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7. Mar. 2022
CEITEC management, scientific community and CEITEC employees would like to express their sympathy and solidarity with all citizens of Ukraine. CEITEC is very concerned and ready to offer a helping hand to the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian scientific community within our capabilities.
CEITEC employees contributed to the emergency material assistance organised by CEITEC Brno University of Technology (BUT). In the last few days 89 boxes have been packed with selected emergency goods, sorted, transported and loaded directly into trains heading for cities behind the Ukrainian border. Employees, who wish to contribute with further emergency goods can find the updated list of needed goods and the train schedule HERE.
Brno University of Technology (BUT) also reserved 266 beds at Manes dormitories for family members of BUT students and employees fleeing the war in Ukraine. Single and double rooms with their own bathroom are being adjusted according to the recommendations of the Czech Red Cross to suit specific needs of the refugees. BUT will provide scholarships to all its 300 Ukrainian students as extraordinary support in this difficult situation. The scholarship will serve as support for continuing the study in those difficult circumstances. The full details regarding this special assistance to Ukraine by Brno University of Technology are available HERE.
In response to the situation in Ukraine, also the biggest CEITEC consortium partner Masaryk University is organizing several modes of special assistance for Ukrainian people, students, academics and their families. MU has announced financial aid for educational and humanitarian purposes. Financial contributions can be sent through the MU Shopping Centre available at the website of MUNI Helps. The MU Faculty of Education and its Department of Russian Language and Literature are preparing assistance for Ukrainian citizens, including special offer of free interpreting and other language activities. Masaryk University in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports is preparing special scholarships for Ukrainian students, that would help them to complete their studies in the Czech Republic.
Masaryk University also offers free accommodation for Ukrainian students, academics and their family members in MU dormitories. MU also offers accommodation in rooms and apartments at the University Centre Telč (100 km from Brno). The Institute of Psychology of the Faculty of Arts of MU has set up a crisis psychological helpline for Russian and Ukrainian students, academic staff and citizens living in Brno or the South Moravian Region. The full details regarding special assistance to Ukraine by the Masaryk University are available HERE.
CEITEC collaborates with ResearchJobs.cz, which is the largest job portal in the Czech Republic, that specializes in offering academic positions and private sector job positions in science and research, as well as dissertation topics. The portal showcases annually more than 1,000 job advertisements, predominantly from the academic sector. Following Russia's unprecedented and criminal actions in relation to Ukraine, ResearchJobs.cz have decided without hesitation to engage in activities in support of Ukrainian academics and researchers. ResearchJobs.cz in colaboration with Czexpats in Science launched a new portal, which aggregates research positions suitable for Ukrainian researchers, including all available job position at CEITEC and all open dissertation topics of the CEITEC PhD School. More information, mostly in Ukrainian, is available HERE. The aim is to provide up-to-date information about research and study opportunities in the Czech Republic, as well as an overview of necessary administrative steps and contacts at the individual work places.
“As we know “Inter arma silent Musae” and it applies also to science. It is our responsibility to help Ukrainian and Russian scientists in these dark days and CEITEC consortium is prepared to do its part,” concludes Pavel Tomancak, director of the CEITEC consortium.
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