I. New Successful Projects

Prof. Tomáš Řezník (Dept. of Geography) became part of a new collaborative HORIZON EUROPE project SoilWise (An open access knowledge and data repository to safeguard soils) coordinated by Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in Belgium.

Assoc. Prof. Miroslav Králík (Dept. of Anthropology) has received funding for a project in the NAKI III program of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic entitled "Mapping the community dynamics of Anabaptist population in Moravia in the 16th and 17th centuries." The project will enable the creation of an expert database and an interactive map of Moravian New Baptist settlements.

Dr. Lukáš Dolák (Dept. of Geography) has received funding from Interreg Central Europe (2021-2027) for a project "Central European Toolbox for Mitigating Combined Consequences of Drought, Heatwaves, and Fire Weather through Regionally Tuned Forecasting".

Prof. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková (Dept. of Botany and Zoology) and Dr. Aleš Stýskalík (Dept. of Chemistry) were successful in the INTER-EXCELLENCE, INTER-ACTION (USA)

5 new grants supported by TAČR (Technology Leaders sub-programme) will be realized at Faculty of Science from Q1 2023: Prof. Luděk Bláha (RECETOX), Prof. Petra Vašina, Assoc. Prof. Pavel Souček (both Dept. of Physical Electronics), Dr. Pavlína Janovská (Dept. of Exp. Biology), Dr. Ondřej Caha (Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics)

30 new GAČR projects starting from January 2023 at Faculty of Science:

• 25 Standard grant projects (16 of them as a principal investigator, 9 as a partner)
• 1 JUNIOR STAR project
• 4 LA Grants with Polish agency NCN (3 of them as a principal investigator, 1 as a partner)

MOBILITY, MEYS

• Joint Czech – Austrian projects - Assoc. Prof. Phuoc Tai Nguyen (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics), Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Vilma Buršíková (Dept. of Physical Electronics)
• Joint Czech – French project - Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Hoder (Dept. of Physical Electronics)
• Joint Czech – German project - Dr. Zlata Kelar Tučeková (Dept. of Physical Electronics)

II. Upcoming calls

GAČR - the calls will be announced in the mid February (Standard grant projects, JUNIOR STAR, POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP, Bilateral grant projects). More information available: HERE

GAČR LA - ongoing calls for:

• Bilateral grant projects. Bilateral cooperation with the following partner agencies: FWF (Austria), DFG (Germany), NSF (USA)
• Bilateral cooperation with Luxembourgish agency (FNR, Luxembourg), Deadline: 20.4.2023
• Bilateral cooperation with Slovenian agency (ARRS, Slovenia), Deadline: 28.2.2023

Please note, that the faculty deadline is one week earlier (for budget control). More information available: HERE

TAČR:

• SIGMA (Young researchers). (Deadline 5. 4. 2023)
• TREND (Leaders) - preliminary parameters
• ERA-MIN 3 Call 2023. ERA-MIN3 is a global, innovative, and flexible pan-European network of 25 European/non-European research funding organisations, aiming to continue strengthening the mineral raw materialscommunity through the coordination of research and innovation programmes on non-fuel and non-food raw materials (metallic, construction, and industrial minerals). Deadline 30.03.2023. More information available HERE.
• QuantERA Call 2023 supports research into quantum technologies. Deadline 11.05.2023. More information available HERE
• M-ERA.NET Call 2023 – Pre-announcement

EMBO Solidarity (EMBO) support for researchers in Life Sciences who had to move because of the war in Ukraine. Deadline 15.2.2023. More information available HERE.

EIC Pathfinder (Horizon Europe): funds collaborative (or individual) high-risk high-gain research leading to a radically new technology. Deadline 7.3.2023. More information HERE.

MSCA Staff Exchanges (Horizon Europe): collaborative research projects implemented on the basis of research staff mobility between involved organizations. It funds only international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility. Deadline 8.3.2023. More information HERE.

HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program) - two types of three years-long grants: (1) individual Early Career research grant and (2) collaborative interdisciplinary Program research grant. Deadline for Letter of Intent 24.3.2023. More details available HERE.

EMBO Installation grant (EMBO) supplementary funding for early career group leaders in life sciences to establish their new independent research group. Deadline 15.4.2023. More information available HERE.

ERC Advanced (Horizon Europe): supports leading principal investigators who want long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project (> 12 years since PhD defence). You can apply for up to 2,5 mil. EUR for 5 years. Deadline 23.5.2023. More information available HERE.

COLLABORATIVE CALLS OF HORIZON EUROPE:

• Interdisciplinary assessment of changes affecting terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, building on observation programmes DDL 28.3.2023
• Non-plant biomass feedstock for industrial applications: technologies and processes to convert non-lignocellulosic biomass and waste into bio-based chemicals, materials and products, improving the cascading valorisation of biomass DDL 28.3.2023
• Screening platform and biomarkers for prediction and prevention of diseases of unmet public health need DDL 15.3.2023

• Pandemic preparedness and response: Broad spectrum anti-viral therapeutics for infectious diseases with epidemic potential - DDL 13.4.2023
• Relationship between infections and non-communicable disease – DDL 13.4.2023
• Pandemic preparedness and response: Understanding vaccine induced-immunity – DDL 13.4.2023
• Pandemic preparedness and response: Immunogenicity of viral proteins of viruses with epidemic and pandemic potential – DDL 13.4.2023
• Addressing poorly-understood tumour-host interactions to enhance immune system-centred treatment and care interventions in childhood, adolescent, adult and elderly cancer patients DDL 12.4.2023

• Computational models for the development of safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials DDL 20.4.2023
• Next Generation eXtended Reality DDL 29.3.2023
• Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuit technologies DDL 29.3.2023
• Research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing main challenges and EU priorities – DDL 9.3.2023

To consult newly published preliminary drafts of Horizon Europe calls for collaborative projects for 2023 and 2024 contact Veronika Mikitová.

III. Other News

Numbers of project proposals submitted to MU

AZV - Definition of  the term "exclusive dedication"

GAMU

• Career Restart - Guidelines for the termination of CARER RESTART projects starting in 2021
• INTERDISCIPLINARY - Guidance on interim/final reporting - information on adjusting the length of project phases for all ongoing projects

TA ČR

• New conditions for changing the type of organisation
• Presentation and recording from the webinar Conditions of cost eligibility
• New binding rules on publicity (the previous ones have expired)
• New TA CR methodology document on project results specifying the Methodology 2017+ binding for all results achieved after 3.1.2023
• Schedule of TAČR calls for 2023

INTERREG Austria - Czechia 2021-2027. The submission of the projects is scheduled for early 2023. More details on the programme documents, pleace click HERE.

INTERREG V-A SK-CZ - INTERREG V-A - Slovak Republic - Czech Republic. The EC has approved the programme for the new programming period 2021 - 2027. The new programme will fund projects that will improve the quality of life in the Slovak-Czech border region. The first calls will be launched early next year. Contact for applicants HERE.

INTERREG EUROPE 2021 - 2027 - Projects should aim to improve the implementation of regional policies and interregional institutional cooperation. Announcement of the second call for project applications is scheduled for 15 March 2023. More detailed information can be found HERE.

OP JAK
Operational Programme Jan Amos Komensky – In September 2022 at the 2nd meeting of the Programme Planning Committee, the updated Schedules of calls for 2022 and 2023 were approved - both .pdf-documents are available HERE.

IV. Training and other grant-related events

TC Praha: Seminar on call TEAMING 2023-2024 (13. 2. 2023)

TC Praha and MEYS: CZEDER Conference 2023 with focus on ERC and MSCA calls (14. 2. 2023)

EU: European Innovation Ecosystem 2023 (16. 2. 2023) – online

GAČR: Presentation of the calls 2024 - (Praha 16. 2. 2023, Brno 1. 3. 2023) - hybrid

MU: How to ask for approval from MU Ethics Committee? Internal seminar for researchers (27. 2. 2023) – hybrid

CZARMA: REGON – Introduction of new GAČR calls for 2024 (1. 3. 2023) – hybrid in Czech

MMR: Infoday INTERREG EUROPE / Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE 2021-2027 (3. 3. 2023) – fyzicky

EU: Science is Wonderful! (16.-17. 3. 2023)

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