At the last management meeting (19 June), the current position of UP in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2024 was discussed. Furthermore, the Commission for Sustainable Development of Palacký University in Olomouc is being established. Read the full summary (in Czech) (after logging in the UP Portal), we will prepare another one for you in 14 days. More detailed information will be subsequently 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.

Holiday opening and operating hours at UP

• UP Library: Zbrojnice/Armoury and branches at faculties
• FreshUP Canteens and Bistros: closed first week of July, changes until Sept. 22
• UPoint: closed July 1-14, open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 15-August 30
• Bookshop and Print Shop of UP Press

Summer has barely begun, and one should already be planning for autumn and winter... At some faculties, course registration begins in the second week of July. Open the current timetable (PDF) (in Czech), which includes the changes caused by the reconstruction of the Faculty of Education. On page 5 and below, you will find the dates and times when enrollment will begin according to your faculty, year, type of study, and other criteria.

Due to infrastructure and system maintenance in the LMS Moodle environment, this system will be down for a longer period of time or will be completely unavailable throughout the day on Monday 15 July. Please do not schedule any agenda in LMS Moodle for this day. LMS Moodle will be fully functional on Tuesday 16 July.

We would also like to remind you of the annual service week of the UP Computer Centre, which this year falls on 12-16 August 2024. During this period, there may be outages of the website, the UP Portal and related applications, STAG, e-mail, single sign-on, storage or internet connection.

(This is the Czech issue. We are preparing the English print & online issue of the Žurnál UP for September.) If you don't know what the rescue of the historical library of the Želiv monastery entails and what Palacký University has to do with it, read the introductory topic of the new Žurnál UP. You will find out that the field practice of our students can be quite a big job. You will also find some very useful tips and recommendations for a pleasant and inspiring experience in the coming weeks. The printed version is available free of charge at the usual distribution points in faculties, UPoint and other university buildings. And if you prefer to read from a screen rather than paper, download the PDF version (in Czech) for that.

Stress, anxiety, study obligations, half of the year gone... Everyone is overwhelmed sometimes and needs someone to confide their worries to. The Therapeutic Centre of the Social Health Institute (OUSHI) of CMTF UP offers free consultations to UP students during the summer holidays. Information about the centre can be found on the website and appointments can be made at poradna@oushi.upol.cz. Other UP counselling services can be found in summary at upol.cz/counselling.

INVITATIONS

In three weeks, one of the most diverse festivals in the Czech Republic will start and Palacký University will not be absent from it – for four days we will have our own info & relax zone in the campus Get to know Olomouc – the university city. The festival also includes Meltingpot – the largest live multidisciplinary discussion forum in Europe. On Saturday, July 20, the Envision Stage will host five scientists from UP who will talk about topics such as the lifestyle of Czech teenagers and European security.

The summer school will facilitate the preparation and processing of your experiments, greatly accelerate and refine the processing of your experimental results, including their interpretation and presentation. It will take place in August, both in person and online. More information can be found on the website (in Czech).

NEW STANDARDS

• Statute of the Commission for Sustainable Development of UP 

  This UP internal standard, effective from 1 July 2024, (in Czech) is intended for all UP employees. It regulates the status, scope and rules of procedure (rules of procedure) of the Commission for Sustainable UP as an advisory body to the Rector; the mission of the Commission for Sustainable UP is to give opinions and recommendations to the Rector of UP in the field of sustainable development in order to ensure sustainable development at UP.

   

• Provision of personal protective equipment at UP

  This UP internal standard, effective June 26, is intended primarily for employees and It specifies the requirement of Article 104(5) of the Labour Code and lays down rules for the provision of personal protective equipment, washing, cleaning and disinfecting equipment to employees, students and others In its annexes, the standard provides a model of the necessary forms and defines the types of personal protective equipment and other equipment the employer is obliged to provide, under what conditions and to what extent.

COMPETITION

Compete with us for tickets to Colours of Ostrava!

Palacký University will be presenting itself again this year at the Colours of Ostrava and the associated international discussion forum Meltingpot, where on Saturday, July 20, five speakers representing our colours will take the stage - Petra Gaul Aláčová from the Faculty of Health Sciences, Petr Baďura from the Faculty of Theology, Michael Kohajda from the Faculty of Law, Ivana Fellnerová from the Faculty of Science and one more speaker. Email us by Monday, July 1 to soutez@upol.cz and the four-day ticket to Colours of Ostrava could be yours!