A strong international involvement is central to achieve university’s goals in education, research and knowledge transfer, as stipulated in the university general strategy. The university wishes to establish and develop strategic partnerships with those universities that match its own education and research profile, thus supporting inspiring academic environments for international networks, research cooperation and mobility.The project offered an opportunity to develop and strengthen existing cooperation between the Palacký University and institutions in partner countries. These countries and institutions were selected according UP priority geographic and study areas and the potential for further development of other forms of cooperation especially in the area of Jewish studies and Earth Sciences. Mobilities of students and staff were planned to contribute to the internationalization at Palacký University as well as at the partner institutions and to encourage further collaboration with possible result in the development of joint study programmes and projects.The aims of the project were met, even though it was necessary to adapt some of the mobility flows. Term of cooperation and administrative procedures were developed and proved. These procedures will be used in the future for mobilities within and outside the Erasmus+ programme.Mobilities of students and staff significantly contributed to a more international environment at both the sending and hosting institutions and mainly to the attractiveness and promotion of the involved disciplines in participating countries. During the project institutions gained mutually deeper knowledge of the academic environment, which will help to set priorities for further cooperation. This knowledge will be used in preparing cooperation projects, both in mobility and in capacity building.

Fossil-free and renewable energy sources are a must for a sustainable society. Pushing the limitation of supercapacitors (SC) beyond their limits by producing metal carbides using as carbon source spent surgical masks, an immense side-product burden of COVID-19 pandemic, MESTUM project aims to tackle the worldwide increasing energy demand with highly efficient, stable, environmentally friendly and low-cost electrode materials (EM). The development of EM by transition metal carbides has attracted significant research attention thanks to its high-temperature stability, conductivity, easy operation in aqueous/organic electrolytes and insignificant electrolyte leaching. Easily accessible and abundant, manganese metal carbides, with multiple electron transfer ability, represent an excellent source possessing the key performance markers for SC: Ground-breaking pseudocapacitance and cyclic stability. By exploring the challenge of also generating a porous structure, MESTUM aims to expand an electrochemically active specific surface area and porosity of transition metal carbide and thus deliver a significant growth of specific capacity performance. During synthesis, the ground-breaking approach of turning the porous carbon from the surgical mask into the transition metal structure will orchestrate a brilliant coupling of increasing the surface area and reducing surgical mask waste. For machine learning prediction of specific capacity and cyclic stability, the two most critical performance-related features of SC, the materials properties (morphology, composition, surface area, etc.) and operational conditions (electrolytes, current density, potential window, etc.), are crucial. To tackle this issue, the project will set the optimized parameters to easily evaluate the prospects of developed materials in SC application. By a pioneering effort toward the significant advancement of SC technologies, the MESTUM project will address a fundamental need for clean energy sources.

A strong international involvement is central to achieve university’s goals in education, research and knowledge transfer, as stipulated in the university general strategy. The university wishes to establish and develop strategic partnerships with those universities that match its own education and research profile, thus supporting inspiring academic environments for international networks, research cooperation and mobility.The project offered an opportunity to develop and strengthen existing cooperation between the Palacký University and institutions in partner countries. These countries and institutions were selected according UP priority geographic and study areas and the potential for further development of other forms of cooperation. Mobilities of students and staff were planned to contribute to the internationalization at Palacký University as well as at the partner institutions and to encourage further collaboration with possible result in the development of joint study programmes and projects.The aims of the project were met, even though it was necessary to adapt some of the mobility flows. Term of cooperation and administrative procedures were developed and proved. These procedures will be used in the future for mobilities within and outside the Erasmus+ programme.Mobilities of students and staff significantly contributed to a more international environment at both the sending and hosting institutions and mainly to the attractiveness and promotion of the involved disciplines in participating countries. During the project institutions gained mutually deeper knowledge of the academic environment, which will help to set priorities for further cooperation. This knowledge will be used in preparing cooperation projects, both in mobility and in capacity building.

V souladu se strategií internacionalizace UP jsou mobility studentů a zaměstnanců v rámci programu Erasmus+ využívány k zatraktivnění UP jako respektované a viditelné mezinárodní instituce. Mobility také přispívají k rozvoji internacionálního vzdělávacího a pracovního prostředí na UP a k uplatnění mezinárodního aspektu ve všech aktivitách a rolích UP.Program Erasmus+ je významným nástrojem pro realizaci zejména mobilit studentů. Univerzita v roce 18/19 vyslala 377 studentů na studijní pobyty a 124 studentů na praktické stáže. V tomto počtu je zahrnuto 22 nedávných absolventů UP, kteří vyjeli na praktické stáže.Univerzita přijala 370 studentů na studijní pobyty.Univerzita také vyslala 213 akademických pracovníků na výukové pobyty a 83 zaměstnanců (akademických i administrativních) na školení.Do aktivit programu Erasmus se zapojili studenti a zaměstnanci všech 8 fakult UP. Studijní ch pobytů se účastní jak studenti v bakalářských, tak v magisterských programech, menší měrou jsou zastoupeni studenti doktorských programů. Tito jsou nejčastěji vysíláni za účelem výzkumu jako součásti jejich studijního plánu a kurzů se neúčastní nebo jen v omezené míře.Díky uskutečněným výměnám a během nich navázaným kontaktům vznikla vědecká spolupráce na projektech, společné publikace nebo publikační záměry a také spolupráce na projektech spolupráce v rámci programu Erasmus+ nejen v oblasti Vysokoškolské vzdělávání, ale i Mládež a Sport.

The aim of the project is the innovation of two courses of master studies of Geoinformatics and Cartography at Palacký University in Olomouc. The innovated topics are about processing European Union digital data by Data Mining, statistics and spatial analysis methods. There is a freely accessible wide range of collection of European Data, namely Eurostat data and datasets by Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. There is an opportunity to process data about urban structures from European Urban Atlas. Road network data available through INSPIRE policy or Open Street Map service are very often used for spatial evaluation of inhabitant mobility in urban structures, opportunities for walking to uplift the health. A combination of dataset makes the opportunity to compare countries and districts from the point of the wellbeing of European inhabitants expressed by the life quality index. Furthermore, the evaluation of liveable cities arises as a topical issue in European countries and projects based on it can help to increase the quality of life in the EU. The use of the mentioned datasets follows the initiative of Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe.The first proposed course is course Data Mining, and the second is Advanced Processing of Geodata (at first grade of master study. The innovation of both subjects fosters the introduction of a European Union angle into non-EU related study Geoinformatics and Cartography. The advantage is that students have a good background in geography from bachelor studies. The main benefit is that students and both young researchers (doctoral students involved in teaching J. Masopust and K. Macků) will be familiar not only with computational methods of data mining but they will become familiar with how to use Europen Data. The ability to process data by advanced computational methods increases their competitiveness, employability and improved career prospects.