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New material enables chemical production using sunlight and water
1. 7. 2025 | An international team of researchers from the Czech Republic, Germany and China has used nanotechnology and atomic engineering to develop a groundbreaking material that can transform a wide range of organic compounds into desired...
University becomes part of IBM Quantum Innovation Centre
25. 6. 2025 | Palacký University has joined the prestigious IBM Quantum Innovation Centre project. Thanks to its collaboration with the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), the Olomouc university has become part of the global IBM Quantum...
Summer edition of UP Žurnál features in-depth interview with new rector Michael Kohajda
25. 6. 2025 | What lies ahead for the university in the coming years? What kind of changes are necessary? Answers to these questions and more can be found in the latest issue of UP Žurnál magazine, which features an in-depth interview with the...
AMULET can use artificial intelligence to predict plant development. It can be used by farmers and scientists
4. 6. 2025 | AMULET enables efficient and accurate measurement of morphological and physiological characteristics of plants. Plant research experts and computer scientists from CATRIN at Palacký University, VŠB-Technical University Ostrava and...
František Palacký Prize awarded to Prof Jaroslav Peprník
2. 6. 2025 | Professor Jaroslav Peprník, a prominent Czech scholar in English and American Studies, author of many monographs and textbooks on the English-speaking world and the English language, one of the founders of the Department of...
UP Rector Michael Kohajda: Times have changed, and we have to do something about it
30. 5. 2025 | He has always loved numbers and counting. He was so good at it that he voluntarily chose maths for his school leaving certificate subject. However, he did not become a professional “number-cruncher” but instead chose a career at...
Science diplomacy at UP: Olomouc hosted NATO Science Technology Organization technical panels conference
29. 5. 2025 | The NATO Science Technology Organization collaborative panels, one of the key advisory bodies of the alliance for defence research and innovation, met in May at Palacký University.
A new material can eliminate bacteria and viruses —all it needs is light
29. 5. 2025 | Killing bacteria using light. That’s how simple surface disinfection could become in the future.
Sláinte: An Evening of Irish Culture and Music with the Band Conamara Chaos
26. 5. 2025 | Several months ago, an Irish Corner was opened in the department library of the Department of English and American Studies, FF UP with the participation of the Irish ambassador Alan Gibbons, our former Rector Martin Procházka and...
Olomouc scientists confirm new quantum physics law
22. 5. 2025 | Scientists from the Joint Laboratory of Optics, a workplace of Palacký University Olomouc and the Institute of Physics at the Czech Academy of Sciences, are the first in the world to experimentally confirm the relation between the...

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