MASARYK UNIVERSITY

ANNUAL REPORT 2005

MASARYK UNIVERSITY © Masaryk University, 2006

ISBN 80-210-4047-5 ISBN 80-210-3982-5 (Czech ed.) MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 Contents Photo Gallery . Providing InformationinAccordancewithActNo.106/1999. Information Technology andtheInformationSystem Publications, ArchivesandLibraries . . International Activities Financial ManagementandInternalAdministration Programme 233330:DevelopmentoftheMaterial-Technical Base . Strategy andDevelopment Student SocialServices Studies andTeaching Research Academic Senate Scientific Board Board ofTrustees Rector’s Office Organization Chart Introduction Contents

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t the official opening of Masaryk In 2005 Masaryk University achieved remark- University’s new campus in Brno- able results in its educational and research ABohunice in September 2005, European activities, as this annual report will demonstrate. Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Once again MU was very successful in obtaining Potočnik declared that “Masaryk University grants and research funding. The MU Technology is about to become the educational and eco- Transfer Office, a relatively unusual institution nomic centre of the future.” He praised “Masaryk in this country for a university of this type, was University’s international orientation,” and said successfully inaugurated. The quality of degree that what he had seen was “an example of a job programmemes offered has helped MU maintain well done” which he would like to “present to its position as the most sought-after Czech univer- other members of the ”. Though sity in terms of number of applicants, satisfaction we should accept such praise with humility, on the part of graduates, and high degree of suc- and remain aware of the faults and weaknesses cess on the job market. The most visible event at that our university must still overcome on the MU during the last year was the progress made on way to becoming a leading European education its Programme for Development of the Material- and research institution, it is still gratifying that Technical Base. This included the realization of Masaryk University is being mentioned more and a number of construction projects, including the more often in an international context, and that Laboratory of Biomedical Technology (ILBIT) at the positive points of our institution are becoming the new campus, the reconstruction of the Faculty known outside the borders of the Czech Republic. of Social Science’s building on Joštova Street, and International recognition of Masaryk University as the construction of the Faculty of Natural Science a quality institution is reflected in growing interest information centre at the Kotlářská Street com- on the part of foreign students and academics in plex. In July 2005 intensive discussions necessi- studying here. Statistics show increasing mobility tated by changes in the legislative and macro-eco- of students and teachers, and increased numbers nomic environment resulted in a revision of the of study trips made by members of our academic programme. The acquisition of 1.3 billion CZK community abroad and visits by foreign scholars in new funds for the completion of the campus is to MU. In addition, we have been increasingly a positive reflection of the university’s policies and successful in gaining research project funding from permits the completion of the campus project, abroad, the amount of which has almost doubled which is such an important prerequisite for the de- in the last two years. The university’s interna- velopment of the university over the next decades. tional dimension is also reflected in praise for the university’s information system, which won the In view of these circumstances, I hope that the prestigious Eunis Elite Award 2005: MU was the 2005 Annual Report will be a welcome source first university from one of the new EU member of information on the development of our countries to win the award. Another regional first institution for all friends and fans of Masaryk was the introduction of LLM legal studies in coop- University, and will make pleasant reading as well. eration with Nottingham Trent University, after For members of the academic community and a thorough study of the quality of our school by university employees, who are the ones above all our British colleagues. These are just a few typical to be thanked for the achievements of Masaryk examples of the wide range of international activi- University, this year’s Annual Report will be ties our university and its various departments are a source of satisfaction and encouragement as well involved in that demonstrate Masaryk University’s as a challenge. We hope that Masaryk University ability to succeed in the European educational will continue to produce such positive annual and research environment. reports in the years to come.

Petr Fiala, Rector

4 INTRODUCTION MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 MU Faculties Other units University University institutes Organization Chart support services Office forInternational Bohunice, Faculty ofInformatics International Institute University Campusat Administration ofthe of PoliticalScience University Press Faculty ofLaw Faculty ofArts Archives Studies from19.9.2005 Faculty ofSocialStudies Regional Development University Centre Telč Institute ofComputer MU Rector’s Office Accommodation and Faculty ofEducation Faculty ofMedicine Language Centre Catering Services Technology Centre Technology Transfer Office Education andCounselling Faculty ofSportsStudies Students withSpecial Faculty ofEconomics and Administration Support Centre for Faculty ofScience Centre Šlapanice, ORGANIZATION CHART until 31.8.2005 Needs 2 5 Rector’s Office 3

CHIEF OFFICERS 1. 1. 2005 – 31. 12. 2005

prof. PhDr. Petr Fiala, Ph.D. Rector

prof. Ing. Antonín Slaný, CSc. Vice-Rector for Student Welfare and Financial Affairs

prof. RNDr. Jana Musilová, CSc. Vice-Rector for Research

prof. MUDr. Zuzana Brázdová, DrSc. Vice-Rector for Studies

prof. RNDr. Jan Slovák, DrSc. Vice-Rector for Strategy and Development to 30. 11. 2005

doc. PhDr. Mikuláš Bek, Ph.D. Vice-Rector for External Relations to 30. 11. 2005 Vice-Rector for Strategy and External Relations from 1. 12. 2005

doc. Ing. Ladislav Janíček, Ph.D., MBA Bursar

Mgr. Iva Zlatušková Executive Assistant to the Rector

prof. MUDr. Jindřich Vomela, CSc. Chairman of Masaryk University Senate

6 RECTOR’S OFFICE MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 Board ofTrustees Mgr. BohušZoubek member since14.2.2005 PhDr. JitkaVitásková member since14.2.2005 prof. PavelŠvanda Ph.D. prof. JanSokol,CSc., PhDr. MartinProfant RNDr. LuděkNiedermayer Slovak Republic prof. MUDr.PetrMráz,DrSc. member until14.2.2005 Ing. JaroslavMráz JUDr. OtakarMotejl Vice-Chairman, MUBoardofTrustees ThDr. etIng.LukášEvžen Martinec member since14.2.2005 František Mikš Ing. StanislavJuránek member until14.2.2005 Office oftheGovernment,CR Ing. FrantišekHronek,CSc. Ing. BohdanHejduk Ministry ofEducation,YouthandSports,CR Ing. VáclavHanke,CSc. member until14.2.2005 Ing. OndřejFelix,CSc. member until31.10.2005 RNDr. PetrDuchoň Chairman, MUBoardofTrustees St. Anne’sFacultyHospital MUDr. AlenaŠtětková,CSc. , Editor-in-Chief, Barrister&PrincipálPublishers , Consultant, ICZ a.s.,Praha , Consultant, ICZ , Professor,FacultyofDrama,JanáčekAcademy ofthePerformingArtsinBrno , MemberoftheEuropeanParliament, , Director, Brno Philharmonic , Director, Department oftheStateBudget,MinistryFinance,CR , Ombudsman , Director, MinistryofEducation,YouthandSports,CR , Deputy Director, BrnoHouse ofArts , Governor,SouthMoraviaRegion , President,AssociationfortheInformationSociety , Director, Department ofProgrammesforResearchandDevelopment, , Dean, FacultyofHumanities,Charles UniversityinPrague , Vice-Governor,CzechNationalBank , GovernmentCouncil forResearchandDevelopment, , Chief Consultant forStrategyandDevelopment, , Vice-Dean, FacultyofMedicine,KomenskýUniversityinBratislava, , Abbot,OldBrnoAbbey,OrderofSt.Augustine BOARD OFTRUSTEES 4 7 Scientific Board 5 1. COMPOSITION Internal prof. JUDr. Josef Bejček, CSc. prof. RNDr. Jana Musilová, CSc. members Faculty of Law Faculty of Science doc. PhDr. Mikuláš Bek, Ph.D. doc. PaedDr. Vladislav Mužík, CSc. Faculty of Arts Faculty of Education prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc. prof. Ing. Pavel Ondrčka, CSc. Faculty of Arts Faculty of Economics and Administration prof. MUDr. Zuzana Brázdová, DrSc. PhDr. Jan Pavlík Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Arts prof. PhDr. Petr Fiala, Ph.D. prof. PhDr. Ladislav Rabušic, CSc. Faculty of Social Studies Faculty of Social Studies doc. RNDr. Milan Gelnar, CSc. prof. MUDr. Ivan Rektor, CSc. Faculty of Science Faculty of Medicine prof. RNDr. Jozef Gruska, DrSc. prof. RNDr. Jiří Rosický, DrSc. Faculty of Informatics Faculty of Science prof. RNDr. Josef Humlíček, CSc. prof. RNDr. Eduard Schmidt, CSc. Faculty of Science Faculty of Science doc. PhDr. Michal Charvát, CSc. prof. Ing. Antonín Slaný, CSc. Faculty of Sports Studies Faculty of Economics and Administration prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. prof. RNDr. Jan Slovák, DrSc. Faculty of Arts Faculty of Science prof. MUDr. Jindřich Lokaj, CSc. prof. PhDr. Maxmilián Strmiska, Ph.D. Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Social Studies doc. JUDr. Ivan Malý, CSc. doc. JUDr. Jan Svatoň, CSc. Faculty of Economics and Administration, Faculty of Law from 20. 4. 2005 prof. PhDr. Rudolf Šrámek, CSc. prof. MUDr. Jaroslav Meluzín, CSc. Faculty of Education Faculty of Medicine prof. RNDr. Jiří Zlatuška, CSc. prof. PhDr. Ivo Možný, CSc. Faculty of Informatics Faculty of Social Studies prof. MUDr. Jan Žaloudík, CSc. Faculty of Medicine

External prof. JUDr. Pavel Holländer, DrSc. prof. PhDr. Miloslav Petrusek, CSc. members Constitutional Court, CR Charles University in Prague prof. RNDr. Helena Illnerová, DrSc. prof. Ing. Oldřich Pytela, DrSc. Academy of Sciences, CR University of Pardubice doc. RNDr. Petr Kolář, CSc. prof. Jan Sokol, CSc., Ph.D. Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, CR Charles University in Prague doc. RNDr. Jan Konvalinka, CSc. prof. RNDr. Vladimír Souček, DrSc. Academy of Sciences, CR Charles University in Prague doc. RNDr. Stanislav Kozubek, DrSc. prof. RNDr. Václav Suchý, DrSc. Academy of Sciences, CR Brno Veterinary and Pharmaceutical University prof. PhDr. Milena Lenderová, CSc. prof. RNDr. PhDr. Jan Štěpán, CSc. University of Pardubice Palacký University in Olomouc prof. RNDr. Miroslav Liška, DrSc. prof. Pavel Švanda Brno University of Technology Janáček Academy of the Performing Arts in Brno prof. MUDr. et PhDr. Jana Mačáková, CSc. prof. Bedřich Velický, CSc. Palacký University, Olomouc Charles University in Prague prof. Dr. phil. Marek Nekula University of ,

8 SCIENTIFIC BOARD MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 2. 11 wereapproved(andtwosuspended). 13 recommendationsforprofessorships,ofwhich and SilverMedals.TheScientificBoarddiscussed MU honorarytitlesandMU’sGreatGold,Gold naming ofprofessorsandproposalsforbestowing in Brno,discussionofrecommendationsforthe meetings ontheactivitiesofMasarykUniversity 2005. Regularagendaitemsincludedreportsand The ScientificBoardmetatotaloffourtimesin ACTIVITIES Average ageofassociateprofessor candidates46.4years,agerange31–73years. Average ageofprofessorialcandidates 47.9years,agerange40–62years. Total FL FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Avg. age professors Associate Avg. age Table 1b Table 1a Professors Scientific Boardin2005 ProceedingsforprofessorshipsandassociateheardbytheMU Numberofproceedingsforprofessorshipsandassociate atMU 9519 9719 9920 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 56 76 64 44 95 38 58 13 39 13 40 24 24 25 42 22 46 30 69 11 57 18 62 13 55 18 16 894. 804. 894. 584. 5346.4 45.3 47.9 47.9 45.8 51.6 46.2 51.1 48.9 52.4 45.1 50.7 48.0 54.6 48.2 49.6 48.9 54.6 – 54.9 57.1 – oa USseddTtlM Suspended MU Total Suspended MU Total 3915 89 38 58 1 9 13 0 220 000 320 100 220 000 000 110 922 000 651 311 25164550 871 210 321 110 Professors Institute ofOncology,oncology doc. MUDr.RostislavVyzula,CSc. civic law doc. JUDr.VladimírTýč,CSc. medicine doc. MUDr.LenkaŠpinarová,CSc. anthropology Institute, Academy ofSciences CR, doc. PhDr.JiříSvoboda,DrSc. P. J.ŠafárikUniversityinKošice,anatomy doc. MUDr.KatarínaSchmidtová,CSc. Regensburg, Czechlanguage prof. Dr.phil.MarekNekula doc. MUDr.RomanHájek,CSc. psychology general Psychology, Academy ofSciences CR, doc. PhDr.IvoČermák,CSc. University inPlzeň,anthropology doc. RNDr.IvoBudil,Ph.D. doc. PhDr.MilenaBartlová,CSc. University inPrague,politicalscience doc. PhDr.PavelBarša,M.A.,Ph.D. Proposals forprofessorshipsapproved: Associate Professors , WestBohemia , Universityof , Instituteof , international , Archaeological , oncology , arthistory , Masaryk , internal , Charles , SCIENTIFIC BOARD 9 Academic Senate 6

1. MEMBERS prof. MUDr. Jindřich Vomela, CSc. RNDr. Miroslav Kolář, CSc. Chairman Mgr. Lukáš Maňásek – to 30. 6. 2005 Vice-Chairmen

Chamber of Academic Employees Chamber of Students

Faculty of Law Faculty of Law JUDr. Filip Křepelka, Ph.D. Dan Dvořáček – to 30. 6. 2005 JUDr. Jana Jurníková, Ph.D. Martin Kašpar – to 30. 6. 2005 doc. JUDr. Milan Galvas, CSc. Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Medicine Lucie Kavalcová – to 30. 6. 2005 prof. MUDr. Ivo Šlapák, CSc. Ľuba Gabrhelová – to 30. 6. 2005 prof. MUDr. Anna Vašků, CSc. Faculty of Science prof. MUDr. Jindřich Vomela, CSc. Mgr. Erik Caha Faculty of Science Mgr. Radek Brynda doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Ondráček, CSc. Faculty of Arts doc. RNDr. Jan Celý, CSc. Kateřina Haklová RNDr. Miroslav Kolář, CSc. Mgr. Jan Špaček Faculty of Arts Faculty of Education PhDr. Jarmila Bednaříková, CSc. Petr Poláček – to 30. 6. 2005 doc. PhDr. Michaela Soleiman pour Hashemi, Bc. Romana Zbořilová CSc. Faculty of Economics and Administration Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A. Eduard Bakoš – to 30. 6 .2005 Faculty of Education Juraj Žiak doc. RNDr. Svatopluk Novák, CSc. Faculty of Informatics PhDr. Blanka Knopová, CSc. Mgr. Lukáš Maňásek – to 30. 6. 2005 prof. RNDr. Vladislav Navrátil, CSc. Bc. Vladimír Pečený – to 31. 3. 2005 Faculty of Economics and Administration Filip Nešpor – from 1. 4. 2005 prof. Ing. Ladislav Blažek, CSc. Faculty of Social Studies RNDr. František Čámsky Jiří Jeřábek RNDr. Dalibor Moravanský, CSc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jiří Nantl – to 31. 3. 2005 Faculty of Informatics Bc. Roman Binder – from 1. 6. 2005 doc. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc. Faculty of Sports Studies doc. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc. Zdeněk Přikryl – to 31. 8. 2005 Aleš Horák, Ph.D. Barbora Zuchová Faculty of Social Studies Mgr. Petr Kadlec – from 1. 11 .2005 doc. PhDr. Lubomír Kostroň, M.A., CSc. PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D. Mgr. Jan Mareš Faculty of Sports Studies doc. PhDr. Josef Pavlík, CSc. – to 31. 8. 2005 doc. PhDr. Aleš Sekot, CSc. – to 31. 8. 2005 PaedDr. Věra Večeřová PaedDr. Zdeněk Janík – to 1. 9. 2005 Mgr. Alena Stodůlková – to 1. 9. 2005 University units doc. RNDr. Václav Račanský, CSc.

10 ACADEMIC SENATE MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 2. viability offuture operations. and efficiently,withaviewtoward thefinancial will continuetoseethatitiscarried outrationally of keyconcernforthewholeuniversity, andit construction oftheuniversitycampus something academic assemblies.TheASMU considersthe Likewise informationwaspassedalongatMU’s to makethisinformationavailablethepublic. campus projectwereregularlyupdatedinorder individual webpagesdealingwiththeBohunice items ontheSenate’sagenda.Thecontentsof for buildingtheBohunicecampuswereregular issues. ReportsfromMUofficialsresponsible ceived informationonallmattersrelatedtothese The Academic Senateregularlyrequestedandre- discussions onallofthecurrentissuesfacingMU. information andcooperatingwiththeASMUin and Vice-Rectorsinprovidingtimely,quality this regardistheinterestonpartofRector new partsoftheuniversity.Highlyappreciatedin key jointdecisionstakenontheconstructionof stage intheproject.CriticalforASMUwere sity campus,inparticularthebeginningofanew of theSenatewasconstructionuniver- of Studentsaswell. academic staff,buttomembersoftheChamber fully equaltothetask;thisappliesnotonly ensure thatitsrepresentativesintheASMUare into 2006.Itistheresponsibiltyofeachfacultyto might continueinitsworkwithoutinterruption the ASMUinatimelymannersothatbody individual facultySenatestoconductelections end ofthesummersemesteritcalledupon the lastyearofitstermofficein2005,at for 2006. a setofrulesforputtingtogethertheMUbudget a meetingoftheASMUinDecember 2005of the MUfaculties,ledtounanimousapprovalat discussions, whichincludedrepresentativesofall about therulesforgeneratingbudgets.These sions withintheASMU’sFinanceCommittee site forachievingthiswasanearlystartondiscus- and acceptedassuch.Thefundamentalprerequi- budget thatwouldbeperceivedasfairandjust an optimalsetofrulesforarrivingatauniversity cers oftheuniversityandindividualfaculties, to determine,incooperationwiththeleadingoffi- goals foritselfin2005.Amongitsprioritieswere Statutes, theSenateasabodysetnumberof of theuniversityanditsconstituentparts. in 2005werefocusedprimarilyontheprogramme the facultylevel.ThusactivitiesofASMU ability toprovidecomprehensivedirectionabove the caseofAcademic Senatesat universities,the programmes andgoalsoftheinstitutionand,in functional coresponsibilityfordecisionsonthe Senate atahighereducationinstitutionshouldbe One ofthebasicattributesAcademic The workoftheAcademicSenate(AS) ACADEMIC SENATE Another importanttaskrequiringtheattention Because thepresentAcademic Senateentered Besides theusualissuessetforthinMU norms wassignificantlyexpedited. of adoptionbytheSenaterecommended therefore muchbetterinformed,andtheprocess AS MUmeetings.MembersoftheSenatewere by informedcommentaryanddiscussionatthe submitted forapprovaltoMUwasaccompanied quality workmeantthateverylegislativemeasure of proposednewuniversityregulations.Their the USwasassignedtoprepareAS’sanalyses fiscal year,oftheuniversitybudgetrules. timely approval,evenbeforethebeginningof ment oftheASMUFinancialCommittee wasthe Senates ofthefaculties.Animportantachieve- university leadershipaswellwiththeacademic both committeeswasactivecooperationwiththe MU).Theprogrammeof Křepelka, Ph.D.(FS Committee oftheASMUunder JUDr.Filip MU),andtheLegislationMandate (FS CSc. the ASMUheadedbyRNDr.MiroslavKolář, working groups–theFinancialCommittee of Within theASMUthereweretwoveryeffective Activities ofthecommittees few yearsaswell. AS. Thisdiscussionistocontinueoverthenext initiated ontheactivitiesandvisibilityofMU the latterpartofyearapublicdiscussionwas operation withtheindividualfacultySenates.In with thefaculties,ASemphasizeddirectco- meetings oftopuniversityofficials.Inrelations regularly tookpartintheRector’sBoardand The LegislativeandMandateCommittee of The Chairman orVice-Chairman oftheAS ACADEMIC SENATE 11 12 Jean-Marie Lehn from MasarykUniversity. In 2005hereceived anhonorarydoctorate and CharlesJ.Pedersen. in 1987alongwithDonald.J.Cram selectivity, hewasawarded theNobelPrize with structure-specific interactionsofhigh of thedevelopmentandusemolecules For hisresearch activitiesinthefield publications andreview papers. de FranceinParis,authorofalmost800scientific Professor ofChemistryattheCollège

Masaryk University a n n U A L r e PO r t 2 0 0 5 MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 1. and law. in otherareasaswell–thehumanities,economics significant improvementinacademicperformance medicine, lastyeartheuniversitycontinuedtosee traditional disciplinesofthenaturalsciencesand research anddevelopmentprojects.Besidesthe unusually successfulinthedrivetofundthese centres forbasiclresearch.Theuniversitywas long-term researchprojects,centresand applied research,especiallyinsomeofthenew saw excellentteamworkintheareaofgeneraland sued attheuniversity.In2005universityagain a widerangeofdisciplinescurrentlybeingpur- successfully implementedresearchprojectsover dual recognition,aswellthroughanumberof gramme, especiallyintheformofdoctorateswith to internationalizethedoctoralstudiespro- degree programmemes,includingtargetedefforts research andteachinginthedoctoralMaster’s Proof ofthisliesinthecloserelationshipbetween Academic Competition washeldintheareas of in comingyearsaswell. methods willbeamongthefaculty’s toppriorities of Education.Theadvancement ofe-learning and Development ProgrammesoftheMinistry instruction atMU”undertheTransformation “Multimedia andITsupportforallformsof The facultyalsotookpartintheuniversityproject European context,werecompletedsuccessfully. andthe anti-trust policyandmergersintheCR externaltraderelations,anotheron in theEU’s the currentdevelopmentphaseoflegalchanges Foundation, onefocusingontheproblemsof ects. ProjectssponsoredbytheCzechScience it isoneofthefaculty’spriorityresearchproj- Context ofChanges inCzechLawafter2004”; project begunin2005entitled“TheEuropean years. Thistrendisthebackgroundforaresearch being examinedhasbeenemphasizedinrecent national andEuropeandimensionsoftheissues In theareaofacademicresearch,linkbetween Faculty ofLaw M CURRENT FOCUSOFRESEARCH In 2005the7thannualSVOČStudent Research fundamentally aresearchuniversity. the interrelatedsumofitsactivities,is asaryk University,bythedirectionand Education throughitsDevelopment Programmes. receives long-termsupportfromtheMinistryof methods andtrendsintheareaofbio-informatics campus. Theintroductionofmodernteaching locatedonthenewuniversity Technology (ILBIT) atthejointLaboratoryforBiomedical CR, the InstituteofBiophysics,Academy ofSciences close cooperationwiththeFacultyofScienceand of biomedicine.Theseeffortsaredevelopedin support foracademicentrepreneurshipinthearea the creationofaninnovativeenvironmentand ing programmesinbiomedicalresearchinclude concentrating onthemostadvancedandpromis- function andrepairprocesses.Otheractivities cular illnessesandcancer,thestudyofbrain “diseases ofcivilization”,forexamplecardiovas- the causesofandnewtreatmentsformain Among theresearchprioritiesarestudiesof the theoreticalinstitutesandclinicalunits. mentation teamscomposedofpersonnelfrom Health. Researchprojectsareguidedbyimple- at facultyhospitalssupportedbytheMinistryof and clinicalprojectsundertakenatthefacultyor of theacademiccommunitythroughpre-clinical of healthcare,withtheparticipationmembers Foundation andotheragenciesand,inthearea projects supportedbytheCzechScience carried outbytheacademicinstitutesthrough Research activitybytheFacultyofMedicineis Faculty ofMedicine individual natural sciences.Aportionofresearch best conditionsforbalanceddevelopment inthe especially onappliedresearch,which createsthe ects andcentresforbasicresearch. Itconcentrates faculty ingatheringsupportfor itsresearchproj- ulty withinMU;ithasbeenthe mostsuccessful The FacultyofScienceisahighlyproductivefac- Faculty ofScience by settingthetopicsandawardingspecialprizes. vate legalcommunitysupportedthecompetition the Ombudsmanandrepresentativesofpri- Supreme PublicProsecutor’sOffice,theOfficeof est judicialbodies,theConstitutional Court, the tional law.Asalways,theCzechRepublic’shigh- private andpubliclawEuropeaninterna- 7 RESEARCH 13 capacity is directed toward non-focused and linguistics and synchronic structural linguistics of non-specific research connected with teaching at the Czech language). Other significant research the doctoral studies level in particular. The main activities include Slavonic languages (the “Brno research and development activities are based on comparative school of literary types and genres”), the long-term trends in the individual major disci- Czech language studies (development of Old and plines: biology, physics, Earth sciences, chemistry Middle Czech), and Wester European languages and biochemistry, and mathematics. (Canadian Studies, Latin American Studies, Research in the field of biology is focused Czech-German Studies). especially on monitoring changes in space and Philosophical studies are concentrated on the time in the diversity of populations and com- history of modern Czech thought and contempo- munities of higher plants and animals, growth rary ontology in relation to the natural sciences. and stress physiology of plants in relation to the Research on religion follows new religious move- environment, and complex molecular biological ments and the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism. analysis of the genomes of representatives of the Musicologists are working on a music lexicogra- major groups of organisms. Research in physics phy, the history of church hymnals in the Czech is concentrated on material and plasma applica- lands as well as Czech musical culture in the 20th tions, astrophysics and theoretical physics. Earth century. Research in the visual media is focused Sciences focus on geological processes and the on the use of technology in the presentation of development of biotas in the geological past, on the performing arts, historical poetics and rheto- current environmental problems, the creation ric, and the history of film. of spatial geo-informational infrastructures, the development of methods of cartographic geovi- Faculty of Education sualization, and the geographic and ecological The direction of research and development at study of the oases of vegetation in Antarctica. the Faculty of Education is derived from its main Research in the field of chemistry includes study mission, which is the preparation and training of of the chemical and physical properties of chemi- teachers at every level for every type of school. cal compounds, structural analysis, organic and The faculty emphasizes research and develop- inorganic synthesis, photochemistry, environmen- ment in the areas of educational and pedagogical tal chemistry, computer modelling of chemical disciplines – pedagogy, general didactics, teaching processes, and in biochemistry the structure and of the individual disciplines, special pedagogy, functions of bio-organic molecules and their social pedagogy and child psychology. The role in the metabolism or enzymology. Areas of research project entitled “The School and Health concentration in mathematics include differential in the 21st Century” is a team project in this pre- equations and statistical models, and mathemati- ferred field that was started in 2005 following the cal structures in algebra and geometry and their successfully-defended research project Teachers applications in informatics and physics. of Health. A number of smaller projects in this area were conducted with financial support from Faculty of Arts the Czech Science Foundation, the Ministry of The past year was this faculty’s most successful Education and other sponsors. Two projects in yet in terms of research output. Its research grants the field of integrated counselling for disadvan- and other targeted funding reflected the long-term taged persons were successfully completed under development trends of the individual research the European initiative EQUAL. Academics at areas. Preferred areas of research include: the role the individual departments are also carrying out of countries and historical lands in the history research in their fields of study, whether indepen- of Europe, archaeological research at Pohansko, dently or in cooperation with other universities or Těšetice and Rokštejn, linguistic and literary area research institutes. The faculty supports involve- studies, and clinical psychology. ment by Master’s degree and doctoral students; Research on the psychological and pedagogical in 2005 there were 48 faculty research projects sciences is concentrated in the areas of: deficit financed from specific grants amounting to over of cognitive function and psychology of the 900,000 CZK. Every summer scholars from the personality, school administration and develop- Faculty of Education conduct research at the ment and lifelong learning for various groups of Great Moravian site at St. Hypolitus in Znojmo, adults. The disciplines of history and art history a unique activity among Faculties of Education. focus on research on the medieval Czech state, The artistic activities of teachers in the depart- the country’s historical estates and civic society, ments of music and the fine arts are an integral and the history of art from the point of view of part of the FE’s work. its social context, reception and use, and histori- The output of the individual departments at the cal context. Archaeological research tracks social faculty is evaluated every year; after wide-ranging structures in the prehistoric era through the high discussions within the faculty these evaluations Middle Ages. were extended in 2005 and linked with the system Linguistic research is concentrated on Classical of department funding. studies (especially Mycenaen Greek, Greek dialectology and medieval Latin, in all of which Faculty of Economics and Administration the university has a European reputation) and The direction of the faculty’s research activi- general linguistics (comparative Indo-European ties stems from the structure of the individual

14 RESEARCH MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 tion, thefaculty wasinvolvedwithsevenprojects pal investigator)andonedoctoral project.Inaddi- five post-doctoral,sixstandard(two asco-princi- out twelveCzechScienceFoundation projects: Pathological Cell Cycles.Thefacultyalsocarried of Chromosomes duringtheNormaland Linguistics, andDynamicsOrganization research centres:theCentre forComputational – andprincipalinvestigatorfortwoLCbasic centre –InstituteofTheoreticalInformatics also co-principalinvestigatorfora1Mresearch in CrisisManagement.Inaddition,thefacultyis Faculty ofScience–DynamicGeovisualization ated onalong-termresearchprogrammewiththe Distributed Computer Systems.Italsocooper- term researchprogramme–HighlyParalleland Cryptography. LaBAK –LaboratoryofSecurityandApplied Information ProcessingandCryptography, were created–theLaboratoryofQuantum Graphic Design. In2005twonewlaboratories Multimedia Applications;andtheAtelierfor –LaboratoryforElectronic and LEMMA Technologies; theKnowledgeDiscovery Group; Sitola –LaboratoryofAdvanced Networking LSD –LaboratoryofSearchandDialogue; – LaboratoryforParallelandDistributed Systems; Language ProcessingLaboratory;ParaDise Laboratory ofOpticalMicroscopy;NLP–Natural Computer InteractionLaboratory;LOM– –Human at itsresearchlaboratories:HCILAB The faculty’sresearchactivitiesareconcentrated Faculty ofInformatics Ministry ofHealth andtheMinistryofEducation. Development, theMinistryofInterior, in researchprojectsoftheMinistryforRegional Science Foundation, thefacultyisalsoinvolved addition tograntsobtainedthroughtheCzech programme documentsinthetouristindustry.In tion systems,methodsforcreatingstrategicand ment anditseconomicaspects;regionalinforma- management andbudgeting;regionaldevelop- non-governmental non-profitsector,public-sector feciency ofthepublicsector,workings and medium-sizedbusinesses,unemployment;ef- European economicintegration,supportforsmall nesses’ financialmanagementinthecontextof firms’ humanresources,thedevelopmentofbusi- economics, evaluationoffirms’effeciency,use ganizational structuresofbusinessesandbusiness monetary sector,developmentaltendenciesofor- transformationoftheCR’s system oftheCR, etary-economic relationsinMoravia,thefinancial thought inMoravia;thedevelopmentofmon- open economies,thedevelopmentofeconomic monetary policyandexternalshocksonsmall ment oftheCzecheconomy,influence characteristics, structuralaspectsofthedevelop- macro-economic developmentofmajoreconomic in theprocessoftransformation,analysis particular: systemicandinstitutionalprojects ties. Researchfocusesonthefollowingareasin disciplines andthedirectionoftheiractivi- In 2005thefacultywasinvolvedinonelong- ment oftheculturallandscape. environmentally-friendly lifestylesandenhance- service cultureofsocialwork;theproblems and workprogrammesinRomacommunities,the programmes, thelocalpoliticsofsocialservices to employmentpolicy,socialpolicyand dynamics ofmodernsociety,especiallywithreard the roleofsocialstateinrelationto selected actors,theoryofinternationalrelations; of internationalrelations,foreignpolicy of actorsinthepoliticalsystem,securityaspects nance, Europeanintegration,theEuropeanization interests underconditionsofmulti-levelgover- research onpoliticalpartiesandrepresentationof citizenship; politicaltheory,systems, cultural andinstitutionalconditionsforactive and psychologicalreflectionofidentity.Social, intervention programmes;sociological,political tions andcontext;counsellingservices,social family issues–trendsindevelopment;socialrela- identity; demographictrends,children,youth, ties, minorities,marginalizedgroupsandtheir social cohesionandtheintegrationofethnici- causes, formsandresultsofsocialexclusion, reflection insocialinequality;familylife,etc.; of participationinthelabourmarketandtheir families; changesintheopportunitiesandforms including issuesinvolvingthereproductionof areas ofstudy:problemssocialreproduction are concentratedspecificallyonthefollowing on theproblemsofsocialtransformation.Studies Research activitiesbythefacultyfocusprimarily Faculty ofSocialStudies lel anddistributed systems–grids;digitallibraries ty institute–isasetoffourpreferred areas:paral- at theInstituteofComputer Science–auniversi- The long-termfocusofresearch anddevelopment Institute ofComputerScience physical capability. weaker health,ofallagecategories,atlevels reation, forbothhealthypersonsandthosewith of physicalactivitiesandsportatschoolrec- brings importantpracticalobservationsinthearea and medicalkinanthropology.Appliedresearch social, culturalandpedagogickinanthropology, – structuralanddevelopmentalkinanthropology, activities focusonthreebasicpriorityareas of humanmovement.Academic andresearch medicine –andoverlapswiththeminthecontext mechanics, psychology,sociology,physiology, ties intoanumberofotherdisciplines–bio- Kinanthropology isamultidisciplinaryfieldthat ments ofhumanbeingsinthebroadestsense. ogy –afielddealingwiththephysicalmove- activities towardthefieldofkinanthropol- The FacultyofSportsStudiesdirectsitsresearch Faculty ofSportsStudies Agency oftheCzechMinistryHealth. National SecurityOfficeandtheInternalGrant the MinistryofEducation,andoneprojectfor for theAcademy ofSciencesGrant Agencyand for theCzechAcademy ofSciences, twoprojects RESEARCH 15 and their application; the use of information and mation of the institutional structure of the EU, communication technologies for the collection, as well as with the study of regional development transfer, processing, archiving and dissemination and regional interests. It continued its research of digitalized images for medicine; and finally the on modern politics in the Czech Republic and development of special equipment on the basis of , and made significant progress programmable hardware. on the examination of trans-Atlantic relations, with special emphasis on the security relationship International Institute of Political Science between the USA and the EU. In 2005 the activities of the International Institute of Political Science (IIPS) – a university institute Regional Development Centre – were focused primarily on producing publica- The research activities of this interdisciplinary tions and organizing academic seminars and con- institute were oriented in 2005 on case studies ferences. The IIPS continues to serve as a coordi- dealing with issues of regional development. The nator of research projects in the field of political case studies involved evaluation of a series of science, helping to provide appropriate venues surveys commissioned by regional governments for presentation (conferences, publications, (South Moravia, Liberec and Vysočina) on unem- etc.). Since the beginning of 2005 the research ployment, manufacturing, the tourist industry and activities of the IIPS have been concentrated into recreation. Special attention was devoted to the four thematically focused research programmes: preparation of official publications for the Czech “European Integration”, “European Regionalism”, Ministry for Regional Development (The Czech “Modern Politics” and “Transatlantic Relations Republic: Regional Portraits) and the Vysočina and Security”. Each of these programmes is de- Region (The Vysočina in Maps and Statistics). voted to a specific set of issues, and together they cover a wide spectrum of issues. In 2005 the IIPS dealt mainly with the phenomenon of European integration and the various aspects of transfor-

2. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH ne of the requirements for successful ternational conference Kyberprostor (Cyberspace) research and development is effective co- 2005, organized by the Faculty of Law in coopera- Ooperation between research teams. The tion with the Faculty of Social Studies, took up various departments and other units of Masaryk the results of research conducted on the effects of University have long been engaged in cooperation information networks (especially the Internet) by with institutions abroad that cultivate scholar- scholars in the humanities, with the emphasis on ship and participate in research and development, legal questions. mainly on the university level, but also with aca- The faculty’s teachers and doctoral students demic institutes that are not primarily engaged in played an active part in academic conferences and teaching. Most of this cooperation is conducted seminars abroad, studied at foreign institutions in on the basis of signed agreements, but there has Europe and the USA, took part in the activities also been a great deal of informal cooperation of international organizations, and as consultants leading to joint publication of results and the or- participated in the activities of bodies of the ganization of international conferences, seminars Council of Europe. and other professional events. Cooperation with Longstanding cooperation continued with the foreign institutions, especially universities, is an John Marshall Law School in Chicago and with important prerequisite for the internationalization the Fordham Centre on European Law in New of doctoral studies. This has made it possible to York. A cooperation agreement was signed with introduce what are referred to as double doctoral the Faculty of Law at the University of in degrees. At present there are thirteen students at . the university studying under this programme: one at the Faculty of Medicine, six at the Faculty Faculty of Medicine of Science and five at the Faculty of Arts (all An important part of the specialized work of in cooperation with institutions in France), as the faculty’s clinics and Centre for Biostatistics well as one at the Faculty of Informatics (Italy). and Analyses is conducting clinical studies and International cooperation is also conducted testing new medicines and treatment regimes in through the university’s research centres and its cooperation with international pharmaceutical basic research centres. firms. Traditionally the faculty has specialized in international programmes in medicinal epidemi- Faculty of Law ology and prevention. Two of its units worked on The Faculty of Law has traditionally been projects under the COST programme, and two involved in organizing academic conferences more were members of teams implementing proj- and seminars aimed at studying key questions in ects under the 6th EU Framework Programme. individual legal disciplines that are attended by Agreements were made to continue cooperation leading Czech and foreign scholars. The 3rd in- with partners in Dallas (Southwestern Medical

16 RESEARCH MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 degrees. was alsoinitiatedwithFranceondoubledoctoral (DZS) oftheMinistryEducation.Cooperation provided bytheCentre forInternational Services a scholarshipfromthegovernmentofSwitzerland the MarieCurie Fellowship, andthrough abroad undertheSocrates/Erasmusprogramme, programmes. Doctoral students conductedstudies Birmingham) onstudentandacademicexchange School Dallas)andBirmingham(Universityof Jean Monnetprogrammes. in theSocrates/Erasmus,Socrates/Comenius and Dublin andelsewhere,whileothersparticipated ulty tookpartinconferences Rzeszóv,Lisbon, Studies, “Laetaesegetes”.Individuals fromthefac- conference ofdoctoralprogrammesinClassical with theGoetheInstitute),andaninternational Performance” (atheatreperformancetogether University ofQuébecatMontréal,“Mediaand studies scholarswithguestprofessorsfromthe international colloquiumorganizedbyRomance of ResearchinEducationalManagement),an (EuropeanNetwork tional conferenceENIRDEM yielded resultsintheformofjointinterna- of Bayreuth).Projectswithotherdepartmentsalso Department ofReligiousStudiesattheUniversity for ReligiousStudies(ajointprojectwiththe Czech LanguageDepartment andtheDepartment tional projectsbytheDepartment ofHistory,the in Regensburg.Alsoofimportancewereinterna- Hospital inBohuniceandthePsychiatricClinic shared bythePsychiatricClinic attheFaculty important projectswereresearchinpsychology in internationaljournals.Amongthemost symposia andcolloquiaabroadpublished research projects;facultypersonnelattended a numberofforeigninstitutionsonspecific During 2005facultydepartmentsworkedwith Faculty ofArts contacts. stays bystudentsandacademicspersonal ing cooperation,exchangesandinternships,study especially intheformofjointpublications,teach- two hundredforeigninstitutionsanduniversities, of informalcooperationaswellwithmorethan – ScienceforPeaceandothers.Thereisawealth NATO DA VINCI, LEONARDO ERASMUS, INGO, Programmes, KONTAKT,CEEPUS, Framework programmes, forexampletheEU part inresearchprojectsthatwereofforeign begun in2004.In2005facultypersonneltook its programme“InnovationLectures”,whichwas invited foreignguestprofessorstospeakunder grown indoubledoctoraldegrees.Thefaculty young scholarsaremadepossible.Interesthas studies programmesandpost-doctoralstaysfor operation withuniversitiesabroad,jointdoctoral for youngscientistsandjointpublications.Inco- research programmes,conferences,internships tional cooperationintheformofexchanges,joint The facultyisinvolvedinwide-ranginginterna- Faculty ofScience international publication. andBratislavaconcludedwithan a seriesoflecturesbyarthistoriansinVienna, Integrity”, whichwaslaunchedtogetherwith Enhancing theCultural Landscape andEuropean Church oftheFlagellatedSaviour inDyje– Message ofColours, Shapesand Concepts: the Commission’s Central Europeanproject“The Naples. ThefacultywasapartnerintheEuropean lishing theworkofCzechStudiesscholarsin University Degli StudiinNaples, beganpub- of CzechLanguagewhich,workingwiththe a specialfeatureoftheworkDepartment degrees. are madepossiblethroughthedouble doctoral studies incooperationwithforeign universities taught intheselanguages.International doctoral Arts inGerman.Individualcourses arealsobeing and English,thatoftheTeachingFine field ofSpecialPedagogyisaccreditedinGerman as partoftheprocessinternationalization.The foreign languagesisgraduallybeingintroduced are alsosupportedwithinfacultyresearchprojects. vidual contacts.Studytripsbydoctoralstudents Ministry ofEducationorAIAquotasandindi- extent onthebasisofpartnershipagreements, part ofinternationalprogrammes,andtoalesser abroad, inthecontextofgrantprojectsandas students, arrangedonthebasisofinvitationsfrom business andstudytripsabroadbyteachers has beenanincreaseeachyearinthenumberof also continued. programmes (Erasmus,Comenius andGrundtvig) Biotechnologie inJena;activitiesunderSocrates cooperation withtheInstitutfürMolekulare on CytoskeletonandCell CycleofYeastin Slovakia) projectscontinued,asdidthe Technical Cooperation (withGermanyand work onAktion,Ceepus andMutualScientific- 1K programme(incooperationwithSlovenia); two MinistryofEducationprojectsunderthe gramme weresuccessfullycompleted,aswell pro- Funds; twoprojectsundertheEQUAL Structural the facultywereacceptedbyEU Slovenia, Australia andtheUSA. Italy, Cuba, Ukraine,Estonia,,Poland, Spain, Portugal,theNetherlands,Switzerland, Germany, Austria, GreatBritain,Sweden,Finland, institutes andotherorganizationsinFrance, the departmentallevelwithuniversities,research and theUniversityofPrešov.Italsocooperatesat of St.CyrilandMethodiusinTrnava,Slovakia, agreements atthefacultylevelwithUniversity Germany andSlovakia,aswellonthebasisof and universitiesinPoland,Hungary,Austria, agreements signedbetweenMasarykUniversity a broadrangeofdisciplinesbothonthebasis The facultyworkswithforeignpartnersin Faculty ofEducation International cooperationinpublishingis Teaching indoctoraldegreeprogrammes With growinginternationalcooperation,there In 2005tworesearchprojectssubmittedby RESEARCH 17 Faculty of Economics and Administration was also responsible for the organization of an The international activities of the faculty are international conference on “The European Left mainly carried out with other universities. In at the Beginning of the 21st Century”, attended 2005 the faculty cooperated actively with the by political scientists from the Czech Republic, University of Economics in Bratislava and Matej Denmark, France, Poland and Slovakia. Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia; the Economics Academy in Krakow and the Faculty of Sports Studies Economics Academy in Katowice; and the The faculty’s international academic and research Vienna University of Economics and Business cooperation is conducted mainly within the Administration. The main focus of cooperation framework of bilateral agreements with universi- is joint research followed by joint publication ties all over Europe. Other cooperation takes of findings, and the creation of study materi- place within the framework of the SOCRATES/ als. Exchanges of teachers, internships and ERASMUS and CEEPUS CZ-012 (in the second lectures are made possible in the framework of semester under the new heading CEEPUS CZ-59) the SOCRATES/ERASMUS programme with programmes, intended to promote the mobility of universities and other tertiary-level institutions students and teachers. One of its more interest- in France (Rennes), Austria (Eisenstadt), Slovenia ing activities is the outdoor exchange course that (Ljubljana), Germany (Bochum, Göttingen, it organizes in cooperation with the Technical Tübingen) and Great Britain (Huddersfield, University of Munich, attended by students and Plymouth). teachers from both institutions. In 2005 there were visits by a number of Faculty of Informatics foreign scholars who offered lectures in the International cooperation in 2005 took place in areas of kinanthropology and the sociology of the form of participation by teachers at inter- sports. Among the most important of these was national conferences and through cooperation Dr. Thomas Carter of the University of Wales. on international grant projects. Participation by The Faculty of Sports Studies also organized its scholars in the 6th EU Framework Programme annual international academic conference on was broadened – the faculty is now the co-prin- “Sport and Quality of Life”, attended by special- cipal investigator in two networks of excellence, ists from many European and North African NoE DELOS and NoE FIDIS, and is implement- countries, with financial support from the ing a project supported by German’s Alexander International Visegrad Fund. von Humboldt Foundation. The faculty is also a member of the international non-governmental Institute of Computer Science research association ERCIM along with fifteen The institute’s international cooperation consists other leading European institutions. It continued mainly of participation in European projects and to organize its traditional Informatics Colloquia, active participation in and the organization of in- which are attended by leading specialists from the ternational conferences and summer schools. The CR and abroad. In 2005 the faculty organized past year has seen the completion of two projects four international conferences. An agreement under the 5th EU Framework Programme, on double doctoral degrees was signed with the GridLab and SCAMPI. Participation continued University of Pisa. in “networks of excellence” under the 6th EU Framework Programme: CoreGRID, devoted to Faculty of Social Studies the problems of grids, and DELOS, concern- The faculty worked with foreign institutions ing digital libraries (jointly with the Faculty through joint participation by its departments of Informatics). Another 6th EU Framework in European Union programmes and joint grant Programme project was started under the title projects. These are primarily projects of the HEALTHWARE, devoted to the use of satellite EU Commission and the pro- technology in providing medical services. In 2005 gramme, LEONARDO and the 5th and 6th EU the ICS also took part in activities focusing on Framework Programmes. Exchanges by teach- the use of large optic fibre networks with its very ers and students, internships and lectures are successful demonstration of a multi-point video arranged on the basis of agreements under the conference with very high picture quality for two SOCRATES/ERASMUS programme and other conferences, iGrid2005 (San Diego) and SC05 agreements. Faculty scholars are members of the (Seattle). editorial boards of a number of international jour- nals, expert commissions and professional associa- International Institute of Political Science tions. They also take part in the organization of In 2005 the Institute developed its close partner- international conferences, among them the fourth ship with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. annual conference on “Conflict in Identities, Thanks to this cooperation a series of academic Identities in Conflict”, organized in cooperation conferences was organized, including the inter- with MU’s International Institute of Political national conferences “Europeanization – a New Science, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Theme in Political Science Research”, “Euro- the Institute for International Relations in Prague, Atlantic Relations and the Role of the New EU and an international conference of the European Member States” and “The EU and Corruption: Social Policy Research Network. The faculty Examples and Countermeasures”. The work with

18 RESEARCH MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 3. research ormakeuseofitsfindings. with non-governmentalinstitutionsthatconduct university’s cooperationwiththeministriesand plicable results.Thisexplainsthesuccessof Practically always,academicresearchhasap- the doctoralprogrammesinanumberoffields. aspartof from theirreplaceableroleofASCR between theseinstitutionshasgreatlybenefited The close cooperation University andtheASCR. part ofthebroadcooperationbetweenMasaryk havebecome atraditional Republic (ASCR), taking partinthe drawingupofproposalsfor tion oflaw,mainlythroughproviding expertise, to legalpracticeandharmonizing theinterpreta- faculty helpsindealingwithproblems relating and othercentralbodiesofgovernment. The State Prosecutor’sOfficeinBrno, theministries important isthecooperationwithSupreme judges, advisersorassistantstothejudges.Also – inwhichanumberofteachersalsoserveas Court andtheSupremeAdministrative Court courts –theConstitutional Court, theSupreme term cooperationwiththecountry’shighest for individuals. memberstateaswell asanEU law fortheCR tions oftheconsequencesviolationEC/EU andques- of JusticeonthelegalsysteminCR, Court the significanceofrulingsEC were twoMinistryofForeign Affairsprojectson tion insmallertownsandvillages.Alsodealtwith devoted tothelegalaspectsofhousingsitua- ect fortheMinistryofRegionalDevelopment In 2005teachersatthefacultytookpartinaproj- Faculty ofLaw A GOVERNMENTAL SECTOR REPUBLIC, MINISTERIALRESEARCHINSTITUTESANDTHENON- COOPERATION WITHTHEACADEMYOFSCIENCES THE CZECH This year,too,sawthecontinuationoflong- the Academy ofSciencestheCzech joint projectswithMasarykUniversityand cademic researchissuesdealtwithunder Poland, Austria andTurkey. their workatconferencesinFrance,Hungary, Elections”. Scholarsattheinstitutepresented conference “Foreign Policyof the USAafter States ofAmericaitorganizedtheinternational In cooperationwiththeEmbassyofUnited six titlesinitsseriesStudiesandCollections. International InstituteofPoliticalScienceissued toward supportforpublications:in2005the the KonradAdenauer Foundation isalsooriented in theareaofresearchanddevelopmentwith exchange lecturestays.Cooperation waslaunched from thetwouniversitiesparticipateinregular programme,teachers SOCRATES/ERASMUS Wales inAberystwyth,GreatBritain.Underthe with theLanguageLearningCentre, Universityof The centreisinvolvedinlong-termcooperation Language Centre Institute ofMacromolecular Chemistry inPrague, – theMathematicalInstitutein Prague, the agreements signedwithinstitutes oftheAcademy doctoral degreeprogrammesbased onbilateral the CzechAcademy ofSciencesinthearea Especially intensiveisthecooperation with and reviewsofthefindingspublishedthere. the editingandpublishingofscientificjournals Councils, participationasacademicreviewers, representation intheinstitutions’Scientific ticularly importantinsuchformsasreciprocal focuses onjointresearchprojectsandispar- andotherinstitutions institutes oftheASCR The FacultyofScience’scooperationwiththe Faculty ofScience treatment forpatientswithspinalcordinjuries. leaders inthisarea,alsoprovidingrehabilitation trauma care.Itsspinalunitisoneofthecountry’s highest qualityoftraumasurgeryandintensive side thesystemofuniversityhospitalsoffering Brno TraumaHospital, astate-runhospitalout- cooperation withtheTraumatologyClinic atthe good resultsformanyyears.Likewiseimportantis Masaryk MemorialCancerInstitutehasbrought methods andjointresearchononcologywiththe fields ofmolecularbiologyandgenetics.Teaching in Brno,inthe Institute ofBiophysics,ASCR The facultyhaslongworkedcloselywiththe Faculty ofMedicine governmental organizations. serve theneedsofnationalandinternationalnon- Czech government’sHumanRightsCouncil and analyses, shareintheadvisoryactivitiesof serve onministerialcommitteesmakingexpert of shapingthebodyjudicialrulings.Teachers ments process,andparticipatingintheprocess generally bindinglegalmeasuresandtheamend- and communicationamongnations. information technologyformutualcooperation cal supportforovercomingbarrierstotheuseof The aimoftheprojectistoprovidemethodologi- Denmark, Norway,Spain,Lithuania andItaly. Teaching inAdult Education”, withpartnersfrom “The PreparationofTeachersCollaborative ing onatwo-yearinternationalprojectentitled programme, theLanguageCentre iscooperat- activities inupcomingyears. links. TheLanguageCentre will continuethese the twouniversitiesbymeansofvideoconference cussions onspecializedtopicsbetweenstudentsof universities, itconsistedofpresentationsanddis- successfully realized:taughtinparallelatthetwo Videoconferencing inTeachingEnglish”was project entitled“TheDevelopment andUseof respect tonewteachingmethods.In2005apilot Under theSOCRATES/GRUNDTVIG RESEARCH 19 the Astronomical Institute in Ondřejov, the tions like the Brno Museum of Technology, the Institute of Geology in Prague; as well as Brno Brno House of Arts, the Association for Talented institutes such as the Institute of Biophysics, Young People, the civic association Helping the Institute of Hydrobiology, the Institute of Hands Association in Brno, the Czech section Parasitology, the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, of the International Board on Books for Young the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, the Institute People, the civic association Litera, the Veronica of Physics of Materials and the Institute of Ecological Institute, Solartec s.r.o. in Rožnov pod Scientfic Instruments. The faculty works with the Radhoštěm, the Czech RE Agency, o.p.s., Elpis Veterinary Research Institute and the Masaryk in Brno, the Association of Towns and Villages Memorial Cancer Institute. Many of these institu- CR, the Centre for Church History Vranov, the tions share accreditation for doctoral programmes St. Hypolitus Foundation, the Mikulov Centre with the Faculty of Science. for European Culture and the Moravia-Silesia Christian Academy in Brno. Programmes on Faculty of Arts popular science featuring faculty scholars are The departments of the Faculty of Arts work broadcast on Czech Radio and Television. very closely with their partner institutes within the ASCR, working on joint research projects, Faculty of Economics and Administration organizing international conferences and shap- In 2005 the faculty participated in joint academic ing a common conception for doctoral studies. research projects with the Moravian Museum, Scholars from the Faculty of Arts serve on the and it is continuing its long-term cooperation editorial boards of AS journals, the individual with research institutes and other institutions of AS commissions, etc. These activities are of national and local government, especially with a long-term and regular character. Exceptionally the Regional Administration of South Moravia, close cooperation exists between faculty scholars the Institute for Regional Development, the and historians from the Institute of History in Chamber of Commerce in Brno, and the South Prague and Brno, archaeologists of the Institute Moravia Regional Development Agency in Brno. of Archaeology, psychologists from the Institute Cooperation is ongoing in the area of joint proj- of Psychology and philosophers at the Institute of ects with non-governmental, non-profit organiza- Philosophy and the Masaryk Institute. A number tions, particularly through the faculty’s Centre for of the faculty’s departments have long experience Research on the Non-profit Sector (CVNS). in implementing ASCR grant projects (standard and junior), and work on newly supported proj- Faculty of Informatics ects has commenced. The main form of cooperation between the Individual departments participate in ministry Faculty of Informatics and the institutes of programmes (the Ministry of Health – psychol- the ASCR is through joint research projects. ogy; the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs Especially significant is the cooperation with – education; the Ministry of Culture – musicol- the Institute of Biophysics in Brno, the Institute ogy), and cooperation with the regional govern- of Czech Language, the Institute of Computer ments is beginning to develop. Science and the Mathematical Institute. Besides working with the ASCR, faculty scholars are Faculty of Education involved in research projects with the National In the area of research and development, the Security Office, the Faculty Hospital in Brno multi-disciplinary Faculty of Education works and CESNET (the Czech NREN operator). with a number of institutes under the ASCR Cooperation with all of the above institutions – the Institute of Psychology, the Institute of is reflected in membership in one another’s Botany, the Institute of Organic Chemistry Scientific Boards and doctoral studies boards, and Biochemistry, the Institute of Physics, the contributions as outside reviewers and participa- Mathematical Institute, the Institute of History, tion in state examination committees. the Institute of Archaeology, the Institute of Czech Literature, the Institute of Czech Faculty of Social Studies Language, the Institute for Contemporary In research on individual research topics and pro- History, the Institute of Physics of Materials grammes, faculty scholars work with two institutes and the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry. of the ASCR, the Institute of Psychology and the Cooperation is oriented toward both research and Institute of Sociology. Other research activities teaching. are conducted working alongside ministry person- With regard to other institutions, the faculty nel on applied research, for example through the cooperates with teaching centres in various towns, Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs, centres for the continuing education of teach- CR. There is also extensive cooperation with ers, the Institute for Information on Education, research institutes within the framework of joint the Centre for Evaluating Educational Success grant projects, as well as participation by faculty (CERMAT – the new secondary-school gradua- scholars in the grant projects of those institutions. tion exam), the Transportation Research Centre The faculty participates in the Modern Society (CDV – traffic education), the Czech Office for programme of the Ministry of Labour and Social Surveying, Mapping and Cadaster (committee Affairs, and works with agencies of regional on terminology). Other partners are organiza- and local government, especially the Regional

20 RESEARCH MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 imaging. in 2005withspecialfocusonthree-dimensional archive ofdigitalmedicalinformationimages, developing theMeDiMed system,ametropolitan in with hospitalfacilitiesthroughouttheCR the Czechweb.Thereisextensivecooperation ture forthecompilationandarchivalizationof National LibraryinPraguetodevelopinfrastruc- began long-termcollectiveeffortswiththeCzech and itsNewApplications“,begunin2004.It project “OpticalNationalResearchNetwork seven-yearresearch is cooperatingonCESNET’s Development Fund. It projects fromtheCESNET 2005 institutepersonneltookontworesearch development ofanationalresearchnetwork.In academic gridsystem(MetaCentrum) andonthe the developmentandadministrationofCzech hardware andtelemedicine.Italsoparticipatesin environments forcooperation,programmeable mainly intheareasofopticnetworks,virtual operator)., (theCzechNREN tion withCESNET hascloselong-term coopera- medicine. TheICS the effectiveprocessingofdigitalizedimagesfor intelligent systemsinthefieldofoncology,and to digitalizedmathematicstexts,applicationsof research projectsintheareasofprovidingaccess ishelpingtoimplementthree Society” ,theICS programme“Information Under theASCR Institute ofComputerScience Committee. out incoopeationwiththeCzechAnti-Doping (Ministry ofEducation,2004–2005)wascarried by YouthinOrganizedandUnorganizedSports” project “AbuseofSubstanceswithDoping Effects Aspects ofContinuing Teachers’ Education”.The 2003–2005“Psychological search projectGACR focusedonre- The faculty’sworkwiththeASCR Faculty ofSportsStudies of reviews. boards ofprofessionaljournalsandtheprovision outside reviewersandparticipationintheeditorial membership inacademicbodies,contributionsas and protection.Otherjointactivitiesinclude minorities, theRomaandenvironmentalissues on issuesofsocialpreventionandintervention, ernmental organizationsisfocusedprimarily City Municipality.Cooperation withnon-gov- Administration ofSouthMoravia andtheBrno 4. I LONG-TERM RESEARCHPROGRAMMES AND RESEARCHCENTRES research centres andcentresforbasicresearch(see with 2005start-updates,andin winningfundsfor competing forlong-termresearch programmes Masaryk Universitywereextremely successfulin ments –sandresearchcentres.The facultiesof being shownbytwonewtypes of academicinstru- university isalsoevidentinthesignificantresults team approachtoscholarshipandresearchatthe agencies andministerialprogrammes,the the CzechScienceFoundation, othergrant n additiontothemanyprojectsfundedby teaching ofCzechandEnglishtorefugees. cooperates onthecreationofmaterialsfor Association ofCitizens Helping Immigrants,and the CzechRepublic”,centreworkswith of RefugeesandForeigners LivingPermanentlyin project “SystematicSupportfortheEmployment consultant servicesforEnglishteaching.Inthe ing Czechtothoseseekingasylum,andprovides been entrustedwithcreatingmaterialsforteach- employment potentialofasylumseekers”.Ithas – generalimprovementandutilizationofthe on theproject“Whyshouldtheybeneglected? Working withRefugeesintheCzechRepublic Consortium ofNon-governmentalOrganizations initiative.Itworks alongside the the EQUAL activities byparticipatingintheprojectsof seeking asylum.In2005itcontinuedinthese ing coursesintheCzechlanguageforrefugees Since 2004thecentrehashadtaskofprovid- Language Centre “Research forRegionalNeeds”. Ministry forRegionalDevelopment programme is beingconductedin2004–2006underthe 2 Southeast)”.Thisproject,coordinatedbyMU, resolution (forapplicationintheregionNUTS specific localproblemsandpossibilitiesfortheir local resourcesandpossibilitiesfortheiruse, Environment anditsRevitalization–specific on implementationoftheproject“TheRural UAD Studio,andtheCollege of Logistics The Centre cooperateswiththe firmsGaREP, Centre forRegionalDevelopment integration. ary-school teachersinthefieldofEuropean aimed atraisingthequalificationsofsecond- of theCzechRepubliconjointresearchprojects IIPS workedwiththeOfficeofGovernment the CzechMinistryofForeign Affairs.In2005the – www.natoaktual.cz.Theprojectisoverseenby official portaloftheNATO InformationCentre as thetechnicalguarantorofCzech-language On thebasisofthispartnership,IIPSserves on researchprojectsdealingwithsecurityissues. The IIPSworkswiththeJagello2000association International InstituteofPoliticalScience MU’s overallinternalreviewprocess. research programmeswillbeevaluated aspartof sentations. Thespecificfindings ofthelong-term in dozensofpublicationsandconferencepre- achieved significantresults,whichwerepresented research programmesandcentresofbothtypes year ofimplementation,teamsfromthelong-term overview inthetablesection).In2005,first RESEARCH 21 Faculty of Law for Research on Social Structures from Prehistory In 2005 the Faculty of Law began a long-term to the High Middle Ages: Archaeological field research project on “The European Context of research and theory, use of natural sciences, meth- the Development of Czech Law after 2004”. odology and informatics, and protection of the During the first year of the project, members of cultural heritage”. This programme links the fields the implementation team published, took part in of archaeology, museology and ethnography, and international scholarly conferences and orga- cooperation with the Faculty of Science is being nized the conference “Directions and Trends in developed. the Development of Czech Law after the Czech A second research programme is entitled Republic’s Entry intothe EU”, held in October “Research Centre for Central European History: 2005. Sources, Lands, Culture”, encompassing the fields of history, art history, archival disciplines Faculty of Medicine and Latin and Greek (the medieval period). Both Two long-term research programmes were begun programmes include relatively intensive research at the Faculty of Medicine in 2005, in the areas efforts, as well as publications, conferences (for of cardio-vascular disease and neurology as well example, “The Napoleonic Wars and Historical as oncology, research in the latter being done in Memory”), colloquia, etc., with extensive cooperation with the Masaryk Memorial Cancer international participation. The first year of Institute. The faculty’s departments serve as implementation of both programmes concluded co-principal investigators on three other long- with a progress report for internal evaluation by term research programmes. In the interest of Masaryk University. concentrating research capacity, there has been an In addition to long-term research programmes, effort to involve other faculty departments in new departments of the Faculty of Arts also worked long-term research programmes that are planned with two research centres outside the university, for funding in 2007. The Stomotology Research “Research Centre for Old and Middle Czech” Centre was opened in 2005 with support from (the Czech Language Department and the ASCR), the National Research Programme “1M Research and “Research on the Function of Technology in Centres”. the Creation and Production of the Performing Arts” (with DAMU Prague). Faculty of Science The faculty’s long-term research programmes Faculty of Education (2005-2011) – “Molecular nature of cell and tissue The long-term research programme “School and regulation”, “Interaction between chemical sub- Health for the 21st Century” was launched at the stances, the environment and biological systems beginning of 2005. In the first year tasks were as- and their consequences on the global, regional signed to the individual investigators, and in view and local levels (INCHEMBIOL)”, “Physical of the multidisciplinary nature of the research and chemical properties of advanced materials team, terminology was clarified for internal and structures”, “Diversity of biota communities purposes. In September a two-day conference was and populations: causal analysis of variability held with international participation; it produced in space and time”, “Study and application of a set of published papers in English that were dis- plasma-chemical reactions on non-isothermal, tributed to a number of other faculties in Europe. low-temperature plasma and its interaction with Most of the personnel involved in the project the surface of solid substances”, “Proteins in took part in various conferences, maintained for- metabolism and in the interaction of organisms eign contacts and are preparing joint publications. and the environment”, “Dynamic geovisualiza- The programme’s first year represented a good tion in crisis management” and “Mathematical start in working on these issues. structures and their physical application” – have New plans were begun for a future long-term significantly strengthened the research profile of research programme to be entitled “Education of the faculty. Students with Special Needs”. Important new centres for basic research for 2005 – 2009 are the “Eduard Čech Centre for Faculty of Economics and Administration Algebra and Geometry” and “Ichtyoparasitology In 2005 the Faculty of Economics and – Centre for Basic Research”. Other impor- Administration, was awarded funding for a five- tant centres for basic research at the faculty year project on a “Centre for Research on the include the National Centre for Biomolecular Competitiveness of the Czech Economy” by Research (NCBR) and the Research Centre for the Ministry of Education under its National Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Research Programme. In this project, the faculty (RECETOX). cooperates with the Centre for Economic Studies in Prague and the National Observatorium for Faculty of Arts Employment and Education in Prague. The Two new long-term research programmes were research centre project will be completed in 2009. launched at the Faculty of Arts in 2005. On the Its task is to analyze the factors and elements basis of excellent results from an earlier archaeol- of competitiveness of the Czech economy in ogy programme, a new, thematically broader pro- the context of meeting the targets of the Lisbon gramme was devised: an “Interdisciplinary Centre Strategy. Special emphasis is placed on examin-

22 RESEARCH MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 information-based economy. transformation oftheCzechRepublictowardan economic bodies,thussupportingthesuccessful for decision-makingbypolitico-economicand the projectistocreatesoundanalyticalmaterials for futurepolitico-economicpolicy.Thegoalof the implicationsofexistingdevelopmentaltrends technological advancement,andonidentifying transformation intheprocessofeconomicand ing thespecificfeaturesofcountriesundergoing – includingitspotential forsocialreproduction ety: (1)Thefamilyanditsreproductive potential that areintegratingfactorsin(post)modern soci- tention isdevotedtotheroleof threeinstitutions gration ofsociety,orsocialcohesion. Particularat- factors andmechanismsofreproduction andinte- the programmestrivetoidentifysignificant begun. Theindividualprojectsthatfallunder “Reproduction andIntegrationofSociety”was fss.muni.cz/evs). periodical EuropeanElectoralStudies(www.ispo. of theprojectwasfoundinganelectronic published inmonographsandperiodicals.Part (November).Researchfindingsare in theEU” “Representation oftheInterestsMinorities Left attheStartof21stCentury” (November); – TheoryandApproaches”(May);“TheEuropean Pluralism andInterestsinMulti-levelSystems the institutehostedthreeconferences:“Political a situationofmulti-levelgovernance.During 2005 process ofmediatingandrepresentinginterestsin cal partiesandotherpoliticalactorsenteringthe pean comparativeperspectiveoftherolepoliti- common threadistheexaminationfromaEuro- Electoral systemsandlevelsofgovernment.Their sion ofpoliticalpartiesandpluralism; (a multi-levelperspective);TheEuropeandimen- entry;Politicalpartiesandparty systems EU working sections:AnalysisofCzechpoliticsafter European Democracies”. Itiscomposedoffour Representation ofInterestsinContemporary research programme“PoliticalPartiesand Political Researchbeganworkonitslong-term In 2005thefaculty’sInstituteforComparative Faculty ofSocialStudies During theCell Cycle,NormalandPathological”. “Dynamics andOrganizationofChromosomes tres: the“Centre forComputer Linguistics”and Informatics” aswellintwobasicresearchcen- 1M ResearchCentre “Institute ofTheoretical the facultyisalsoco-principalinvestigatorin addition toitslong-termresearchprogrammes, Geovisualization inCrisisManagement”.In a long-termresearchprogrammeon“Dynamic also cooperatedwiththeFacultyofSciencein and Distributed Computer Systems”;thefaculty term researchprogrammeon“HighlyParallel faculty beganimplementationofanewlong- cessfully beforethereviewboard.In2005 research programmesweredefendedverysuc- In March2005,threecompletedlong-term Faculty ofInformatics In 2005thelong-termresearchprogramme forums. at internationalconferencesandotherspecialized all projectsareregularlypublishedandpresented evaluation oftheroleparents.Findingsfrom ation ofgenderidentityandtheperception young peopleinavirtualenvironment,thecre- the schoolenvironment,communicationof adaptation andpersonalityoftalentedchildren, focusing forexampleonthepsycho-social carried outin2005underthesameprogramme, classmates andothertopics.Othersurveyswere haviour amongpeers,relationswithparentsand related topuberty,socialandhealthrisks,be- attention waspaidtotheperceptionofchanges a surveyof13-year-oldswascompleted.Special coordinated bytheUniversityofBristol.In2005 that islinkedtotheEuropeanprojectESLPAC, families. Thisisauniqueresearchproject,one is onlong-termresearchchildrenandtheir of changeinmodernsociety”.Itsmainfocus Family: Development ofthepersonality atatime Characteristics ofChildren, Youthandthe gramme wasstarted,“PsychologicalandSocial sociology, socialpolicyandwork. as wellstudentsinthedoctoralprogrammesof research programmeareexperiencedresearchers the principlesofcitizenship.Participatingin the familyandincommunitytopromote inclusion mechanismsonthelabourmarket,in the modernstatethatareintendedtosupport active citizenship;and(3)Thepublicpoliciesof marginalization orsocialexclusionendangering work intheotherdirectiontoincreaseriskof anism forsocialinclusion,andtheprocessesthat employment marketanditspotentialasamech- – anditscapacityforinternalsolidarity;(2)The the areaofdistributedenvironments. the secondpartofyeartoincluderesearchin infrastructure. Thiscooperationwasexpandedin systems, withspecialfocusonmonitoringthe responsible forresearchintheareaofgrid personnelare Computer Systems”.Init,ICS programme “HighlyParallelandDistributed Informatics onthejointlong-termresearch Work wasbegunin2005withtheFacultyof Institute ofComputerScience In 2005,asecondlong-termresearchpro- RESEARCH 23 5. SPECIALIZED UNITS AND FACILITIES ne of the goals that the university set of the Chemistry Section). The laboratory out to accomplish in 2005 was to take facilities have permitted the synthesis of a great Othorough advantage of its capacity for number of new organic and inorganic poly- research and development. This has led to the cyclides and polyhydric compounds and the concept of shared laboratories and the integrated description of their chemical, spectroscopic and use of specialized technical equipment and other structural properties, along with the study of material resources. There are a number of special- their chemical and photo-chemical reactions. ized units or individual facilities at the university. ■ Electron micro-probe (point chemical analysis In the field of biomedical research, integration of of minerals and other materials, chemical specialized laboratories between the Faculties of dating of monazite); jointly owned with the Science and Medicine is assumed, especially at the Geological Service Prague university campus in Brno-Bohunice. There are ■ Advanced technical equipment at the Plasma already functioning integrated units at the Faculty Physics and Plasma Sources Laboratory (diag- of Informatics and the Institute of Computer nostics of plasma charges and specialized types Science. A unique specialized facility at the uni- of charges, thin-layer diagnostics). versity is the reading room and publishing house ■ Fourier infrared spectrometer and ellipsometer for the blind, the responsibility of the Teiresias and Ramanov FTIR (spectroscopy of advanced Centre for Students with Special Needs. materials and nanostructures), used by faculty units and departments. Faculty of Medicine ■ RECETOX – EU Centre of Excellence for Cooperation of the Faculty of Medicine with the Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Faculty of Science includes sharing of the facilities – laboratory for minute trace analysis of at the former’s Departments of Pharmacology and persistent toxic substances, and laboratory for Histology, particularly electron cell and tissue the study of ecotoxological effects of these microscopy, and spectral analysis of medicines. materials on freely-living organisms.

Faculty of Science Faculty of Education In view of the experimental nature of the majority In the village of Jedovnice in the Moravian of research projects at the Faculty of Science, Karst there is an integrated facility for field train- this faculty has the majority of the university’s ing that has proved to be an important part of the specialized units and facilities. Among the most degree programmes for teachers of general sub- important laboratories are: jects, as well as teacher training, conferences and ■ The Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics of various forms of field education for elementary Microorganisms (electrophoretic separation and secondary schools in the Czech Republic. of DNA molecules with high molecular mass; The faculty is unique in having a 40 KW analysis of DNA genomes of microorganisms). photovoltaic system that generates electrical ■ The Molecular Cytogenesis Laboratory (re- energy through the direct conversion of the sun’s search and diagnostics of specific chromosomal rays by means of a solar generator composed of aberrations). photovoltaic panels. The generated energy is fed ■ The Functional Genomics and Proteomics into special converters and delivered directly into Laboratory (analysis of biologically important the faculty’s electrical network. The purpose of molecules using the methods of functional ge- the device is to produce electrical energy and thus nomics and proteomics); the equipment at the improve the faculty’s energy balance as well as Biology Section laboratory is used by all of the save costs, since by law energy produced in this departments collaborating with the biomedical manner is subsidized. It also serves instructional departments, both within MU and externally. purposes. ■ The laboratories of the National Centre for Biomolecular Research (NMR spectroscopy, Faculty of Informatics computer chemistry and biology, molecular The Faculty of Informatics is responsible for the modelling, biomolecular interaction labora- following unique facilities: tory, biochemistry, molecular biology, enzyme ■ Laboratory of Optical Microscopy (three- kinetics, protein engineering) are being used to dimensional studies of the structure of their capacity. New findings have been made genetic material), joint use with the Institute of in the three-dimensional structure of important Biophysics, ASCR. biomolecules, especially selected proteins, ■ The Human Computer Interaction Laboratory sugars and fragments of nucleic acids. These (research on human-computer interfaces in in observations have made it possible to obtain the area of immersed and non-immersed virtual a more detailed understanding of the biological reality systems), joint use in cooperation with mechanisms of these substances in the context the Faculty of Science. of their biological functions, and of how to ■ Laboratory of Advanced Networking influence them. Technologies (research and development on ■ A collection of specialized equipment for protocols and technologies for high-speed chemical research (shared by the departments networks, environments for virtual interaction,

24 RESEARCH MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 ■ ■ National SecurityBureau. Brno UniversityofTechnologyandtheCzech rity ofchipcards);usedincooperationwiththe Cryptography (systemsforanalysisofthesecu- LaboratoryofSecurityandApplied foreign departmentsandinstitutions. particular usedbyMUandmanyCzech analysis andprocessing);corpusapplicationsin raphy, developmentofinstrumentsfortext (research oncomputerlinguisticsandlexicog- Natural LanguageProcessingLaboratory usedininternationalcooperation. CESNET; facility withInstituteofComputer Scienceand distributed andparallelsystemsgrids);joint 6. students towards research. curriculum, emphasizesacreative approachby and Dentistry, whichispartofthemedicalstudies by undergraduatestudentsinGeneral Medicine fields. Independentspecialized professional work student researchworkandtheses innon-medical seminar andindependentworkbythestudents, Bachelor’s andMaster’sstudiesintheformof involvement ofstudentsduringthecoursetheir used tosupportresearchconductedwiththe Institutional fundsfortargetedresearchwere Faculty ofMedicine at researchanddevelopment. doctoral studentsinacademicassociationsaimed costs ofmembershipfeesforpersonnelwhoteach Journals Online.Resourcesalsowenttocoverthe databases KluwerLawInternationalandOxford Access wasobtainedtotheinternationaljournal toral thesesandthesupervisionofMaster’stheses. costs connectedwithreviewers’reportsfordoc- of academicconferencesfordoctoralstudentsand library services,costsrelatedtotheorganization operating costsforaccesstoinformationand competitions. Thesefundswerealsousedtocover tional researchcontactsandstudentacademic programmes, thedevelopmentoftheirinterna- academic activitiesofstudentsindoctoraldegree studies-related expensesconnectedwiththe Funds especiallywenttocoverpersonaland the Master’sdegreeanddoctoralprogrammes. supporting academicactivitiesbystudentsin used tofinanceanumberofactivitiesaimedat Institutional fundsfortargetedresearchwere Faculty ofLaw T TARGETED RESEARCH degree programmes. element ofstudiesinthedoctoralandMaster’s involved. Thisisacontributiontotheproductive to financeresearchactivitiesinwhichstudentsare accordance withlegalnorms,thissupportserves of institutionalsupportfortargetedresearch.In attract significantfinancialresourcesintheform university’s departmentsandotherunits scholarship, researchanddevelopment,the hrough theiractivitiesinthefieldsof ■ ■ include: Specialized departmentsatthisuniversityinstitute Institute ofComputerScience practice andforteachingmedicineatMU. and outside-Brnohospitalfacilitiesforclinical computer network),usedbyanetworkofBrno information bymeansofhigh-performance processing anddistributionofmedicalimage MedDiMed Centre (collection,archiving, with otheruniversitiesandCESNET. middleware), usedbyMUandincollaboration computer tasksandthedevelopmentofGRID –solvingofdemanding ment –theGRID international distributedcomputerenviron- Supercomputing Centre (part of nationaland universities abroad. costs ofstudystaysbydoctoralstudentsatpartner ies. Lastbutnotleast,thesefundshelpedpaythe erature waspurchasedfordoctoralstudieslibrar- and contemporaryacademicspecializedlit- were equippedwithnewinformationtechnology was supported;workspacesfordoctoralstudents – publicationbystudentsinspecializedjournals cover thecostofworkrelatedtostudentactivities tional resourcesforspecificresearchwereusedto directives oftheMinistryEducation,institu- history andarchaeology.Inaccordancewiththe research workbydoctoralstudentsintheareasof projects. Especiallycreativeinthisregardwas term researchprogrammesandspecialdoctoral in thecontextofimplementationlong- nel andstudentsworkingonresearchtopics for jointresearchonthepartuniversityperson- the individualdisciplines.Funds wereprovided work relatedtoMaster’sanddoctoralstudiesin Arts weredistributedinvariousareasofacademic Resources fortargetedresearchattheFacultyof Faculty ofArts operating costsrelatingtotheaforesaidactivities. of academicpersonnel,aswellthefaculty’s programmes. Theypartiallyservedtopaysalaries students, mainlyinMaster’sanddoctoraldegree used inactivitiesdirectlyrelatedtotheteachingof Institutional resourcesforspecificresearchwere Faculty ofScience as possiblecould getexperienceimplementing with decreasedbudgets,sothat as manystudents to supportasmanyprojectspossible, albeit the factthatselectioncommittee preferred in categoryA,32B), andthisdespite (16projects an overallfundingof923,359CZK 48 outof60projectscouldbesupported,with posals thanthefacultycouldsatisfy.Thusonly doctoral students).Thereweremanymorepro- degree students)andB(projectscarriedoutby faculty researchprojects,A(activitiesbyMaster’s most partforthefinancingoftwocategories Resources forspecificresearchwereusedthe Faculty ofEducation RESEARCH 25 grants, both on academic and administrative for the support of participation by students in levels. The experience thus gained is reflected student competitions, for the mobility of students later in higher success for project proposals with in Master’s and doctoral degree programmes, and external providers. Other funds were used to pay to cover the costs of reviewer’s reports of Master’s the administrative and payroll costs of employ- and doctoral theses. ees organizing and implementing research and development; honoraria were paid for evaluations Faculty of Social Studies of student projects and doctoral dissertation work, Resources for targeted research were used to and funds were used to help equip workrooms for defray payroll costs for academic personnel who full-time doctoral students. took part in the academic instruction of students in accredited degree programmes, to equip rooms Faculty of Economics and Administration for doctoral students (computers and software), to Funds for targeted research were used mainly reward outstanding academic, research and other in implementing research projects in depart- achievements, and to cover costs associated with ments with significant involvement of students scholarly publications and with reviewers’ reports in doctoral studies programmes, who also took of Master’s and doctoral theses. part in the publication of findings. Some of the resources were used to pay costs associated with Faculty of Sports Studies the application of new research in teaching, which Institutional funds aimed at specific research were covered a range of areas including the writing of used for research by doctoral students in the field textbooks, instructional presentation and educa- of kinanthropology. Projects were carried out that tional software. tied into or related to doctoral theses. The topics were as follows: Physical fitness in the middle- Faculty of Informatics aged and older population; Sedentary lifestyle in In 2005 resources from institutional support the CR and Great Britain; Diagnosis with the use for targeted research were used to cover person- of dynamometric surfaces; Theory and practice of nel costs and expenses related to joint research sports gymnastics training centres; A multimedia conducted by academic personnel and students, approach to monitoring athletes and the work of especially for the support of joint research teams, the trainer; The influence of physical activity on for students’ international research contacts, and the psychosocial condition of seniors; Motivation for the application of research and development for the selection of sports activities in life. findings in teaching. Resources were further used

7. RESEARCH IN STATISTICS

Table 1a Number of special research projects supported by Czech Ministry of Education in 2005

LN LA LC LZ 1N 1K 1M 1P ME OC Total FL 0000000000 0 FM 0001001100 3 FS 1210020624 18 FA 0020300000 5 FE 0000000000 0 FEA 0000001000 1 FI 0120010000 4 FSS 1000010100 3 FSpS 0000000000 0 ICS 0000100000 1 RMU 0000000000 0 MU 2351442824 35

Key: 1M – Research Centre 2005 LN – Research Centre 2001 1P – Regional and international cooperation LA – INGO in research LC – Basic Research Centre ME – Kontakt LZ – Programme for Support of Young Researchers OC – COST 1N –Information Infrastructure Research 1K – Support for Young Researchers

26 RESEARCH MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 LZ – LC –BasicResearchCentre LA –INGO LN –ResearchCentre2001 Key: FL FL Table 1b Total RMU ICS FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Table 2b MU RMU ICS FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Table 2a FL FA FS FM FE FI FEA FSpS FSS ICS Total RMU Programme forSupportofYoung Researchers Nncp a.Nncp a.Nncp N o-a.Cp o-a.Cp o-a.Cp o-a.Cap. Non-cap. Cap. Non-cap. Cap. Non-cap. Cap. Non-cap. INV Non-cap. Cap. Non-cap. Cap. Non-cap.

86113600000024000130102,5 1,486 20,155 100 1,300 0 0 0 224 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,386 18,631 56325000000 563235 15,643 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 235 15,643 4241615262891234001,5 ,4 8 ,8 0 9049,010 59,014 500 2,789 0 580 0 2,845 0 12,057 4,000 1,263 2,889 5,206 1,621 34,274 Numberofotherspecialresearchprojectsin2005 Total funding forotherspecialresearchprojectsin2005 Total amountofspecialresearchfundingprovidedbyCzechMinistryEducationin2005 124392,7 2133901,2 ,6 5739165357910705,730 120,750 5,739 146,533 9 25,783 1,679 1,461 34,482 16,129 1,688 3,950 49,957 22,123 9 0 15,475 21,274 1,100 319 5,936 61,224 260 4,518 0 0 319 24,028 0870 020902756 5616 56167 15,651 67 15,651 0 0 67 2,735 0 2,049 0 0 0 10,867 ,3 0 0 ,5 ,8 ,8 0 0 54 4,285 3,550 8,723 0 0 54 560 4,285 10,456 3,550 15,663 0 0 560 0 0 1,733 17,620 0 0 32,386 0 54 0 1,957 0 0 3,536 240 33,148 0 2,150 62 624 0 0 0 762 320 0 0 0 9,302 0 0 0 0 369 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,514 5,187 0 5,737 0 0 2,135 21,274 3,488 0 9,229 Non- cap. GA CR 6 0 5 0 1 1 0 417 0 417 0 0 0 603 0 0 696 0 0 0 93 150 0 0 317 0 0 0 0 267 0 0 0 286 0 000035028000530 573 0 0 0 218 0 355 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ,6 007450 335 0 0 0 160 3,474 0 7,465 0 0 5,557 0 289 0 0 0 0 0 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 221 7,465 0 0 0 0 0 6,794 495 0 5,858 0 400 0 289 1,489 0 0 0 4,592 0 0 0 512 312 0 0 0 0 335 00 0 0 0 00 00 00 0 0 2,691 00 0 0 0 0 0 1,261 00 0 0 160 4,000 00 751 470 0 0 2,394 0 00 00 0 00 2,045 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 00 0000000 00 000 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 3 0 0 400 0 833 3,370 4,590 0 433 3,370 9,920 0 0 5,330 400 0 0 0 0 3,370 4,590 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AC G AA RRAFrinTotal Foreign RGA GAAV CR IGA GA CR 1M 5 22 22 257 28 22 23 32 152 a.Non- Cap. 7002423 4 54 55 2 2 3 0 3 0 0 6 1 17 0 32 43 5319 14101188 0 00 0011 00 0044 00 1001 50 1231170 0209 60 0006 20 0305 cap. IGA LC a.Non- Cap. cap. GA AV CR LA a.Non- Cap. cap. 1N a.Non- Cap. RGA OC –COST ME –Kontakt 1P – 1M –ResearchCentre2005 1K –SupportforYoung Researchers 1N –InformationInfrastructureResearch (in thou.CZK) cap. Regional andinternationalcooperationinresearch 1K a.Non- Cap. Foreign cap. ME Security Office) State AgencyforNuclearSecurity, National Development, MinistryofForeignAffairs, Ministry ofCulture,forRegional and SocialAffairs, MinistryofAgriculture, of theEnvironment,MinistryLabour RGA –Ministrygrantagencies(Ministry of Sciences GA AV ČR–GrantAgency, CzechAcademy Agency IGA –MinistryofHealthInternalGrant GA ČR–CzechScienceFoundation Key: a.Non- Cap. Total cap. OC Cap. (in thou.CZK) Total non-foreign Non-cap. RESEARCH Total Cap. 27 Table 3 Institutional support from Czech Ministry of Education in 2005 (in thou. CZK) Long-term research programmes Targeted research Total Number Non-cap. Cap. Non-cap. Cap. Non-cap. Cap. FL 1 6,118 0 666 0 6,784 0 FM 2 31,040 6,354 22,281 0 53,321 6,354 FS 8 150,606 71,954 43,916 0 194,522 71,954 FA 2 18,801 2,564 11,509 0 30,310 2,564 FE 1 9,199 600 1,780 0 10,979 600 FEA 0 904 0 3,173 0 4,077 0 FI 1 11,316 1,900 6,684 0 18,000 1,900 FSS 3 26,587 550 9,211 0 35,798 550 FSpS 0 0 0 249 0 249 0 ICS 0 807 100 0 0 807 100 RMU 0 00 00 0 0 Total 18 255,378 84,022 99,469 0 354,847 84,022

Note: Some long-term research programmes are implemented in cooperation between faculties. The fist column includes projects for which the faculty is the responsible official body. Statistics on financial resources represent the real amounts of funds that individual faculties gained as their share in implementing the projects.

Table 4a Total number of research projects in 2005, tables 1a, 2a, 3

Special projects Other projects Long-term research Total programmes FL 0 5 05 FM 355361 FS 18 88 18 124 FA 554564 FE 0606 FEA 19111 FI 411318 FSS 323228 FSpS 0101 ICS 1416 RMU 0101 MU 35 257 33 325

Table 4b Overall funding for research in 2005 (in thou. CZK), tables 1b, 2b, 3 Ministry of Other special projects Long-term research Targeted Education special programmes research projects CR Foreign Total Non-cap. Cap. NEINV Cap. NEINV Cap. Non-cap. Cap. Non-cap. Cap. Non-cap. Cap. FL 6,118 0 666 0 0 0 603 0 93 0 7,480 0 FM 31,040 6,354 22,281 0 20,155 1,486 32,386 0 762 0 106,624 7,840 FS 150,606 71,954 43,916 0 5,858 6,794 34,482 1679 15475 9 250,337 80,436 FA 18,801 2,564 11,509 0 5,557 160 15,651 67 0 0 51,518 2,791 FE 9,199 600 1,780 0 289 0 3,550 0 0 0 14,818 600 FEA 904 0 3,173 0 15,643 235 4,285 0 0 0 24,005 235 FI 11,316 1,900 6,684 0 3,474 335 15,663 560 1957 0 39,094 2,795 FSS 26,587 550 9,211 0 573 0 8,723 54 1733 0 46,827 604 FSpS 0 0 249 0 0 0 417 0 0 0 666 0 ICS 807 100 0 0 7,465 0 4,590 3370 5330 0 18,192 3,470 RMU 0 0 0 0 0 0 400 0 433 0 833 0 Total 255,378 84,022 99,469 0 59,014 9,010 120,750 5730 25,783 9 560,394 98,771

28 RESEARCH MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 * Total ofcapitalandnon-capital funding Total fundingfrompublicsources protectionof culturalheritage Archaeological terrainand academicresearch, useofnaturalsciences,methodologyand informatics, Interdisciplinary centre forresearch onsocialstructures from prehistory tothehighMiddleAges. Research centre forCentralEuropean history:sources, countries,culture School andhealthforthe21 Highly parallelanddistributedcomputersystems Dynamic geo-visualizationincrisismanagement Diversity ofbiotasocietiesandpopulations:analysisvariabilityover spaceandtime Molecular essenceofcellandtissueregulation Proteins inmetabolismandwheninteractingwithorganisms withtheirenvironment regional, andlocalscale(INCHEMBIOL) Interaction betweenchemicalsubstances,environment, andbiologicalsystems, andtheireffect onaglobal, action withthesurfaceofsolidsubstances Study andapplicationofplasma-chemicalreaction innon-isothermal, low-temperature plasma,anditsinter- Physical andchemicalproperties ofadvancedmaterialsand structures Mathematical structures andtheirphysicalapplication Reproduction andintegrationofsociety Political partiesandrepresentation ofinterests incontemporaryEuropean democracies during aneraofchangeinmodernsocietyspolečnosti Psychological andsocialcharacteristicsofchildren, youngpeople andfamilies,developmentofpersonalities European contextofthedevelopmentCzechlawafter2004 Internal organization andneurobiological mechanismsoffunctionalCNSsystems Title Table 7 Key: Total RMU OIS LC ICS VPC SPSSN FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Table 5 Early diagnosisandtreatment ofcardiovascular diseases FL VPC –In-serviceTraining Centre SPSSN –SupportCentreforStudentswithSpecialNeeds FRVŠ –HigherEducationDevelopmentFund Participation ofMUinlong-termresearchprogrammes (inthou.CZK) Fundingfordevelopmentprojectsin2005 ubrNncp a.Nme o-a.Cap. Non-cap. Number Cap. Non-cap. Number 1 0628893 60628,903 66,016 36 8,889 10,672 110 919 7 17700 7,750 1,057 1 5,873 275 3 2,715 1,540 1392 19 4 5,365 6353 56 5,532 970 13 4 61696,000 1,639 0 6 0 0 0 300 260 3,400 0 244 2 967 1,387 0 0 2 4,880 2,760 0 17,221 0 0 1,150 0 8,484 0 0 1 1 5,711 1 0 0 0 1,984 1 3 1,709 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 200 9,322 248 257 2 466 7 0 8 0 4,212 300 4 0 0 2 2,115 347 4 0 1 0 95 1 FRVŠ st century Development Programmes Transformation and Total G F E C B A area Topic Table 6 Education DevelopmentFund ParticipationofMUinHigher Number Number projects 1 ,8 06219,561 10,672 8,889 110 005925,932 4,043 5,932 4,043 0 0 60 37 of of 4 244 453 244 453 8,889 0 0 0 1 3 8,889 9 ------a.Nncp Total Non-cap. Cap. Funding obtained Funding obtained (in thou.CZK) Funding 2005 (in thou.CZK) 339,400 RESEARCH 14,391 11,856 13,598 13,732 29,192 43,819 34,712 59,037 15,579 14,893 10,752 10,612 10,340 21,841 13,705 9,038 6,185 6,118 *) 29 Table 8 Publications in 2005 Original work Original work Monographs published published in journals Other original work Textbooks and course Faculty CR abroad CR abroad CR abroad CR abroad readers Patents FL 38 0 88 3 88 2 10 1 33 0 FM 34 1 238 67 433 104 53 6 35 0 FS 35 7 364 292 255 227 67 15 33 2 FA 65 4 249 55 339 16 90 23 46 0 FE 83 3 286 30 141 14 138 7 58 0 FEA 62 2 266 32 94 4 9 0 45 0 FI 14394764742163 3 0 FSS 8 5 108 34 138 9 79 12 3 0 FSpS 70623171 1 0 5 0 Total 371 26 1,773 597 1,577 421 467 67 261 2

Table 9 Recognition by the academic community in 2005 Memberships on boards International Awards for academic Faculty of grant agencies conferences organized and artistic activities FL 030 FM 33 29 23 FS 9130 FA 19 27 75 FE 4126 FEA 130 FI 281 FSS 9150 FSpS 000 Total 77 110 105

30 RESEARCH MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 8. Chicago Prof. MichaelSeng Prague Centre, Environment University Charles Prof. RNDr.BedřichMoldan,CSc. Medicine, MU Prof. MUDr.LiborPáč,CSc Denmark European EnvironmentAgency,Copenhagen, Prof. JacquelineMcGlade Vienna Lonny Glaser Gold Medal Georgi Parvanov Great GoldMedal Vienna University,history Prof. Dr.ThomasE.Winkelbauer in Rochester,Minnesota,USA,medicine Prof. VirendSommers in Rochester,Minnesota,USA,medicine Prof. AlexanderSchirger Louis Pasteur,Strasbourg,chemistry Prof. Jean-MarieLehn University ofToronto,literarytheory Prof. PhDr.LubomírDoležel,CSc. University inBrno2005 Honorary DoctoratesawardedbyMasaryk HONOURS , Director, JanineumFoundation in , President,RepublicofBulgaria , JohnMarshallLawSchool, , Professor,University , Professor,MayoClinic , Professor,MayoClinic , ExecutiveDirector, , Facultyof , Professor, , Professor, , Director, Prague 2004. et al. Pavel Ševčík,JanaSkřičková,VladimírŠrámek organic synthesis,patentapplication,Brno2005 Zbyněk Prokop NAUMA, Brno2003 CERM, Helfert prof. PhDr.RudolfPečman,DrSc. Brno, 2005 and FinancialAdministration Mgr. JaromírLiterák Mgr. PetraHájková Mgr. PetrŠtědroň Mgr. VlastislavDohnal Medicine MUDr. TomášFreiberger,Ph.D. in doctoralprogrammes Rector’s Award forthebeststudents JUDr. PetrMrkývka,Ph.D.et.al. accomplishment Rector’s Award foramajorcreative , , UniversitasMasarykianaFoundation, Lung InfectionsinIntensiveMedicine , Useofenzymecatalystsinbio- , FacultyofArts , FacultyofScience , FacultyofScience , FacultyofInformatics , MasarykUniversity, , Facultyof , Financial Law , Vladimír , Galén, RESEARCH 31 32 Lubomír Doležel by MasarykUniversity. In 2005hewasawarded anhonorarydoctorate as Professor ofSlavicStudies. from 1968attheUniversityofToronto Academy ofSciencesandCharlesUniversity, Until 1965heworkedattheCzechoslovak now livinginCanada. and aleadingexponentofCzechliterarytheory, One oftheworld’s majorliteraryscholars

Masaryk University a n n U A L r e PO r t 2 0 0 5 MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 1. at theUniversity Centre inTelč,wherethe educational activitiesintheVysočina Region, studies. take partinprovidinginstruction forthisfieldof of ArtsandtheFacultySocial Studiesalso Cultural Studies.TheFacultyofLaw,the studies entitledEuropeanEconomic,Legaland Economic PolicyandAdministration, isafieldof Administration, undertheBachelor’sprogramme administration. dimension oftheprocessestakingplaceinpublic tration andlaw,withtheaccentonEuropean economics andofthebroaderaspectsadminis- in thisfieldofstudiesgainasolidknowledge (IPAG) attheUniversityofRennes.Graduates Insitut depreparationàl’administrationgénérale character, andmakeuseoftheknow-how instructors. Studiesarehighlyinterdisciplinaryin Classes aretaughtbybothCzechandFrench ly-qualified specialistsinpublicadministration. which meetsFrenchuniversitystandardsforhigh- University andtheofRennes(France), Publique, acooperativeprojectbetweenMasaryk offers thefieldofstudiesl´Administration language. Medicine arealsotaughtfullyintheEnglish Medicine andStomatologyattheFacultyof programme. ThedegreeprogrammesofGeneral programme, andSociologyunderthe – EuropeanPoliticswithinthePoliticalScience in theEnglishlanguage,bothatMaster’slevel Social Studiestwofieldsofstudyareconducted of theexistingfieldsstudy.AtFaculty accredited, andaccreditationexpandedforsome the academicyearsomenewfieldsofstudywere Master’s, 227Master’sand131doctoral.During study; ofthese,236Bachelor’s,156long-cycle degree programmestherewere750fieldsof and 28doctoralprogrammes.Withinthese Bachelor’s, 29long-cycleMaster’s,44Master’s grammes atninefacultiescomprising49 University offeredatotalof150degreepro- In theacademicyear2005/2006Masaryk Degree programmes ACCREDITED DEGREEPROGRAMMES MU continuestoexpandtherange ofits Also taughtattheFacultyofEconomicsand The FacultyofEconomicsandAdministration Studies andTeaching examinations for specificfieldsofstudy certain casessomefacultiesalso requiredentrance applied insomeformbymostof thefaculties.In qualifications ofapplicantstostudy atMUwere plicants wereadmitted,ofwhich 12,914enrolled. 37,240 byelectronicmeans.Atotalof16,762ap- applications toaccrediteddegreeprogrammes, University inBrnosubmittedatotalof55,848 Bachelor’s andMaster’sprogrammesatMasaryk In 2005thoseinterestedinstudiesthe Admission procedures cases. tificates ofacademictitletoitsgraduatesin166 accordance withLawNo.172/1990,issuedcer- Education, YouthandSports). of theirlegalrighttoappealtheMinistry six ofthosewhosubmittedthemtookadvantage 52 cases,while34requestsweredenied(ofthese, foreign universityeducationandqualificationin process wassuspended.MUissuedrecognitionof with regardtotherequest,andin14cases cases MUacknowledgeditslackofcompetency and doctoraldegreeprogrammes.In13ofthese cation andqualificationinBachelor’s,Master’s requests forrecognitionofforeignuniversityedu- Education Law.In2005MUreceived113 qualification, inaccordancewiththeHigher recognition offoreignuniversityeducationand programmes, MasarykUniversityalsoprovides study inthecombinedmodeofstudies. Administration offerclassesin severalfieldsof Faculty ofArtsandtheEconomics Student aptitudetestsasawayof verifyingthe In addition,in2005MasarykUniversity, In thecontextofofferingaccrediteddegree to ECTS principles. to ECTS credit systematMasarykUniversityisstructuredaccording ters, forstudentstosignupthefollowingsemester.The ous semester,or45creditsduringtheprevioustwosemes- by requiringthatatleast15creditsbegainedintheprevi- regulates thecourseofstudiesindegreeprogrammes In accordancewithitsinternalregulations,theuniversity STUDIES ANDTEACHING 8 33 The student aptitude test consisted of eight 22 were for physically-handicapped people, 33 sub-tests examining specific mental processes: from severely hearing-impaired people (Czech numerical (simplifying mathematical situations, sign language speakers), 43 from visually-im- the ability to operate quickly with numbers), ana- paired people (of these, 13 totally blind); other lytical (seeking information in graphs and tables, applicants had combined disadvantages or some the evaluation of logical conditions), symbolic, other type of handicap (mild brain dysfunc- critical (the ability to detect errors of argument tion). Roughly 10 percent of these applicants in a written text, finding order in masses of data), applied for preparatory courses organized by the logical-verbal (vocabulary, comprehension of Support Centre for Students with Special Needs. a text, differentiating between word meanings) as Following after the academic year 2004/2005, well as spatial imagination, the ability to reason when more handicapped students applied to MU and general knowledge. Each sub-test consisted of than ever before (the number doubled from 2003 ten problems; the time limit was 80 minutes. The to 2004), the 2005 admissions process saw another results of the SAT were expressed in percentiles; 50 percent increase (from 71 individuals submit- that is, percentage ranking among all those taking ting 119 applications). the test, where the given percentage represents the Care for students in all of these categories is the percent of those tested with lower scores. responsibility of Masaryk University’s Support Detailed results were provided to all applicants Centre for Students with Special Needs. by way of the Internet. Applicants were able to check their tests at http://is.muni.cz/prihlaska/ Student evaluation of the quality of info_zkouska.pl by giving their application num- teaching ber and date of birth. Again in both semesters in 2005, questionnaires were submitted allowing students to give their Studies for applicants with special needs opinions on the quality of the courses they were A total of 65 severely visually-impaired people are attending. This is an important instrument in studying at Masaryk University in the academic testing the quality of instruction, as integration year 2005/2006. Masaryk University is the only into the school’s information system allowed for university in the Czech Republic where the num- a high percentage of respondents while preserv- ber of severely visually-impaired students reflects ing absolute anonymity and reliability. Detailed the proportion of severely visually-impaired in responses to individual courses and teachers serve the general population. For these students, 37 as feedback to teachers and as one of the means individual semester-long courses were provided of evaluating their performance. as well as personal assistance and access to 650 Students were allowed to respond multiple academic titles in the specialized library. The times (over the course of the semester, in case capacity of the university’s study room for the their opinions changed), but the system, while blind was expanded, as was lifelong education maintaining anonymity, revealed how many for the severely visually-impaired. The number of persons actually responded. During the spring hearing-impaired students at Masaryk University semester, 11,469 individuals responded to the increased in the academic year 2005/2006 from course survey, or 44 percent of MU students, and 20 to 33. Assistance services for these students in the fall semester 17,080, or 60 percent of the were extended, including the area of sign-language student body. translation, and language education for the deaf was also increased. The electronic collection of responses through The number of physically-disadvantaged stu- the MU Information System makes possible the dents at Masaryk University in the academic year easy processing and comparison of the necessary 2005/2006 rose from 9 to 16. In 2005 a university statistics. On a scale system, students rate the dispatching service for personal assistance was course as a whole, its individual teachers and introduced (including student self-help services five questions on difficulty, interest level, clarity during class hours, and trained assistants at MU of presentation, teaching methods and course dormitories), and other measures were adopted to literature. After the responses are gathered, improve the conditions for physically-disadvan- a statistical overview is released. Students can also taged students. make verbal comments, which are only available Since 2000 Masaryk University has organized to the teacher. entrance examinations for disadvantaged students to enable them to take the standard written test with the aid of information technology and alter- native communications and perceptual methods. In the admissions process for 2005/2006, applications to study at MU were submitted by 122 severely physically handicapped individuals (people with altered work abilities or ZTP [Health- and Physically-Disadvantaged] card holders), who handed in a total of 180 applications to study with the request for an entrance examination with a special form of communication. Of these,

34 STUDIES AND TEACHING MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 4. 3. 2. 1. degree programmesatMU Rector’s Award forthebeststudentsinMaster’s Student awards Administration. Administration, FacultyofEconomics and and inthefieldofEconomicPolicy of GeneralMedicine,Faculty General Medicine,theMaster’sprogramme Zbyněk Pozdíšek Faculty ofSocialStudies. Sociology, Master’sprogrammein Slavomíra Ferenčuhová Economics andAdministration in EconomicsandManagement,Facultyof Management, long-cycleMaster’sprogramme Kateřina Stará programme inBiology,FacultyofScience Biology, specializationMicrobiolgy,Master’s Martin Klvaňa ilso td Fedgopcd a - a a PDDge rg fields Degreeprog. PhD Ma. l-cMa. Ba. Fieldgroupcode Natural sciences Fields ofstudy Total Culture andthearts Psychology Education, teaching,socialwork Law, legalandpublicaffairs Economics Social sciences Health, medical,pharmaceutical Agriculture, forestry, veterinarymed. Technical sciences Table 1 Number ofdegreeprogrammesandfieldsstudyatMU , student in the field of Business , studentinthefieldofBusiness , student in the field of General , studentinthefieldofGeneral , student in the field of , studentinthefieldof , student in the field of , studentinthefieldof 61, 65,67,71–74 1t 24 3 9164 2 81110750 150 131 28 227 44 156 29 236 49 11 to82 51 to53 41 to43 21 to39 11 to18 81, 82 77 75 68 62 Studies Physical EducationandSport,FacultyofSports Education andSport,Bachelor’sprogrammeof Jana Pechanová Rector’s Award forthebestathleteatMU 66 01 983 46 39 8 59 14 30 8 60 16 212 7 2211222 23 8 540 3 665171100114 8744 1331036483 5 4 89 31 973 44 32 7 69 13 43 6 93 18 1 1144 114 1121 7 4 1 3103323225 10

Degree programmes/fields , studentinthefieldofPhysical STUDIES ANDTEACHING Total 184 188 13 22 28 237 37 41

35 Table 2 Admissions procedure statistics Form of study Applied Admitted Appealed Admitted Admitted Total Enrolled by Dean on appeal by Rector admitted FL Full-time 5,092 700 702 109 5 705 701 Comb. 3,792 446 460 94 0 446 443 Total 8,884 1,146 1,162 203 5 1,151 1,144 FM Full-time 5,011 1,152 442 2 0 1,152 921 Comb. Total 5,011 1,152 442 2 0 1,152 921 FS Full-time 3,411 1,869 309 45 2 1,871 1,206 Comb. 106 101 0 0 0 101 93 Total 3,517 1,970 309 45 2 1,972 1,299 FA Full-time 8,492 3,727 685 10 0 3,727 2,666 Comb. 1,028 539 60 2 0 539 475 Total 9,520 4,266 745 12 0 4,266 3,141 FE Full-time 4,930 1,937 982 242 2 1,939 1,234 Comb. 2,729 693 423 78 6 699 655 Total 7,659 2,630 1,405 320 8 2,638 1,889 FEA Full-time 5,600 1,346 912 141 59 1,067 744 Comb. 2,627 887 292 0 1 888 790 Total 8,227 2,233 1,204 141 60 1,955 1,534 FI Full-time 2,179 1,403 73 12 0 1,403 1,030 Comb. 000 0 Total 2,179 1,403 73 12 0 1,403 1,030 FSS Full-time 6,632 1,249 555 7 6 1,255 1,023 Comb. 1,854 526 95 3 0 526 497 Total 8,486 1,775 650 10 6 1,781 1,520 FSpS Full-time 1,559 295 265 35 2 297 293 Comb. 806 147 111 7 0 147 143 Total 2,365 442 376 42 2 444 436 MU Full-time 42,906 13,678 4,925 603 76 13,416 9,818 Comb. 12,942 3,339 1,441 184 7 3,346 3,096 Total 55,848 17,017 6,366 787 83 16,762 12,914 2004/2005 55,025 13,643 7,512 947 48 13,691 10,416 Increase 4,00 24,73 -15,26 -16,90 72,92 22,43 23,98

2. STUDENTS AND GRADUATES IN DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Table 3a Numbers of students by faculty – citizens of CR at MU as of 31. 10. 2005 Regular degree studies Full-time Combined Total Faculty Ba. l-c Ma. Ma. PhD Total Ba. l-c Ma. Ma. PhD Total Ba. l-c Ma. Ma. PhD Total FL 0 2,328 0 33 2,361 831 0 0 88 919 831 2,328 0 121 3,280 FM 479 1,341 95 238 2,153 134 0 0 413 547 613 1,341 95 651 2,700 FS 1,620 299 321 412 2,652 115 0 0 243 358 1,735 299 321 655 3,010 FA 3,636 934 545 250 5,365 995 72 55 370 1,492 4,631 1,006 600 620 6,857 FE 1,892 1,264 156 82 3,394 861 504 514 379 1,823 2,753 1,768 535 161 5,217 FEA 534 1,054 165 77 1,830 1,319 0 0 88 1,407 1,853 1,054 165 165 3,237 FI 1,231 24 296 61 1,612 0001212 1,231 24 296 73 1,624 FSS 1,239 0 491 157 1,887 826 0 121 99 1,046 2,065 0 612 256 2,933 FSpS 635 98 23 19 775 29004054 384 925 98 63 73 1,159 Total 11,266 7,342 2,092 1,329 22,029 5,371 576 595 1446 7,988 16637 7,918 2,687 2,775 30,017

36 STUDIES AND TEACHING MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 Total Culture andthearts Psychology Education, teaching,socialwork Law, legalandpublicaffairs Economics Social sciences Health, medical,pharmaceutical Agriculture, forestry, veterinarymed. Technical sciences Table 3d ilso td Fedgopcd a - a a PhD Ma. l-cMa. Ba. Fieldgroupcode Natural sciences Fields ofstudy aut CRcitizens Faculty FL Total FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Table 3c Total FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Faculty Table 3b FL Numbers ofstudentsbyfacultyas31.10.2005 Numbers ofstudentsbyfieldstudiesatMU Numbers ofstudentsbyfaculty–internationalatMUas31.10.2005 2 31 9 5001 71506 26 63 0 2,701 45 245 165 177 42 57 1,257 84 1,022 12 278 258 0 102 62 3 0 31 22 45 2 151 197 3 2,423 14 143 26 174 63 1,235 367 0 871 14 120 40 290 81 232 3382333 2290 0002 3384 a - a a h oa a - a a h oa a - a a h Total PhD Ma. l-cMa. Ba. Total PhD Ma. l-cMa. Ba. Total PhD Ma. l-cMa. Ba. 13211 01 23211 2 3 7 12 22 1 9 11 27 195 68 10 26 115 2 0 30 65 714 0 5 16 41 1 1 0 27 17 19 0 18 5 49 1 0 31 2 276 0 3 6 9 2 9 0 11 798 195 8 50 66 2 21 714 9914205118432 11104142057 5006 1 2 10021 12705 0 217 11 13 2 0 0 11 220 3 0 217 0 00727132,718 2,701 30,017 ,5 28 254 335 341 1,159 61 2,933 429 1,624 195 3,237 825 5,217 233 6,857 3,010 2,700 3,280

Degree studies International Full-time

61,65,67,71–74 51 to53 41 to43 21 to39 11 to18 11 to82 Total 81, 82 1,187 3,187 1,959 3,578 5,278 7,286 3,205 3,525 3,513 77 75 68 62 FSpS FEA FSS FM FA FE FS FL FI Regular degreestudies 76991528430032,718 3,020 2,864 9,175 17,659 ,8 ,9 9 197 698 187 1,799 174 2,986 1,249 1,968 ,0 ,0 ,0 ,0 ,0 ,0 ,0 8,000 7,000 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0 ,0 ,0 ,0 ,0 ,0 ,0 ,0 8,000 7,000 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0 ,8 46 120 65 24 1,082 ,6 3 7 789 673 336 3,360 Students indegreeprogrammes ,4 8 ,7 735 1,078 686 6,546 2 8 9147 79 126 0 481 221 2,545 842 5 ,5 7719 97 2,055 654 Combined 0000 0000 students STUDIES ANDTEACHING Total Total 5,680 3,578 3,513 1,291 3,525 5,158 9,045 928 0 0 37 233 341 195 825 254 335 429 28 61 Table 3e Numbers of students in Bachelor’s and Master’s full-time studies by faculty

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 FL 2,275 2,357 2,393 2,347 2,328 2,504 2,778 3,030 3,160 3,387 (2,249) (2,256) (2,245) (2,174) (2,174) (2,247) (2,351) (2,435) (2,457) (2,545) FM 1,560 1,577 1,685 1,764 1,794 1,928 2,092 2,313 2,597 2,806 (1,560) (1,577) (1,660) (1,718) (1,699) (1,792) (1,927) (2,131) (2,413) (2,663) FS 1,685 1,842 1,842 1,924 1,967 2,054 2,291 2,358 2,348 2,493 (1,684) (1,842) (1,842) (1,924) (1,967) (2,054) (2,291) (2,330) (2,261) (2,373) FA 2,860 2,800 2,426 2,556 2,681 3,212 4,055 5,103 5,627 6,621 (2,674) (2,675) (2,291) (2,462) (2,577) (2,931) (3,578) (4,352) (4,712) (5,468) FE 2,660 2,974 3,475 3,489 3,939 3,535 3,950 4,684 5,142 5,110 (2,141) (2,135) (2,441) (2,261) (2,278) (1,959) (2,194) (2,705) (3,182) (3,341) FEA 1,212 1,639 1,931 2,138 2,237 2,451 2,897 3,095 3,268 3,391 (887) (984) (1,171) (1,208) (1,277) (1,424) (1,748) (1,885) (2,011) (2,023) FI 506 712 904 1,156 1,409 1,492 1,646 1,683 1,681 1,882 (506) (711) (904) (1,156) (1,409) (1,492) (1,646) (1,683) (1,681) (1,882) FSS – – 529 820 1,181 1,568 1,729 1,936 2,371 2,905 (529) (745) (912) (1,068) (1,107) (1,196) (1,493) (1,913) FSpS –––––374684 874 1,109 1,103 (374) (576) (670) (811) (772) MU 12,758 13,901 15,185 16,194 17,536 19,118 22,122 25,076 27,303 29,698 (11,691) (12,180) (13,083) (13,648) (14,293) (15,341) (17,418) (19,387) (21,021) (22,980)

Table 3f Number of students per teacher at MU

Faculty 1995/96 1996/97 1997/98 1998/99 1999/00 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 FL 33.37 35.05 33.63 33.03 34.24 32.57 36.08 40.06 41.19 45.84 FM 6.33 5.86 5.89 6.41 6.74 7.07 8.32 8.32 9.27 12.06 FS 9.98 10.22 11.43 11.34 11.71 12.03 12.23 12.68 12.89 13.22 FA 14.38 19.24 18.49 18.29 20.36 19.03 22.65 29.96 39.93 33.60 FE 11.28 14.85 17.40 20.11 21.21 18.75 17.28 28.03 27.79 28.10 FEA 22.90 21.88 28.98 32.99 36.16 37.71 40.35 48.93 48.14 41.79 FI 19.93 25.92 29.41 35.10 30.01 30.83 39.82 38.58 34.74 35.86 FSS – – – 28.95 29.83 35.46 44.22 39.96 36.53 44.07 FSpS – – – – – – – 15.08 17.76 18.92 MU 11.79 13.57 14.63 15.66 16.62 16.28 18.25 22.49 23.56 24.19

Table 4a Numbers of regular degree students and graduates

35,000

30,000

25,000

20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

0 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Total 13,868 15,197 16,563 17,755 19,397 21,176 24,451 27,690 30,213 32,718 Graduates 2,088 2,312 2,424 2,217 2,865 2,785 3,043 3,587 4,146 5,196

38 STUDIES AND TEACHING MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 FL MU FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Table 4d Total Culture andthearts Psychology Education, teaching,socialwork Law, legalandpublicaffairs Economics Social sciences Health, medical,pharmaceutical Agriculture, forestry, veterinarymed. Technical sciences Table 4c Total FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Faculty Table 4b ilso td Fedgopcd a - a a PhD Ma. l-cMa. Ba. Fieldgroupcode Natural sciences Fields ofstudy FL Numbers ofMUgraduatesinvariousfieldsstudy MU graduatesin2005byfaculty Numbers ofgraduatesbyfaculty ,7 ,8 0 7370838 2 7 ,7 ,7 ,6 2 3 5,196 235 723 1,867 2,371 1,476 178 320 85 893 3,720 57 403 1,782 1,478 ,8 ,1 ,2 ,1 ,6 ,8 ,4 ,8 ,4 5,196 4,146 3,587 3,043 2,785 2,865 2,217 2,424 2,312 2,088 9619 9819 0020 0220 042005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 4 4 1 8 142 86 2 3 40 3 149 1 25 216 52 370 24 285 179 222 387 311 a - a a h oa a - a a h oa a - a a h Total PhD Ma. l-cMa. Ba. Total PhD Ma. l-cMa. Ba. Total PhD Ma. l-cMa. Ba. 2 0 4 4 3 1 9 5 5 519 1,226 453 823 850 636 453 613 439 852 593 611 290 473 386 895 417 557 319 319 343 885 387 466 337 300 347 839 291 426 246 353 319 684 355 397 344 197 310 614 327 485 309 339 245 631 334 411 126 354 277 663 318 450 361 263 296 397 277 318 16 0 0 61 1 91 58 208 15 55 40 212 90 74 44 518102131352 321 281 140 148 85 42 44 40 47 8 1 0 382 0 26 0 2 9 2 0 366 300 222 190 126 101 65 22 – ––––––498073224– Full-time 16,77–465201239 192 290 655 61,65,67,71–74 383 1t 223118773255,196 235 – 723 – 1,867 – 2,371 61 – 11 to82 – 40 – 88 – 212 – 110 126 – 256 – 51 to53 41 to43 527 21 to39 11 to18 152 322 357 294 350 553 727 582 1 26 9 7 5 65 81, 82 72 93 2 15 32 13 8 284 49 0 58 465 26 382 511 208 77 216 75 245 68 62 1 12 0 0 216 9 7 0 0 190 9 52911 279 85 298 71 46 001 0 0 36 402 6 22 0 44 38 01840 Regular degreestudies 002 0 00153 Graduates indegreeprogrammes Combined 228 197 673 72 82 54 72 96 2 students 1 8 0 382 216 4 0 58 208 245 6 10 61 162 40 212 126 1 086 40 216 7 5 280 455 477 1 2 25 222 311 9 164 2 193 70 285 425 Total STUDIES ANDTEACHING Total 1,275 1,176 109 611 519 439 981 86

0352 10 41,226 14 8636 78 3823 43 3611 13 1439 61 519 8 224 1 366 7 39 Table 5a Statistics on failure to complete studies at MU in 2005 by faculty

Regular degree studies Full-time Combined Total Faculty Ba. l-c Ma. Ma. PhD Total. Ba. l-c Ma. Ma. PhD Total. Ba. l-c Ma. Ma. PhD Total. FL 0 226 0 1 227 99003102 99 226 0 4 329 FM 53 251 9 15 328 7001724 60 251 9 32 352 FS 435 19 12 20 486 59002382 494 19 12 43 568 FA 531 34 21 7 593 175 5 5 61 246 706 39 26 68 839 FE 296 129 2 2 429 32 44 25 5 106 328 173 27 7 535 FEA 124 137 52 4 317 407 0 0 23 430 531 137 52 27 747 FI 392 4 25 6 427 0003 3 392 4 25 9 430 FSS 150 0 43 5 198 16901017196 319 0 53 22 394 FSpS 117 6 0 0 123 3400438 15160 4 161 Total 2,098 806 164 60 3,128 982 49 40 156 1,227 3,080 855 204 216 4,355

Table 5b Statistics on failure to complete studies by MU students in various fields of study

Failure to complete degree programme Total Fields of study Field group code Ba. l-c Ma. Ma. PhD students Natural sciences 11 to 18 886 22 36 52 996 Technical sciences 21 to 39 – – – – – Agriculture, forestry, veterinary med. 41 to 43 – – – – – Health, medical, pharmaceutical 51 to 53 60 251 9 32 352 Social sciences 61,65,67,71–74 982 29 74 70 1,155 Economics 62 531 137 52 27 747 Law, legal and public affairs 68 99 226 0 4 329 Education, teaching, social work 75 352 174 30 8 564 Psychology 77 22 15 0 15 52 Culture and the arts 81, 82 148 1 3 8 160 Total 11 to 82 3,080 855 204 216 4,355

40 STUDIES AND TEACHING MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 3. university continuedtodevelopitsUniversity technology inlifelongeducationatMU.The sures, especiallyincreasingtheroleofinformation of lifelonglearning,andtookanumbermea- organizational mechanismsforthedevelopment Masaryk Universitystrengtheneditsinternal accredited degreeprogrammes.During theyear form ofuniversity-leveleducation,428within of study.Atotal3,432peopletookpartinthis I LIFELONG LEARNING grammes, 22aspartofaccreditedprogrammes University offered131lifelonglearningpro- n theacademicyear2005/2006Masaryk Natural sciences Natural sciences Total Culture andthearts Psychology Education, teaching,socialwork Law, legalandpublicaffairs Fieldgroupcode Economics Social sciences Health, medical,pharmaceutical Agriculture, forestry, veterinarymed. Technical sciences Fields ofstudy Table 6b Total Culture andthearts Psychology Education, teaching,socialwork Law, legalandpublicaffairs Fieldgroupcode Economics Social sciences Health, medical,pharmaceutical Agriculture, forestry, veterinarymed. Technical sciences Fields ofstudy Table 6a Numbers oflifelonglearningprogrammes Numbers ofparticipantsinlifelonglearning 16,77–4–1 7 573 573 11 – 61,65,67,71–74 18 6 – 61,65,67,71–74 5 o5 4-54 – – - – – 165 54 – 165 – – – – – – 51to53 41to43 21to39 11to18 – – – – – 10 13 – – 11to82 – – – – – 51to53 41to43 21to39 11to18 1 o8 2 ,0 3,432 3,004 428 – 11to82 8,2––1 – – 81,82 8,2––3 32 32 – – 81,82 7 7 – 356 1,797 437 1,797 7 – – 437 356 – – – – – 77 75 68 62 – 62 – 1 – 15 5 – – – – – 77 75 68 62 other activities. short-term coursesonvarioustopics,aswell in them.U3Veducationlastyearalsocoveredten programmes; in2005/2006970peopletookpart out throughthreeinterrelatedlifelonglearning by theMUfaculties.U3Veducationiscarried Rector’s Officein2005/2006,butisimplemented came underthecentralcoordinationofMU of theThirdAgeprogramme(U3V),which Lifelong learning programmes in Lifelong learningprogrammesin Lifelong learning programmes in Lifelong learningprogrammesin accredited degreeprogrammes accredited degreeprogrammes reo hreFee-paid Free ofcharge reo hreFee-paid Free ofcharge – 219131 109 22 te Total Other te Total Other STUDIES ANDTEACHING 62 15 10 13 24 1 5 1 41 4. LANGUAGE CENTRE he Language Centre is an all-university unit at MU: Multimedia and IT support for all forms at Masaryk University in Brno that teaches of study at MU in Brno”, for which it created Tforeign languages in non-philological fields a quantity of electronic materials for the teach- of study at all faculties of MU. ing of specialized and academic language at the At eight faculties, Language Centre divisions individual faculties. with their teachers and foreign instructors focus The Language Centre is a member of the Czech on the specifics of academic language in the and Slovak Association of University Teachers of individual fields of study and on cultivating Foreign Languages (CASAJC), and thus a member language skills in the English, German, French, of the European Confederation of Language Spanish and Russian languages for students Centres in Higher Education (CercleS). The asso- of both full-time and combined studies in ciation’s mission is the support of instruction and Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral programmes. At research in foreign languages at universities on the Language Centre’s branches at the Faculties of the basis of the application and development of Arts, Medicine and Law, specialized terminology modern teaching methods. In 2005 cooperation in Latin is also taught. The Language Centre also between its members focused on implementation provides courses in specialized Czech terminol- of the Council of Europe’s Language Portfolio ogy for international students and, working in and foreign language testing of students. cooperation with selected faculty departments, In 2005 intensive collaboration continued organizes in which foreign languages are inte- between the Language Centre and the British grated with particular specialized subjects. In Council, which has long provided important 2005 the Language Centre twice conducted the grant support. Selected teachers of English International TOEFL, including an intensive have now become national teacher trainers for preparation course. An important part of the ESP (English for Special Purposes). The British Language Centre is the multi-media language Council also initiated the founding of a new pro- laboratory at the MU Rectorate, where university fessional organization, AMATE (Association of students and personnel have access to materials Teacher Educators), in which the English teachers and learning programmes cultivating a general of the Language Centre took an active part. and specialized knowledge of foreign languages, At present the Language Centre has 64 including textbooks, dictionaries, workbooks, employees. video programmes, CD-ROMs, DVDs and satel- lite programmes. The laboratory fosters individu- al, independent study above and beyond course requirements. In 2005 Language Centre personnel took an ac- tive part in implementing the project “E-Learning

5. UNIVERSITY COUNSELLING n accordance with the Higher Education Legal counselling covers a wide range of prob- Act, Masaryk University offers counsel- lems including students’ employment relations, Iling services to students and other persons. tax questions, social and health security and state Organizationally this service is provided by social support. the Counselling Centre, which became part of Altogether 2,768 counselling contacts took the MU Rector’s office as of 1 July 2005. The place in 2005, of which 1,223 were individual Counselling Centre provides student and career meetings and 1,545 group activities. Psychological counselling, psychological counselling and legal counselling accounted for 1,432 of these (541 in- counselling. dividual and 891 group), career counselling a total Career counselling includes practice in com- of 1,174 (673 individual and 501 group), and legal munications and other skills; the centre also counselling 162 (9 individual and 153 group). organizes contacts between students and potential employers through lectures by individuals from the employment sector. Psychological counselling is provided in individual and group sessions, and the work of the psychologists themselves is subject to regular evaluation at special workshops.

42 STUDIES AND TEACHING MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 1. for International Studieswereaccommodated. through programmesadministered bytheOffice ter. Around190internationalstudents coming pacity wasfullyutilizedduring the wintersemes- applications. Theuniversity’saccommodation ca- to thestudentwaitingliston basisofupdated dation. Thefreebedswerethenallottedaccording students didnottakeadvantageoftheaccommo- 4,181 bedsallocatedbymove-inday,about500 were allocated2,276beds.Ofatotalnumberof applicants forresidencespace.First-yearstudents cally unchangedfromthepreviousyear. applicants forresidenceaccommodationwasbasi- Ministry ofEducation.Evenso,thenumber lessthantheprevioussubsidyfrom 200 CZK almost were raisedbyanaverageof700CZK, policy, from1September2005residencefees accommodation. of thebetterresidenceswereofferedashotel not inneedofrepairwereopenforuse.Some left. During thesummermonths,onlyresidences decreasing slightlyassomefirst-yearstudents the averagenumberofstudentsinresidences to freeupinthespringsemesterof2005,with dence capacitywasfullyoccupied.Spacesbegan the waitinglistandgivencriteria. to firstyearstudentsweredistributedaccording space. Inthesecondround,placesnotallocated fulfilled thegivencriteriawereallocatedresidence international studentsandsomethat students andmembersofresidencecouncils, the firstrounddoctoralstudents,handicapped year studentswasdividedintoseveralphases.In results. Accommodation forsecondyeartofinal- from home,socialandhealthcriteriastudy years, thetraditionalcriteriaapplied–distance degree programmesatMU.For studentsinhigher time Bachelor’s,long-cycleMaster’sand for studentsenrolledthefirsttimeinfull- exception: areserveof1500bedswassetaside I STUDENT ACCOMMODATION As of1October2005therewere7,034recorded Because ofchangesintheofficialsubsidy At thebeginningof2004/2005universityresi- the sameasinpreviousyear,withone by whichresidencebedswereallocated n theacademicyear2005/2006criteria Student SocialServices other countries. in universityhousing,andover300studentsfrom 2005/2006, therewere970studentsfromSlovakia of internationalstudentsisrising.Atthestart Interest inresidenceaccommodationonthepart *not includingSlovakcitizens Total Others FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FL eiec drs Numberofbedsas31.12.2005 Address Vinařská Residence Table 1 FM Faculty Table 2 Total VUT Lomená Sladkého bří Žůrků Veveří nám. Míru Klácelova Mánesova Kounicova Tvrdého Residences atMasarykUniversityinBrno accommodated asof31.12.2005 Numbersofapplicationsandstudents applications ,9 ,5 2 0 1914 202 328 3,955 7,897 ,5 2 43 417 35 323 17 54 78 821 600 1,656 1,152 oen ,620 ro0 168 432 479 70 247 313 Kolejní 2,61200Brno 349 Lomená 48,61700Brno 596 Sladkého 13,61700Brno 358 bří Žůrků5,61700Brno 1,169 Veveří 29,60200Brno nám. Míru4,60200Brno Klácelova 2,60200Brno Mánesova 12c,61200Brno Kounicova 50,60200Brno Tvrdého 5/7,602 00Brno Vinařská 5,60300Brno Total 4 33125 60 1 0 213 268 7 129 90 18 3 122 25 9 40 5 221 5 126 188 73 82 1 8 371 322 466 16 148 336 657 4 230 847 712 490 571 442 981 851 modated Accom- Of totalnumberaccommodated: International International tdns otrl1 Doctoral students* STUDENT SOCIAL SERVICES (by faculty) 9 4,181 st -year 43 Table 3 Accommodation capacity in 2000–2005

2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 Projected capacity 3,789 3,789 3,789 3,789 3,789 3,789 Actual capacity 4,317 4,298 4,287 4,287 4,291 4,294 Number of beds for students 4,211 4,192 4,174 4,175 4,179 4,181 Number of applications for accommodation 6,330 7,518 7,863 7,393 8,101 7,034 Total number of MU students in on-site studies 14,973 16,135 24,451 27,690 30,195 32,718 Beds for MU guests 106 106 106 106 168 170 Exchange students 80 80 80 80 135 190

Table 4 Overview of available accommodation capacity at MU

Acad. year MU VUT Other Total Index 2000/2001 4,211 160 0 4,371 129.5 2001/2002 4,192 170 0 4,362 129.2 2002/2003 4,174 170 52 4,396 130.0 2003/2004 4,175 170 0 4,345 128.7 2004/2005 4,179 170 0 4,349 128.8 2005/2006 4,181 0 0 4,181 96.1

2. ACCOMMODATION GRANTS

n 2005 Masaryk University began for the first 24 students appealed; in 10 cases the information time to provide its students with accommo- in the student registry of some other higher edu- Idation grants, as part of the transformation cation institution was found to be incorrect, and of public support for student accommodation, the accommodation grant was awarded; in the which shifted from subsidies for university-owned remaining 14 cases the appeals were turned down. accommodation to financial support allocated In addition, in 13 cases, already awarded accom- according to the institutions’ own regulations for modation grants were revoked in accordance with student grants. As criteria for eligibility, Masaryk the MU Scholarship and Bursary Regulations ow- University included in its Scholarship and ing to the students’ failure to cooperate with MU Bursary Regulations criteria that were unchanged when in came to the payment of the grant. from those recommended by the Ministry of Altogether, Masaryk University paid out Education, Youth and Sport, which it also uses in 19,281,366 CZK in accommodation grants in distributing funding for housing support to public 2005 (for the last quarter of the year) from the higher education institutions. subsidy it received for the purpose. Eligibility conditions for accommodation grants at MU in 2005 during the period from 1 October to 31 December 2005, the first period for which these were awarded, were met by 14,561 students at MU, or 58.5 % of all full-time MU students. Of those eligible, 12,421 students actu- ally applied for an accommodation grant for the given period. After updating the information in the student registry through the Shared Student Information Register, and evaluating the submit- ted applications, accommodation grants were allocated to 11,322 students, with the remaining applications for accommodation aid being turned down as unqualified. Of the applicants refused,

44 STUDENT SOCIAL SERVICES MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 3. of allcateringlines,makingpossiblethesale nized. Cashregistersarenowfoundattheend catering facilitieswerere-equippedandre-orga- countersatall ing ofcriticalpoints(HCCP), rent hygieneregulations,includingthemonitor- offer wereremoved restrictions relatingtotheselectionofmealson harmonization ofservicefacilities,theprevious duction ofnewcateringservicesoftwareandthe a majorreorganizationofpersonnel,theintro- ing systematthebeginningof2005.Following meals andotherfooditems. three canteensandsixcafeteriasofferingwarm M CATERING To improvethecateringservicesandmeetcur- Significant changesweremadeinMU’scater- ate 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 Total 2001 Veveří Vinařská Moravské nám. Canteen Table 6 Veveří Moravské nám. Production Vinařská Canteen Table 5 services tostudentsandemployeesin and CateringServicesprovidedcatering asaryk University’sAccommodation Numbers ofmealsservedinMUcanteens,incl.thoseforgeneralpublic MUcanteens 4. by theRector. principles guidingfinaldecisions, whicharemade lations oftheMUStatutes,which laydownthe of paymentin718cases. approved in483cases,loweringorpostponement payment ofstudy-relatedfees.Waiverfeeswas 1458 requestsforthewaiver,loweringordelayed the HigherEducationAct. In2005therewere payment ofstudy-relatedfeesinaccordancewith of therighttowaive,lowerorallowfordelayed M STUDY-RELATED FEES These rulingsweremadeaccording tothestipu- capacity 1,700 2,000 2,000 2005 werealsoreflectedinitsexercising the livingconditionsofstudentsin asaryk University’seffortstoimprove 6,0 5,3 4,3 ,0,6 907,340 212,747 1,002,160 322,396 359,195 944,134 372,197 208,807 300,401 958,530 434,158 155,516 250,433 967,806 488,217 216,312 212,182 491,785 258,383 497,241 oasénm ,620 Bn FacultyofMedicine Moravské nám.9,60200Brno 1%2 2%3 23% 36% 36% 41% 21% 32% 43% 16% 26% 52% 23% 21 % 51% 28 % 53 % iasá5 0 0 roFacultyofEconomicsandAdministration Vinařská 5,60300Brno eeí7,620 Bn Veveří Veveří 70,60200Brno drs Cafeteria,buffet Address selection ofitemsavailable. at cateringfacilitieswasalsoexpanded,asthe changed regularly.Thesaleofotherrelateditems with meat,meatlessandlowcalorie.Menusare without havingmadeapreviousorder. ing freelyfromthedailymenuorbuyingmeals at weeklyordailyorderingpoints,byselect- tomers canordertheirmealsthroughtheInternet, posted onwebpages14daysinadvance.Allcus- menus aredesignedwiththisinmind.These facilities onthebasicsofhealthynutrition,and during openinghours. catering accountscannowbemadeatanytime miscellaneous items;also,depositsinindividual The dailymenusofferuptotwelvemeals, Great emphasishasbeenplacedinthecatering Morfo Buffet FacultyofInformaticsBuffet Vinařská, Kounicova50, STUDENT SOCIAL SERVICES 45 Strategy and Development 1100

In 2005 Masaryk University undertook the In accordance with the Higher Education Act, following activities in the area of strategy and Masaryk University formulated its Strategic Plan development: for educational and academic, research, develop- ■ The university formulated and approved ment, artistic and other creative activities for a Strategic Plan for teaching, research, develop- the period 2006 to 2010; this is the university’s ment, artistic, and other creative activities for basic strategic document. After the amendments the period 2006 to 2010, with an update for process, the Strategic Plan was submitted to the 2006. Scientific Board and Board of Trustees for discus- ■ Work continued in the direction of personnel sion, and approved by the Academic Senate. It and institutional support for administrative thus became the starting point for the formula- units focused on strategic projects, academic tion of strategic plans by the faculties, which will evaluation and the transfer of knowledge and be completed in the first quarter of 2006. technology. Following the organizational changes in 2005, ■ Construction of the Integrated Laboratory the newly-established and staffed Office for for Biomedical Technologies (ILBIT) at the Strategy and Development was given the task of Bohunice Campus, a state-of-the-art new facility strategic planning for the university, coordination for advanced research and knowledge transfer of development projects and other projects be- at the university, was completed and operations yond the boundaries of basic research or outside begun. the area of research altogether (for example, inno- ■ Masaryk University was successful in obtaining vation projects projects funded from the structural support for projects within the framework of funds), and evaluation and quality control. the structural funds (the “Development of In 2005 Masaryk University was granted fund- Human Resources” Operational Programme). ing for a project entitled “Masaryk University ■ In cooperation with the South Moravia Region, Technology Transfer Offfice”, and the office thus other Brno universities and institutes of the created launched activities in the area of protec- Czech Academy of Sciences, the university be- tion of intellectual property rights, technology gan preparation of proposals designed to draw transfer and support for academic entrepreneur- on funding for research and innovation from ship. During 2005 two patent applications were the structural funds in the period 2007–2013. submitted by university units and one European patent was awarded. At the same time, the Technology Transfer Office began cooperating with those responsible for the innovations and the South Moravia Innovation Centre on their commercial utilization.

46 STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 ■ ■ Academy ofSciences. universities andresearchinstitutesoftheCzech tutes intheregionthatincludesbothBrno a strategicpartnershipamongkeyresearchinsti- the EuropeanUnionfor2007-2013.Thiscreates draw onfundsfromtheprogrammesplannedby ing withotherresearchinstitutionsinBrnoto commercial services.Theuniversityiscooperat- development withinnovationinproductionand the naturalsciencesaimedatlinkingresearchand of somelargeprojectsintheareamedicineand the SouthMoraviaRegionasinvestor. being builtatthecampusinBrno-Bohunicewith whichis the biotechnologyincubatorINBIT, university tookpartinconceptualplanningfor and theSouthMoraviaInnovationCentre, the University CentreTelč of upto34Mb/s. and allowforapotentialincreaseinbandspeed vantage ofacoordinatednetworkfrequencies network wasreplaced.Thenewlinkstakead- existing technologyforlinkingtotheCESNET installed inthelecturehall.Lateyear data projectors),andanewsoundsystemwas new equipment(personalcomputersand During 2005classroomswerefurnishedwith 8FA). fall semester140students(140FEA, courses, 55inFacultyofArtscourses);the Faculty ofEconomicsandAdministration studied inTelčthespringsemester(63taking studies andlifelonglearning,118students Under programmesofcombinedBachelor’s able forcommercialusebyoutsideparties. seminars. TheUCT alsomakesitsspacesavail- the areaoforganizationconferencesand lifelong learningandcombinedstudiesin and facultyactivities,especiallyintheareaof the UCT isserviceandsupportforuniversity unit withintheuniversity.Themainmissionof gained thestatusofanindependentbudgetary a specialsupportfacility.Atthesametime,it into theorganizationalstructureofMUas University Centre Telčandwas incorporated Centre inTelčchangeditsname tothe As of1January2005,theMUEducation Masaryk Universityhasbegunthepreparation IncooperationwiththeSouthMoraviaRegion STRATEGY ANDDEVELOPMENT 47 Programme 233 330 Development of the Material-Technical Base 1111

n order to fulfil its mission and its teaching floor space: 20,000 m2 for classrooms, 17,500 m2 and research goals, Masaryk University in for laboratories and research, 5,000 m2 of office IBrno invested in 2005 in the development of space for academic personnel, and 2,000 m2 for its material-technical infrastructure. The develop- administration. Construction is being carried out ment of the university’s infrastructure was mainly on two complexes: the Integrated Laboratories realized through Programme 233 330, approved for Biomedical Technologies (ILBIT) and the by Resolution No. 203 of the Government of the Academic Teaching and Research Complex Czech Republic (27 February 2002) and amended (AVVA). The projected capacity of the new by government resolution No. 986 of 20 July campus is 5,000 students and 500 academic and 2005. The development programme is divided administrative personnel. into two sub-programmes, the reconstruction Another roughly 16 hectares of development and modernization of the historical buildings land adjacent to the new campus will, in 2006- and university facilities in the city of Brno (Sub- 2015, be transformed into what will be virtually programme 233 333) and the construction of an entire new neighbourhood, with the necessary a modern university campus in Brno-Bohunice support infrastructure for students (in particular (Sub-programme 233 332). The programme was residences and other forms of accommodation, begun in 2002 and will be completed in 2008. catering facilities, sports areas, commercial and so- cial buildings, facilities for leisure-time activities, Renovation and modernization programme and so on) as well as space for business activi- The first part of Programme 233 330, ties, especially of a developmental and innova- ”Development of the Material-Technical Base tive character. Among the new buildings in the of Masaryk University”, is the renovation and vicinity will be the new home for the Moravian modernization of existing university facilities in Archives. the historical centre of Brno. The programme includes the extensive renovation of buildings and Financing of programme 233 330 infrastructure, the reconstruction of classrooms, Programme 233 330 was approved with a budget laboratories and other areas, and the moderniza- of 6.425 billion CZK; of this, 5.1 billion is for tion of laboratory equipment and of information Sub-programme 233 332 for the construction and audio-visual technology. of the university campus at Brno-Bohunice and 1.325 billion CZK for Sub-programme 233 333 Masaryk University Campus for the reconstruction and equipping of MU’s in Brno-Bohunice historical buildings. The second part of the programme is a project The main source of funding for the Programme unique among Czech universities: the construc- is the state budget – 5,318.8 mil. CZK, comprised tion of the new Masaryk University Campus partly of funding covered by a loan in the amount in Brno-Bohunice. Under this sub-programme, of 95 mil. EUR made to the Czech Republic the reconstruction was carried out of existing by the European Investment Bank (EIB) on the buildings situated near the Faculty Hospital in basis of an agreement signed 27 May 2002 and Bohunice in the locality of the future campus; partly of funding from the Ministry of Education, these had been acquired by Masaryk University Youth and Sport. Some of the funding from the in the late 1990s. Also, construction was begun state budget – 1.775 billion CZK – is treated as at the new campus of an extensive complex of a loan that Masaryk University will repay from buildings slated for the Faculty of Medicine, the 2009 to 2028. In addition, MU is contributing biology and chemistry departments of the Faculty 809.2 mil. CZK from its own resources, while of Science, and the Faculty of Sports Studies. funding from the City of Brno amounts to With construction of the Bohunice campus, 297 mil. CZK. Masaryk University will gain 50,000 m2 of new

48 PROGRAMME 233 330 MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 cost (1,324.873 mil. CZK). cost (1,324.873mil.CZK). representing73%ofthetotal 960.840 mil.CZK, ditures asof31December 2005amountedto of Sub-programme233333,thetotalexpen- Inthecase its totalcostof5,100.160mil.CZK. amountingto18%of was 934.708mil.CZK, programme 233332asof31December.2005 Republic. TheentireamountexpendedonSub- transferred tothestatebudgetofCzech University’s developmentprogrammehasbeen loanforimplementation ofMasaryk of theEIB has notyetbeentouched.Sofar,18mil.EUR able componentoftheoverallfinancialpackage fromtheCity ofBrno.Therepay- 11.70 mil.CZK fromMU’sown fundsand 466.149 mil.CZK camefrom thestatebudget, 1,418.329 mil.CZK Ofthis, programme totalled1,895.548mil.CZK. 50.582 mil.CZK). non-capitalexpenditures 63.928 mil.CZK, (capitalexpenditures to 114.510mil.CZK cial inputintotheprogrammein2005came programme 233333. toSub- programme 23333and31.240mil.CZK wenttoSub- 233 330;ofthis,19.342mil.CZK fortherealization ofProgramme 50.582 mil.CZK non-capital fundingonitsownintheamountof own resources. fromMasarykUniversity’s and 41.134mil.CZK camefromthestatebudget 266.126 mil.CZK ofwhich tures amountedto307.260mil.CZK, MU’s historicalbuildings–capitalexpendi- 233 333–renovationandmodernizationof of Brno.For therealizationof Sub-programme fromtheCity resources and11.070mil.CZK fromMasarykUniversity’sown 22.974 mil.CZK camefromthestatebudget, 562.850 mil.CZK – constructionofthenewcampus;this, the implementationofSub-programme233332 ofcapitalfundingwasspenton 596.714 mil.CZK Atotalof the City ofBrno11.070mil.CZK. Masaryk University’sownresources,andfrom camefrom special funding);63.928mil.CZK in regular fundingand808.892mil.CZK in (20.084mil.CZK to 828.976mil.CZK Financing fromthestatebudgetamounted capital expendituresonProgramme233330. overall costoftheprogramme. or40%ofthe project comesto2,584.2mil.CZK, Masaryk University’sshareinfinancingthe As of31December.2005, expendituresonthe To sumup,MasarykUniversity’sownfinan- In addition,MasarykUniversitygenerated wenttocover In 2005,903.974mil.CZK Including therepayablefinancialassistance, MU-loan Graph 2 Graph 1 Total City ofBrno Min. Education Min. Finance–EIB MU 1,000 mil. 2,000 mil. 3,000 mil. 4,000 mil. 5,000 mil. 6,000 mil. 34 % 0 mil. MU –loan Structure ofprogrammefunding Structure ofprogrammefunding Sub-programme Sub-programme 21 % (Renovation) 4 % MU 233 333 233 333 ,2 ,0 6,425 5,100 1,325 0 ,9 2,198 1,346 809 1,892 757 379 306 589 430 9 297 297 1,775 1,775 0 0

28 % Finance 13 % Min. – EIB (Bohunice Campus) Sub-programme Sub-programme Education Min. 233 332 233 332 (in mil.CZK) (in %) PROGRAMME 233 330 of Brno City ofBrno Min. Education Min. Finance–EIB MU –ownresources MU –repayable loan City

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49 Graph 3 Schedule for programme financing (in mil. CZK)

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Sub-programme 233 332 – Construction After the revised programme was approved by of the MU campus in Brno-Bohunice the Czech government, preparations for construc- The first part of the sub-programme to be realized tion of the AVVA were resumed. Open tenders was the reconstruction of the existing building were invited for the Blue and Red Phases (infra- Morfo III, following reconstruction of Morfo structure) of the AVVA, and contracts were signed I and II carried out earlier outside the frame- at the beginning of December 2005. Completion work of Programme 233 330. Reconstruction of of the Blue and Red Phases is scheduled for 2007. Morfo III was completed in 2004 at a total cost of After review of terrain and technical plans related 170.2 mil. CZK. to the revision of the programme, project plan- Construction of the second part of the ning resumed for the Yellow and Green Phases of Bohunice Campus is being carried out in the AVVA construction, which are scheduled to two stages. In 2004 construction began with begin in 2007. the Integrated Laboratories for Biomedical All planned targets of the sub-programme were Technologies (ILBIT). This facility was completed met in 2005. and went into operation in September 2005. The total cost of the project was 682,523 mil. CZK, of Sub-programme 233 333 – Renovation which 659,111 CZK represented capital invest- and modernization of MU’s historical ment and 23,412 CZK non-capital investment buildings costs. In 2005, renovation of the building at Joštova Preparation for the second construction project 10 (begun in October 2003) was completed, as at the Bohunice Campus, the Academic Teaching was reconstruction of the roof of the Faculty and Research Complex (AVVA), fell behind of Law (begun in October 2004), and work schedule because of the legislative and macro- continued on the next phase of the plan for economic impact of an increase in the VAT rate modernizing equipment and facilities (begun for construction work from 5% to 19%, which in 2002). Reconstruction also continued on the resulted in much higher costs in this area in com- Faculty of Science’s Kotlářská complex (begun in parison with those when the programme was orig- October 2004). inally approved in early 2002. Masaryk University All planned targets of the sub-programme were prepared a revised version of Programme 233 330, met in 2005. which was approved by Czech government resolu- tion no. 986 of 20 July 2005.

50 PROGRAMME 233 330 MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 ■ ■ tion in2005wereasfollows: of financialmanagementandinternaladministra- T at reducing risks related to findings of external at reducingrisksrelatedtofindingsofexternal cooperation withanexternalauditor,aimed Continuous auditsandinspections,inclose Regulation no.416/2004Coll. Public Administration andtheaccompanying no. 320/2001Coll. onFinancialControl in at MasarykUniversityinresponsetoAct introduction ofasystemfinancialcontrol The creationofregulationsforandthe and InternalAdministration Financial Management of view. The main components in the area of view.Themaincomponentsinthearea university’s activityfromthefinancialpoint his chapterprovidesanoverviewofthe 1. NON-CAPITAL BUDGET ■ ■ ■ ■ (up by20%over 2004).Only2.551mil. CZK and fromabroadamounted2,190 mil.to CZK of publicresourcesfromtheCzech Republic sources (a58%increase).Thetotal contribution and 19mil.from fromotherpublic CZK 2005), 55mil. fromabroad(up78%) CZK bodies (anincreaseof34%comparedwith the budgetsoflocalandregionalgovernment from elsewhereinthestatebudgetand 17% over2004).Another125mil. came CZK amounted to1,991mil. (anincreaseof CZK Ministry ofEducation,YouthandSport In 2005thenon-capitalfundingfrom which roseby8%incomparisonwith2004. the fundingforteachingactivities(categoryA), tal revenues.Thiswasreflectedinparticular – ariseof8%resultedinboostnon-capi- grew from30,213(2004)to32,718(2005) The increaseinthenumberofstudents,which balance. faculties anduniversityunitsreportedapositive 2.2% oftheuniversity’stotalrevenues.All amounted to59.205mil. representing CZK, The university’safter-taxincomein2005 amounted to2,616mil. CZK. 20% incomparisonwith2004.Costs in2005 2,676 mil. representinganincreaseof CZK, University in2005amountedto Total non-capitalrevenuesofMasaryk ■ ■ ■ university campusinBrno-Bohunice of anothertwostagesconstructionthe of MasarykUniversity”),andcommencement (“Development oftheMaterial-TechnicalBase construction, revisionofProgramme233330 The completionofthefirststageILBIT financial informationsystem a higherlevelofsystemicintegrationtheMU The developmentofactivitiesleadingto of theresponsibilitiesprojectmanagers one ofitsmainfeaturesbeingacleardelineation and operationsystematMasarykUniversity, The introductionofaprojectadministration internal auditsystem audit bodies,aswelltheestablishmentofan FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANDINTERNALADMINISTRATION ■ ■ ■ and regionalgovernment bodies(anincreaseof the statebudgetandfrombudgets oflocal 63%), 120.869mil. fromotherpartsof CZK Ministry ofEducation,Youthand Sport(up 2004), madeupof413.861mil. fromthe CZK 560.513 mil. (an increaseof55%over CZK ment (normativeandtargeted)amountedto Non-capital fundingforresearchanddevelop- for specificresearch(up1%). activities (anincreaseof8%)and99.5mil. CZK This comprised1,311.5mil. for teaching CZK senting 52.7%oftheuniversity’stotalrevenues. research amountedto1,411mil. repre- CZK, in 2005forteachingactivitiesandspecific by theMinistryofEducation,YouthandSport The non-capitalinvestmentfundingprovided original purposeforwhichtheyweregranted. sources. Thesesumsmustbeusedlaterforthe from abroadand2.922mil. fromother CZK budget, 19.887mil. fromtargetedfunding CZK 41,000 fromtheotherpartsofstate CZK of Education,YouthandSportfunding, which comprised7.887mil. ofMinistry CZK funding intheamountof30.797mil. CZK, the TargetedFunding Fund receivedtargeted amendment totheHigherEducationAct, In accordancewiththeprovisionsofan source, i.e.0.12 % oftheoveralltotal. of unspentnon-capitalfundingwasreturnedto 112 2 51 33%) and 25.783 mil. CZK of research funding accommodation and catering was lower than in from abroad (up 47 %). The share of non- 2004 as a result of a change in the method of capital funding for research and development financing student accommodation in the resi- in the total revenues of the university in 2005 dences. In previous years universities had been amounted to 20.9%. granted funding to finance their residences and ■ Non-capital funding for teaching activities catering facilities, but October 2005 marked and operations (regular and special) were a change to the provision of accommodation provided in the amount of 1,629.2 mil. CZK grants paid directly to the students themselves. (an increase of 12% over 2004), compris- ■ Revenues of Masaryk University from non-pub- ing 1,577.1 mil. CZK from the Ministry lic sources amounted to 495.726 mil. CZK (19% of Education, Youth and Sport (up 9%), of the revenues, representing an increase over 3.9 mil. CZK from other parts of the state bud- 2004 of 23%), 410.686 mil. CZK of this being get and from the budgets of local and regional represented by revenues from the university’s government bodies (14% more in comparison principal activity (an increase of 30% over with 2004), 29.6 mil. CZK from abroad (17% the previous year) and 85.04 mil. CZK from over 2004) and 18.6 mil. CZK in EU co-financ- supplementary income-generating activities (2% ing for projects. up on 2004). ■ Non-capital funding for student accom- ■ The share of funding from abroad, modation and catering in 2005 amounted to 55.414 mil. CZK (an increase of 78% over 41,768 mil. CZK (a decrease of 20% in com- 2004), amounted to 2% of total revenues and parison with 2004); this represented 26.5% of was made up of 29.631 CZK mil. for teaching the total revenues of the Accommodation and activities and 25.783 mil. CZK for research and Catering Services. The state funding for student development.

Graph 1 Total non-capital revenue of Masaryk University (in thou. CZK) 3.0 bil.

2.5 bil.

2.0 bil.

1.5 bil.

1.0 bil.

0.5 bil.

0.0 bil. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 CNEIV 1,507,891 1,760,358 1,909,917 2,232,106 2,675,666

Graph 2 Total non-capital revenue of Masaryk University per student * (in thou. CZK)

100 thou. 90 thou. 80 thou. 70 thou. 60 thou. 50 thou. 40 thou. 30 thou. 20 thou. 10 thou. 0 thou. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 CNIV/student 65.95 71.01 71.82 68.15 73.14 * Bachelor’s, Master’s, doctoral and lifelong learning in accredited programmes

52 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 1,400mil. 1,000 mil. 1,200 mil. 1,600 mil. 1,800 mil. 10 thou. 15 thou. 20 thou. 25 thou. 30 thou. 35 thou. Note: Graph 4 Graph 3 5 thou. 0 thou. 200 mil. 400 mil. 600 mil. 800 mil. 0 mil. Lifelong studies PhD Master’s Bachelor’s

lifelong studies Total excluding other International and gional governments sources, localandre- Other statebudget Min. Education Total Min.Education-other catering commodation and Min. Education–ac- – teachingactivities Min. Education 1) Internationalandother:international +EUco-financing,OPRLZ(CR),EQUAL(estimate),MPO-CTT 31.10.2005 international studentsandinlifelonglearningprogrammesasof NumbersofstudentsinBachelor’s, Master’s anddoctoralprogrammes,including Non-capitalfundingforteachingactivities 1) 2001 2001 20 0220 042005 2004 2003 2002 2001 1,8 ,2,2 ,6,3 ,8,0 1,534,797 1,577,118 1,629,259 1,388,100 1,442,017 1,468,685 1,169,432 1,224,201 1,235,860 1,027,120 1,080,840 1,099,258 814,581 867,568 881,121 2021,8 ,9 36648,231 13,676 8,597 41,768 52,352 16,888 54,129 12,072 53,297 52,349 2002 ,8 ,3 ,6 ,4 3,910 1,245 3,062 1,530 1,481 1162,5 7603,1 32,718 30,213 12,039 12,230 27,690 13,175 24,451 21,176 13,558 14,405 2002 ,4 ,6 ,4 ,7 4,514 3,020 7,677 2,910 17,659 8,242 15,073 2,614 3,067 11,901 2,329 2,546 8,564 2,058 4,713 3 2 4 ,6 553 1,565 640 423 638 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2003 2003 (in thou.CZK) FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANDINTERNALADMINISTRATION 2004 2004 2005 2005 53 Graph 5a Non-capital funding for teaching activities per Graph 5b Non-capital funding for teaching employee (in thou. CZK) activities per student (in thou. CZK)

60 thou. 600 thou.

50 thou. 500 thou.

40 thou. 400 thou.

30 thou. 300 thou.

20 thou. 200 thou.

10 thou. 100 thou.

0 thou. 0 thou. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 298.14 355.06 441.80 467.44 547.08 39.93 41.47 44.80 42.85 47.72 * Bachelor’s, Master’s, doctoral and accredited lifelong learning programmes

Graph 6a Non-capital funding for teaching activities from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (in thou. CZK)

1,500 mil.

1,000 mil.

500 mil.

0 mil. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Graph 6b Non-capital funding for teaching activities from the Ministry of Education Youth and Sports by category (in thou. CZK)

80 mil.

60 mil.

40 mil.

20 mil.

0 mil. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 6a Min. Education 867,568 1,080,840 1,224,201 1,442,017 1,577,118 6a Min. Education – teaching activities 814,581 1,027,120 1,169,432 1,388,100 1,534,797 6a Category A 666,281 842,523 970,132 1,212,995 1,311,490 6b Category C – graduate scholarships 33,885 48,870 62,700 80,920 93,173 6b Category D – foreign studies, Socrates, etc. 22,479 27,582 27,557 28,729 29,375 6b Category F – Educational Policy Fund1) 29,748 9,183 6,086 7,185 2,894 6b Category G – Higher Education Development Fund (FRVŠ) 12,330 9,291 13,293 10,238 10,672 6b Category I – Transformation and Development 16,435 89,671 55,661 48,033 66,016 Programmes 1) 6b Categories M, E, H 33,423 – 34,003 – 1,707 6b Accommodation grants – – – – 19,470 6b Min. Education – accommodation and catering 52,349 53,297 54,129 52,352 41,768 Min. Education – other 638 423 640 1,565 553 Note: 1) Including non-capital funding via programme financing

54 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 100 thou. 150 thou. 200 thou. 100 thou. 150 thou. 200 thou. Graph 8 Graph 7b Graph 7a 50 thou. 50 thou. 100 mil. 200 mil. 300 mil. 400 mil. 500 mil. 0 thou. 0 thou. 0 mil. Self-generated income Supplementary income Total 2001 2001 1.6143 2.8195 151.53 129.59 129.98 124.31 112.46 equivalent employee Non-capitalfundingforresearchperfull-time 32 1.4133 3.2135.88 133.72 123.38 113.94 93.28 (inthou.CZK) Supplementaryandself-generatedincomeofMasarykUniversity employee Masaryk Universityperfull-timeequivalent Supplementaryandself-generatedincomeof 2001 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2002 2002 (in thou.CZK) 2002 (in thou.CZK) 2003 2003 0,9 2,5 3,3 0,7 495,726 410,686 403,578 316,865 333,436 263,976 323,855 260,735 308,495 238,385 0196,2 9408,1 85,040 86,713 69,460 63,120 70,109 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2003 2004 2004 2005 2005 2004 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANDINTERNALADMINISTRATION 2005 55 Graph 9 Non-capital funding for research (in thou. CZK)

600 mil.

500 mil.

400 mil.

300 mil.

200 mil.

100 mil.

0 mil. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Total 282,765 307,422 344,053 361,898 560,513 Min. Education 224,786 230,850 248,614 253,183 413,861 Targeted research1) 94,214 91,588 93,700 98,014 99,469 Long-term research projects and research centres2) 97,398 102,440 114,830 115,733 294,858 Other special funding 33,174 36,822 40,084 39,436 19,534 Other state budget sources, local and regional governments3) 48,938 60,071 84,951 91,192 120,869 Funding from abroad 9,041 16,501 10,488 17,523 25,783 Notes: 1) In 2000 creative activities, in 2001-2002 non-targeted 3) Including Association of Innovative research including funding for CESNET Entrepreneurship funding for Kontakt 2) LC, 1M

2. SALARIES AND EMPLOYEES he most significant indicators are the total was 1,472.7 mil. CZK, i.e. 56% of total non-capi- amount spent on salaries and wages from tal expenditures. Tall sources as a share of total expenditures: The total number of full-time equivalent in 2005, excluding social security and health employees at Masaryk University in 2005 was insurance, these amounted to 1,102.2 mil. CZK, 2,931.67 (an increase of 10% over 2004). Of these, i.e. 42% of total non-capital expenditures, while 1318.12 were academic staff (up 6%) and 1,613.55 including employer-paid social security contribu- non-academic staff (up 14%). tions and health insurance premiums, the amount

Graph 10 Mean salaries (excluding social security and health insurance) of MU academic and non-academic staff 2001–2005 (in CZK)

40 thou.

30 thou.

20 thou.

10 thou.

0 thou. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Academic staff 20,627 24,815 27,609 33,023 38,336 Non-academic staff 11,877 14,609 16,305 20,192 22,563 Total 16,252 19,712 21,957 26,209 29,653

56 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 1,250mil. 1,000 mil. 1,500 mil. * Includingroyalties(before2003) Graph 12a Graph 11b Graph 11a 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 250 mil. 500 mil. 750 mil. 0 mil. 7,1 1,7 5,2 ,8,5 1,472,747 1,182,058 959,322 719,575 675,713 Academic staff Academic staff 0 0 Total Non-academic staff Total Non-academic staff 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2001 2001 2001 social andhealthinsurance* Salaries(includingotherformsofincome)and Number ofMasarykUniversityemployees2001–2005 Mean full-timeequivalentMUemployees2001–2005 2002 2002 2002 ,8.72542 ,7.32633 2,931.67 1,613.55 2,663.35 1,318.12 1,414.37 2,572.93 1,248.97 1,413.40 2,534.24 1,159.53 1,360.29 2,481.67 1,173.95 1,343.81 1,137.86 ,5 ,4 ,7 ,3 3,881 2,061 1,820 3,438 1,735 1,703 3,278 1,653 1,625 3,047 1,547 1,500 3,056 1,567 1,489 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2003 (in thou.CZK) 2003 2003 2004 2005 2004 2004 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANDINTERNALADMINISTRATION Graph 12b 10 % 20 % 30 % 40 % 50 % 60 % 70 % 0 % 2005 2005 64 87 16 43 56.29 54.36 51.67 48.71 46.44 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2001 expenditures ShareofsalariesinMUnon-capital 2002 2003 (in %) 2004 2005 57 3. ASSET MANAGEMENT he inventory taken by Masaryk University in 2005 shows total assets with a purchase Tvalue of 5,763,200 thousand CZK (an increase of 27% over 2004), comprising long-term tangible assets worth 5,686,207 thousand CZK (up 27.3%) and long-term intangible assets worth 76,993 thousand CZK (up 4%). Total depreciation amounted to 1,920,936 thousand CZK.

Graph 13 Intangible and tangible assets: purchase value (in thou. CZK)

6,000 mil.

5.000 mil.

4,000 mil.

3,000 mil.

2,000 mil.

1,000 mil.

0 mil. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Intangible assets 48,705 61,716 66,686 73,951 76,993 Tangible assets 3,531,430 3,878,856 4,191,243 4,465,170 5,686,207 Total 3,580,135 3,940,572 4,257,929 4,539,122 5,763,200

Graph 14 Intangible and tangible assets: depreciation*

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0% 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Intangible assets 28.76 % 25.52 % 23.45 % 19.56 % 20.50 % Tangible assets 58.41 % 57.15 % 58.62 % 59.82 % 67.29 % Total assets 58.00 % 56.66 % 58.07 % 59.17 % 66.67 % * Share of asset value in relation to residual value / purchase value

58 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 100% * Shareofassetvalueinrelationtoresidual/purchase Graph 16 Graph 15 20% 40% 60% 80% 0 bil. 1 bil. 2 bil. 3 bil. 4 bil. 5 bil. 6 bil. 0% Movable assets Real assets Movable assets Real assets Total assets Total 2001 2001 Real andmovableassets:depreciation* Real andmovableassets:purchasevalue 2002 2002 ,3,3 ,7,5 ,9,4 ,6,7 5,686,207 1,974,954 4,465,170 3,711,253 1,792,313 4,191,243 2,672,857 1,742,444 3,878,856 2,448,799 1,631,033 3,531,430 2,247,823 1,475,999 2,055,431 80 71 86 98 67.29% 30.00% 87.14% 59.82% 23.62% 84.10% 58.62% 22.73% 84.16% 57.15% 19.91% 84.18% 58.04 % 21.52 % 84.27 % 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANDINTERNALADMINISTRATION 2003 2003 (in %) (in thou.CZK) 2004 2004 2005 2005 59 Graph 17a Total annual Masaryk University asset depreciation (in thou. CZK)

200 mil.

150 mil.

100 mil.

50 mil.

0 mil. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 133,044 141,966 143,509 151,297 163,525

Graph 17b Total annual Masaryk University asset depreciation from total non-capital funding (in %)

10 %

8 %

6 %

4 %

2 %

0 % 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 8.82 % 8.06 % 7.51 % 6.78 % 6.11 %

4. FUNDS ignificant financial indicators also include vidual funds were as follows: 16 mil. CZK (fund the balances of funds created pursuant to for bonuses, up 30%); 96.3 mil. CZK (reserve Sthe Higher Education Act, which obliges fund, no increase); 206.8 mil. CZK (FRIM, down universities to create the following six funds: 3.7%); 19.9 mil. CZK (scholarship and bursary a fund for bonuses, a reserve fund, a capital assets fund, up 27.6%). In 2005 a fund for earmarked regeneration fund (hereinafter FRIM), a schol- financial resources was created for the first time arship and bursary fund, a fund for earmarked pursuant to the amended Higher Education Act; financial resources and a social fund. The total it amounted to 30.7 mil. CZK. A social fund was value of the individual funds as of 31 December not created. 2005 amounted to 369.8 mil. CZK (an increase of 9% over the previous year). Balances in the indi-

60 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 6. Activities for2005. Masaryk UniversityAnnualReportonFinancial auditor´s declarationseetheappendixto laration was“withoutreservation”.Forthe for 2005wasauditedandtheauditor’sdec- The financialstatementofMasarykUniversity CONCLUSION 5. T CAPITAL BUDGET sources (including 11.07 mil. CZK fromtheCity sources (including11.07mil.CZK fromvariousfunding to 840.046mil.CZK connection withProgramme233330amounted Capitalexpendituresin from theMUFRIM. capital-investment fundingand119.7mil.CZK comprising987.1mil.CZK to 1,106.8mil.CZK, 1,000mil. 10 thou. 20 thou. 30 thou. 40 thou. 1,250 mil. rf1b Graf 18b Graph 18a 0 thou. 250 mil. 500 mil. 750 mil. 0 mil. turned asnothavingbeenspent)amounted University in2005(excludingfundingre- otal capitalexpendituresbyMasaryk 3,2 7,8 9,1 0,7 1,106,496 501,076 496,513 274,186 339,928 2001 2001 Masaryk Universitystudent Total capital-investment expendituresper 60 11 77 64 33.38 16.42 17.72 11.19 16.01 0120 0320 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 Masaryk University Total capital-investmentexpendituresat 2002 2002 2003 (in thou.CZK) 2003 (in thou.CZK) FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANDINTERNALADMINISTRATION 2004 2004

Masaryk UniversityseeChapter 11. Development oftheMaterial-Technical Baseof detailed informationabouttheProgrammefor For fromtheMUFRIM. ing and55.7mil.CZK fromcapital-investmentfund- to 147.1mil.CZK research projects,capitalexpendituresamounted Outside theprogramme,includingteachingand fromMUFRIM. of Brno)and63,928mil.CZK

2005 2005 61 62 and cardiovascular diseases. Alexander Schirger from MasarykUniversity. In 2005hereceived anhonorarydoctorate and theMayoMedicalSchool. Division oftheMayoClinicinMinnesota,USA, Professor ofMedicineintheHypertension of hypertension; since1959hehasbeen His fieldisthediagnosisandtreatment consultant ininternalmedicine Medical doctorandscientistofCzechorigin,

Masaryk University a n n U A L r e PO r t 2 0 0 5 MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 1. (Language Centre, FacultyofEducation). Science), Arion(FacultyofArts) andGrundtvig Arts), Comenius (FacultiesofArts,Educationand Network –FacultiesofScience, Educationand of Medicine,EducationandArts; Thematic programmes (IntensiveProgramme –Faculties sub- programmes: SOCRATES/ERASMUS MU facultiesisontheriseinotherSOCRATES MU intheacademicyear2005/2006. 270 internationalstudentswillenrolinstudiesat have beenconfirmed;itisanticipatedthatabout numbers ofinternationalstudentscomingtoMU tion thattherewouldbefurthergrowthinthe increase significantlyin2005/2006.Theexpecta- pected tostudyabroad.Teachermobilitywillnot roughly 30%,withapproximately620studentsex- rent academicyear(2005/2006)hasincreasedby programmeinthecur- SOCRATES/ERASMUS the numberofMUstudentstakingpartin within theprogrammein2004/2005. A totalof50teacherscametoMUfromabroad 80 studentsin2003/2004to2122004/2005. significantly comparedtothepreviousyear,from Interest onthepartofinternationalstudentsrose (66 teachersin2003/2004,792004/2005). MU teacherstheincreasewaslesspronounced 15.3% over2003/2004(360students).Among students wentabroadtostudy,anincreaseof and academicsatMU.In2004/2005,425MU ers abroad,andstaysbyinternationalstudents organizes studystaysbyMUstudentsandteach- which ity atMUisSOCRATES/ERASMUS, The mainprogrammeforinternationalmobil- SOCRATES/ERASMUS INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ANDMOBILITY International Activities It isalsoencouragingthatparticipationby Compared tothepreviousacademicyear,

A OFFICE FORINTERNATIONAL STUDIES of internationalactivities.Asinpreviousyears, ologically directstheactivitiesofMUinarea Studies (OIS)coordinatesandmethod- sity-wide, theOfficeforInternational s anofficewhosecompetencyisuniver- Monnet programme (JeanMonnetChair, In 2005,sixprojectscontinued under theJean Jean Monnet public administration. ers intheCzech-FrenchMaster’s programmein which fundedinternshipsforstudentsandteach- “Harmonization ofaJointDegree Programme”, a successfulapplicationforprojectentitled Education andAdministration alsosubmitted Social StudiesandEducation.TheFacultyof tinuing pilotprojectsattheFacultiesofScience, projectsas well,especiallycon- LEONARDO database ofemploymentopportunities. advantages ofmembershipisaccesstoanupdated in theinternationalnetworkLeoNet.Among members. interns wenttothenewEU membercountries, whilefewer going toolderEU up toninemonths.Thegreatestinterestwasin gest periodpossible;somesignedagreementsfor opportunity togainexperienceabroadforthelon- Generally, however,internstriedtoextendtheir was threemonths,forgraduatestwomonths. Grad 04-06(4graduates).Theminimumlength Grad03-05(14thisyear) andIN-CO IN-CO continued toenjoyinternshipsunderproject ship; 21studentsweresuccessful.Freshgraduates Plus04-06foragrantto coveranintern- IN-CO in Plzeň.Studentswereabletoapplyproject ects managedbytheUniversityofWestBohemia dents andrecentgraduatesthatwerepartofproj- 2005. Againitconsistedofinternshipsforstu- The LeonardoprogrammecontinuedatMUin LEONARDO In 2005MasarykUniversitywasactiveinother Masaryk Universitycontinueditsmembership networks andotheractivities. abroad, activitieswithininternationaluniversity language programmes,thepresentationofMU international cooperationandmobility,foreign- the OISconductedactivitiesinfivemainareas: 113 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES 3 63 European Module, Permanent Course) at the Ministry of Education development Faculties of Law, Arts, Education and Social programmes Studies. Thanks to annual support from the Ministry of Education’s Development Programmes, the CEEPUS OIS offers scholarships for students who plan to There was no increase in the number of projects; attend a university abroad with which MU has the following faculties remained involved: Arts, a bilateral agreement or who have been given Science, Education and Sports Studies. the opportunity to study at universities abroad as “freemovers”. In 2005 the number of students Cooperation with partner universities benefiting from the programme declined slightly, Under teacher exchange programmes with MU’s from 132 to 120 (including 32 “freemovers”). The partner universities (Wroclaw, Poznan, Szeged, majority attended universities in European coun- Pecs, Bratislava, Vienna, Regensburg, Greifswald), tries, while others went to South Africa, Brazil, MU teachers spent 215 “teacher-days” at these the USA, Canada, Australia, Sudan, Tunisia, universities in 2005. Counterparts from the same Egypt, Turkey and Israel. universities spent 209 “teacher-days” at MU. Studies abroad under inter-governmental Bilateral agreements agreements In 2005 bilateral agreements were signed with Each year, on the basis of agreements signed the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Chemnitz between the Czech government and the govern- Technical University (Germany), Universidad ments of other states, the Academic Information Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (Mexico) and Agency announces a range of possibilities for stu- Sungkyunkwan University (Korea). Cooperation dents and teachers at foreign universities (summer was re-established with the Instituto Camoes courses, semester or year-long periods of study, re- (Portugal) and the University of Tennessee in search and lecture stays). In 2005, 9 academic staff Chattanooga (USA). members and 34 MU obtained financial support that took them to fourteen countries in Europe as Other funded stays well as to India, Egypt and Mongolia. Through special agreements, students were given the opportunity to study at the Universities of Dresden and Louvain as well as at Kansai Gaidai university (Japan).

2. FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMMES Central European Studies Programme nized Certificate in English Language Teaching This programme is designed as a single-semester to Adults (CELTA), issued by the University of series of related courses. The language of instruc- Cambridge. The certificate, which never expires, tion is English: participants include students qualifies its holder to teach English as a foreign from the USA, students who are part of the language anywhere in the world. Last year the pro- International Student Exchange Programme gramme was open in the spring semester of 2005; (ISEP), students coming to MU under bilateral plans are being made to hold it as a regular course agreements and European students at MU within each semester in future. the framework of the SOCRATES/ERASMUS programme. Interest in CESP continued to grow Summer school with the University of in 2005: 149 students took part in the courses of- Toronto fered under the programme, compared to 95 the The great success of the first Summer School of previous year. Central European Studies at Masaryk University in 2004, organized in cooperation with the TESOL TE and CELTA University of Toronto, was rewarded by increased In 2005 the OIS again offered a one-semester attendance the second time around in May and programme aimed at future and present teachers June of 2005. Teachers at the five-week-long of English. International students, mostly from summer course included a graduate of the MU America, selected the TESOL TE programme Faculty of Arts who is now studying for his to hone their professional skills in preparation doctorate at the University of Toronto as well as for teaching their native language. TESOL TE is teachers from the Faculty of Social Studies. Three a complex programme that combines methodol- excursions, each of several days, to Vienna, Prague ogy, practical instruction, the study of linguistics and Budapest, were an important part of the sum- and courses relating to Czech culture. Students mer school experience. of MU and a number of non-Czech teachers, many of whom work at language schools in and outside Brno, did only one part of the TESOL TE programme, the successful completion of which leads to their obtaining the internationally-recog-

64 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 3. Europosgrados, heldintwocities,Monterrey MU tookpartintheMexicaneducationfair EUROPOSGRADOS programme. CESP cooperation, especiallywithinthefee-paying universities withwhomtheyagreedonfurther nel metwithrepresentativesofseveralAmerican conferenceinSeattle,OISperson- the NAFSA produced thebrochureTheBrnoUniversities.At Brno’s sixpublicandstateuniversities, organized forthethirdtimeastandsharedby existing partnersaswelltoseveralnewcontacts. warding, leadingbothtoimprovedcontactswith Participation inbothconferencesprovedveryre- (AssociationofInternationalEducators). NAFSA Association forInternationalEducation)and tions, whichareorganizedbytheEAIE(European Europe andAmericaintheareaofforeignrela- in thetwomainconferences/educationfairs In 2005OISpersonnelparticipated,asalways, EAIE andNAFSA is oneoftheOIS’smostimportanttasks. conferences andothereventsathomeabroad The presentationofMasarykUniversityatvarious PUBLIC PRESENTATION OFMASARYK UNIVERSITY For theEAIEconferenceinKrakow, theOIS 4. Studies istheeditor-in-chief ofnetwork’sseries of tions (theDirector oftheOfficeforInternational those dealingwithpublica- Universities (CGU), working groupswithintheCompostela Groupof MU continuestobeactivelyinvolved intwo Compostela GroupofUniversities one teacherfromMU. mer schoolwasalsoattendedbytwostudentsand main themewasenvironmentalstudies.Thissum- summer schoolwasheldinLjubljana,wherethe three MUstudentsandoneinstructor.Asecond mer schoolonhumanrightsinItaly,attendedby third yeartheUtrechtNetworkorganizedasum- Society andCulture”, heldinUtrecht.For the grants toattendasummerschoolon“Dutch Network activity.In2005,fiveMUstudentswon ies atAustralian universitiesforasemester. students againhadtheopportunitytoattendstud- a consortiumofAustralian universities,twoMU programme betweentheUtrechtNetworkand moderately in2005.Aspartofacooperation MU andothermemberuniversitiesincreased agreementsbetween SOCRATES/ERASMUS The numberofexchangesmadewithinthe Network ofuniversitiesremainsstudentexchange. The mainformofcooperationwithintheUtrecht Utrecht Network ACTIVITIES WITHININTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYNETWORKS Summer schoolsareanotherimportantUtrecht international students. programmes conductedinforeignlanguagesfor focused ontheimportanceofqualitycontrol in BudapestMay2005.TheOISpresentation programme National AgencyfortheTEMPUS to aconferenceorganizedbytheHungarian mobility atMUearnedtheOISaninvitation the excellentresultsinsupportinggrowthof Success inthefieldofinternationalizationand TEMPUS seminaronmobility programme. National AgencyaspartoftheErasmusMundus in theeventwasorganizedbyCzechSocrates with Europeanuniversities.Czechparticipation with Mexicanuniversitiesinterestedinworking inMexico,andmeetings the EmbassyofCR givenincooperationwith education intheCR, event includedlecturesonthesystemofhigher as wellscholarshipsforstudiesabroad.The displayed interestinbothpaidstudiesatMU fair wasattendedbysome12,000students,who programmes taughtintheEnglishlanguage.The ies inEurope,especiallyMaster’sanddoctoral Mexican studentswithinformationaboutstud- and MexicoCity. Itspurposewas toprovide locations bythedirectorLarryLevene. research atMUwasfilmedseveraluniversity days inOctober,a55-minutedocumentaryabout universities chosenforthisproject.During ten and elsewhere.MUwasoneofthefirstthree broadcast bypublictelevisionstationsinEurope the network’suniversities,filmsintendedfor to produceaseriesoffilmsaboutresearchat is theCompostela Mediaproject.Thisaims came toMUforweek-longstays. and thePublicUniversityofNavarreinPamplona tional departmentsoftheUniversityCadiz up theoffer).Twoemployeesfrominterna- Computer Science(whointheenddidnottake and theothertoanemployeeofInstitute to alibrarianfrotheFacultyofSocialStudies were againmadeavailabletoMUstaff;onewent the administrativestaffexchange,twogrants staff. Onepublicationwasissuedin2005.Within publications) andthemobilityofadministrative economic, cultural andeducationalcooperation countries thatsharethegoalof deepening of Central EuropeanInitiative,agroupofseventeen Committee ofthehighereducationsection tive oftheCzechRepublicon Executive Since 2005MUhasbeentheofficial representa- Central EuropeanInitiative One of the CGU’s mostambitiousventures One oftheCGU’s INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES 65 in the region. In October the Director of the OIS sentatives from Viadrina University (Frankurt took part in the annual meeting of the Executive on the Oder), the University of Poznan, Rutgers Committee, where the main discussion focussed University (USA) and Bilgi University (Istanbul). on the financing of projects for joint degrees In autumn 2005 the group’s first conference was between universities in the CEI countries. held in Istanbul, where the best form of institu- tional cooperation between the universities was Viadrina Consortium discussed. MU has become one of the initiators of a new university consortium devoted to European Studies. The first working meeting was held in Slubice, Poland, in February 2005, attended by a two-member team from MU as well as repre-

5. OTHER ACTIVITIES ince 2004 MU has been a member of students, helping them with administrative and a group of universities coordinated by the organizational matters at the university and out- SCompostela Group of Universities that side of it); presentations of individual countries, manages a project under the Tempus Meda in which both Czech and international students programme. The goal of this project is to train take part; language courses taught by Czech and academic and administrative personnel at all of international students; a film club; and one-day Morocco’s fourteen universities in all aspects of and weekend outings around the Czech Republic. running a university international office so as to All activities by Czech students in the ISC are encourage them to establish this kind of office at carried out on the basis of volunteer work; even their own universities. In November the Director so, there has been a growing interest in working of the OIS and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, with the ISC (in 2004, 50 students volunteered to Jan Pavlík, travelled to Rabat to Mohammed help; in 2005 the number was 120). The ISC and V - Souissi University in Rabat to lead a three-day the activities it offers have been very well received series of workshops for all participants in the proj- by international students. ect. The response was very positive, and coopera- tion will continue. The International Student Club (ISC), founded in 2003 with the support of the OIS, continues its successful activities. Its main purpose is to assist international students at MU. In autumn 2004 the club moved its office and technical equip- ment from Udolní street to the main Faculty of Medicine building, which made it much more accessible to students. That same year the ISC became a member of the Erasmus Student Network, an international association of student clubs. The club organizes a great many activities, among them a tutor system (a Czech student is responsible for a number of international

66 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 and Libraries Publications, Archives FL FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Table 1 RMU Total MU publications,2003–2005 1. edr cd u.Total Acad.pub. readers Course Course I PUBLICATIONS Book FairinFrankfurtamMain,aspartofthe the pressalsotookpartin57thInternational and talksbook-signingbyauthors.In2005 that includedthepresentationofnewreleases where theBrnouniversitiesoperatedajointstand as wellinthebookfairSvětknihyBrno2005, universities exhibitedtheirpublicationstogether, fair SvětknihyPraha2005,wherealltheCzech participation ofMUPintheinternationalbook Sacra). Funding wasmadeavailabletoenablethe (Medic online,Halas,Octopus,Netřesk,and produced byuniversitysocietiesactiveatMU help covertheprintingcostsofstudentmagazines Brno werecovered.Contributions weremadeto the universityquarterlyUniversitas–RevueMU publishing. Thecostsofpublishingandprinting ed tovariousactivitiesrelatedpublicationsand wasallocat- Ministry ofEducation,900,000CZK available atwww.muni.cz/press. Detailed informationonspecifictitlesis the CR. productive publishers,universityorotherwise,in published eachyearranksMUamongthemost tions ofscholarlyarticles.Thenumbertitles (153) academicpublications,journalsandcollec- were textbooksandcoursereaders44.22% 6 4 1 1 4 6 9 5 346 153 193 361 143 218 311 142 169 From thefundingprovidedMUby 016 11 34 23 30 9 31 12 31 30 21 22 periodical publications.Ofthese,55.78%(193) lished 346titles(includingreprints)ofnon- n 2005,MasarykUniversityPress(MUP)pub- 36 13 –26–2 2003 26 46 42 65 53 30 34 2 9 4 edr cd u.Total Acad.pub. readers Course Course 516 17 47 14 55 10 48 13 25 25 18 32 919 52 13 – 2 2004 laneous printedmaterialsforMU. particular events.Thecentrealsoproducesmiscel- to conferencesandofothermaterialsintendedfor collections ofscholarlyorscientificarticlesprior start ofthesemesterorexaminationperiod, titles, especiallytextbooksintheperiodbefore more flexibilityinthepublicationofindividual also hasitsownprintingcentre.Thispermits academic institutionsandindividuals. University, includingbetteraccessforforeign publications andperiodicalsissuedbyMasaryk of analternativemethodforthedistribution of publicationsandpublishingthecreation mation linkstouniversityactivitiesinthearea for thefirsthalfof2006.Itsgoalisgreaterinfor- etc.), thegradualrealizationofwhichisscheduled ences, lifelonglearningcourses,on-linepayments, of anall-universityserviceportal(books,confer- for auniversity-wideInternetbookshop,aspart Board thataprojectwasbeguninautumn2005 taken bytheMUPublishingBoard. funding forpublicationsandpublishingwere (The LatestBooks).Decisions on allocatingthe cal supplementtothemagazineKnižnínovinky quired entryforpublicationsinthebibliographi- cover thecostsinconnectionwithlegallyre- Czech nationalexhibit.Funding alsowentto Besides itseditorsandtechnicaleditors,MUP I wasalsowiththeagreementofPublishing PUBLICATIONS, ARCHIVESANDLIBRARIES 28 114 71 65 72 39 28 45 edr cd u.Total Acad.pub. readers Course Course 7 4 2 2005 813 26 44 14 38 12 51 13 21 25 25 23 722 23 13 – 3 4 29 67 51 77 65 39 37 36 5 4 3 2. ARCHIVES n 2005 a general inventory of all fonds size among university archives in the CR in terms and collections in the Masaryk University of metres, while the number of archival funds IArchives was completed, as mandated by and collections far surpasses those of any other the Department of Archives Administration of archives of the same type. About 90% of the the Czech Ministry of the Interior for all public archival materials on deposit have been processed archives in the Czech Republic. The results of the and are available for research and other use. inventory were entered in the national electronic Category 1 documents, that is, those of excep- file kept by the National Archival Heritage. tional importance, are found in 71 of the archive’s General information about the current content fonds. The archives contain material from the of the archives is available on the pages of the period 1829 – 1997. Czech Archive Society at www.cesarch.cz. As of Among the MU Archives’ most important new 7 March 2005, the file in the National Archival acquisitions in 2005 is the personal material of the Heritage showed a total of 185 archival fonds and philosopher and writer Vladimír Blažek, brought collections, with a total of 1534 metres of archival to the archives from Munich, which docu- material. This makes the MU Archives second in ments his years in exile (especially his work at Bayerischer Rundfunk, including texts broadcast there by exile and dissident authors). Another part Table 2 Division of the MU Archives by national thematic of the collection consists of controversial contri- system (PEvA) (at the end of 2005) butions by German and Czech authors dealing with the postwar expulsion of Czechoslovakia’s Number Size Number Thematic groups of archive collections of fonds (in metres) ethnic German population. Another new acquisi- tion is the papers of the and 010200 Central offices and their specialized 1 0,72 institutions after 1918 literature scholar Antonín Beer, especially files 090900 Higher education institutions 24 1293,14 (including extensive correspondence with impor- tant figures in Czech academia and culture) from 091400 Residences 1 0,36 the inter-war monthly Naše věda [Our Science], 110200 Personal collections 110 167,43 where Beer was the long-time editor-in-chief. The 180104 Political organizations – local and at 4 3,78 largest collection of posthumous papers donated work to the archives in 2005 was that of the literary 180304 Trade-union organizations – commit- 8 2,64 tees at the workplace historian Dušan Jeřábek. The already existing file of material from the English language and 180404 National Front Action Committees, NF 4 2,64 committees – at the workplace literature scholar František Chudoba was enlarged, 200300 Student and youth organizations to 2 1,80 in particular thanks to a collection of letters from 1948 R.W. Seton Watson, mainly concerning the 200400 Charity, education, health and chari- 2 0,58 journal Slavonic Review. New regulations relating table associations to 1948 to the storage and disposal of documents were 200500 Professional associations to 1948 7 2,90 issued in 2005, and these have led to increased 210100 Social organizations 1948-1990 4 1,32 activity by the individual faculties in getting rid 210101 Social organizations 1948-1990 – youth 8 12,42 of materials. Their documents, however, could only be partially archived due to a critical lack of 210102 Social organizations 1948-1990 – sports 1 0,36 archive space. 210199 Social organizations 1948-1990 – other 1 0,12 In 2005, the archives were visited by 65 210201 Organizations and associations after 1 0,60 researchers, two from abroad. The total number 1990 – youth of research visits was over 250 (not counting 220700 Cultural and academic institutions and 1 0,12 the submission of documents for documenta- facilities – museums and national his- tion purposes). Loans of documents outside the tory and culture institutes archives were provided in 45 cases. In the area of 240000 Charitable institutions and foundations 2 0,84 documentation, the archives provided 66 copies 250200 Collections of posters, leaflets, regula- 2 19,32 of diplomas and certificates and roughly 150 tions, newspapers, press, and contem- porary documentation confirmations of studies, records of examinations 250400 Collections of visual materials, photo- 3 10,49 and curricula. graphs and negatives 250700 Collections of gramophone discs, mag- 1 0,28 netic tapes and other audio media 250900 Other collections – town-planning and 1 23,00 architectural models 250901 Collection of documents and 2 3,51 manuscripts 250911 Collection of medals & medallions 1 6,10 250912 Miscellaneous collections – paintings 2 5,36 and busts, films and video recordings Total 193 1559,83

68 PUBLICATIONS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 MU total Students withSpecialNeeds FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Faculty /Unit Table 3 FL MU librarycollections 3. barriers betweenfacultieswhereaccesstolibrary the areaoflibraryservicesandthatremoved was devisedthatspellsoutuniversitypolicyin system. In2005asetofMULibraryRegulations being builtattheBohuniceCampus). (for whichanewinformationcentreiscurrently ery MUfacultyexceptfortheFacultyofMedicine new orrefurbishedlibrarieshaveappearedatev- refurbished buildingonJoštovastreet.Since1990, brary oftheFacultySocialSciencesinitsnewly centre onKotlářskástreetandtherehousedli- – thenewly-builtFacultyofScienceinformation libraries. cal guidanceforthedepartmentandspecialized faculties aswellcoordinationandmethodologi- provide basiclibraryinformationservicesatthe faculties themselves.Thefacultycentrallibraries departmental andspecializedlibrariesatthe Centre forStudentswithSpecial Needsand126 cialized librariesincludingtheoneatSupport M LIBRARIES ANDLIBRARY INFORMATION SERVICES All thelibrariesatMUfunctionasaunified Two newfacultylibrarieswereopenedin2005 MU total FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM Faculty Table 3 FL individual faculties,severalcentralspe- ies consistsofninecentrallibrariesfor asaryk University’snetworkoflibrar- Libraries ,7,5 ,7,6 4,9 ,4 3 2733,5 11,995 37,857 42,703 434 2,444 448,197 1,479,860 1,577,057 Faculty central Faculty central 4,8 3,4 00017-7086264,954 2,472 183 6,256 2,169 7,078 1,977 10,348 - 11,010 3,307 3,201 3 3,894 3,489 3,369 42 4,145 187 20 59 345 30,070 882 117,513 189 136,741 134,355 371 704,071 23,166 141,086 58,736 286,322 721,310 136,936 340,443 120,867 138,030 131,942 3641,8 1999 51871478 147 78 3,560 1,497 4,146 1,807 4,354 278 15 5,165 17 151 91 25,975 172 11,989 39,584 33,943 11,989 37,184 39,584 13,654 43,215 ,2 ,2 2 2 – 7 323 323 - 1,522 1,766 - - - 56 6,809 2,823 6,584 2,823 7,370 Total library Library items periodicals Books and Books and 0452038 58 40 2.0 50 Avg. 49 9.3 47 101.9 2.3 71 9.8 41 415 47 51 11.0 20,568 3,036 30.5 1,905 18.0 10.0 1,900 9.0 20 1,638 1,000 222 1,154 32 4,592 140 3,368 126 0 3,198 148 0 504 0 365 1 9 64 1 143 15 1 19 1 21 1 69 1 1 1 1 1 1 Departmental Departmental libraries Open-shelf Open-shelf cesPitEetoi Total Electronic Print access Reading room Reading room capacity Periodical titles purposes forthewholeuniversity. information resourcesforresearchandteaching sponsible foracquiringanddistributingelectronic compatibility andinteroperability.Itisalsore- faculty librarytechnologieswithaviewtotheir and coordinatesthedevelopmentuseofall ized libraryinformationsystemsoftheuniversity at MU.Ithandlestheoperationsofcentral- working outtheguidelinesforlibraryservices of Computer Science,whichis responsiblefor Library andInformationCentre attheInstitute libraries. tive staff)nowenjoyequalconditionsatallMU (students ormembersofacademicadministra- collections isconcerned.AllinternalMUusers MU libraries spent 20.5 mil. CZK onacquisition. MU librariesspent20.5mil.CZK increase wasover42,000libraryitems,andthe specialized periodicalsinprintform.Theyear’s at theuniversity.Librariessubscribedto2500 libraries, fromallacademicdisciplinesstudied 1.6 mil.academiclibraryitemsondepositatMU As of31December 2005there werenearly Adding tothelibrarycollection Acquisition funds Acquisition funds The MUlibrarynetworkiscoordinatedbythe (thou. CZK) PUBLICATIONS, ARCHIVESANDLIBRARIES Number of added Number ofadded library items library items equivalent staff of full-time of full-time Books+ period. Number Number Reduction in Reduction in library items number of number of hours per hours per Opening Opening week 69 Accessibility of electronic information through the Ministry of Education 1 N grant sources (Internet – intranet) programme (information infrastructure research). Masaryk University has access to a wide spectrum In 2005 about 5 mil. CZK worth of electronic of international and domestic electronic infor- information sources was purchased using Masaryk mation sources for study, research and teaching University’s own funds purposes, covering every discipline found at the university. Its information resources in the form Coordinating library and information of full-text journals, collections of articles and services other academic and specialized publications in The basic library and information services (cata- electronic form, as well as its analytical, biblio- loguing, lending, electronic catalogue, acquisition) graphic, citation and encyclopaedic databases, are are supported at MU by the central library system fully comparable to those of leading international Aleph 500. In the summer of 2005 the central universities. In addition to the dozens of exten- libraries from all MU faculties were brought sive online megasources that are available, with into the Aleph-MU system. Over 43,000 users many thousands of periodical titles, and hundreds are registered in the automated library system, of information databases accessible university- which processed around a half-million loans from wide (see http://library.muni.cz/e_zdroje.html), the MU collections in 2005. Via the web, users a number of other highly-focused academic can search for information on documents in the information sources are also accessible at the MU catalogue as well as in the catalogues of the individual faculties. individual faculties. They can reserve and extend University electronic information sources are loans, check their reader’s account and carry out accessible to any computer linked to the univer- other operations on line. sity computer network. For students and staff The university’s automated library system accessing sources outside the university network, contains more than 700,000 bibliographic entries, proxy and VPN servers enable external access which cover the complete periodicals collection using the MU Information System’s unique and 44% of the university’s book collection. All authorization mechanisms. of the new acquisitions from about 1990 are avail- Most of the costs of acquiring these licensed able in electronic form, as well as the older items electronic information sources are covered that continue to be borrowed; the only collec-

Table 5 Library services Registered Registered Inter-lib. loan International Completed Training sessions Number of photocopies Faculty users loans service loan service searches for users made FL 5,226 75,341 176 – – – 90,728 FM 2,390 46,485 830 2 890 185 2,540 FS 4,082 30,444 1,249 238 10 50 - FA 10,631 160,311 639 – 461 14 47,241 FE 9,649 55,912 145 15 20 21 – FEA 4,404 71,371 144 36 – 12 – FI 2,209 11,000 105 2 – 5 – FSS 3,996 40,650 217 60 – 13 13,251 FSpS 1,127 11,970 118 23 28 – 11,591 MU total 43,714 503,484 3,623 376 1,409 300 165,351

Table 6 Electronic records Number of electronic entries in MU library system Faculty / Unit Monographs (library items) % of coll. Serials (titles) Periodicals (titles) FL 87,601 72 569 5,779 FM 51,487 38 686 – FS 116,102 41 2,978 – FA 208,189 30 2,741 – FE 95,481 70 332 311 FEA 39,584 100 144 8,548 FI 11,989 100 155 – FSS 33,943 100 381 32,132 FSpS 6,584 100 99 – Students with Special Needs 2,823 100 – – MU total 653,783 44 8,085 46,770

70 PUBLICATIONS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 ■ ■ ■ database ofacademicarticles. catalogues, somefacultiesarebuildinganindexed index cards.Besidesmonographandperiodical collections canbesearchedbymeansofscanned electronic catalogue.AttheFacultyofArts,old even theyarebeingsteadilybroughtintothe tal librariesandolder,little-useditems,although tions notcoveredaresomeofthoseindepartmen- degrees (64%of theseinlibraryspecializations), MU libraries.One-thirdofthem haveuniversity There areatotalof105full-time employeesat learning Library personnel–qualifications, lifelong offered attheFacultyofArts. Information StudiesandLibraryScience,whichis in theBachelor’sandMaster’sprogrammes for andaccessscientificinformation. a coursefordoctoralstudentsonhowtosearch credit system.AttheFacultyofMedicinethereis introduced asaregularcoursewithintheMU “How toworkwithspecializedinformation”was Faculty ofEducationane-learningcoursecalled Administration, EducationandScience).Atthe nized atfourfaculties(Arts,Economicsand 1st-year students(aspartofclasses)areorga- sources. Lecturesandinstructionalsessionsfor system andtheuseofelectronicinformation orientation inthelibrary,workwithlibrary tional sessionswereheld,focusingespeciallyon and fieldsofstudy.Inallfor2005,300educa- resources andneedsoftheindividualfaculties the faculties’centrallibraries,dependingon The educationandtrainingofusersishandledby Education andtrainingofusers Social Studies,andothers). of Education,avirtuallibraryattheFaculty electronic deliveryofdocumentsattheFaculty Faculty ofEconomicsandAdministration, the a full-textelectronicarchiveofallthesesatthe of oldprintedmaterialsattheFacultyArts, of theircapacity(forexamplethedigitalization needs ofthefacultiestheyserveandlimits other electronicservicesaccordingtothespecific At thefacultylevel,centrallibrariesprovide university public: systems providingbasicelectronicservicestothe ment andoperationofthreelibraryinformation Information Centre isengaged inthedevelop- At thecentrallevel,MULibraryand University electronicservices A numberofMUlibrariansserveasteachers the MUlibraries). (combines allbasicinformationandservicesof the libraryportal–http://library.muni.cz the wholeuniversitynetwork) in (access toinformationsourcesonCD/DVD server the universityCD-ROM loans, reservations,extensions) available ontheweb–searches,information (faculty cataloguesandtheMUunioncatalogue – http://aleph.muni.cz/ the Aleph500librarysystem Prague. Library inBrnoandtheNational ing sessionsandseminarsrunbytheMoravian arises, librarystafftakepartinprofessionaltrain- Centre personnel.Astheopportunity orneed sions runbyqualifiedLibraryandInformation isregularlyupdatedinses- (MARC 21,AACR2) in libraryspecializations). two-thirds havesecondaryschooleducation(83% sity studies. higher specializedqualificationsthroughuniver- nationalization programme;11librariansgained language coursesofferedwithintheMUinter- ■ ■ periodicals andserialliterature. university collections,especially intheareasof tion andcontacts,thissignificantly enrichesthe the world.Besidesmutuallybeneficial coopera- several thousandacademicinstitutionsaround scale exchangeofacademicpublicationswith ties in2005: A briefoverviewofotherimportantlibraryactivi- Other activities Familiarity withlibrarystandardsandprinciples In 2005,25librarianswereenrolledinEnglish MU librariestraditionallycarryoutthelarge- at theFacultyofSciencewasbegun. integrating theindividualdepartmentallibraries Arts weremovedtonewareas.Theprocessof at theFacultiesofSocialStudies,Scienceand university campusinBohunice.Collections Medicine, ScienceandSportsStudiesatthe a newInformationCentre fortheFacultiesof Studies. Preparatoryplanningcontinuedfor opened attheFacultiesofScienceandSocial New libraries: Social Studies. check-out deskwasinstalledattheFacultyof all ofMUwereestablished.Alibraryself-serve completed, andunifiedlendingconditionsfor the Aleph-MUunifiedlibrarydatabasewas Library system: MU total KIC MU FSpS FSS FI FEA FE FA FS FM /Unit Faculty Table 7 FL PUBLICATIONS, ARCHIVESANDLIBRARIES employees employees Qualifications oflibrarypersonnel 0. 612 8857.3 68.8 23 36.1 104.9 total 10252857.5 6 8 12.5 8.5 20.5 6 9.5 2 7 8 2.5 1 10 8.5 4 11.0 30.5 18.0 10.0 Newcentrallibrarieswere FTE FTE . 1 2 1 6.3 2 2 5 6.3 1 2 0 6 3 2 0 0 6 3 0 3.0 0.3 7 2.0 3.8 9.3 2.3 1 9.8 2 9.0 Conversion ofallfacultiesto University University education Science Library Library Of which Secondary Secondary education school school Science Library Library 71 Information Technology and the Information System 1155

1. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY nformation and communication technol- cooling systems at the central computer rooms at ogy (ICT) at the university is maintained and Botanická 68 and Komenského 2. Ideveloped by the MU Institute of Computer Science (ICS). It is responsible for the opera- Supercomputer Centre Brno (SCB) tion and expansion of the centralized computer This unit of the ICS is responsible for the devel- system, information systems and communication opment of distributed computer and data systems, infrastructure of the university. It issues meth- and recently for external cooperation systems odological guidelines for the Computer Science as well. At the same time it handles high-perfor- Laboratory and other specialized ICT units at the mance computer operations mainly for the pur- faculty level, and takes part in research and teach- poses of scientific and technical calculations and ing activities. the processing of large amounts of data. It is also involved in research in the field of grids, where it Centralized computer systems works as the de facto national centre in this field, The ICS manages the complex communications, and takes part in research on distributed environ- data and computer infrastructure at the university ments for cooperation. In both of these activities as well as part of the national network CESNET2, the SCB works closely with CESNET and other through which it is able to provide a number of universities in the CR. centralized services. In 2005, increased attention The year 2005 was the last year of operations was devoted to security and the reliable storage for the original high-performance SGI systems; of data in particular. At the University Computer the main high-performance output is now Centre, two backup systems were installed, sepa- concentrated in the computer clusters installed rated from the primary data at the ICS – one for at the ICS. These are both MU clusters (mainly data from the Integrated Control and Information the National Centre for Biomolecular Research) System (IRIS MU), and the other for the great as well as external CESNET clusters (as part of mass of data from other systems. The capacity of METACentrum activities). In 2005 the set-up the second system is also available for back-up consisted of 250 processors, the great majority of storage of critical data from the faculty servers. As which were Intel Pentium 4 Xeon with a frequen- new university computer rooms were set up, stor- cy of 2.4 or 3 GHz. The number of systems with age capacity for centrally-stored student data was 64-byte architecture also grew: besides one IMB expanded. Thus students can access their earlier computer with a Power4 processor, and one HP work from any one of these study areas, regardless computer with an Intel Itanium 2 processor, there of location. Due to lack of physical space at the were also 20 AMD64 Opteron processors. Late in central server facility at Botanická 68a, the basic the year a server was added with 16 GB of mem- technical and programme elements for so-called ory and four Opteron double-nucleus processors. virtualization of smaller-capacity servers were For the purpose of back-up data storage, the SCB acquired, allowing smaller applications requir- formerly operated a 12 TB METACentrum tape ing specific programme environments to run library; this was replaced at the end of the year simultaneously with the operation system of the by a new model with a total capacity of 200 TB providing server. of un-compressed data. This configuration stores Purchases, distribution and central support for back-up data from selected academic units at the university continued in the area of universal MU as well as from other institutions cooperat- programme components for client stations from ing on the METACentrum project. Another data the Microsoft Select programme, anti-virus and system operated by the SCB was distributed disc security systems and university-wide application storage with capacity over 15 TB. In 2005 the packages for statistics and mathematics. Extensive Supercomputer Centre provided specialized ser- reconstruction was carried out on the feeding and vices for digitalized recording of lectures, both by providing disk capacity as well as through opera-

72 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 which willofferourusersevenmoremobility. bring theuniversityintoEduroamproject, server wasintroduced.Plansareunderwayto significantly, andaperformance-adjustableVPN number ofWiFi-accesspointswasexpanded of notebookuserswithwirelessconnection,the systems. Toservicethegreatlyincreasednumbers the backbonenetworkandinternalfaculty computer system,mainlyattheinterfacebetween made ofnewfirewallsinvulnerablepartsthe network infrastructure,apilotinstallationwas tions. InordertostrengthensecurityontheMU hospitals toacentralserverformedicalapplica- MeDiMed networkconnectinglocalanddistant tinued onexpandingandensuringsecurityforthe complex. Workcon- infrastructure intheILBIT part inbuildingandconfiguringthenetwork took atthenewBohunicecampus, theICS ILBIT the firstphaseofconstructionintegrated operating permitexpired.Withthecompletionof above-ground cables,forwhichtheuniversity’s length of2.5 km. Thismadeitpossibletoremove new fibreopticcablerouteswerelaid,withatotal major changestothenetworkin2005.Several technology. GIS run undertheirowninformationsystembasedon keeping elementsoftheuniversitynetworkare the Brnonetwork.Theadministrativeandrecord- of theuniversityandpersonnelwhooversee Inmostcasestheseare leadingofficers 2.4 GHz. to theuniversitynetworkinfreeradioband network. Roughly50otherpointsareconnected nected viaamicrowave-bandhigh-speedradio and theUniversityCentre atŠlapanice arecon- units oftheFacultyScienceinBrno-Řeckovice network, directedtransmissionisused.Detached strands. For connectingtoplaces outsidetheoptic tres offibre-opticcablewithseveralthousand comprises over90junctionsand100kilome- operated withGigabitEthernettechnology,and link. Thebackboneoftheuniversitynetworkis and gridsareconnectedbytheirown1Gb/s ogy ontheBrno-Praguelink).Supercomputers datatransfertechnol- tally with10Gb/sDWDM 2 network,byalinkof2x1Gb/s(andexperimen- network, withdirectconnectiontotheCESNET operates thebackboneofuniversitycomputer The InstituteofComputer Science developsand communications infrastructure The universitycomputernetworkand of 8TBanddualbackupstoragedata. MU’s multi-mediaarchive,withcurrentcapacity ings. Italsotookpartindesigningandlaunching tion ofaclusterforcodeddigitalvideorecord- system. Mostoperational activitieswererelated heavy investmentthathadbeen madeinthe worth andbringfinancialbenefits, justifyingthe calls anduserratesbegantoprove itsfunctional el chosenforoperation,maintenance, trackingof voice networkcameintofulloperation; themod- In 2005,theyearafteritwasbuilt,MU’snew Voice communicationsnetwork From atechnologicalstandpointtherewereno as 500callsinasingleday. peak timesduringentranceexaminationsasmany on workingdaysanaverageof200callsaday,at callcentrehandledover50,000callsin2005; ICS The MUswitchboardandinformationdeskatthe number ofinstalledoutletsstabilizingat4250. 1400 useroutletswereconnected,withtheoverall created. Inthecourseofthismovingabout,some Medicine departmentonČernopolní streetbeing plex onKotlářskástreet;andanewFacultyof Science returningfromŘečkovicetothecom- Bohunice campus;someunitsoftheFaculty complexonthe and SciencemovingtotheILBIT Jaselská streets;partoftheFacultiesMedicine of ArtsgainingnewpremisesonGorkéhoand Studies movingtoJoštovastreet;theFaculty and staff.TheseincludedtheFacultyofSocial to changesinthelocationofuniversityoffices at MU. expanding: in2005therewere2,677 laptopusers for connectingtolaptopcomputers isconstantly with adatastoragefileforuserdata.Thesystem copier; theserverinfrastructurewasstrengthened acquired ahigh-performancelaserprinterand 670,000 pages.TheUniversityComputer Centre hours onthecentre’scomputersandprinting students making389,000visits,spending468,000 In 2005,itsserviceswereusedby16,154MU been inconstantusedayandnightsince2000. Centre itselfremainshigh:its109computershave 2006. the spectrumofavailableservicesisplannedfor nected roomsanduseraccessstationsaswellof system. Further expansionofthenumbercon- and Sciencehadbeenconnectedtotheunified Centre andtheFacultiesofArts,SocialSciences user stationslocatedattheUniversityComputer Rooms wentintoeffect;bytheendof2005,386 new OperatingRegulationsforMUComputer ture andtechnologies.On1September2005 Computer Centre andusesitssysteminfrastruc- computer roomsissupportedbytheUniversity software equipment.Thenetworkofuniversity cost ofacquiringandmaintainingtechnical according tousers’currentneedsandlowersthe cept ofcentrally-controlledservicesallowsservice From anoperationalstandpoint,theunifiedcon- are tohaveaccesscertainguaranteedservices. of computerroom.Inallroomsusers student beindependentoffacultyorlocation is basedontherequirementthataccessforeach and centrally-stored(personal)data.Thedesign university’s electronicsourcesofinformation computer andcommunicationsfacilities,the effective accessbyusers(especiallystudents)to rooms providingaunifiedenvironmentfor goal istocreateatMUanetworkofcomputer overall planforuniversitycomputerrooms.The At thebeginningof2005MUapprovedan University computerrooms Student interestintheUniversityComputer INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 73 E-learning Support Centre Documentation intended not only for research The ICS is responsible for coordinating activities offices but for the financial offices as well as the having to do with multi-media and IT support principal investigators of the projects. The new for all forms of instruction at MU. The E-learn- system will go beyond the current recording of ing Support Centre, or eCentrum for short, identification details and descriptive information was established in 2005 as part of a Ministry of on projects to cover their financial aspects as well, Education development project. Besides its core thus providing structured access to financial data employees and the principal investigators of and enabling the entry of data needed for creating the development project, personnel from all of budgets and planning expenditures. The first steps the MU faculties and the Language Centre were in this restructuring were analyses of the system involved in the work of the eCentrum in 2005. and the mass collection of the needed data on all The eCentrum is responsible for methodologi- of the current research projects at MU. This will cal and organizational assistance to faculties, the be followed in 2006 by the creation of applica- coordination of these activities at the university tion support enabling printouts of structured and level and the preparation of guidelines and itemized budgets and links to the “Budgets” and instructional material. eCentrum also works with “Invoices” modules in the financial and account- a development team from the MU Information ing system. The current database includes more System to develop a unified system of study sup- than 2,300 projects carried out at MU since 1991 port (the Learning Management System – LMS). and over 500 habilitation and doctoral proceed- eCentrum cooperates with selected groups of ings (since 1999). teachers, collects information on the experience acquired by established systems and provides Financial IS feedback for the LMS. Information support in the area of finances The building of the central technical infra- and accounting is provided to the university’s structure for support of electronic forms of study finance officers and administrative staff in this continued in 2005. The ICS set up a server to area (currently around 350 users) by the Magion handle multi-media data (with a capacity of 2 electronic information service, from the external times 8 TB, and potential for further increase contractor Magion Systems, a.s. This system is in capacity), stabilized the system for automatic made up of the module Financial Accounting processing of digital video recordings (transfer to (including Receivables, Payables, Liabilities, various formats), and created a distributed system Bank, Cash Offices and Business trips), along of linked servers for easier downloading of large with the modules Stock, Property, Invoices and video recordings. The ICS also coordinated the Budgets. The ICS operates these modules and purchase of technical equipment for the indi- ensures their integration into the IRIS MU, and vidual MU faculties. provides intranet access to selected financial indicators for individual MU units and users. In University information systems 2005 a fundamental change in technologies was The individual university information subsys- made, from the Informix database system to the tems are part of MU’s Integrated Control and more promising platform Oracle. This transition Information System (IRIS MU). The develop- required significant alterations in the applications ment, operation and integration of subsystems in both EIS Magion as well as the MU intranet. supporting the university in the areas of research, In addition to other modifications required by financial and accounting operations, personnel changes in external and internal regulations and and payroll management, operational services, methodology, the development of the finances geographically oriented information services, information system in 2005 also moved in the libraries and external relations is overseen by direction of improvements in the are of property the ICS, which also plays the main role in the records – the documentation and inventory of creation of the conceptual framework for IRIS. MU property using bar codes. In 2006 Magion Studies and teaching are supported by a subsys- will be expanded to include a standardized tem of the Information System overseen by an IS interface for long-distance transfer of data on team at the Faculty of Informatics. payments and receivables to and from external systems (required especially by the newly-built IS for research system for MU Internet commercial transactions This information system was intended primarily and also by the IS MU for studies, and the linking as a means of support for the Offices for Research of the financial system (modules for budgeting at the faculties. It contains the central information and orders) with the above-mentioned system for files on research projects and long-term research keeping project records. programmes, habilitation and doctoral proceed- ings and the composition of the Academic Personnel and Payroll IS and identification Senates, the Scientific Boards and MU’s other cards official bodies (with links to the MU’s public The P&P system provides information support to Internet presentation). In 2005 extensive restruc- personnel and payroll offices at MU (currently turing was begun in the area of research projects about 50 users). Selected information about this and long-term research programmes, with the goal system is available to MU’s individual units and of building an Information System for Project users via the university intranet and to the public

74 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 tions integratedintotheIRISMU. a completelynewsystem,withdataandapplica- and administeringthecardswillbereplacedby cally managedprogrammefacilitiesforcreating were producedin2005.In2006thecurrentlo- canteens andcafeterias,etc.Some9,200cards are usedtoorderandobtainmealsinuniversity (including theUniversityComputer Centre), mation systems,enableentrytoprotectedareas provide secureaccesstotheuniversity’sinfor- serving forgeneralidentificationpurposes,also ITIC, employeecards,etc.).Thebesides ing ofpersonsandproductionIDcards(ISIC, programme equipmenttotheactualphotograph- fromthedevelopmentandoperationof ICS and employees,whicharetheresponsibilityof with personalizedchipMUIDcardsforstudents ments. Newbidswillbeinvitedin2006. MU, butnoneofthebiddersmetrequire- an externalcontractorforanewP&Psystem early partoftheyeartherewaspublicbiddingfor Administration inelectronicform. During the of MUemployeestotheCzechSocialSecurity to providedataonthestatepensioninsurance and methodology,especiallythenewobligation payroll systemduetochangesinregulations modifications weremadeinthepersonneland via MU’sInternetpages.In2005anumberof the universityto individualpersons.Asapilot central paymentoffeesforservices providedby support Clearing MU,theuniversitysystemfor traffic wasasignificantimprovement in2005. the applicationserverInetassuring uninterrupted of hardwareandsoftwareforclusteroperation information systemtechnology.Theacquisition ment, incorporatinggraphicsusinggeographic in 2005theareaofuniversitypropertymanage- for 2006.ThecoverageofInetwasalsoexpanded erty; enteringtheremainingtwo-thirdsistask roughly one-thirdofMasarykUniversity’sprop- readers. Thebarcodesystemhasbeenappliedto was developedusingprogrammablebarcode ventory stickers;apropertyinventoryprogramme produced, alongwithmorethan62,000itemin- meant that4,400stickersforroomshadtobe tem fortrackinguniversitypropertybybarcode Inet thatsawthegreatestexpansion:newsys- 600 people.In2005itwasthefinancialpartof 7,500 persons),withanaveragedailyvisitationof 2,300 people)and25%ofthestudents(some larly bymorethan57%oftheemployees(some facilities management.Thesystemisusedregu- telephones andtherecently-addedbuilding address lists),personnelinformation,payrolldata, information (minutes,regulations,instructions, information andservicesintheareaofinternal and particularindividualsatMUwithselected and leadingadministrativestaff,secretariats,etc.) the taskofwhichistoprovidelocaloffices(heads information systembasedonwebtechnology, The intranetsystemInetMUisauniversity University intranetandClearing University personnelrecordsarealsoconnected A veryimportantpartofInetis theapplication also beaccessedatwww-prezentaciMU. resultscan http://maps.muni.cz; someoftheGIS is mediatedbypublicinternetapplicationat as selecteddatafromthecomputernetwork, application. Publicaccesstothisdata,aswell to qualifiedMUstaffviaaspecializedintranet data inthebuildingfilesweremadeaccessible plans ofbuildings,floorsandrooms–the categories inthegeographicdatabase–ground In 2005informationwasputintothebasicdata for supportinadministeringrealpropertyatMU. technologyisthenewly-established system GIS of thetelephonesystem.Anothersystemusing and functionsaddedtosupportthemanagement In 2005thesystem’suserinterfacewasimproved, managing theBrnoacademiccomputernetwork. ogy withitsownsystemsformaintainingand technol- hasbeenusingGIS several yearstheICS tion systemsdealingwithobjectsinspace.For makes themaneffectiveinstrumentforinforma- spatial contextswiththehelpofdigitalmaps.This information onexactlocationandpresentdatain provide Geographic informationsystems(GIS) Geographic informationsystems and soon). at MUcafeterias,printingandcopyingservice, ment ofprivatetelephonebills,paymentbills client systemsmightincludeforpay- system ofbillingordeposittype(forexample, payment ofpersonalbills,usablebyanyexternal with thegoalofcreatingageneralsystemfor begun forathird,generalversionofClearing, financial IS.Attheendof2005ananalysiswas external systemsandbankingapplicationsofthe interface wascreatedfortransferringdatabetween and billing;inconnectionwiththis,aneffective significant changesinthesystemofpayments to theplatformOracle.Bothrevisionsbrought reviewed, andtheentiresystemwastransferred In 2005thecoreandinterfaceofClearing were commodation andservicesattheMUresidences. project, itcarriesoutnon-cashpaymentsforac- MU asawhole. matic, bothatthefacultyleveland throughout on thecollectionshavebeenmade fullyauto- of cataloguing,lendingandaccesstoinformation registered users.Basiclibraryservicesintheareas the Aleph-MUcatalogue,whichhassome40,000 there areover700,000bibliographicreferencesin were unifiedthroughouttheuniversity.Atpresent new MULibraryRegulations,lendingregulations completed. Atthesametime,inkeepingwith faculties toaunifiedAlephsystemdatabasewas vices. In2005theprocessofconversionallMU in MUlibrariesandcarriesoutseveralon-lineser- helps userssearchforinformationondocuments Aleph. Throughitswebinterface,thissystemalso are supportedbytheautomatedlibrarysystem The operationsandservicesoftheMUlibraries Library system INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 75 MU’s public web pages web servers and an independent data server, fully MU’s bilingual Internet presentation (web and replaceable by a backup server. In 2005 a full-scale wap) presents general and detailed information analysis was made of the requirements for the about all aspects of MU on the principle of uni- creation of a new version of the web presenta- fied information content, a unified presentation tion based on a unified visual style for MU. The format and automated transfer of information design of the project should be completed in the from IRIS MU databases. It is an MU product spring of 2006; implementation is planned for implemented by the ICS in cooperation with the September 2006. Offices for Internal Administration and External Relations of the MU Rector’s Office. In 2005 the number of visitors to the web pages rose to more than 8,600 IP addresses per week (21% more than in 2004); it is operated through a cluster of

2. INFORMATION SYSTEM he Masaryk University Information System as well as beginning-of-the-semester peaks. These (IS MU) is an authorized web informa- peak traffic hours, caused by first-come first-serve Ttion system that covers nearly every area competition by students in signing up for the of student administration and several other MU most popular seminars and examination sessions, agendas. Access to the public part of the system is caused no major complication to the system. found at is.muni.cz. However, overall performance was also improved As of 31 December 2005, 77,334 active users by optimization carried out gradually within the had an MU Information System password. The system during 2005 on individual applications. system is regularly used by 37,988 persons, while While no technical equipment changes were 43,397 accessed the system occasionally. In 2005 made in the database sector in 2005, at the end a total of 45,804 e-applications were submitted of the year the application servers underwent a during the MU admissions procedures. A total planned modernization in order to keep up with of 35,467 persons read some kind of message the performance of the database during future on the Notice Board; 19,345 students submitted growth in the system. comments on the quality of the teaching at MU In 2005 significant improvement was made to in an anonymous survey. E-learning agendas again the technical equipment, allowing better support experienced massive growth – there were 26,812 for storage of data in foreign languages. This is posts in topical discussion forums, and in the sec- related to the ever-growing use of the Information tion Study Materials alone there are 49,528 files. System for independent study, where study ma- In 2005 the e-mail server mail.muni.cz delivered terials (texts, examination questions, multimedia some 9 million messages. instructional elements, etc.) can contain all kinds of symbols from any number of foreign alphabets. This very complicated technical improvement Overall statistics allows full support in any application for localiza- ■ Number of accesses in 2005: 147,684,675 tion into other languages. ■ Maximum number of different users signing on in a single day: 19,358 Development and operation ■ Maximum number of open pages in the system Each year, on the basis of cooperation with the in one day: 1,161,935 Offices for Studies at the MU Rectorate and ■ Maximum server performance: 162,252 fulfilled the individual faculties as well as other central requests in an hour (averaged) university units, their needs and requests are ■ Total number of individual programmes in the communicated and acted upon. At the same system: approximately 1100 time, a development team monitors and identifies ■ Data storage: in some 810 database tables in administrative processes that can be simplified around 70 categories and streamlined and recommends and imple- ■ Number of publication entries: 435, 748 (of ments them within the IS MU in accordance which, for RIV: 53,160) with the needs that have been expressed. In the ■ Number of questions answered through the past year these have included various changes or contact address: around 2,000 modifications in administration of studies in the ■ Total server down time: about 38 hours area of admissions, release of information related to individual studies, and so on. Operational technology The greatest efforts in 2005 were made in the Throughout 2005, the modern database technol- area of advanced development of e-learning. ogy based on the SGI Altix server in operation New instruments of communication were created since August 2004 was used to its full capacity. where this was requested (for example, for the This allows high performance and uninterrupted Office for External Relations). A significant por- accessibility to the system during regular traffic

76 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005 ■ ■ ■ ranging topicsinthisareaincluded: learning. In2005,themostpromisingandwide- to includeotherpossibilitiesforelectronic-based tion betweenteachersandstudentsexpandit duction oftheprincipleelectroniccommunica- MU. Thegoalistobuildonthesuccessfulintro- has beenthecoredevelopmentactivityofIS Over thelastfewyearse-learningsub-system E-learning sever otherfactors. speed ofimplementation,cost-effectivenessand support forteaching,flexibilityofdevelopment, benefits forinstitutionalproductivity,electronic students andtheiractivities,efficiencyofuse, tion ofstandardandabove-standardservicesfor bility foroperationandadministration,evalua- ed ofthedegree(de)centralizationresponsi- world’s Top100. was intheworld’sTop10andtwoothers have includedthemostrenownedinEurope;one Universities awardedthisprizeinearlieryears of informationtechnologyinhighereducation. form ofrecognitionleadingplayersintheuse information systems;since1999ithasservedasa prize forthebestimplementationofuniversity for HigherEducationisaprestigiousEuropean menting Administrative Information Systems EliteAwardThe EUNIS forexcellence inimple- EUNIS ELITEAWARD 2005toMU continue. studies). TranslationoftheISintoEnglishwill simplified recognitionofsubjectsfromprevious of coursecreditsforparalleldegreecoursesand integrating fieldsofstudy(automaticcompilation continue one-learningmodulesandsupportfor system dealteasilywiththesepeaks. sessions andseminargroups;itwasfoundthatthe ing enrolmentforpopularcourses,examination system operationsduringpeakhoursafteropen- language. tion oftheISMUwastranslatedintoEnglish example, language courseplacementtestsfor knowledge inthecomputerroom –for A pilotruntookplacefortesting student Testing throughISMU and soon. and drills,fortestingwithinteractive elements, types ofknowledgetesting,forpractisingskills web format.Thetoolcanbeappliedforvarious testing, withvarioustypesoftestquestionsin Development hascontinuedinthefieldof Questionnaires educational materials. veniently posttheiralreadyexistingelectronic where abroadspectrumofteacherscancon- to individuale-learningactivitiesandaplace starting pointfromwherestudentscanmove provides accesstocurriculumoverview;itisa The InteractiveCurriculum application Interactive Curriculum Evaluation criteriaforthecompetitionconsist- During theupcomingperiod, work will In 2005attentionwasdevotedtomonitoring

■ ■ ■ ■ teaching moreeffective. the basisofidentifiedopportunitiestomake conditions ineducation,attheuniversityoron tions implementedinrelationtonewinstitutional The largestapplicationsundertakenwereapplica- Support forthestudyprocess account number, scheduleforcollectingthe information (timerequestwassubmitted, bank application, andimmediatelyreceives control his orherbankaccountnumber intothe of theapplicationperiod.Thestudent enters on thescreen–allthiswellbefore thestart reason whythestudentisnoteligibleshown conditions ofstudyatMU);otherwise,the (after computercalculationofthestudent’s Grant”, butonlyifheiseligibleforsuchagrant the application“RequestforAccommodation a newsetofrules.Eachstudentmayopen of Education,YouthandSportstointroduce commodation in2005ledtheCzechMinistry A reforminthesystemforfinancingstudentac- Applications foraccommodationgrants and suitabilitybeforegraduation. check thesupplementforfactualcorrectness ment bythestudent.Thatway,studentscan and printingofasampleversionthesupple- then printsit.Thesystemalsoallowspreview needed inordertoissuethedocumentand easier: theISMUchecksondozensoffacts nationally-recognized documentisnowmuch Information System.Productionofaninter- programme. In2005itbecamepartoftheMU number ofcredits,fieldstudiesanddegree showed onlycourse,dateofcompletion, Masaryk Universityuponrequestonly,and Supplement, waspreviouslyprovidedby ment abroad.Thisdocument,theDiploma useful forpossiblefurtherstudiesoremploy- holder hascompleted,includinginformation information aboutthestudiesdiploma uniform documentcontainingfurtherdetailed tion certificate,MasarykUniversityissuesa In additiontothediplomaandstateexamina- supplements Printing ofuniversitydiplomasanddiploma ment itself. and havesteadyfeedbackduringthedevelop- the needsandsuggestionsofe-courseteachers, tion andtrainingforspecialprojects,analyze necessary toprovidespeciale-learningconsulta- With theexpansionofe-learningatMU,itwas Training andconsultationforteachers languages unfamiliarwithITskills. and otherlanguagematerialsbyteachersof for productionofcomplexsetstestquestions teaching. Extensiveapplicationswerecreated in 2005weresupportofforeignlanguage Perhaps themostextensivee-courseprojects Language coursesupport exam tests. ning, recognition,andautomaticcorrectionof simplification ofadministeringexams:scan- files, etc.Preparationscontinuedforfurther 900 studentsofEnglish,submissionsecured

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 77 grant, details from the national registry and MU Alumni and Friends Association whether the application for an accommodation The IS MU now offers a new application serv- grant has been accepted). Likewise, the MU ing the MU Alumni and Friends Association. Information System provides other services to It organizes special programmes for graduates student and Offices for Studies and information and friends of the university that help bring the for university management. In addition, after university closer to them and assist in providing confirming the decision to issue the grant, it contacts between graduates, organizing graduate passes along the needed data to the accounting reunions, passing along university news, providing software so that the payment of the grant is as news about the Masaryk University Information automated as possible. This year’s submission System (even for members who graduated before of applications went off without a hitch during the IS MU existed), sending out invitations to ma- the period from 1-15 October. During that jor university and faculty events, cultural events period Masaryk University recorded over twelve and special university lectures, fostering coopera- thousand eligible applications. tion with similar associations abroad, and so on. ■ Teachers’ workload After the completion of studies, graduates The IS MU implemented IS instruments retain their e-mail address and a Personal Page in requested by many MU faculties that enable the IS MU, but the Notice Board and Discussion them to make their own analyses of which Forum are only open for reading. However, mem- teacher gave which students what grades. The bers of the association do have the opportunity to originally implemented project in tracking the contribute to the two sites. awarding of grades allowed tracking of only the most recent grades. However, if a student Evaluating the University Environment fails an examination and repeats it one or two – a questionnaire times, in theory he or she could be examined A survey created by the Strategy and by a different teacher each time. Therefore, the Development Office was designed to identify information on who gave the grade is listed problems of students and employees at Masaryk separately for each exam. This also covers cases University. The questionnaire for students where a grade is recorded on behalf of the contained 25 questions dealing with studies, teacher by a secretary, for example; now it is communication with teachers, quality of building clear who actually gave the exam. Such records infrastructure, cafeterias and technical equip- are part of the task of getting a statistical ment. The questionnaire for employees contained overview of the volume of work accomplished 34 questions about building facilities, technical by each particular teacher; it is now possible equipment, quality of organization and services to produce a list of teachers and the grades and the computer network and evaluation of given by them. The overall effect is improved the IS MU. A total of 15,935 people responded ability of faculty officials to monitor teacher to the survey. As with the regularly-conducted workloads in terms of grading exams. Faculty evaluations of teaching quality, this survey was officers judge teacher performance according able to take advantage of IS MU technology to to a number of factors, and those who initiated assure anonymity and to allow collection of free the project now have another management tool commentary – 1,619 respondents filed verbal on the basis of which to make evaluations. comments. To organize such a survey without the use of the IS MU would be far more difficult Help, index and training organizationally. The Help application was improved and ex- panded in 2005 with the addition of sections on Translation of the IS E-learning, Studies and Course Catalogue. At International students often encounter problems present Help contains 46 chapters (with a total of carrying out routine operations like registration 483 questions), while others are being prepared. for classes, looking up schedules or applying for Cooperation also continued with the Human examination sessions, because in the past all such Resources Office at the MU Rectorate on regular agendas were shown only in Czech. The first of retraining for various groups of MU employees. three stages of translating the IS MU into English These seminars are taught by members of the IS got underway in 2005. Students’ and teachers’ MU development team. Some training is part of applications and the Catalogue of Courses were the traditional orientation for new students, but completely translated even so, development teams are overwhelmed at Translation is served by a sophisticated applica- the start of the year by questions. An effective tion menu by which individual terms or longer measure was to post a help text on each 1st year phrases or sentences, which are linked to over- student’s own Personal Administration title page view applications where the term is used in the for a certain period to help students understand appropriate context, can be translated in the most how to solve problems and seek out and use precise way. information. Some 2,800 new students clicked for help in 2005, making up 70 percent of those who were accepted for studies this year at MU and have entered the MU IS.

78 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MASARYK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2005  UIPV  UIPV  UIPV  UIPV  UIPV version. we canexpecttherestofcompleteEnglish a three-yearprogram,sowithinthenexttwoyears purposes. all authorizedusersfortheirstudiesandacademic an authoritativesource,andisthusavailableto ogy. Thedictionaryofterminologyisconsidered of thetranslationtomatchuniversityterminol- as Englishterminologyisdevelopedinthecourse was introduced.Thedictionarycontinuestogrow, The translationoftheISMUintoEnglishis Moreover, in2005adictionaryofterminology Graph 2 months vertically. Onlyauthorizedaccessesareshown,byindividual faculty. Months oftheyearareshownhorizontally, numberofopenedwebpagesatis.muni.czintheindividual Graph 1 10 mil. 15 mil. 20 mil. 0 mil. 5 mil. * Total number ofauthorizedaccessesforindividualmonths Use ofMUInformationSystemin2005 I ** *** II *7 III 7 7* IV 7** 7*** V *9 VI 9 VII 9* 9** VIII $64 '4Q4 (2005) IX '. '& '4 X '- '44 '&" XI '*  UIPV  UIPV  UIPV  UIPV  UIPV '" INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY XII 79 Providing Information in Accordance with Act No. 106/1999 1166

The Freedom of Information Act (henceforth only “the Act”)

s Masaryk University in Brno is a public institution of higher learning, providing Ainformation is one of its most important (and in some areas most frequent) activities. The great bulk of the information provided was re- quested in person from MU employees in view of these individuals’ responsibility for areas in which the information was requested; therefore, in ac- cordance with Section 13 of the Act, no record is made of these requests. For the submission of written requests for infor- mation, rules were drawn up in accordance with paragraph 5 (1) b) of the Act, and can be found at http://www.rect.muni.cz/statut/postinf.htm. During 2005, 302 written requests for information were submitted in this manner. In eight cases the requested information was outside the competency of MU, and those who had made the requests were so informed. In 195 cases the requests were for information already made public by MU; in these cases, the internet addresses where the requested information could be found were supplied. In 99 cases the requested information was prepared and given to those who had requested it within the legal time period. During 2005 no appeals were submitted to any decision to reject an application for information. During 2005 there were no court cases against MU dealing with any possible refusal of informa- tion according to the Act. Likewise during that period, neither MU nor any of its employees were sanctioned in any way for failure to observe the Act.

80 PROVIDING INFORMATION Masaryk University a n n U A L r e PO r t 2 0 0 5 Official launchof (Masaryk University represented by PavelProšek, primeinitiator oftheproject) Beginning theconstruction oftheCzechscientificstation inAntar Photo Gallery muni.cz attheMasarykUniversityBall–28January2005inBesednídům,Brno ctica onJamesRoss Island–early2005 17 P O T O H G L L A e r y 81 82 of SocialStudiesonJoštovastreet, 19September2005 Official openingofthecompletelyrenovated buildingoftheFaculty P O T O H G L L A e r y atrium oftheFacultySocialStudies, 19September2005 Concert byBarbaraMariaWilly andJiříBártatomarkthebeginning ofthe2005/2006academicyear, heldinthe

Masaryk University a n n U A L r e PO r t 2 0 0 5 Masaryk University a n n U A L r e PO r t 2 0 0 5 European CommissionerforScienceandResearch Campus atBrno-Bohunice,withtheparticipationofJanezPotočnik, Official openingofthefirststageconstructionUniversity 6 September2005 Garden Festival,withanexhibition ofstatuesbyJaromír Gargulák –BotanicalGarden ofthe FacultyofScience, P O T O H G L L A e r y 83 Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, presented with the Great Gold Medal of Masaryk University by the Rector of MU, Petr Fiala – Masaryk University Great Hall, Faculty of Law, 27 September 2005

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