Newsletter of Project Support Office, Faculty of Science, MU
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I. Successful Projects
doc. Mgr. Dušan Kováčik, PhD. (Department of Plasma Physics and Technology) has received funding for a GA CR project entitled “Strengthening fabric-matrix interphase adhesion and enhancing high strain rate characteristics of FRP composites by surface plasma treatment of fibres.“
prof. RNDr. Petr Dobrovolný, CSc. (Department of Geography) has received funding for a GA CR project entitled “Internal climate variability over Europe“.
RNDr. Radek Jupa, Ph.D. (Department of Experimental Biology) has received funding for a GA CR project entitled “Unraveling the role of functional coordination between xylem and bark for tree resilience to drought.“
prof. RNDr. Marcela Buchtová, Ph.D. (Department of Animal Physiology and Immunology) has received funding for a LA GA CR project entitled “Targeting PLK1: a novel strategy to restore primary cilia integrity and harness genomic instability in oral squamous cell carcinoma“
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II. Upcoming calls
GA CR LA (GA CR as a partner organisation)
- Ongoing calls for Bilateral grant projects with the following partner agencies: FWF (Austria), DFG (Germany), NSF (USA). More information available HERE. Faculty deadline: two weeks before submission (for budget control).
Contact persons: Tereza Johnová, Jitka Kosinová, Iveta Svobodová
TAČR
- Transport 2030 programme - 3rd public tender. More information available HERE. Recording from the webinar HERE. Deadline: 30.4.2025. Faculty deadline: 16.4.2025.
Contact person: Kateřina Páleníková Fialová
MV
- 2nd call for proposals in program OPSEC. More information available HERE. Deadline: 28.5.2025. Faculty deadline:14.5.2025
Contact person: Kateřina Páleníková Fialová
MEYS
- Call for joint Czech-French projects MOBILITY (8J26FR). More information available HERE. Deadline: 29.5.2025, Faculty deadlline: 20.5.2025
Contact persons: Jitka Kosinová
INTERREG
- Austria - Czech Republic Cooperation Programme. More information on priorities available HERE. Deadline: 30.09.2029
- Slovak Republic - Czech Republic Cooperation Programme. More details on programme documents can be found HERE.
- Saxony - Czech Republic Cooperation Programme. More information on Priority 2: Climate change and sustainability is available HERE. Deadline: 20.05.2025
- INTERREG EUROPE Cooperation Programme. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.
- Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Program for transnational cooperation. More information available HERE. List of regions is HERE.
Contact person: Helena Michalicová
HORIZON EUROPE
- MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships: new call to be opened 9.4. 2025. DDL 10.9.2025. Please inform the PSO about any prospective applicants, they will receive info and support.
- MSCA COFUND 2025: co-finances new or existing doctoral programmes and postdoctoral fellowship schemes with the aim of spreading the best practices of the MSCA including international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as international and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career. More details available HERE.
Opening of the Call 23.1.2025, DDL 24.6.2025
- MSCA Staff Exchanges 2025: MSCA Staff Exchanges involve organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (including SMEs) from across the globe. Support is provided for international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility of R&I staff leading to knowledge transfer between participating organisations. More details available HERE. DDL 8.10.2025.
- Advanced Collaboration Grants (EMBO): funds the visits of 1 week to 6 months in the lab of collaborator in EMBO participating country to work on joint collaborative project with biological significance. More details are available HERE. Deadline: anytime.
- ERC Proof of Concept Grants: The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim at facilitating exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research and are therefore available only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research. More details available HERE. Deadline 17.9.2025.
- New EIC Work Programme 2025 published for EIC Pathfinder, Accelerator and Transition schemes, the former being the most promising for multi-disciplinary research teams to undertake visionary research with the potential to lead to technology breakthroughs (grants up to €4 million). Additional info may be found HERE. Link for the WP HERE.
EIC Pathfinder Open:
You should apply if you are looking for support from EIC Pathfinder Open to realise an ambitious vision for radically new technology, with potential to create new markets and/or to provide solutions for global challenges. EIC Pathfinder Open supports early stage development of such future technologies (e.g., various activities at low Technology Readiness Levels from 1 to 4), based on high-risk/high-gain science-towards-technology breakthrough research (including ‘deep-tech’). This research must provide the foundations of the technology you are envisioning. Additional information may be found HERE. DDL 21.5.2025.
EIC Transition: funds innovation activities that go beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It supports both the maturation and validation of your novel technology from the lab to the relevant application environments (by making use of prototyping, formulation, models, user testing or other validation tests) as well as explorations and development of a sustainable business case and business model towards commercialisation. Additional information may be found HERE. DDL: 17.9.2025.
- OSCARS 2nd Open Call for Open Science Projects and Services: Additional information may be found HERE. DDL 14.5.2025
- Circular-by-design fibre-based packaging with improved properties. DDL 18.9.2025, additional information HERE.
- Improved lifetime and cost of high-temperature electrolysers by introducing innovative materials and components in stacks and BoP. DDL 23.4.2025, additional information HERE.
Contact persons: Kateřina Ježová, Tomáš Lády
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Upcoming HE Calls – prerelease drafts
We hereby present a selection of upcoming collaborative Horizon Europe calls, which are planned for 2025/26, but have not been officially listed in the Funding & Tenders Portal. We announce them in advance for your early consideration. However, please note, that final list and the particular details may vary. Deadlines and conditions of the calls are yet to be specified.
For additional information, please contact the Project Support Office (see contact persons below).
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
- HORIZON-MSCA-2025-CITIZENS-01-01: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2026-2027
- HORIZON-MSCA-2025-MSCA4UA-01-01: MSCA4Ukraine Fellowships 2025
Collaborative Actions (Clusters)
CLUSTER 1: HEALTH
- HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-01: Testing safety and efficacy of phage therapy for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections
- HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-03: Development of antibodies and antibody-derived proteins for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases with epidemic potential
- HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-05: Support for the functioning of the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R)
- HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-TOOL-01: Enhancing cell therapies with genomic techniques
- HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-TOOL-02: Advancing cell secretome-based therapies
- HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-TOOL-05: Boosting the translation of biotech research into innovative health therapie
CLUSTER 3: CIVIL SECURITY FOR SOCIETY
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-FCT-01: Open topic on modern information and forensic evidence analysis and on frontline policing
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-01: Open topic on citizen and regional and/or local authorities' engagement in enhanced disaster risk awareness, including education, and preparedness
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-03: Open topic on Testing / validating tools, technologies and data used in cross-border prevention, preparedness and responses to climate extreme and geological events and chemical, biological or radiological emergency threats
CLUSTER 4: DIGITAL, SPACE & INDUSTRY
- HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-61: Technologies for critical raw materials and strategic raw materials from end-of-life products (IA)
- HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-63: Innovative solutions for the sustainable production for Semiconductor raw materials (IA)
- HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-52: Accelerate the uptake of life-cycle assessment (LCA) for Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) chemicals and materials and resulting products (RIA)
- HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-43: Innovative Advanced Materials (IAMs) for robust, fast curing sealants and coatings for manufacturing and final assembly (IA) (Innovative Advanced Materials for Europe partnership)
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01: Advanced sensor technologies and multimodal sensor integration for multiple application domains (IA) (Photonics Partnership)
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-11: CSA on access to European spaceports
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-12: Digital solutions for autonomy for space transportation systems, design and simulation tools - Digital enablers and building blocks
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-13: Digital solutions for autonomy for space transportation systems, design and simulation tools – targeting demonstration
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-31: Digital enablers and building blocks for Earth Observation and Satellite telecommunication for Space solutions
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-32: Preparing demonstration missions for collaborative Earth Observation and Satellite telecommunication for Space solutions
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-46: Innovative Earth observation services in support of maritime litter detection and ship source pollution policies
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-71: Space Critical EEE Components and Related Technologies for EU non-dependence
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-72: Space Critical Equipment and Related Technologies for EU non-dependence
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-81: EU-Japan cooperation on the exploitation of Quantum Space Gravimetry data
CLUSTER 5: CLIMATE, ENERGY & MOBILITY
- HORIZON-CL5-2025-03-D1-02: Advancing Earth System Models to increase understanding of Earth system change
- HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-03: Novel approaches to geothermal resources development
- HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-04: Development of hydropower technologies and water management schemes allowing for win-win situation of flexible hydropower and biodiversity improvement – Societal Readiness Pilot
- HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D3-05: Demonstration of thermal energy storage solutions for solar thermal plants and systems
CLUSTER 6: FOOD, BIOECONOMY, NATURAL RESOURCES, AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-01: Additional activities for the European Biodiversity Partnership: Biodiversa+
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-02: Strengthening the capacity of citizen science in biodiversity observation
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-03: Strengthening taxonomic approaches for biodiversity
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-04: Large-scale in situ biodiversity observations for better understanding of biodiversity state, drivers of its decline and impacts of policies
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-05: Assessing and modelling ecosystems’ dynamic processes to guide restoration activities and to improve models used for climate
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-07: Living labs and lighthouses co-creating innovative solutions for forests and freshwater ecosystems restoration
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-12: Breeding for resilience: enhancing multi-stress tolerance in crops
Contact persons: Kateřina Ježová, Tomáš Lády
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III. Other News
COST info Day 2025 – presentation, video from the livestream on YouTube
Crowdhelix – MU is the member of the network
TACR
MZE
- 3. public competition of the EARTH II programme to be announced 16 April 2025 – more information HERE
GA CR
- In the GA CR 2026 call, the applicants from the Faculty of Science submitted a total of 128 proposals:
- 106 Standard grant proposals (78 of them as a principal investigator)
- 13 JUNIOR STAR proposals
- 6 Bilateral and LA Grants proposals (5 of them as a principal investigator)
- 2 POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP proposals
- 1 Restart grant proposal
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IV. Training and other grant-related events
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