1. A total amount of 200,000 CZK has been allocated to all projects for this call to proposal.

2. A single project may require a maximum amount of 100,000 CZK. We anticipate that three to five grants will be awarded; however, if a single project requires an amount of 100,000 CZK and is significantly better than all the others, it may happen that only two grants are awarded.

3. Eligible costs are personnel costs, direct costs (in particular consumables) and services. Funds may be requested for the following items:

   a.	material – consumables (aggregates of small items such as office supplies should be stated, with monetary amounts given in thousands of CZK including VAT); no limit is set for this budget item (except for the total amount, see point 2).
   b.	invoices for materials or services – indicate the price including VAT; no limit is set for this budget item (except for the total amount, see point 2).
   c.	travel costs; no limit is set for this budget item (except for the total amount, see paragraph 2).
   d.	scholarships for students of Charles University; the limit for this budget item is set at a maximum of 50% of the total amount in the relevant grant.
   e.	renumeration in the form of a Contract for Work (DPP) for internal or external team members – the limit is set at a maximum of 50% of the total amount in the relevant grant (specifically a maximum of 10,000 CZK per month, and the monthly total of all DPPs in the whole of CU must not be exceeded).

4. The grant cannot finance property/material intended for so-called registration (in general, it can be said that, for example, consumables or various components up to the value of 1,000 CZK are not subject to registration).

5. While the allocated funds do not need to be used in their entirety, by 30 November 2023 the precise unspent amount, which must then be returned, must be submitted.

1. Applications will be examined by a grant committee composed of representatives of the Department of Public Affairs of the CU Rectorate, the CU Communications and PR Committee (KaPR) and the CU Academic Senate's Committee for the Third Role.

2. The basic evaluation criterion is the “price/performance” ratio – i.e., how the project will contribute, per unit of money to the promotion of CU – see the Budget chapter above. The Committee will also welcome new ideas, bold and creative actions, but will primarily evaluate the relevance of the project and planned expenditure.

3. The secondary criterion is the quality of the application.

4. The bonus criteria when evaluating projects are:

   • project focus on the promotion of CU studies to international applicants or, in general, on increasing the international prestige of CU,

   • and/or inter-faculty cooperation on the submitted project (the team may consist of representatives/students of multiple faculties/institutes of Charles University),

   • and/or implementation of the project at the Didaktikon university educational centre.

   Bonus criteria are optional and non-mandatory, and may also be included in the project individually, but may be taken into account by the committee when evaluating projects.

5. The committee reserves the right to not allocate funds if it does not consider the project proposals to be of sufficient quality.

6. If the committee considers a project worthy of realization, but with excessive financial requirements, it will discuss budget cuts with the applicants; the project will be supported by a grant only if there is a mutual consensus.

7. In the event that the committee considers a project to be promising but lacks certain information in the application, it will discuss the clarification of the information or the supplementation of the application with the applicants. At the same time, incomplete information, or the failure to provide or clarify information, may be considered as a reason for the disqualification or non-financing of the project.

8. In the event of a large number of applications, the committee reserves the right to hold a public presentation, where selected teams will defend their project proposal (teams will be allotted slots of about 10–15 minutes each).

1. After the awarding of grants, an information meeting with student teams will be convened (end of June 2023).

2. Finance:

   a.	funds will be paid through the secretariat of the Public Affairs and Communiations Department of the CU Rectorate; contact persons: Antonie Hošková antonie.hoskova@ruk.cuni.cz, Klára Öhman klara.ohman@ruk.cuni.cz or uka@cuni.cz,
   b.	teams must consult contact persons in advance about all orders and invoices,
   c.	in the case of scholarships, a monthly delay in payment must be taken into account (e.g., submitting an application at the beginning of October may mean that the student receives funds to their account in about mid-December),
   d.	in the case of invoices, please use the following billing information: Karlova Univerzita; Ovocný trh 560/5, 116 36 Praha 1, ID no.: 00216208; Tax ID no.: CZ00216208; this is a strict condition, as otherwise invoices will not be paid,
   e.	in reasonable cases, an agreement on a minor change in the structure of the budget will be possible,
   f.	detailed rules for the placing of orders, payment of invoices, etc. will be presented to the teams at the beginning of the project.

3. The committee reserves the right to cancel a grant (or part thereof) after it has been approved in the event of serious misconduct on the part of the student team.

The following projects were selected in the first round in 2022:

• 1^st place – Pod čepicí (Under the Cap)

• 2^nd place – Astronomie a astrofyzika do škol (Astronomy and Astrophysics for Schools)

• 3^rd place – Univerzita našich příběhů (University of Our Stories - later renamed to Naše Karlovka)

Other examples of projects:

• Set of lectures on the topic X at secondary schools in the Z region (indicate the expected number of lectures or students and your costs per student).

• Organization of a new competition X (indicate the expected number of participants and what, in your opinion, is the chance that the competition will attract students to study at CU; do you want to organize the competition every year?).

• Organization of a university conference at the Hybernská Campus for secondary school pupils and the public à la TEDx (i.e., Thinkers, Enablers, Doers) – student experience, interesting teachers, interesting alumni, etc. (indicate when the event should take place, whether it would be part of another (University) event, how many guests there would be, how many people it would be for, etc.).

• General knowledge competition for secondary school pupils to promote less well-known but interesting fields at CU at all faculties (indicate the competition format, its evaluation, or the prize for the winners, etc.).

• Video (set of videos) for CU social networks, in a funny, lightweight way, promote CU, study at CU, why it is good to study at CU, etc. (indicate the number of planned videos, their brief artistic and programmatic intent, an example of a similar project or inspiration, or students' own videos of a similar nature, expected impact).

• Creation of a comic strip about CU (specify who would create the comic strip, topic – history, interesting facts/aspects, student life..., topics that it would deal with, its planned means of distribution (online, print)).

• Topographical exhibition (photographs), set of articles… about interesting places at CU (legends, “superstitions”, traditions).

• Festival of student clubs at CU.

• Production of posters on topic X to be displayed at event Z (indicate what the event is about, roughly how many visitors there will be, what kind of visitors they will be; what happens to the posters after the event ends).

• Creation of an art installation for secondary school pupils (describe where/when the installation will be physically located, what will make it interesting; what will happen to the installation after the event).

• Organization of popularization conference X on topic Y (how many visitors will there be, what kind of visitors will they be? Will the event also take place next year?).

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