Grants

The “SINOFON” project explores how the Sinophone world interacts with the Turco-Persophone, Slavophone, Tibetophone, Hispanophone and Austroasiatophone worlds. The research team consist of senior and junior researchers from various disciplines in the fields of the humanities, social sciences and political science whose qualifications go beyond the average. This allows for a cross-disciplinary dialogue and cross-cultural comparisons which will push the current discussion on the Sinophone world beyond the current limited disciplinary and national frameworks. We will present the research results at conferences, and in books and papers. The project has been supported by the European Regional Development Fund. The whole project is administered and coordinated by the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, and co-financed by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic.

Seed Olomouc is a project funded by the Korean Studies Promotion Service (Academy of Korean Studies). Korean studies at Palacký University Olomouc received a “seed” grant in December 2017 and are looking forward to enjoy this support until mid of 2020. The project strives to boost the development of Korean studies at Palacký University Olomouc as a strong constituent of the university’s Department of Asian Studies. Korean studies in Olomouc already hold a strong appeal, but improvements resulting from the project shall enhance the program’s attractivity even more. The various formats (carousel lecture, summer school, and activity contest) are supposed to make their impact felt.

The Department of Asian Studies aims to develop a new regional approach to Asian studies by overcoming the traditional fragmentations into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese etc. Studies into a broader approach that overcomes national boundaries and takes the entanglements, mutual influences of the sub-regions of Asia into focus. In the PhD program, students will be able to create their own research topics along with the teachers (professors, postdocs) at the Department of Asian Studies, and the collaborating teachers in our international cooperation network. PhD students will be provided with a studium generale based on Area Studies in Asia and on various disciplines (contemporary history – oral history, linguistics, cultural studies, literature, social anthropology, political science) and on various languages that are spoken Asian areas. The best Ph.D. student will be offered an internship in partner institutions. 

• 2013
• head of the project: Mgr. Ivona Barešová, Ph.D. - Heterogennost v přepisu japonštiny do češtiny: analýza problematických jevů a návrh možného řešení
• head of the project: Mgr. Tereza Slaměníková - Ideogramy v současné podobě čínského znakového písma
• 2012
• head of the project: Mgr. Ivona Barešová, Ph.D. - Sémantika japonských osobních jmen
• head of the project: Mgr. Bc. Jarmila Fiurášková - Statistická frekvenční analýza IT terminologie v evropských a asijských jazycích
• head of the project: Mgr. Tereza Slaměníková - Grammalogická analýza nejfrekventovanějších čínských znaků
• head of the project: Mgr. Pavla Slavíčková, Ph.D. - Typologie a vývoj účetních soustav používaných na území českého státu před rokem 1989
• 2011
• head of the project: Mgr. David Uher, Ph.D. - Rytmické členění vět a jejich prozodický přepis v moderní hovorové čínštině
• head of the project: Mgr. Tereza Slaměníková - Učební slovník čínských znaků (prototyp)
• head of the project: Mgr. Ivona Barešová, Ph.D. - Současná hovorová řeč mladých Japonců
• 2010 
• head of the project: Mgr. David Uher, Ph.D. - Sinojaponské "čtení" fonogramů v Původu znaků
• head of the project: Mgr. David Uher, Ph.D. - Prosodická transkripce Učebnice čínské konverzace
• head of the project: Mgr. Ondřej Kučera – Korpus hovorové čínštiny

Our project “Forging a scientific team and international networking in the field of Chinese Studies” in short “CHINET,” is financed by the European Social Fund and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic, under the reg. nr. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0152. The whole project is administered and coordinated by the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.

CHINET focuses on establishing a large interdisciplinary research team in the area of Chinese Studies in the Czech Republic.

Our team focuses on eight key domains of academic research, each of them supervised by experienced scholar.

Our research areas include:

• Art & Archaeolog
• Contemporary China
• Cultural Anthropology
• History
• Linguistics
• Literature
• Philosophy
• Religion

Each of our research groups focuses on specific topic, which reflects current global trends in the field of Chinese Studies. Each group is supervised by chief editor, who is in charge of submissions’ quality and their academic relevance. The main endeavor of CHINET is not only to facilitate complex developments in Chinese Studies in the Czech Republic, but also to enable participation in research activities in this field on Pan-European and global level. Our project facilitates academic exchanges not only for experienced scholars, but also students at the beginning of their academic careers. Study visits and participation at international conferences and workshops, which our project also supports, enables participants to broaden their knowledge and to make important contacts in their field of interest within the area of Chinese Studies.

The aim of the project is to innovate the field of Japanese Studies, in order to improve the graduate’s profile, facilitate transitioning into practice and enhance employability.  The project will develop and pilot a foreign language teaching module catered towards business and commerce, which will include language training together with professionally oriented social, economic and culturally-historic subjects required for international commerce, and which could be methodologically applied to existing or other newly created subjects focused on business and commerce.

The project will focus on the innovation of Japanese Studies by utilizing the following methods:

1. Improving the availability of study materials and its sources
2. Improving study skills (e.g. use of multimedia, e-learning procedures, etc.)
3. Innovation of 8 subjects (from these 2 at the level of I-VI) at the Palacký University in Olomouc and 1 subject at the Masaryk University in Brno, and also the introduction of 7 new subjects at Palacký University and 3 at Masaryk University.

The project includes the computerization and centralization of study materials.  Students of the following fields will be targeted at Palacký University: Japanese for Business & Commerce, and Japanese Philology.  A portion of the subjects will be also be innovated and taught at the partner site Masaryk University in Brno.

The project is co-financed by the European Social Fund and by the state budget of Czech Republic, under the Education for Competitiveness Operational Programme.

The Education for Competitiveness Operational Programme focuses on furthering the education of the inhabitants of Czech Republic by modernizing and integrating initial, tertiary and further educational systems into a comprehensive and lifelong system of learning and the creation of an appropriate environment for research, development and innovative activities.  Funding for this programme has been drawn from the European Social Fund during the programming period 2007 to 2013.   

This project’s aim is to innovate the Chinese Philology study programme at Palacký University in Olomouc with the following objectives:

1. To improve the accessibility of learning materials;
2. To implement and elaborate e-learning practices in the teaching process;
3. To innovate the content of the study programme with the aim of improving graduates’ academic and occupational skills, thereby increasing their employability in the regional job market, particularly in the commercial and educational sectors.

The project will involve the establishment of a study portal, computerization of study materials and sources of information, the innovation of 6 core subjects (Conversation, Reading, Introduction to Chinese Studies, Chinese Literature, Geography of China, History of China), the introduction of 7 new subjects (Chinese Literature in Film, Introduction to the Study of Chinese Thought, Economic Geography of China, Knowledge Management in a Multicultural Environment with a Focus on China, Identity in the Chinese Cultural Sphere, Chinese Education, and Practical Experience in the Commercial Sphere) together with the innovation of the 3 electives (Chinese Semiotics, Contemporary Taiwan and IT for Chinese Studies). Sustainable outcomes for the project are to create a fully functional Portal of Chinese Studies which will continue to operate after the project’s completion, the use of innovative learning materials and methods, and in particular the continuation of education in subjects recently innovated or newly created. The project’s target group will include students of Chinese Philology at UP.  A portion of the subjects will also be innovated at the partner site Masaryk University in Brno.

The project is co-financed by the European Social Fund and by the state budget of Czech Republic, under the Education for Competitiveness Operational Programme.

The Education for Competitiveness Operational Programme focuses on furthering the education of the inhabitants of Czech Republic by modernizing and integrating initial, tertiary and further educational systems into a comprehensive and lifelong system of learning and the creation of an appropriate environment for research, development and innovative activities.  Funding for this programme has been drawn from the European Social Fund during the programming period 2007 to 2013.  

The project “Religious Studies Programme Innovation at Masaryk University with Special Regards to the Culture of China and Japan began in June 2009 at the Institute of Religious Studies PhF MU.  The main objective of the project is the innovation of existing courses and the preparation and establishment of new courses; this includes the development of new study materials that deal with religious concepts in the broader cultural context of China and Japan, and the teaching of both their languages (classical Chinese, modern Chinese and Japanese).

The project at the Institute of Religious Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, has been designed in collaboration with the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc, where some of the courses are also taking place.  This partnership also shares the development of study materials for the following language courses: Chinese for Beginners I, II (publication of Modern Chinese for the non-Sinologist downloadable in pdf format + recording in mp3) and Chinese – Text Reading I, II (link to Chinese text reading app is available here).