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Human capital development: Inclusion, Equal Treatment, Respect to Human Rights

During workshop we would like to introduce the common project with University of Iceland focused on Human capital development focused on strengthening inclusive education, equal treatment and respect to human rights.

The project follows the priority objective of both universities:
According to the official document of Mendel University in Brno „Implementation plan strategic intention Mendel University in Brno for 2020 the PRIORITY OBJECTIVE 2 Diversity and accessibility declares: The aim is to continue to expand openness universities and real support for students with special needs, including students with lower needs socio-economic status, parents with children, members of linguistic and ethnic minorities in the domestic and foreign environment and students receiving further education on the job, and to ensure that university studies are also accessible to students as much as possible the specific groups mentioned above.“

In addition, the University of Iceland supports very similar objectives. In the document, Strategy of the University of Iceland 2016-2021 the equality and diversity is strengthened: Equality is a guiding principle of the University and the basis of diversity and respect in the academic community… Administrators’ knowledge of diversity and equal opportunities supported and an Equality Award established.

Special guests: doc. PhDr. Martina Rašticová, Ph.D. (MENDELU), Sigurveig H Sigurðardóttir (University of Iceland)

The issue of food waste is currently an often discussed topic at all levels. In the whole food chain in developed countries, households waste the most. The official statistics often only estimates the amount of wasted food and it is not easy to determine the actual volume of wasted food in households.
During the workshop, we will present the results of our project focused on food waste. The project we are solving at Mendel University aims to obtain data about how much food is wasted in households and to define how households can be influenced to waste less food.

Special guests: doc. Ing. Lea Kubíčková, Ph.D. (MENDELU), Ing. Lucie Veselá, Ph.D. (MENDELU)

Consortium UNIDA
Worskshop of the consortium United for Development of Amazon (UNIDA) – plans for future cooperation in the Amazon region, bringing mission to action plan for 2022.

„The vision of UNIDA is a society that recognizes social responsibility for the use of all its resources, both human and natural.“
„The mission of UNIDA is to create an educational platform based on excellent interdisciplinary cooperation with the emphasis on the needs and involvement of local actors.“

This WS will be online via Zoom. Please register in advance here.

Consortium STREAM Mongolia
The Czech Republic has been cooperating with Mongolian forestry institutions for many years and providing education to Mongolian experts in forest and landscape ecology. MENDELU will lead a consortium of 11 universities in the STREAM project (Sustainable Resilient Ecosystem and Agriculture Management in Mongolia), which will be implemented in cooperation with the European Commission (EC), United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. (FAO), the development organization Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Mongolian Ministry of the Environment and Tourism. The expertise provided by the international consortium in cooperation with the Mongolian institutions will strengthen the research and education component of the STREAM project.

This pilot European forestry project aims to contribute to the implementation of innovative and long-term sustainable farming principles in the countryside of Mongolia by 2024, taking into account the challenges posed by the food system and climate change.

This WS will be online via Zoom.

"Public Private Partnerships in Educational Projects as a Model for Future Education - Platform of Vocational Excellence Water as an Example of Good Practice"

Educational institutions need to cooperate closely with governments and businesses to enable graduates to have their skills adjusted to market needs. Education in fact do not end with high school or universityh graduation, rapid changes across many sectors requires life long learning for employees and creates demand on educational institutions. There is a way how to harmonize needs of different stakeholders on job market - Public Private Partnership. How to organize one will be shown on lessons learned from pilot Erasmus+ project - Platform of Vocational Excellence Water (PoVE Water).

Special guests: Ing. MSc. Michaela Menšíková, PhD. (MENDELU), Boudewijn Grievink (Katapult)

“We are bringing sci-fi of today into the reality of tomorrow.”
Workshop will introduce new software used at Faculty of Business and Economics for teaching and research purposes. Phonexia offers a comprehensive portfolio of cutting-edge speech recognition and voice biometrics technologies ready to meet any commercial and governmental scenarios. Powered by the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, acoustics, phonetics, and voice biometrics science, Phonexia products are extremely accurate, fast, and scalable.

Special guests: doc. PhDr. Martina Rašticová, Ph.D. (MENDELU), Pavel Krajča (Phonexia)