Newsletter of Project Support Office, Faculty of Science, MU
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I. Successful Projects
Mgr. Daniel Kašík (Department of Geography) has received funding for a comMUNIty project entitled “Organization of regular humanitarian mapping at MUNI, high schools and companies to expand the Brno community of the international Missing Maps project creating maps of crisis areas for the work of humanitarian organizations”
prof. RNDr. Jaromír Leichmann, Dr. rer. nat. (Department of Geological Sciences) has received funding for TACR THÉTA 2 project entitled „Geochemical aspects of subsurface storage of hydrogen“.
Mgr. Zdeněk Bonaventura, Ph.D. (Department of Plasma Physics and Technology) has received funding for TACR THÉTA 2 project entitled “Post-HIC dielectric withstand test prediction for low voltage circuit breakers“.
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II. Upcoming calls
Please inform the Project Support Office of your intention to submit a proposal for any project (even as a partner) as soon as possible. Follow the internal deadlines for each call.
GA CR LA (GA CR as a partner organisation)
- Ongoing calls for Bilateral grant projects with the following partner agencies: FWF (Austria), DFG (Germany). More information available HERE. Faculty deadline: two weeks before submission (for budget control).
Contact persons: Tereza Johnová, Jitka Kosinová, Iveta Svobodová
TACR
- ERA-NET Cofund M-ERA.NET 3 Call 2025 - The call is aimed at supporting projects in the field of materials research and innovation. More information available HERE. The Pre-Proposal deadline is 13 May 2025. The Full-Proposal deadline is 19 November 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
- Call for joint Czech-German projects MOBILITY (8J26DE). More information available HERE. Deadline: 16.6.2025, Faculty deadline: 6.6.2025
Contact person: Jitka Kosinová
Ministry of Agriculture
- 3nd call for proposals in program Země II.
Sub-programme I - Promoting innovative agriculture and forestry through advanced practices and technologies
Sub-programme II - Support for public policy in the agricultural sector
More information available HERE. Deadline: 4.6.2025. Faculty deadline: 21.5.2025
Contact person: Kateřina Páleníková Fialová
Ministry of Interior
- 2nd call for proposals in program OPSEC.
Sub-programme I: Developing Law Enforcement Capabilities
Sub-programme II: Crisis Preparedness of Security and Emergency Services
Sub-programme III: Resilient Society
More information available HERE. Deadline: 28.5.2025. Faculty deadline: 14.5.2025
Contact person: Kateřina Páleníková Fialová
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: 20.10.2025
- 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
Following update from 28/04/2025: the drafts of the work programmes are now released on the EU webpage HERE:
https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe/horizon-europe-work-programmes_en#pre-publication-of-work-programme-2025
These may still be subject to some changes, but final confirmation is expected soon in May 2025.
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
TACR
- 2. call for tender Environment for Life 2 PP1 to be announced 28 May 2025 - preliminary parameters
- 11. call for tender SIGMA DC4 (bilateral cooperation) to be announced 7 May 2025 - preliminary parameters
- Important notes on the SISTA application - in order to avoid unnecessary delays in granting access to SISTA to researchers and administrators (especially for proposals where MU acts as a partner), it is necessary to create a project proposal in ISEP as soon as possible with the number assigned by SISTA.
COST info Day 2025 – presentation, video from the livestream on YouTube
Crowdhelix – MU is the member of the network
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