Translation of the Minutes of the Meeting of the
Academic Senate of Faculty of Informatics
held on 18th January 2018 10:00 in room B517 FI
Note: this translation is provided only for the convenience of our staff and students who do not
speak Czech. In case of doubt, the Czech version is the primary version. This text is partially
machine translated and the quality is not ideal due to my time constraints. In case of problems
with this translation, please contant me: ​Vladimír Štill <xstill@fi.muni.cz>​. I will also be glad if
you find this translation helpful and inform me about that.
Present Members of the Senate
Jaroslav Bendík, Barbora Bühnová, Ivana Černá, Vlastislav Dohnal, Barbora Kozlíková, Michal
Kozubek, Dominika Krejčí, Jakub Peschel, Tomáš Pitner, Jan Strejček, David Šafránek,
Vladimír Štill
Guests
Jiří Zlatuška, dean of FI;
Jiří Barnat, vice-dean for curricula;
Pavel Matula, vice-dean for bachelor and master studies;
Lenka Bartošková, faculty bursar;
Simona Davidová, head of office for studies;
Jiří Sochor
Topics
1. Election of the Chairman of AS FI and the Chairman of Students in AS FI
2. Establishment of the Election and Mandate Commission of AS FI
3. Establishment of the District Electoral Commission for Elections to AS MU
4. Approval of the Dean's Proposal for the Appointment of Three New Members of the
Scientific Board of FI (prof. David Šmahel, prof. Jiří Sochor , prof. Pavel Zemčík)
5. Miscellaneous
Initiation
Senate met for the first time in the new term, all the 12 senators were present (8 academics, 4
students). Academic senate meeting was initiated by the chairman of the previous Academic
Senate Jan Strejček. The meeting started by reviewing the topics of the meeting. Vladimír Štill
proposed to include discussion on the distribution of information from the senate. The topics
were approved.
1. Election of the Chairman of AS FI and the Chairman of Students in AS FI
Jan Strejček provided summary information ​‒ ​Chairman must be selected from the academics
and must be elected by an majority of all senators. Jan Strejček further suggested Michal
Kozubek as chairman of AS, Michal Kozubek agreed. Ivana Černá also expressed support for
Michal Kozubek. There were no other proposals or suggestions, therefore, senators came to the
secret ballot. Voting was evaluated by Jakub Peschel and Vlastislav Dohnal: 11 votes for Michal
Kozubak, one senator abstained from voting. Michal Kozubek thus became the chairman of AS
FI and Jan Strejček transferred the leadership of the meeting to him.
Next followed the election of the chairman of student in AS FI. Jakub Peschel suggested
Vladimír Štill, who accepted the candidacy. There were no other proposals or suggestions for
discussion. Vladimír Štill got votes of all four student senators in the secret ballot and thus
became the chairman of the students in AS FI.
2. Establishment of the Election and Mandate Commission of AS FI
Jan Strejček noted that the senate has two committees for elections ​‒​ Election and Mandate
Commission ensures elections in AS FI and the District Electoral Commission for elections to
AS MU ensures the election to senate of the university. Although the commissions can have
different members it is, for practical reasons, easier if they have same members. Jakub Peschel
noted that membership in the district commission is incompatible with candidacy to the
university senate for another term. Michal Kozubek suggested Vlastislav Dohnal as the
chairman of the Election and Mandate Commission, he accepted the proposal. Jan Strejček and
Vladimír Štill were further nominees. All the senators agreed on this Election and Mandate
Commission.
3. Establishment of the District Electoral Commission for Elections to AS MU
It was proposed that this commission has the same members as the Election and Mandate
Commission. All the senatos agreed to this proposal.
4. Approval of the Dean's Proposal for the Appointment of Three New Members of
the Scientific Board of FI (prof. David Šmahel, prof. Jiří Sochor , prof. Pavel
Zemčík)
The dean briefly introduced the proposal for the appointment of David Šmahel, Jiří Sochor and
Pavel Zemčík to the Scientific Board of FI. Pavel Zemčík is the dean of FIT and he will be an
external member of the Scientific Board, the other two will be internal member. Jakub Peschel
asked for reasons for the appointment of new board members, dean said that the reason is the
appointment of new professors acting on FI. Senators agreed that they will vote together about
all new members of the Scientific Board. The proposal was unanimously approved in a public
vote.
5. Miscellaneous
The first topic was distribution of information from the senate. Jan Strejček and Vladimír Štill
summarized the current methods of information distribution:
● the minutes of the meeting in IS MU;
● information on upcoming meetings on the bulletin board on the Internet (for students,
graduates and teachers FI)
● topics of the meetings which are sent to fi-int@fi and the members of the senate;
● forum ​https://is.muni.cz/auth/gdf/FI/ASFI​ which will include topics of upcomming meeting
and minutes of the meetings;
● physical notice board near the library of FI, which is currently unused, but historically
was used to publish the minutes of the meetings.
Senators agreed to maintain these methods, whith the exception of the physical bulletin board
which will only be used for information about the members of the senate and for links to more
information. Michal Kozubek agreed to prepare the information for the physical bulletin board.
Jakub Peschel further informed that the AS MU has decided to publish the english translation of
the agreements and asked about similar translation for AS FI. After a discussion, senators
agreed that after the approval of the Czech minutes of meeting it will be translated using
automatic translation into English and published as an informative document along with a Czech
minutes.
Jiří Zlatuška then thanked the senators from the previous term and invited the chairman Michal
Kozubek to the meetings of the faculty management. He also invited the student chairman
Vladimír Štill to the dean’s board meeting.
Jiri Barnat and Pavel Matula asked the senate for coordination and cooperation. In the second
week of February the senate will be approving the fees associated with studies for the academic
year 2018/2019 (namely, the fee for the admission procedure and fee for the study in a foreign
language). Furthermore, the senate will be approving the new study curricula (which are
forthcoming and will be newly accredited in accordance to the new legislation). The senate will
likely meet in the second week of February to discuss the fees and, at the beginning of April to
discuss the curricula.
Michal Kozubek thanked the former chairmen Jan Strejček for his contributions. Furthermore,
thanked Tomáš Pitner and Vlastislav Dohnal for their ongoing work for the committees of the of
the univerisity senat (the economics comitte and the legislative comittee, respectively).
Ivana Černá asked about the Commission for Doctoral Students and Young Academics
established by AS MU. The commission was establishement was the initiative of the students in
AS MU and it should be the advisory body of the university in matters of doctoral studies and
young academics. Members of the committee have not yet been appointed, but Vladimír Štill is
suggested to be a member of this committee. Jakub Peschel reported that the students of AS
MU will be happy if some of the academics is take interest in this commision.
There were no further proposals for the discussion and therefore the meeting edned.
Recorded by Vladimír Štill, translated by google translate and corrected by Vladimír Štill.
Version from 31th January 2018