Newsletter of Project Support Office, Faculty of Science, MU
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GRANTS WEEK MUNI 2024
Come and invite young researchers in your research groups.
Get motivated and inspired to work on your new international research project.
11.11.2024, UKB, seminar room 111/D30 - INBIT, 9:00 - 12:00
Empowering Early Career Scientists in Project Management and Grant Writing (registration)
for researchers in early career stages (PhD candidates, postdocs)
12.11.2024, UKB, seminar room 111/D30 - INBIT, 9:00 - 12:00
Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scientists (registration)
for researchers in early career stages (PhD candidates, postdocs)
13.11.2024, Komenského nám. 2, 9:00 - 12:00
Funding Landscapes (registration)
for project managers and administrators, researchers at all career stages
20.11.2024, Komenského nám. 2, 9:00 - 12:00
Kick-starting a research career with Horizon Europe (registration)
for researchers in early career stages (PhD candidates, postdocs)
20.11.2024, Komenského nám. 2, 9:00 - 12:00
Widening in Horizon Europe: Accessible international funding for strategic purposes (registration)
for (Vice-)Deans, Directors, Department Heads, Group Leaders
Full programme of the Grants Week
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I. Successful Projects
Ing. Kateřina Knotková (Department of Botany and Zoology) succeeded in the Climate and Environment call of the INTERREG Austria - Czech Republic 2021 - 2027 programe with the grant "PannFlora" worth 1 275 298 €. The aim of the project is to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change on grasslands in the Pannonian region of both countries. A complex approach to the problem will enable the selection of suitable plant species, the development of technologies for their production and the setting up of ecological procedures for the establishment and maintenance of new green areas.
RNDr. Petra Matulová, CSc. (National Centre for Biomolecular Research) succeeded in the call for proposals "Education, Culture and Tourism" of the INTERREG Austria - Czech Republic 2021 - 2027 programme with the partner grant "AT-CZ OPEN LABS" worth 1 154 614 €. The aim of the project is to create a cross-border network of educational laboratories, Including their modernisation and expansion of excellent education in natural sciences for students of primary, secondary and tertiary schools.
Doc. RNDr. Milan Jeřábek, Ph.D. (Department of Geography) succeeded in the call of the Local Initiative of the INTERREG Slovakia - Czech Republic 2021 - 2027 programme (Small Projects Fund) with the project "CZ-SK Town-twinning" worth 37 493 €. The aim of the project is to evaluate the state of cross-border town-twinning and the contribution of small and large INTERREG projects through in-house research and on-the-ground investigations.
Ing. RNDr. Martin Marek, Ph.D., MBA (RECETOX) received the prestigious GA CR EXPRO grant entitled “Resolving the puzzle of resonance energy transfer in bioluminiscence“.
Doc. Mgr. David Bednář, Ph.D. (RECETOX) received the prestigious GA CR JUNIOR STAR grant entitled “Development of methods and tools for engineering of next-generation thrombolytics for the treatment of stroke“.
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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).
- Bilateral grant projects with Polish National Science Centre (NCN). More information available HERE. Deadline: 23.12.2024 (in Poland 16.12.2024) (Faculty deadline: 2.12.2024).
- 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
TAČR
- The call of “Biodiversity Partnership - Call 2024: "Biodiversity and Transformative Change - BiodivTransform" - Open call with the deadline on Friday, November 8th. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.
- Water4All Call 2024 – Open call with the deadline on Wednesday, November 13th. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.
- Partnership DUT Call 2024 - Open call with the deadline on Thursday, November 14th. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.
- CET Partnership Call 2024 - Open call with the deadline on Wednesday, December 11th. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.
- Program “PRODEF” - Open call with the deadline on Thursday, November 21st. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.
- 10. VS SIGMA DC3, SHUV - Open call with the deadline on Tuesday, December 31st. 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 on 20.11.2024 the announcement of the project call is planned. Preliminary parameters of the call can be found HERE.
- THCS on 26.11.2024 the announcement of the project call is planned. Preliminary parameters of the call can be found 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
GAMU - 2024 MASH call deadlines are approaching!
- MASH: The main aim of the grant is to bring excellent and successful external researchers to MU and to offer them such conditions that they are motivated to stay, work for MU and to attain exceptionally high-quality research results on the long-term basis. The call is open in 2 categories: MASH; MASH StG/CoG. More information available HERE. Deadline: 9.12.2024 (Faculty deadline: 29.11.2024).
- HORIZONS: International Grants Arangements. The support is intended for costs associated with the preparation of extremely prestigious and important projects of international donors (e.g. European Commission programmes). More information available HERE. Deadline: Applications can be submitted throughout the year.
Contact person: Irena Trňáčková
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: 11.1.2025.
- 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 Doctoral Networks: aim to train creative, entrepreneurial, innovative and resilient doctoral candidates, able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit. More details are available HERE. Deadline: 27.11.2024.
- MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024: 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 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.
Contact persons: Kateřina Ježová, Tomáš Lády
COLLABORATIVE CALLS OF HORIZON EUROPE
HEALTH
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY
ENERGY
MISCELLANEOUS
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
OPEN TOPICS
- Disaster-Resilient Society 2024 (HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01). DDL 20.11.2024. Under the Open Topic, proposals are welcome to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive solutions for enhanced interactions among the scientific community, practitioners, city’s risk managers of major crises and citizens or local communities in the event of (natural or man-made) disasters, that are not covered by the other topics.
Contact persons: Kateřina Ježová, Tomáš Lády
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III. Other News
GA CR
MEYS
- Call for experts for the INTER-EXCELLENCE II programme: More information available HERE
MUNI
- Templates of contracts to ensure contractual relations on projects prepared by colleagues from the Technology Transfer Office (CTT MUNI)
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