Mission with an Academic
Project name: Mission with an Academic
Promoter: Mendel University in Brno
Guarantor/coordinator: David Juřička, doc, Ph.D.
Contact: david.juricka@mendelu.cz
Date of implementation: 2023–2024
Support Provider: Mendel University in Brno
As part of MENDELU’s internationalisation strategy, we support foreign expedition trips for academic staff and students, known as ‘Expeditions with an Academic’. The purpose of such expeditions is to enhance the educational experience of Bachelor’s and Master’s students, enabling them to develop practical skills that cannot be acquired in the Czech Republic. They also facilitate the integration of MENDELU students into the international scientific community and provide an opportunity to represent the university abroad.
As part of the Expedition with an Academic programme, five students in 2023 and nine in 2024 took part in an internship at the Mongolian University of Life Sciences, accompanied by an academic from MENDELU. These trips were conducted alongside other MENDELU activities and projects in Mongolia, mainly at STREAM project sites. In this way, the students were able to obtain data for their final theses and participate in MENDELU’s long-term research. They also had the opportunity to conduct their own research and get directly involved in the implementation of development projects and forestry practice as part of an international team.