At its November meeting, the Palacký University Academic Senate has launched nominations for the post of UP Rector for the term of office from 1 May 2025 to 30 April 2029. The election of the new highest representative of the university will take place on 22 January 2025. Members of the academic community may submit proposals for candidates until 6 December 2024.
Palacký University Olomouc will elect a new rector. The UP Academic Senate (UP AS) has initiated the nomination procedure for the highest UP representative and announced the election schedule. It stipulates that the academic community of the university can submit written proposals of candidates through the UP AS Office until 6 December 2024 at 3 pm.
The adopted election schedule further states that the collected proposals will be verified by a special election committee of the UP AS. Senators approved the following members: students Kateřina Kaprálová (Faculty of Law) and Barbora Uhmanová (Faculty of Health Sciences), and academics Veronika Tomoszková (Faculty of Law), Jaroslav Franc (Sts Cyril and Method Faculty of Theology), and Jiří Langer (Faculty of Education), who will chair the election committee.
The alphabetical list of the candidates will be published on the university’s official notice board by 16 December 2024, and their election statements will be published on the Palacký University Academic Senate website on 6 January 2025. The public presentation and debate of potential rectors with members of the UP academic community will take place on Wednesday 15 January 2025. One week later, on 22 January 2025, the candidates will present themselves before the UP Academic Senate. On the same day, the first, second, and third rounds of the election will take place. According to the established rules, a candidate for UP Rector needs to obtain at least 13 votes in the election, i.e. a simple majority of all 24 members of the UP Academic Senate.
During the November meeting, the UP AS also discussed the nomination of a member of the UP Internal Evaluation Board for a term of office, to be made by 1 July 2025 at the latest. They voted and decided to nominate Tereza Marková, a doctoral student at the UP Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, to be appointed by the UP Rector. The senators were also informed that Pavel Flekač (Faculty of Education) has been nominated as a student representative to the UP Ethics Committee on behalf of the UP AS student chamber. They also hosted a presentation by the director of the UP Computer Centre, David Skoupil, who announced the IT Development Strategy at Palacký University for the period 2025+. The UP AS acknowledged the presented strategy and the opportunity to comment on it until the end of November, after which it intends to return to the topic. The list of resolutions adopted by the UP AS is available here. More information about the UP AS can be found here.
You can find all the information you need about the election here.