I. Successful Projects

Department of Geography (PI: Ondřej Mulíček, PhD.) succeeded in the OP JAC SSH call with the proposal "A mobile society: opportunities and risks of new forms of mobility for Czech society and economy" in a partnership role.

doc. RNDr. Zdeňka Lososová, Ph.D. (Department of Botany and Zoology), GA CR standard project, title: “Urbanized landscape as a human contribution to the diversity of nature: integrating urban ecology and urban biology” (25-15190S)

doc. Mgr. Dominik Heger, Ph.D (Department of Chemistry), GA CR standard project, title: “Spectroscopis Investigation of Environmentally Relevant Compounds in Highly Concentrated Solutions” (25-15358S)

Mgr. Jakub Švenda, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry), GA CR standard project, title: “ Novel building blocks for assembly of complex diterpene scaffolds” (25-16913S)

prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (Department of Botany and Zoology), GA CR standard project, title: “ European hotspots of local plant community species richness origin and current changes” (25-15235S)

doc. Jeffrey Nekola, Ph.D. (Department of Botany and Zoology), GA CR standard project, title: “Biodiversity related to environmental stability: A novel test based on boreal oceanic land-snail communities and their genetics” (25-15569S)

Mgr. Veronika Horsáková, Ph.D. (Department of Botany and Zoology), GA CR standard project, title:” Understanding the current threats to wetland biodiversity: from micro- to macroorganisms, and fossils to population genetics (25-15831S)

Mgr. Michaela Kuchynka, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry, joint project with Faculty of Pharmacy), GA CR standard project, title:” Advanced stroke diagnostics specific detection of biodegradable nanoparticles and their visualisation in brain tissue by correlative imaging” (25-16166S)

RNDr. Martin Kašný, Ph.D. (Department of Botany and Zoology), GA CR standard project, title: “How are drug-metabolizing enzymes regulated in parasitic nematodes?” (25-16530S)

RNDr. Jan Divíšek, Ph.D. (Department of Botany and Zoology), GA CR standard project, title: “Functional traits and phylogeny as determinants of invasion success in European plant communities” (25-16176S)

Doc. Mgr. Lumír Krejčí, Ph.D. (National Centre for Biomolecular Research), GA CR standard project, title: “Structural characterization of RAD51-G4 complex and its biological role” (25-17326S)

Mgr. Patrícia Singh, Ph.D. (Department of Botany and Zoology), GA CR POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP OUTGOING, title: “Climate - driven future ecosystem loss and range shift in ombrotrophic bogs and implications of conservation, restoration, and carbon storage (25- 17288O)

Lisa Emily Melymuk, Ph.D. (RECETOX), GA CR standard project, title: ChemTrace: “Chemicals in plastic products: tracing hazardous compounds from supply chain through to children’s exposure” (25-18352S)

prof. Gerhard Lammel, PhD. (RECETOX), GA CR standard project, title: “Pesticides in the atmosphere - characterisation of their distribution and fate” (25-17534S)

Ing. RNDr. Martin Marek, Ph.D., MBA (RECETOX), GA CR standard project, title: “Decoding the molecular principles of marine bioluminescence” (25-18205S)

RNDr. Jan Škoda, Ph.D. (Department of Experimental Biology), GA CR standard project, title: „Synthetic lethal interactions of the mitochondrial integrated stress response in MYC-driven tumors“ (25-16629S)

doc. Mgr. Pavel Dvořák, Ph.D. (Department of Experimental Biology), GA CR standard project, title: „A new strategy for the assembly of biocatalytic scaffolds on bacterial surface for facilitated processing of polymeric waste“ (25-16845S)

prof. Mgr. Vítězslav Bryja, Ph.D. (Department of Experimental Biology), GA CR standard project, title: „Deciphering cellular and molecular principles of choroid plexus development“ (25-17360S)

Mgr. Pavlína Janovská, Ph.D. (Department of Experimental Biology), GA CR standard project, title: „Role of S1PR1 in B cell mechanosensitivity“ (25-16907S)

prof. Mgr. Jiří Krtička, Ph.D. (Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics), GA CR standard project, title: „Hot star winds: solving uncertainties of mass loss near the Eddington limit“ (25-15910S)

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).
• Bilateral grant projects with Polish National Science Centre (NCN). More information available HERE.  Deadline: 23.12.2024 (in Poland 16.12.2024) (Faculty deadline: immediately).
• Bilateral grant projects with Slovenian agency ARIS. More information available HERE. Deadline: 7.2.2025 (in Slovenia 31.1.2025) (Faculty deadline: 17.1.2025).

Contact persons: Tereza Johnová, Jitka Kosinová

TA CR

• CET Partnership Call 2024 - Open call with the deadline on Wednesday, December 11th. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.
• VS SIGMA DC3, SHUV - Open call with the deadline on Tuesday, December 31st. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE
• Program “PRODEF” - Open call with the deadline on Wednesday, December 11th. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.

Contact person: Lucie Kulhavá

AZV

• Change of the date for the announcement of the next public tender - the first week of February 2025!
• ERA4Health – Open call with the deadline for pre-proposals is 28.1.2025. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.
• PerMed Partnership on mid December - the announcement of the project call is planned. Preliminary parameters of the call can be found HERE.
• THCS - Open call with the deadline for pre-proposals is 30.1.2025. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.
• ERDERA on 10.12.2024 the announcement of the project call is planned. Preliminary parameters of the call can be found HERE.

Contact person: Lucie Kulhavá

MEYS

• INTER-EXCELLENCE II, INTER- COST, call LUC25 will be announced on 4 December 2024

Contact persons: Jitka Kosinová

INTERREG

• Austria - Czech Republic Cooperation Programme. More information on priorities available HERE. Deadline: 28.03.2025.
• Slovak Republic - Czech Republic Cooperation Programme. More details on programme documents can be found HERE.
• Saxony - Czech Republic Cooperation Programme. More information on priorities available HERE. Deadline: 10.1.2025.
• 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

MIT-Czech Republic IOCB Tech Foundation Seed Fund – call for 2024

The program that was created in 2021 is a collaboration between MIT, the IOCB of the CAS, and its subsidiary IOCB Tech. It is now funded by the IOCB Tech Foundation, which contributes $100,000 per year to the program. The fund supports 3 to 5 new collaborations each year between scientists from CAS research institutes and universities in the Czech Republic and MIT partners, up to $25,000, with funding available to cover travel and accommodation costs associated with working meetings and research internships. Successful applicants will be decided by April of the following year and the first trips will be available in June 2025. The fund is open to all disciplines. For further information, please visit the MIT website or the CAS website. Deadline: 10.12.2024.

Contact person: Kateřina Ježová, Tomáš Lády

HORIZON EUROPE

• MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024: MSCA Staff Exchanges involve organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (including SMEs) from across the globe. Details available HERE. DDL 5.2.2025.
• MSCA COFUND: Support is provided for international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility of R&I staff leading to knowledge transfer between participating organisations. More details are available HERE. Deadline: 5.2.2025.
  Applicants submit proposals for new or existing doctoral or postdoctoral programmes with an impact on the enhancement of human resources in R&I at regional, national or international level. These programmes will be co-funded by MSCA COFUND. Proposed programmes can cover any research disciplines ("bottom-up"), but exceptionally can also focus on specific disciplines, notably when they are based on national or regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3 strategies). In this case, the range of covered disciplines should allow reasonable flexibility for the researchers to define their topic.
  More details are available HERE. Deadline: 5.2.2025.
• MSCA Researchers at Risk 2024: more targeted and customised support for researchers at risk at European, national and institutional level. More details are available HERE. Deadline 14.1.2025.
• ERC Consolidator Grants (Horizon Europe): The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators in any field of study at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. More information available HERE. Deadline: 14.1.2025.
• 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.
• 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.

  Pathfinder Open: additional information may be found HERE. DDL 21.5.2025

Contact persons: Kateřina Ježová, Tomáš Lády

COLLABORATIVE CALLS OF HORIZON EUROPE:

HEALTH

• Call for proposals on Personalised Cancer Medicine. DDL 22.1.2024

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY

• Digital solutions to foster participative design, planning and management of buildings, neighbourhoods and urban districts (Built4People Partnership). DDL 21.1.2025
• Innovative, Community-Integrated PV systems DDL 4.2.2025
• Mobility Management Plans and Behavioural Change. DDL 11.2.2025
• Rethinking urban spaces towards climate neutrality DDL 11.2.2025
• Integrated peri-urban areas in the transition towards climate neutrality. DDL 11.2.2025.
• Zero pollution cities DDL 11.2.2025

ENERGY

• Development of next generation synthetic renewable fuel technologies. DDL 4.2.2025
• Development of smart concepts of integrated energy driven bio-refineries for co-production of advanced biofuels, bio-chemicals and biomaterials DDL 4.2.2025
• Resource Efficiency of PV in Production, Use and Disposal. DDL 4.2.2025
• Digital tools for CSP and solar thermal plants. DDL 4.2.2025

MISCELLANEOUS

• Teaming for Excellence: Two-stage DDL 10.4.2025; 20.1.2026 supports the creation of new centres of excellence or modernising the existing ones.
• OSCARS - 2nd Open Call for Open Science projects and services (opening date 15. 1. 2025, DDL 17. 3. 2025)

CASCADE FUNDING

• AI REDGIO 5.0: Open call for innovative experiments. DDL 16.12.2024
  The objective for the second open call of AI REDGIO 5.0 project is to select up to 10 SME-driven experiments focused on the implementation of AI at the Edge and Industry 5.0 systems with the aim of improving existing solutions, products or processes in the manufacturing area. Additionally, the open call will contribute to extend the domains of AI REDGIO 5.0 and benefit directly manufacturing SMEs and small mid-caps. The experiments are expected to cover 2 topics:
  • TOPIC 1: AI-at-the-Edge – convergence between Data and AI continuum, Cloud, Edge, IoT technologies
  • TOPIC 2: Industry 5.0 Human Centric and Sustainable-Circular Manufacturing, inspired by WISE principles

Contact persons: Kateřina Ježová, Tomáš Lády

III. Other News

GA CR

• New Panel Organization - changes will apply to calls and tenders published next year
• GA CR announced the results of STANDARD GRANTS 2025 and PIF 2025
• The evaluation of the JUNIOR STAR and EXPRO project proposals is available in GRIS
• GA CR is looking for new evaluators for all panels - deadline 16.12.2024.
• Presentation and recording of the internal seminar on Data Management Plan (held on 22 May 2024)
• Deadlines for reporting

MEYS

• Deadlines for reporting INTER-EXCELLENCE II
• Deadlines for reporting MOBILITY, Podunajská spolupráce (DANUBE)

MUNI

• Templates of contracts to ensure contractual relations on projects prepared by colleagues from the Technology Transfer Office (CTT MUNI)

IV. Training and other grant-related events

GA CR: Training: Using the Data Stewardship Wizard for your scientific data management – 5.12.2024 (online)

MUNI: Internal seminar "How to DMP" – 10.12.2024 (online, no registration)

CZARMA REGON: Launch of the new European Partnerships for Health - 4. 12. 2024 (hybrid)

MUNI: Workshop on ERC Grant Applications: Strategies, Pitfalls and Best Practices - 5. 2. 2025 (in person)

OSCARS: 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science Projects - 15. 1. 2025

V. Get in touch with us

Please do not hesitate to contact the Project Support Office if you have questions or plan to submit a proposal

Ing. Bc. Martin Hovorka, division head