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Dear employees,

Along with the beginning of November, the acceptance of applications to our university has also started. Our team of ambassadors is therefore presenting UP to interested parties at the Gaudeamus fair in Brno until Friday. So if you have someone in your area who would like – or you think should want – to study at UP, send them to the Brno Exhibition Centre right away, or to the univerzitnimesto.cz (in Czech) website and the UP open days. The first of the two will be exactly one month from now – on 1 December.

WHAT'S GOING ON AT UP?

At the last management meeting on Wednesday, October 25, there was a discussion about the credit bank or the future details of drawing funds. In view of the increase in related agendas, an advertisement was issued for a part-time Data Protection Officer. Read the full summary (in Czech) (after logging in to the UP Portal), we will have more 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.

The ERMS application (filing service) will be unavailable from Friday 3 November after 5pm until Monday 6 November – a new version will be deployed. At the same time, some functionality of linked systems (SAP, STAG, CES, etc.) will be temporarily restricted. In case of problems, please contact the UP helpdesk team.

The investigation on gender-based violence, which is the first of its kind in the Czech academic environment, was launched by the National Contact Centre – Gender and Science of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS). The research is conducted at public universities and institutes of the CAS and is intended for students and employees, including non-academic staff, both domestic and foreign. You can fill it out whether you have experience with gender-based violence or not. It is open until 30 November, see the article for more information and links.

Times Higher Education (THE), which publishes one of the most respected global university rankings, will be collecting data on the reputation of universities (including ours) through a survey over the next three months (November–January). We ask all staff members who are selected and contacted via email to participate by completing the survey to contribute to the shape of THE's rankings for the coming year. The questionnaire will be sent out from the email address surveys@timeshighereducation.com. Thank you for taking the time to complete the questionnaire.

Have any of your students written an interesting Master's thesis that could be categorized as Life and Chemical Sciences, Non-Life Sciences, or Humanities and Social Sciences and defended between November 1, 2022 and October 31, 2023? Advise them to enter the Academia Publishing competition, in which it can get a book form and get distributed. Not only factual accuracy is judged, but also readability and the ability to engage the reader. Entries are open until 15 November 2023. More information is available on the website soutez.academia.cz (in Czech).

LECTURES AND COURSES

Šimon Pánek, co-founder and executive director of the humanitarian organization Člověk v tísni (People in Need), will deliver the annual lecture (in Czech) that UP organizes once a year in honor of Josef Ludvík Fischer, the first rector of the restored University of Olomouc. It will take place in the auditorium of the UP Faculty of Law on Thursday, 2 November at 6 pm. Admission to the lecture is free, reservations are recommended. For those who cannot get to the auditorium of the Faculty of Law, an online broadcast will be prepared.

Come to a lecture by Radim Tolasz, Czech climatologist and meteorologist and representative on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC regularly publishes climate assessment reports – the latest one is 7489 pages long and involved a total of 842 authors. How are these reports produced, where is the data obtained, how are they vetted and who approves them? You will find out on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 14:00-16:00 in the building of the Faculty of Arts of UP – tř. Svobody 26, room 4.41. Register here, more on the Sustainable University website (in Czech).

The Department of Conception and Support and Research, together with other units of UP, is preparing systematic training in the field of open and responsible science. It is intended not only for male and female DSP students and aspiring scientists at UP, but also for all those who are interested in topics related to open science and research data. The training consists of ten lectures/workshops, which will take place every Tuesday in November from 7 November to 28 November at the Envelopa Hub. Register by emailing tereza.motalova@upol.cz, and the programme can be found on the website (in Czech).

Thanks to the year-long project of the Academia Film Olomouc AFOkino festival, you can attend a screening of one of the most successful films of this year. Oppenheimer will be screened on Thursday, November 2 at 7:30 pm at the Metropol cinema. The screening of the film is free of charge for UP employees (+1 person as a companion), if you are interested please fill in the reservation form (in Czech). After filling it out, you will be automatically added to the guest list and you do not need to reserve or pick up tickets, just check in at the entrance. Details on the AFO website (in Czech).

QUESTIONNAIRES AND SURVEYS

How important are family relationships to you? How do you manage life in the digital age? How do you feel about protecting the environment? What do you expect from the near and distant future? Help the researchers at the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Arts UP with research on the value systems of four current generations and the influence of the Internet on them. You can fill in the survey here (in Czech), more information and current research results can be found on the website persona.upol.cz (in Czech).

INVITATIONS

You still have the opportunity to purchase discounted tickets for the gala concert celebrating 450 years since the founding of the University of Olomouc. On the day of the struggle for freedom and democracy and the International Student Day – 17 November – the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc will present the premiere of the suite Templum Honoris, composed by composers associated with the UP: Jan Vičar, Vít Zouhar, Marek Keprt and Tomáš Hanzlík. You can read how this four-part suite was created in the article in the UP Journal (in Czech).

Tickets with 50% discount for students and workers at UP can be purchased online via this special link. First, choose a seat, then select "VIP 50%" in the left-hand grid. Don't forget to bring your employee card to the concert.

Do you know the "Nicholas Winton of Olomouc"? Květa Bartoňová (in Czech), a student of pedagogy, rescued 45 orphans from the Dukla Pass after World War II. Her story and the fate of two other women who were affected by the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century will be told in the comic book Three Queens (in Czech). You can contribute to its publication in a collection announced by our long-time partner Memory of the Nations Central Moravia. Among the rewards, you will find not only a comic signed by the authors (and also UP alumni), but also a candlelight dinner in the civil defence shelter in Bezručovy sady.

COMPETITION

Every year, the UP Business Camp (in Czech) conference helps students and people who don't know how to start their own business. However, established start-ups and companies will also be able to learn about new trends in business and enjoy valuable networking. This year, lectures and workshops will focus on artificial intelligence and how to use it to benefit your own business. Want to get a free ticket to the UP Business Camp? Just email us the correct answer to the competition question by Monday 6 November at upbc@upol.cz and 2 winners will be drawn from the correct answers. Question: How many years is the UP Business Camp conference taking place this year? The answer is easily found on the website (in Czech).