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Dear employees,

everything goes by, and so the last holiday newsletter is here. However, everything at the university is preparing for the new academic year, which will also include other events to celebrate 450 years of UP. At the moment of writing this text, the round anniversary is exactly 17 weeks, 1 day, 14 hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds away.

On such an anniversary, we can reflect on what Palacký University means to us. The editors of the University Journal asked such a question to staff and students across faculties and institutes. You can read their answers in the survey on the website (in Czech).

WHAT'S GOING ON AT UP?

At the last two management meetings (Wednesdays 9 and 16 August), the review of the credit bank, the autumn celebration of 450 years of UP and whistleblowing were discussed. Read the full summary (in Czech) (by logging in to the UP Portal), we will have more for you again 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.

The service week of the UP Computer Centre (in Czech) brought more significant outages than in previous years. This year's more noticeable downtime of services, including e-mails and websites, was caused by a major expansion and restoration of the UP data storage, on which most applications depend. Security updates were also made to the backbone network routers. The CVT team thanks everyone for their patience and apologizes for any complications. Next year, a one-week service outage can be expected at a similar time.

Going above and beyond the call of duty to do something for others and to give our free time and energy to improve the world around us is not a given. But without volunteers, many services, events and organisations could hardly function. That is why the University places great emphasis on volunteering and supports it by announcing the annual competition for the Rector's Award for volunteers from among students, alumni and staff of Palacký University (in Czech). You can nominate your favourite volunteer until 31 August via this form (in Czech).

INVITATIONS

Thanks to the cooperation with the AFO festival, one of the programme items of this year's UP Alumni Day (in Czech) will be the screening of the successful film Jeseníky – the kingdom of mountain wilderness (in Czech) on Saturday 9 September at 17:30 in the Metropol cinema. The screening is free of charge for UP employees, so do not hesitate to secure your seats as soon as possible in the registration form (in Czech). In the film, you will also get a glimpse into mysterious places where the average tourist cannot go, and you will learn the story of a falcon family or the pitfalls of life on the Alpine slopes. The evening will include a discussion with the director of the film, Marián Polák, and Miroslav Zeidler from the Department of Ecology and Environment.

NEW STANDARDS

This amendment to the internal standard, effective from 10 August 2023, (in Czech) is addressed to all UP employees. It modifies the internal standard in connection with the amendment to Act No. 134/2016 Coll. (No. 166/2023 Coll.).

COMPETITION

Summer competition with UPoint is coming to an end. You can still take part in the photo contest until 1 September to win valuable prizes. How to do it? Share a photo on Facebook or Instagram with a cape, Hot cUP, t-shirt or even earrings from UPoint's range, add the hashtag #jsmeUP and tag UPoint (@upoint.upol). The winner will be drawn in the first week of September and can enjoy gifts from the UP range, tickets to the Fort Science and products from our partners.

The start of the academic year is inexorably approaching. Prepare your equipment, which should include a diary, notebook and writing utensils. New at UPoint are faculty pens suitable for all the heartthrobs who want to honor their faculty's color to the last detail. The pens also feature a touch end for convenient operation of each touchscreen. Choose from eight faculty colors and match your pen with a notepad in your faculty color, a keychain or even a faculty t-shirt.