Michaela Marková, works as an Assistant Professor at the School of English, Technical University Liberec, Czechia. Their Faculty of Education is currently involved in a project funded by the Czech Ministry of Education (in which all the faculties of education in the country are involved), and they are looking for experts in the field of education/methodology (and/or psychology) who would be willing to cooperate with them. The project focuses on the implementation of a new governmental education Strategy 2030+.

The overall goal is to implement certain competencies that would enable our graduates to become effective teachers. Together with a colleague from the Department of Psychology, Michaela Marková is responsible for international cooperation and internationalisation. This means that there is some money available to them to invite foreign experts to come to their Faculty for the duration of 90 days, to help them make sure they implement the competencies effectively. This can be in the form of the following: activities such as in-depth assessment of our practices, curricula development, and mentoring. However, the concrete plan of activities depends on the expertise of the particular visiting academic. There might be some teaching or co-teaching involved in the area of the researcher's expertise, but that is not compulsory.

The project runs from March 2024 until the end of June 2027, so there might still be enough time to organise the stays if someone on your side decides to take up the offer. The pay is not excessive but decent enough to cover the costs of living here and some amount to cover travelling costs. The contract within the project is for 100% for a limited period of time to be specified in the document, such as, let's say, 1.3-31.5. 2026. It is up to the person to ask their home institution whether they would allow this, i.e., concurrent contracts (it might be a more feasible offer for those who have part-time contracts, are going to be on sabbatical, or their workload could be organised in a way that they manage to travel between the two cities). Unfortunately, innominate contracts (nepojmenovaná smlouva in Czech) are not allowed within this project. The workload is 255 hours, which would allow you to go there and back if you need to, but regular in-person meetings and events would have to be scheduled so as to demonstrate that the person is here and not simply working from home.

Michaela Marková's area of research concerns children's literacy, children's literature, and teaching literature, and she thinks that Dr. Mizerová from the German department would be interested in similar topics as well, and other colleagues from the Czech and Spanish departments might also want to cooperate.

If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact Michaela Marková (michaela.markova@tul.cz)

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