Office for Development informs about the preparation of the internal competition of the Masaryk University Development Fund for 2020, which is planned to be announced on September 20, 2019 in the following thematic areas:

A) Academic employee pedagogical activity support and course-level degree programme/field of study profiling and innovation support
B) Creative student activities focusing on educational activity innovation

Objectives

Thematic area description
A) Academic employee pedagogical activity support and course-level degree programme/field of study profiling and innovation support

1. Support for teaching in English and other foreign languages in Czech degree programmes.
2. Applied education development, in particular by implementing courses taught by industry experts, etc.
3. Development of project-based teaching in selected degree programme courses.
4. Academic employee pedagogical competence development, in particular by implementing testing and teaching methodology courses.
5. Academic employee language competence development, essential for the teaching of selected courses in English or other foreign languages.
6. Development of relevant doctoral student competences essential for pedagogical and scientific work.
7. Development of activities for talented students in selected degree programme courses.
8. Course innovation designed to develop compositional, communication-related and analytical skills facilitating the achievement of a desirable academic writing level.
9. Topic selected according to the current needs of a faculty/constituent part/EC in accordance with the announcement of thematic area A.
NEW: Project proposals designed to support and develop the pedagogical activities of academic employees. Project activities need not be linked to a specific degree programme/field of study.

B) Creative student activities focusing on educational activity innovation (a maximum of 20 % of the overall sum allocated to the competition)

1. Implementation of student projects and activities facilitating degree programme/field of study innovation.
2. Topic selected according to the current needs of a faculty/constituent part/EC in accordance with the announcement of thematic area B.

Implementation period of a project: January 1 - December 31, 2020

A competition application must be submitted as a project proposal developed in ISEP (Project management information system).

Limitations

Eligible applicants include:
• academic employees (thematic areas A and B)
• other university employees (thematic area A)
• students (thematic area B)

Max support 100 000 CZK/project.