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Emergency medicine student awarded for volunteering in Ukraine

First and immediate aid to those in need – that has been Tobiáš Luft’s motivation for several years. As a volunteer, he helped out during Covid and then in war-torn Ukraine. The first-year full-time student of Emergency Medicine at the UP Faculty of Health Sciences has recently received the Royal Rangers Emergency Medical Service Award […]

Kutya, carols, prayer: Students from Ukraine celebrated Christmas at the uni

In these days, Ukraine is celebrating the Christmas holidays and the arrival of the New Year. It is a time of coming together, so Palacký University Olomouc made it possible for those Ukrainian students and staff who did not get home to visit their loved ones to meet each other and stay together on the […]

Volunteers help save unique pipe organ in Sobotín

Photo: Ota Blahoušek A group of volunteers has decided to save the pipe organ in the Renaissance Church of St. Laurence in Sobotín, in the Šumperk region. Among those not indifferent to the fate of this musical instrument from the end of the 19th century is Karel Hron, former Vice-Dean for External Relations at the UP Faculty […]

UP announces a collection to aid students and employees who have found themselves in difficult situations due to the war

They live, study, and work with us; they are members of our university community, and now they need our help. “They” are UP students and employees from Ukraine, whose lives have been completely disrupted by the war. Many of them are now finding themselves without financial means or the support of their families. Thus UP […]

Updated: Aid to Ukraine

Graphic: Žurnál Online Palacký University is organising and coordinating aid and support for students and employees from Ukraine who are finding themselves in difficult existential situations due to the war. At the same time, UP is working with the Regional Assistance Centre to Aid Ukraine. Here, we bring you up-to-date information on the ongoing situation. […]

Railway corridor between the Czech Republic and Ukraine: Where UP students are playing a big role

From the Czech refugee station in Korczowa. Photo: MMK archives Trains are leaving daily for Ukraine, in order to take those who are fleeing the war out. Crowds of refugees of all ages gather in the Ukrainian-Polish border town of Korczowa, Poland and from there go to Przemyśl, where they try to get onto evacuation […]

Statement by Palacký University Rector Martin Procházka on the situation in Ukraine

Graphic: UP The war in Ukraine is not just the fight of the inhabitants of this sovereign state gratuitously attacked by the Russian aggressor – it is also our fight and our war. In my position as Rector of Palacký University Olomouc, I categorically condemn the Russian attack on Ukraine. This is a wanton advance […]