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Dear students,

the first snow has fallen on the mountains and the mornings are getting frosty, so it's a good time to sit in the warmth and read something nice – maybe the university newsletter. There's something for everyone today: we have news for runners and readers, for children and parents, for the playful and the enterprising. We'll invite you to the university anniversary concert and lectures, and you can help us by filling in a really short questionnaire. Thank you for reading us!

WHAT'S GOING ON AT UP?

At the last management meeting on Wednesday 11 October, the new standard on whistleblowing or responsible and open science was discussed. On Monday, 30 October, a presidential couple will visit Palacký University. 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 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.

On the Day of the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy and the International Student Day, a festive concert will be held on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the founding of the University of Olomouc. The Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc will present the premiere of the suite Templum Honoris, composed by composers associated with UP: Jan Vičar, Vít Zouhar, Marek Keprt and Tomáš Hanzlík. There will also be works by Pavel Vranický and Dmitri Shostakovich. The concert will be broadcast live on the waves of ČRo Vltava.

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

On Tuesday, Oct. 24, the water supply to the Envelopa campus will be interrupted from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The water supply interruption affects the General Svoboda, J.L. Fischer, Bedřich Václavek and 17 November dorms. Only cold water will flow in the Šmeralova dormitory and the 17th November canteen. Water supply restrictions will also affect the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Education, where FreshUPs will be closed on this day.

Significant outages in Moodle availability may occur due to the upgrade from 4pm on Tuesday 31 October until 10am on Wednesday 1 November.

Did you know that the university library will lend you not only books, but also an umbrella? And that librarians can help you with research or citation analysis? No matter, the Palacký University Library (KUP) will present its services offered in the Armoury and faculty branches in the coming days. Read the summary article (in Czech) and follow the library's Facebook page for updates on the library's offerings at the Zbrojnice/Armoury (in Czech).

Official annual reports are usually a collection of numbers that the average person does not understand. That is why every year UP creates a PR version of the annual report (in Czech), which, with a modern and fresh design and content, tries to present its activities in the field of teaching, science, culture and society, social responsibility and sustainability. Take a look at the highlights of what happened at UP in 2022 in 18 chapters. 

This year's third issue (in Czech) informs, for example, that a comprehensive internal quality assessment of all activities will take place at the PF in November as part of the internal quality assessment. It also reminds us that a Sustainable Events Methodology (in Czech) has been developed to help organisers across UP and beyond to organise conferences, workshops or lectures with less negative impact on the planet. The theme of the issue is a questionnaire survey among university partners. Don't forget that you can send your questions and suggestions on the quality assurance and evaluation of activities at UP via the questionnaire. Read the full newsletter in PDF (in Czech).

QUESTIONNAIRES AND SURVEYS

UP has committed to calculating its carbon footprint and working to reduce it. Data on how its students or staff travel to UP is also necessary to calculate it. The Sustainable University has therefore prepared a simple survey (in Czech), open from 16 to 25 October, in collaboration with the Department of Psychology at the UP Faculty of Arts. To obtain telling data, interested parties can ideally fill it in (in Czech) every day.

INVITATIONS

The air in the foothills of Hrubý Jeseník is as good as anywhere else in autumn – anyone who has ever participated in the Rabštejnský kocour (in Czech) mountain race will confirm this. And there are not a few such people, because this year it will be the 37th time, on 4 November. The race is organized by the Akademik sport centre of UP and the participants will run almost 14 kilometres from Libina to Velký Rabštejn through roads, meadows, fields, forests, forest paths and swamps. Sign up by November 1 and then you can also join the last rappel on the rocks of Velky Rabštejn or take a walk to the viewpoint. Details are at www.rabstejnskykocour.cz (in Czech).

Researchers‘ Night is over, but you can play the Pub Quiz (in Czech), prepared especially for this year's theme – mystery, wherever you want until 5 November. We hope you will go through all its pitfalls and enjoy the questions. There are 56 questions from many scientific and non-scientific areas and about two hours of fun. The quiz is suitable for ages 12 and up. All you need to play it is a smart TV, a computer or mobile phone and, of course, paper and writing materials. More about the rules here (in Czech). The quiz is available on the web (in Czech), the password to open the quiz is: ee69773913

Already on 24 November we will meet all enthusiastic students and entrepreneurial people who want to start their own business at the Fort Science. There will be both startups and established entrepreneurs looking for investors or new contacts. The theme of this year's conference is AI: USE YOUR OPPORTUNITY (in Czech) and will reveal how to work with artificial intelligence to benefit your own business. The full-day programme includes workshops, lectures and networking. You can look forward to speakers from IBM, CzechInvest and the E-safety and Digidoupe projects. There will also be a competition called Clash of Startups (in Czech), where start-ups can win prizes worth up to CZK 100,000. Discounted tickets (in Czech) are available for UP students and employees.

The Faculty of Medicine of UP invites you to a lecture by JUDr. Lucie Hrdé, a specialist in criminal and family law. She deals mainly with the issue of sexualised and domestic violence, defence and care of particularly vulnerable victims of crime. The lecture will take place on 2 November at 16:00 in the large lecture hall of the Theoretical Institutes of the Faculty of Law, UP (Hněvotínská 3).

The Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law (CIHOL) at the PF UP is organizing the second meeting of the lecture series on international law. This time under the title Sanctions, Sanctity, & Sovereignty: Analysing  India's  approach to sanctions in International Law. The talk will focus on India as a key economic and political actor, as well as India's neutral stance in the current Russia-Ukraine war. The lecture will present the country's past and present approach to international sanctions. The guests will be colleagues Rashmi Raman and Kamya Vishwanath from Jindal Global Law School. The meeting will be held on October 23 at 12:30 pm at PF UP (Room 1.67) and simultaneously online. A registration form is available for those interested in attending.

Fans of endurance running are invited to the UP Cross-Country Running Championship (in Czech), the 45th year of which will be held on Wednesday 25 October by the Department of Sports of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of the University of Prague in cooperation with the Olomouc Athletic Club. The route will run through Bezručov sady with start and finish at the athletics stadium, with women running 3 kilometres and men awaiting a 5.5 kilometre race. The winners can look forward not only to medals and the title of UP Cross Country Running Champion/Woman of the Year 2023, but also to a financial reward in the form of an extraordinary scholarship and material prizes. The race starts at 2:30 p.m., when registration for women will open at the athletics stadium. Details on the championship are available on the FPE website (in Czech).