Active projects
Carbonline
The idea of at least partially moving the popular Carbon to an online environment came shortly after the real Carbon had to be physically closed for pandemic reasons. Today, Carbonline is one of the already established platforms where older students either pass on useful information to their younger colleagues (tips for online teaching, advice on writing bachelor theses) or simply spend time together in a relaxed way and socialise in an era when face-to-face contact is noticeably lacking for many people (pubquizzes, smaller online games, etc.). Lukáš Kamenský, Blanka Pilátová, Vojtěch Domín
Evaluation of teaching using reference groups
Student feedback is an important part of teaching. It helps teachers to better determine the level of understanding of the material discussed by students. At the same time, it provides suggestive comments on the form of teaching or the clarity of study materials. The project of evaluation of teaching by reference groups provides a comprehensive concept for regular feedback during the course of the semester. At the beginning of the semester, students elect a reference group to collect comments and suggestions from students throughout the course, which are then formulated twice a semester into a report that is submitted to the teacher. The aim of the project is to help reduce the barrier of communication between students and the teacher and to report on the status of the course during the course. Pilot project - summer semester 2020/2021. Elena Šulcová
Digitalization of administration
The project focuses on the simplification and computerisation of administration, which is unavoidable in our environment. We started by rethinking and eventually abolishing the mandatory indexes, but ideas such as completely digital semester enrolments, electronic certificates (for studies, interruptions or terminations), applications or electronically sealed diplomas are still highly topical. In collaboration with the Academic Senate's Committee for Education, we are working to maximize the potential of SIS to facilitate day-to-day operations for students as well as for dean's offices and other departments. Lukáš Kamenský, Matěj Malý
Self-payers
This project focuses on our foreign colleagues who, despite paying for their studies at our school, do not receive the same quality and attention as other students. The initial intentions of this project were to bring their issue to life, to bring to the attention of especially the leadership among academics and active students that this problem still exists, and to try to start addressing it. The essential outcomes were to actively support the self-payers to compile the points that they lack at the school, to help them to set up a communication platform where they would interact within their association (founded in 2020) "International Student Association (ISA)" (similar to K3S), to help them to set up an initial plan to address the issues and to start addressing certain issues themselves within our ranks (e.g. organisation of their support, social background etc.). At the moment, the further progress of the project depends on the start of the ISA activity. Markéta Nováková
Unification of the electoral rules of the senates
After a more thorough study of the Election Regulations, we have discovered a number of errors and inaccuracies in them. So we formed a working group to rework the Regulations. We proceeded on the basis of the developed Subject Matter Plan, which was intended to improve and simplify the elections from the students' point of view. After discussion with the Legal Department of UCT, a proposal to amend the Election Regulations of the AS of the UCT Prague was finally raised at the AS meeting, where the proposed changes were adopted without comments (April 2021). The Rector forwarded the document to the Legal Department for incorporation. Once it is published, there will be a discussion on the change of the Regulations at faculty levels that have specific requirements that will need to be argued/incorporated into the documents. The ideal is to have only two Regulations, one for the AS UCT, the other for the Faculty Senates. The changes are mainly aimed at the student sections of the senate. Matěj Malý
Facilities for clubs, facilities for active students
One of the longer-term efforts of K3S is to acquire fixed premises that will serve as a background for active students, for activities of clubs, their meetings, exams, etc.
E-sports / online-gaming
The idea of e-sports and online-gaming in general has started to develop more and more at our university, understandably, with the advent of the pandemic situation. After setting up our own space on discord and a few isolated participations in inter-school tournaments, a large community of gamers from UCT gradually started to emerge. In particular, it came to the fore during the first school e-sports tournament in the Šípek's Championship (SS 2021), which showed a high level of interest in the field. Better and bigger tournaments, leagues, a separate association... the future is clearly open for e-sports! Miroslav Hala, Lukáš Kamenský
Surveys and student award
The semester-long student survey project is one of those never-ending ones. It is not one of those tasks with a clear solution or one that ends with a great event. The results come in small steps, but that's the beauty of it. We feel it is important that the teaching is constantly innovated for future years. In addition, new accredited programs are currently in their second year, and like any new thing, these programs need some fine tuning. Teaching is run for us and how else can we as students participate in improving it other than by giving feedback! In past years, we have held student discussions regarding the most problematic courses in order to add quantitative data to specific issues. These were then discussed directly with the course supervisors. However, this pandemic year has been a much more difficult challenge for pedagogy.
On behalf of the student survey group, we have been trying to make communication between the tutors and us students more accessible from the very first moment of online learning. Through the student survey, we identified student circles not contacted by the educator (but also vice versa) and then communicated these results with the school administration. Throughout these complications, we tried to foster a student spirit to minimize student motivation. This semester, we have mapped the issues associated with measuring and writing final papers and again communicated the results with the administration, who are open to our views.
However, any constructive criticism should be compensated with thanks. That is why the second project of our group is the emerging student award for the pedagogical but also for the non-teaching staff of the school! We regret that a school with such a great history as UCT does not have its own student award. The award is currently being fine-tuned and will be awarded from the winter term 2021! Robert Kvaček, Anna Kloužková, Matěj Hušek, Vojtěch Šálek, Anežka Kuncová
PhD web / Electronic signpost for PhDs (ERD)
ERD is a support for PhD students at UCT Prague, which has been operating since 2016. In 2020, a new website was created (phd.vscht.cz), where the ERD has been moved and where information for those interested in a PhD is now available together with information from the ERD (previously only via the intranet) - so everything is available in one place for everyone. This year (in 2021) we will focus on the English version of this website, which will be adapted to the needs of PhD students coming to study from abroad. In addition to these activities, this project includes annual lecture and discussion activities in collaboration with the Councelling and Career Centre, the Communications Department, the International Department and the Science and Research Department aimed at prospective and new PhD students. Soňa Hříbalová
Internal grant agency
An IGA, for short, is one of the ways students can receive funding for science (VIGA), pedagogy (PIGA), and social action (SIGA). K3S has consistently tried to modify the regulations for the announcement of each IGA grant to make the application process as straightforward as possible. For VIGA grants, we request constructive feedback from evaluators that the applicant can learn from, and for SIGA grants we negotiate the broadest possible support. Throughout the year, we collect suggestions from students and societies on what could be improved about the grant awards. Through a student member on the SIGA Grants Council, we will then try to incorporate these changes. Matěj Hušek
Dejvice campus
The idea of transforming the campus of the UCT, CTU and CTF UK from a more or less random and disparate area of schools into a real campus has been on the table for a long time. Now the time has finally come when everything is starting to move - the project is being tackled by a large group of interested institutions such as the schools, Prague 6 and the Institute of Planning and Development of the capital city. Prague, and a supportive group of student representatives from all the schools.
Do you have an idea what you would improve? Is there anything missing that you think a college campus should have? Write to us! Václav Durďák, Vojtěch Domín
Internships, traineeships, Erasmus
One of the aims of K3S is to raise awareness among students of the possibility of an international experience as part of their university studies. These include the Erasmus+ programme, as well as IAESTE internships and the MOBI programme for non-European trips. Due to the current system, students are mostly forced to spread their studies, which a large number of them are unwilling or unable to do. Therefore, student senators communicate with individual vice-deans and the vice-rector for international relations, and together with the international department they devise ways to improve this situation (e.g. "packages" of guaranteed recognised courses, etc.).
If you would like to learn more about the issue or have a suggestion/idea/suggestion, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Matěj Malý
Open Day
How to attract applicants to study at UCT? Is the information given at the stands digestible for high school students? Will they take anything away from the field trips? What can be done differently, better, more welcoming? Open days are a key part of school promotion and we are certainly not indifferent to how they are run. We are actively discussing with the university management and looking for ways to make the ODs as beneficial as possible, regardless of the form (online/present). In the future, we will try to incorporate the new, successful elements introduced last year in the first online version into the hopefully again face-to-face ODs.. Dana Bílková, Vojtěch Šálek
Finished projects
English conference for PhD students
The project has made a request for a coherence of the requirements for fulfilling this learning obligation across the school. A major outcome was the introduction of the course Presentation in English for PhD students, in which students can prepare for the PhD Conference in English (or another conference) under the guidance of Ing. Mgr. Hedvika Matesová. The project was thus completed thanks to the excellent cooperation with our Department of Languages led by PhDr. Ivana Dolejšová. Markéta Nováková
Kitchens
The microwave ovens and kettles in the respirium and "U Miláčka" are an example of a simple assignment but a very complex procedure. After a year and a half of negotiations, it was finally successful, so you don't have to eat your lunch cold.
Code of Ethics
A few years ago, the University of Applied Sciences did not have its own code of ethics. It is a common thing abroad, so the student senators did not spare any effort. Many revisions later and hours of careful wording later, on Sept. 27, 2018, the Etický kodex.
Translations into English
For several years now, we have regularly applied for a teaching grant each year to translate course materials into English using students as translators. We are trying to make it easier for overburdened teachers to produce quality study materials for self-study and Erasmus students. Our long-term goal is to transform translation into a continuous project in which active students can join in at any time and translate any materials that just need to be translated in the context of teaching. Ondřej Dupal, Adam Giurg
Online learning support
The K3S students gave maximum support to the transition to online teaching and helped to bridge the first two semesters of distance learning caused by the Covid 19 pandemic. For example, students set up recording studios for teachers, explained the advantages of distance learning, provided technical support for the MS Teams platform and wrote tutorials for teachers and students on the university website. Eventually, the technical support agenda, and with it the voluntary activity of the students, moved to the faculty level and the project was successfully completed. Once again, it was shown that collaboration between students and teachers on new ways of teaching (MS Teams, MS Stream, distance testing, exams, etc.) can lead to mutual satisfaction. We have gained a lot of experience with distance learning through this exceptional pandemic situation, which should be used in the future, not wasted. Our activity has thus moved from the support of online teaching to the incorporation of the acquired experience and technical background into standard, full-time (or hybrid) education at UCT. Šálek Vojtěch, Šoltys Marek
Indexes
In the context of the digitalisation of administration, the issue of indexes was the first one we focused on (SS 2020). The previous state of mandatory indexes with personal checks at the beginning of each semester placed a heavy burden on both students and individual dean's offices. In collaboration with them, the CCC and especially the school management, we managed to change the concept to a voluntary one along with a complete change of the index itself. Today's index retains the archival function of its predecessor with appropriate pathos, but has been supplemented with less formal or nostalgic elements in a corresponding design. This was the first step towards fully electronic semester entries and other changes. Lukáš Kamenský