List of available external seminars and workshops for students and employees – May/June 2024

Technology Transfer Office TTO MUNI

• May 15, 2024 – Award ceremony for Start your Business –  The award ceremony for projects in the 4th year of the Start Your Business student competition will take place at the KUMST creative hub. Meet the finalists of the student idea competition and other enterprising students at the event, which is open not only to academics but also to the public.
• June 3 - 6, 2024 – CTT MUST Week – Meetings with foreign representatives of universities interested in the field of technology transfer: modern trends in the field, selected topics in the field of intellectual property protection, commercialization and spin-offs.

Masaryk university MUNI

• May 11, 2024 – Brněnský majáles – For the first time at the Brno Exhibition Grounds and without concurrent events. In addition, they are adding 2 large pavilions with facilities to comfortably seat thousands of visitors.
• May 15, 2024 – 15:00 - 18:00 – RUN, MUNI, RUN! – The Bohunice University Campus will host the first edition of the MUNI RUN. Both adults and children can participate. Adults will receive a MUNI RUN scarf and a personalised bib when they register by 9 May. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the MUNI HELPS Volunteer Center.
• May 16, 2024 – 07:00 - 22:00 – MUNI DAY – A sports and social gathering across the university for all staff and students, this is MUNI DAY.
• May 17, 2024 – Studentský majáles – Student May Festival at Hněvkovského in Komárov

South Moravian Innovation centre JIC

• May 22, 2024 – Summer student meetup – Are you interested in entrepreneurship and want to meet other entrepreneurial students? Already running a business or have an idea you want to start? Maybe you're looking for a partner?
• May 30, 2024 – 120 seconds: Meet the Brnoregion Microscopy – Brno and electron microscopy? One cannot be imagined without the other. In the #brnoregion there are a number of companies, research institutions and universities that deal directly with electron microscopes, others work with their results. Are you among them? Come to the 120 Seconds event, get new contacts, inspiration and introduce your work to microscopy platform partners.
• June 3 - 9, 2024 – ViennaUP – A startup festival organised by the local community in the Austrian capital with the support of the Vienna Business Agency. Every year, Vienna invites startup fans from all over the world. The programme offers dozens of events for founders, investors and technology enthusiasts. They can connect, share insights and grow together. Simply ViennaUP!

Faculty of Science SCI MUNI

• May 15, 2024 – STARMUS festival – Prominent scientists and personalities of the STARMUS festival of science, art and music will visit Brno!
  
  • Building 11, Room G2 – 11:00 - 12:00 – Joel Parker: Lucy in the Sky! The First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids
  • Building 11, Room G2 – 12:00 - 13:00 – Damia Barcelo: Microplastic in the Environment Analysis, Risk and Suitable Solutions

Career center CC MUNI

• May 7, 2024 – 16:00 - 17:30 – How to: Curriculum vitae II. – In English only and online. Not sure how to write a CV? Do you have trouble with listed words and multiplication tables, but don't know how to put your work experience on your CV?
• June 19, 2024 – Career Day – 13:00 - 17:00 – Your studies are over, now what? How do you go from student to graduate, step into the world of interviews and find the right job? An afternoon of lectures and accompanying activities. Join us for one last great day on campus before the holidays with other graduates and students. And the best part? A professional CV photo shoot.

Faculty of Arts MUNI ARTS

• May 2, 2024 – 12:00 online – From hoaxes to understanding – The workshop will teach you how to recognize and respond effectively to hoaxes and misinformation spreading on the Internet. You will learn critical thinking and fact-checking techniques to better distinguish true from false information.

Brno events

• May 18 - 19, 2024 – Open House Brno – The seventh edition of Open House Brno will show the metropolis as you have never seen it before. We are a festival of architecture, join us! For the 2024 edition, we have already arranged more than 116 buildings - the festival schedule. Reservations for buildings with limited access will open on 9 May 2024 at noon.
• May 18, 2024 – Museum night

Summer school of vacuum techniques LVŠT 2024

• May 27 - 30, 2024 in Bishop's Brewery in Litoměřice. This year's topics are "Processes in plasma and ionized environment - properties, diagnostics and applications"
• Program is available here.

Summer school of Radioactive Waste Repository Administration

• registration for august summer school is open at SÚRAO

Pedagogics competence center CERPEK MUNI

• May 2, 2024 – 09:00 - 12:00 – How to make science popularization lessons – The possibilities for popularizing science in the classroom are almost limitless. We can use many different methods to help us bring scientific discoveries to our students in an engaging way. One of these is a comprehensive teaching method known as inquiry-based learning.
• May 6, 2024 – 09:00 - 13:00 – Students with psychological difficulties in learning: coping with study and support in practice – What is actually the impact of these difficulties on their studies? How can learning be managed with an illness that is not visible at first sight? What obstacles do these students have to overcome every day? And what does it look like in cases where the illness first becomes apparent during the course of study?
• May 7 and May 16, 2024 – Respect – Two consecutive interactive workshops serve to prevent sexual harassment, bullying and violence on campus.
• May 9, 2024 – 09:00 - 13:00 – How to organize the end of a class with a large number of learners? – How to choose the best way of final assessment of knowledge and skills that fits the aim of the course. How to be reasonably challenging, fair and at the same time does not keep us busy for endless hours?
• May 14, 2024 – 09:00 - 13:00 – How to Prevent Burnout – Uncover the causes and context of burnout and understand its impact on mental and physical health, work effectiveness and relationship quality.
• May 20, 2024 – 09:00 - 16:00 – The Flipped Classroom phenomenon and its application to teaching – Discover the magic of this way of teaching. We share examples of good practice and your experiences..
• May 21, 2024 – 09:00 - 16:00 – How to stay confident in challenging situations – You will learn how to approach yourself and others in a way that includes respect for yourself, while learning how to use assertive self-talk techniques to achieve your own goals with an emphasis on respect for others.
• May 23 - 24, 2024 – 09:00 - 16:00 – Work ability - how to care for it and develop it – Do you want to know where you stand with your working ability and how you can take it further?
• May 24, 2024 – 09:00 - 16:00 – Effective Stress Management – You will learn effective stress management tools and how to strengthen your mental resilience in today's hectic and hectic times.
• May 27, 2024 – 09:00 - 13:00 – Voice wokshop for teachers – How to train it, use it and how to take care of it so that it serves you well and for a long time, you can try it in our workshop.
• May 28, 2024 – 09:00 - 15:00 – Flexible Learning Forms – Emphasize students' abilities through a variety of forms, methods, and resources. Flexibility is choosing and moving between forms as needed to achieve intended learning outcomes for different target groups or even individuals through different pathways.
• June 5, 2024 – 09:00 - 16:00 – Mental Health and Personal Wellbeing of Teachers at MUNI – Learn about several topics and techniques to boost your mental health and well-being.
• June 6, 2024 – 09:00 - 13:00 – Effective thesis management – Are you managing your first thesis and not sure how to do it? Or are you already experienced but still wondering how to do it well and effectively?
• June 10, 2024 – 09:00 - 16:00 – JHow to Negotiate Assertively – Increase your skills to negotiate assertively, analyze the necessary information, interests and attitudes of the opposing party, create alternative negotiation procedures and appropriately handle even difficult negotiation situations.
• June 14, 2024 – Registration for the pedagogical competence development workshop – Register for the autumn workshop where people work and create new values, where something new is created or something old is repaired or renovated.
• June 25, 2024 – 09:00 - 13:00 – Storytelling – Spoke in stories. Learn how to do it. Whether you want to attract attention of your audience, present complicated charts, motivate your team or shorten meetings, storytelling is the way to go.