Virtual mobility

Virtual mobility

Information for academics

In order to ensure a varied and high-quality offer of courses for virtual mobility at Charles University, the Virtual Mobility Support Fund (POVIM) offers funding to academics who have decided to open their online courses to students from 4EU+ and other partner universities.

The virtual courses can have three categories:

  • 4EU+ Joint Courses (category 1) – courses created within the framework of 4EU+ alliance cooperation, e.g. edu projects, which can be offered to all students of the 4EU+ Alliance - POVIM support cannot be applied for;
  • 4EU+ Shared Courses (category 2) – courses meeting the conditions of 4EU+, belonging to the flagship, fulfilling key competences, offered to all students of the 4EU+ Alliance - POVIM support can be applied for;
  • Open Courses (category 3) – courses open outside the 4EU+ Alliance, i.e. they do not have to meet the condition of belonging to flagships and fulfilling key competencies, will be offered to students of all partner universities.

For more details on the categories - see the attachment Virtual mobility at CU_categories.pdf

The courses are shared at the 4EU+ Student Portal.

In order to correctly track the activities it is essential for teachers to tag the course "virtual" and "4EU+" in the SIS. Find more specifications in the attachement. 

The applications for the POVIM fund are submitted twice a year for the following semester. 

Financial spport

  • CZK 15,000 for an academic worker in the event of the creation of a new course open to VM,
  • CZK 7,500 for an academic worker for the maintenance of an already existing course open to VM,
  • 7,500 CZK for an administrative worker for the management of courses open to VM at the UK

You can find more information on supporting virtual mobility and the POVIM fund on the UK website.

Virtual mobility courses collection for WS 25/26 open

The collection of courses intended for virtual mobility and announcement of a new call for the POVIM Virtual Mobility Support Fund.

Detailed rules of the POVIM fund are available in Czech and English on the UK intranet, including the application form.

The deadline for collecting shared courses and submitting applications for POVIM is 6 August 2025 at FSV. Please send signed applications to svoz@fsv.cuni.cz. The results will be announced by 15 August 2025.

Courses open outside the Alliance that will apply for support under the POVIM fund must be entered in SIS and with complete syllabi by the time applications are submitted to the RUK, i.e. by 8 August, otherwise they will be automatically excluded from the selection process. At the same time, I would ask you to submit the application directly to the person to whom the support is to be paid, not their superior or other representative, as this subsequently complicates the payment.

The new condition for granting support is that at least 5 foreign students are enrolled in the course in the online mode at the time of registration closing in SIS. We also strongly recommend that courses in online format are offered primarily to universities of the 4EU+ alliance.

These shared courses are then published on the 4EU+ Student Portal. For publication, it is necessary to meet the conditions of the 4EU+ syllabus, i.e. to have key competencies marked in SIS, or Flagship, and a brief course content, learning outcomes, methods of completing the course (conditions for credit or examination) and prerequisites, if any. The absence of the given information in SIS may be the reason for not including the course in the offer and rejecting support from the POVIM Fund.