Project Support Office  |  January 2025
7 Jan 2025, 10:23

Newsletter of Project Support Office, Faculty of Science, MU

I. Successful Projects

Four new GAMU CAREER RESTART projects will be supported at the Faculty of Science in 2025. The Career Restart program provides grants to scientists who have had interruptions in their research careers, such as parental leave or other significant reasons. This program aims to facilitate and accelerate the reintegration of young, talented researchers into productive scientific careers and to increase their representation in independent, senior research positions. The grants were awarded to:

Mgr. Dana Fialová, Ph.D. (Department of Experimental Biology) - Project “Ancient dental calculus as a tool of anthropology and paleogenetics”

RNDr. Jitka Vives, Ph.D. (Department of Experimental Biology) – Project “Applications of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) analysis for the characterisation of cold-adapted oligotrophic bacteria from the Antarctic environment”

Mgr. Štěpánka Kelarová, Ph.D. (Department of Plasma Physics and Technology) – Project “Development of novel coatings for industrial and medical applications”

Mag. Katharina Neusser, Ph.D. (Department of Mathematics and Statistics) – Project “Rigid geometric structures and applications of Cartan connections”

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 Slovenian agency ARIS. More information available HERE. Deadline: 7.2.2025 (in Slovenia 31.1.2025) (Faculty deadline: 17.1.2025).
  • Bilateral grant projects with Luxembourg agency FNR. More information available HERE. Deadline: 17.4.2025 (in Luxembourg 10.4.2025) (Faculty deadline: 3.4.2025).

Contact persons: Tereza Johnová, Jitka Kosinová, Iveta Svobodová

MEYS

  • INTER-EXCELLENCE II, INTER- COST, (call LUC25). More information available HERE. Deadline: 22.1.2025 (Faculty deadline: 16.1.2025)

Contact persons: Jitka Kosinová

AZV

  • 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 Open call with the deadline for pre-proposals is 18.2.2025. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE. The registration for the webinar with detail is until 8.1.2025.
  • 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 open call with the deadline for pre-proposals is 13.2.2025. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE. The registration for the webinar with detail is until 8.1.2025.

Contact person: Lucie Kulhavá

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.
  • 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 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 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 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

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY

ENERGY

MISCELLANEOUS

Contact persons: Kateřina Ježová, Tomáš Lády

III. Other News

GA CR

MEYS

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

IV. Training and other grant-related events

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

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

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

National grants:

Ing. Jitka Kosinová

Ing. Bc. Tereza Johnová

Mgr. Lucie Kulhavá

Ing. Iveta Svobodová

International grants:

Mgr. Kateřina Ježová, Ph.D.

Bc. Tomáš Lády

Ing. Irena Trňáčková

GAMU grants:

Ing. Irena Trňáčková

 

Operational Programmes:

Ing. Kateřina Juhászová, Ph.D.

Mgr. Helena Michalicová

Ing. Lenka Vlašínová

Mgr. Kristýna Návratová

Mgr. Soňa Matušíková

Procurement:

Mgr. Pavel Vicherek

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