At the end of 2024, the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice successfully concluded a partnership agreement with ČSOB JSC. The agreement reflects a shared commitment by both parties to promote environmental stewardship and sustainable practices across various areas of human activity. Particular emphasis is placed on supporting biodiversity, sustainable fisheries, water conservation, fish processing, and the marketing and consumption of domestic fish products. The partnership also includes support for a scholarship program aimed at talented students.

“I consider this a major achievement and a strong recognition of our work to date. Establishing cooperation on socially significant topics with such a prominent Czech banking institution as ČSOB JSC is a great success,” said the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Tomáš Policar.

“It is both a commitment and a challenge for us to contribute to fulfilling our social responsibility,” added Prof. Policar.

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Data Steward

Contact Information:

• Name: Jaromír Kovárník
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• Phone: +420 389 034 633

Open Science at Our Faculty

What is Open Science (OS)?

Open Science is an approach to scientific work that promotes transparency, sharing, and reproducibility of research. The main goal of OS is to ensure that scientific results are accessible to the public, the scientific community, and other stakeholders.

Open Science is an umbrella term for a variety of concepts and practices that support openness in the scientific process. It includes practices that facilitate the dissemination of results and knowledge, the accumulation of scientific understanding, and the verification of conclusions, thereby enhancing the credibility of science. The main principles of Open Science are open access, open data, open methodologies, open peer review, and open education.

• Open Access: Free and unrestricted online access to scientific publications.
• Open Data: Sharing of research data that is freely available for further analysis and use.
• Open Methodologies: Transparent sharing of research methods and procedures.
• Open Peer Review: Transparent peer review processes for scientific works.
• Open Education: Sharing of educational resources and materials.

The goal of Open Science is to enhance the transparency, reproducibility, and accessibility of scientific research for the general public.

Open science on the USB website

Data Management Plan (DMP)

A Data Management Plan is a formal document that outlines how data will be managed throughout the research project lifecycle, from collection to archiving.

Main components of DMP include:

• Purpose: Explains why specific data is needed and the questions the project addresses.
• Definition of Data: Describes the types of data to be collected, their formats, and how they will be organized.
• Data Collection and Access: Details how data will be collected, stored, and accessed.
• Metadata: Contextual information that makes data understandable and usable.
• Data Sharing and Reuse: Describes how data will be shared with other researchers and the public, including legal and ethical considerations.
• Long-term Preservation: Plans for long-term archiving and data protection.

A DMP is a key tool to ensure that data is properly managed, protected, and prepared for future use.

How Do We Support Open Science at Our Faculty?

Services for the project

Datasets

Our faculty offers access to a wide range of datasets available for research and other academic purposes. For more information about the available datasets and their usage conditions, please contact us.

Open DATA

Our faculty has established a community on the Zenodo repository - Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, CENAKVA, University of South Bohemia Ceske Budejovice. We kindly ask everyone who will be publishing data on this repository to tag their datasets and add them to this community. This will help us make our datasets more visible. Instructions on how to assign a dataset to the community can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15039295

Collaboration within EOSC

We are actively engaged with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), particularly within the working groups "Environmental Sciences" and "Bio/Health/Food." This initiative enables us to share and utilize scientific data at the European level, supporting Open Science and innovation. You will find data sources, a service for sharing and privately sending scientific data to colleagues, and tools and a service for data analysis.

EOSC CZ

EOSC - EU Node

Open Science in JU Website

The elections to the Academic Senate of the FFPW USB for the term 2024 - 2027, which are governed by the Election Rules of the Academic Senate of the FFPW USB  approved by the Academic Senate of the of the FFPW USB on 29^th January 2021 and the Academic Senate of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice on 23^rd March 2021.

Election results

List of elected representatives from among the academic staff of the Faculty of Fisheries and Water Protection to AS FROV JU (sorted according to the number of votes received):

1st place Ing. David Gela, Ph.D. - 33 votes
2nd place Ing. Pavel Lepič, Ph.D. - 27 votes
3rd place MVDr. Eliška Zusková, Ph.D. - 22 votes
4th place doc. Ing. Hana Kocour Kroupová, Ph.D. - 20 votes
5th - 6th place Ing. Petra Plachtová - 18 votes
5th - 6th place dr. hab. Ing. Josef Velíšek, Ph.D. - 18 votes
7th place prof. Ing. Otomar Linhart, PhD. - 17 votes
8th place MVDr. Veronika Piačková, Ph.D. * - 16 votes

List of substitutes from among the academic staff of the Faculty of Fisheries and Water Protection to AS FROV JU (sorted according to the number of votes received):

1st place Ing. Bc. Kateřina Grabicová, Ph.D. * - 16 votes
2nd - 4th place Mgr. Hana Ash - 14 votes
2nd - 4th place Ing. Ján Regenda, Ph.D. - 14 votes
2nd - 4th place MSc. Ganna Fedorova, Ph.D. - 14 votes
5th place doc. RNDr. Andrea Vojs Staňová, Ph.D. - 11 votes
6th place RNDr. Borek Drozd, Ph.D. - 10 votes
7th place MSc. Koushik Roy, Ph.D. - 8 votes
8th place prof. Ing. Jan Kouřil, Ph.D. - 7 votes

*order determined by lottery

List of elected representatives from among the students of the Faculty of Fisheries and Water Protection to AS FROV JU (ordered by the number of votes received):

1st place Zuzana Stoklasová - 15 votes
2nd place Daniel Novák - 11 votes
3rd - 4th place Jan Škrabánek - 10 votes
3rd - 4th place Ing. Václav Kučera - 10 votes

List of substitutes from among students of the Faculty of Fisheries and Water Protection to AS FROV JU (sorted according to the number of votes received):

1st place Filip Medal - 9 votes
2nd - 3rd place Lukáš Beránek - 8 votes
2nd - 3rd place Radovan Kostlivý - 8 votes
4th place Filip Dolejší - 7 votes
5th place MSc. Anil Axel Tellbüscher - 5 votes
6th place Ing. Jan Černý - 2 votes
7th place Mgr. Tomáš Pěnka - 1 vote

Nomination of the candidates 29^th April 2024 to 3 p.m.
Publication of the list of candidates 9^th May 2024
Announcement of election results 17^th May 2024

The elections will be held electronically at: https://volby.jcu.cz/
14^th May 2024 from 8 a.m. to 16^th May 2024 12:00