Internationalisation - POINT ****************************************************************************************** * POINT: Support for the Internationalisation of Charles University ****************************************************************************************** Financial support for short-term students' mobility POINT program (Support for Internationalization of Charles University) is one of the suppo financing activities aimed to increase the level of internationalisation Charles Universit Rector´s Directive No. 10/2020 [ URL "UKEN-888.html "] Rector´s Directive No. 15/2023 [ URL "UKEN-1722.html "] ****************************************************************************************** * What it’s all about? ****************************************************************************************** Financial support for: Student mobility activities • Support for participation in or stays of Charles University students at summer schools ( exception of language courses); • Short-term unpaid student internships up to a maximum of 3 weeks, • Participation in International competitions and championships, • Participation in Student conferences or • Attending meetings related to the internationalisation of Charles University activities. The maximum support: 50 000 CZK, extra: 100 000 CZK. Faculty activities • Academic mobility Stays of academic staff and student representatives of a faculty at meetings within the international university networks (such as Coimbra Group, LERU, UNICA, Europaeum, etc.); Short-term stays of academic staff for the purpose of preparing international projects • Summer schools • Support for the organisation of international summer schools of a non-economic nature or faculties or other units; In accordance with the Framework for State Aid for Research an and Innovation (2014/C 198/01). Limitations and important info for student activities • The support is provided purposefully, i.e. it is linked to the specific applicant, activ implementation • Support does not apply to summer language schools • Refund – not possible, you can apply for activities that will be held in future • CEEPUS – Indicator D • Mobility Fund - it is not possible to apply for financial support from POINT and Mobilit same activity • Active participation / passive participation - active participation - participation with ****************************************************************************************** * How to apply? ****************************************************************************************** The procedure is quite simple: 1.Fill in an application via https://veda.is.cuni.cz (login = your student number, passwor other UNI systems) – Select POINT (Ai Activities) 2.To submit an application upload to the system necessary attachments: motivation letter a the event (as well as recommendation from the guarantor from your department or faculty) 3.Submit the application (including attachments) within the deadline (spring round: 1. 4. autumn round: 1. 11. - 31. 11.) 4.Subsequently, the application (duly and timely submitted) is included to the competition for evaluation by the Expert Panel (EP) and after to the Rector 5.Results: (+) the application received full support (how much you requested, so much you received) (+/-) the application has received partial support (you have received reduced support); (-) the application was not supported. The results are sent by e-mail (which you provide in the application) and are also updat 6.If you were included to into (+) and (+/-) groups, your faculty will recieve the amount were granted. The faculty will pay you this amount in the form of a scholarship. The supported activities must be concluded with an evaluation report and a confirmation documents should be delivered within two months of the termination of the project or ret study stay (all via online system) ! If the applicant breaches his/her obligations to submit the final documents, he/she will return the amount provided, or a part thereof. If you fall into a (-) group (so your application was not supported) - nothing happens, yo in another call of the program or from another fund.? ****************************************************************************************** * What is watch out for ****************************************************************************************** or why the application might not receive (required) support? Formally: • The application did not meet the basic criteria (timely submission, proper filling of th delivery of attachments) • It is not possible to support the activity according to the rules (summer language schoo has already taken place, the activity was supported by Mobility Fund /another university Competitive: • Quality of submitted application • Representation of applications from different faculties • Exploitation of allocated resources • Justification of the contribution of the activity to support the internationalisation of the CU academic community • The possibility of support from other university sources (for example, other sources for students mobility) • Efficiency and rationale for the use of assigned funds It's a competition, so you have to be prepared to get “no”, even if your application meets criteria for support. ****************************************************************************************** * Contact ****************************************************************************************** International Relations Office [ URL "UKEN-607.html "] E-mail: internacionalizace@cuni.cz