The Rector of MU has announced the competition for projects 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.

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

Financial support for one project ranges from 50,000 CZK to 100,000 CZK.

A competition application must be submitted as a project proposal developed in ISEP (Project management information system). We recommend to start the electronic approval on October 26 or 26. 

Seminar for applicants - October 8 2018, registration here.

Limitations

Project proposals must be of non-investment nature.

Project activities must not be funded or co-funded from other sources (e.g. operational programme projects).

Project proposals may not be submitted by economic unit management members or by other persons involved in the management of university units, i.e. university management members, deans, vice-deans, faculty bursars, university institute directors and bursars or other unit directors and bursars.