Student Excursion Oslo 25

Application

Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills

https://hkdir.no/en

from

Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts

Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch Studies

Norwegian Section, coordinator Miluše Juříčková

Excursions and events outside of the applicant insitution 2025

Project title:

LITERATURE TRANSLATION AS CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND CHALLENGE

Introduction:

Norwegian language, literature and culture ─ an important part of the study

programme curriculum are subjects focusing on bright knowledge of Norwegian

society items and cultural management. Several students are interested in to be

professional translator from Norwegian or editors at publishing houses in Czech

Republic. The translation praxis is evidently going direction technological methods by

the support of AI. We are awared of the importance of use and application of the

newest approaches, but we cannot deny the high requirements and responsibility of

the human translation commander. Therefore our students and graduates should be

acquianted with the complexity and variety of aspects of life in Norway today, which

we consider to be a necessary condition for their future profession. With other words

in order to be able to cooperate and communicate with the technologies in the best

effective way, they must both manage the skills and understand the existing contexts

in literature, culture and society in Norway.

The plan of the excursion:

To visit capitol´s museums (National Museum, Munch Museum, Nobel Center) as well

as other culture institutions (Roma Center, National Library, Norla) together in the

group using Oslo Pass. An important aspect of the plan is that that students should

visit Norway not in the role of tourists, but in the role of students with their language

and specialization background. To experience the first encounter with Norway within

the limited time is possible only thanks to the extraordinary contact network of the

coordinator of the project (I have been active as university teacher in fact over 30

years and have collaborated with various universities and institutions in Norway,

especially in Oslo). The group would have a meeting prof. Ståle Dingstad at the Oslo

University and Madelen Brosvold at the Oslo Met. These personalities are not

included in the budget, because they are willing to meet our student group free of

charge.

The aim of the project is student´s cultural encounter with Norway, the experience of

this excursion will be integrated in the curriculum, ECTS points will be awarded in

2025 and the implementation will be carried out also in the semesters to come

(translatology, cultural management). The excursion will be documented at the

webside of our Department. The planned activities will contribute to strengthen

Norwegian language education at our faculty. The planned activities have potential to

create long-term effects for the curriculum of our students and for our cooperation

with several institution in Norway (Norla, Oslo Met, Jewish Museum).

About the applicants: In this year there are 26 Norwegian language students at

Masaryk University (Faculty of Arts) at bachelor, master and PhD levels together. This

project is ment only for a group of 5 immatriculated bachelor students, including one

student physically disabled, sitting in a wheelchair. This journey can happen only with

an assistant.

The criterions for the selection range among the students have been as follows: a/

the adequade proposal of individual part of common project, b/the student has never

been in Norway before, c/ financial and social circumstances.

Time plan:

1 – 15 September – seminar group preparation phase (individual consultations)

16 - 21 September – excursion in Oslo, making videos and writing diaries

22 – 30 September – reporting, making a video about the excursion for the web

Miluše Juříčková