new after logging in the UP Portal), we will prepare another one for you in 14 days. More detailed information will subsequently be available in the minutes of the management meeting in UPShare, as well as in the minutes of other bodies, in UP standards and documents and on other information platforms.

Regular maintenance of university computer networks is essential. Therefore, the Computer Technology Centre is planning a traditional service week during the less busy holiday period. It will take place on 7-11 August. We ask for your patience as there will be continuous outages of all services, especially the website and logins to UP information systems and other resources during this period. A detailed schedule can be found in this message (in Czech).

What is happening in European universities and what opportunities does it bring? Sign up for the Aurora European University Alliance newsletter! You will find information about what is happening at partner institutions and at UP, where, for example, a creative writing workshop was recently held. In October, a big meeting of the participating universities will take place in Olomouc and you can be there too. The link to subscribe to the newsletter can be found on the Aurora website, or use this form directly.

COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

The University of Innsbruck has prepared an interesting study offer for the winter semester. The school, which like UP is part of the European university network Aurora, also offers participation to students from partner universities. Registration for online courses focusing, for example, on critical thinking, legal, ethical and economic issues of digitalisation or sustainability opens on 16 August and closes on 10 September. More details can be found in the UP Journal article (in Czech) and directly on the University of Innsbruck website.

Wondering how to make a podcast or film? Want to learn basic photography techniques? Do you want to learn how to speak properly into a microphone? CMTF UP has prepared three interesting summer workshops for students and interested members of the public. Details, price and application form can be found on the faculty's website (in Czech).

INVITATIONS

Do you have a project and want to get partners and investors for it? Apply for the November national conference Transfera Technology Day, co-organized by the UP Science and Technology Park. The competition projects are not defined by any industry and should be at a more advanced stage, ready for licensing, spin-off company establishment and aiming for practical application. UP has already successfully presented several times and in 2021, effervescent tablets (in Czech) with iron nanoparticles for the treatment of contaminated water won the first prize. Projects are submitted until 11 August 2023 exclusively through the Transfera.cz technology database. Do not hesitate to contact the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Department (in Czech) of VTP UP, who will be happy to help you with the documentation and application.

Come to the Convict Park on Sunday for the Colores Flamenco (in Czech) and UP Festival afternoon - admission is free. The fiesta will open with a performance by flamenco dancers accompanied by guitar, followed by a concert by the Colombian music group Marimbea, which will visit Olomouc as part of its European tour. After the music programme, there will be an open air film screening of the Spanish-Italian film Alcarrás from 21:00. The programme will also be complemented by the UP relax zone, UPoint and the UP board games and sports equipment rental. More information on the website (in Czech) or Facebook (in Czech).

PART-TIME JOBS

Bartoň a partner offers short-term or long-term temporary jobs to students of UP in the following areas: 
- security of buildings - janitorial work, registration of persons and vehicles, patrolling activities, operation of EPS and EZS, 
- cleaning of buildings - cleaning of common areas, cleaning of offices or special cleaning, 
- maintenance of greenery - care of lawns, small planting of greenery, laying lawns, winter snow cleaning.
>> If interested, please write to prace@bartonapartner.cz. 

COMPETITION

Five scientific Guardians of Knowledge (Strážci poznání) (in Czech) protect Olomouc from stupidity and darkness during the holidays. You can join their mission until the end of the holidays, just pick up a printed guide at the ticket office of the Fort Science during opening hours and head to the individual expositions. There are prizes up for grabs: a detective badge and valuable prizes (tablet, headphones or power bank). To make the Fortress easier to conquer, we have prepared a competition for free tickets. You can win them if you send us the correct answer to the competition question to soutez@upol.cz by Tuesday 1 August and we will then draw you. Question: What are the names of all five Guardians of Knowledge (Strážci poznání)?