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 and the Methodology for the planning of personnel costs.
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).
- Bilateral grant projects with Polish agency National Science Centre (NCN). More information available HERE. Deadline: 22.12.2025 (in Poland 15.12.2025). Faculty deadline: 1.12.2025.
Contact persons: Tereza Johnová, Jitka Kosinová, Iveta Svobodová
TACR
- 3rd Call THÉTA 2 - Program for the Support of Applied Research and Innovation. PP1: Research in the public interest, PP2: Energy technologies for competitiveness, PP3: Technologies to ensure long-term energy sustainability.
More information available HERE. Deadline: 15. 10. 2025 (Faculty deadline: immediately). It is necessary to create a project proposal in ISEP as soon as possible, stating the number assigned by SISTA. Contact person: Kateřina Páleníková Fialová.
GAMU
- Career Restart: This grant scheme supports integration of researchers after a career break, for instance due to parental leave, long term illness or long-term care of close person into Masaryk University research teams. More information available HERE. Deadline: 10.10.2025 (Faculty deadline: immediately).
- 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: 5.12.2025 (Faculty deadline: 26.11.2025).
- HORIZONS: International Grants Arrangements. 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: 31.03.2026
- 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: 02.02.2026
- Czechia - Poland Cooperation Programme. More information on Priority 4: Improving conditions for the functioning and development of cross-border cooperation is available HERE. Deadline for the proposal: 14.01.2026
- INTERREG EUROPE Cooperation Programme. More information about topics and the program area is available HERE.
- Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Program for transnational cooperation. Information on the final strategic call for capitalization is available HERE. List of regions is HERE. Deadline: 27.11.2025.
Contact person: Helena Michalicová
HORIZON EUROPE
- Tentative ERC deadlines for 2026
- ERC Starting: call opens 9.7.2025, deadline: 14.10.2025
- ERC Synergy: call opens 10.7.2025, deadline: 5.11.2025
- ERC Consolidator: call opens 25.9.2025, deadline: 13.1.2026
- MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2025: initiative promotes Europe as an attractive destination for global research talent. It highlights MSCA funding opportunities, career support, and a strong environment for international collaboration. More details available HERE. Opening of the Call 1.10.2025, DDL 3.12.2025
- 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.
- MSCA Doctoral Networks 2025: funding initiative supporting creation of internationally connected doctoral training networks across Europe (and beyond), promoting excellence and intersectoral collaboration by engaging academic and non‑academic partners like industry, museums, libraries, or public agencies. More details available HERE. DDL 25.11.2025
- 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.
- EIC Pre-Accelerator Widening: This call will increase the innovation potential of deep-tech startups in the widening countries and enable them to better attract private investments and scale up. It will further strengthen the innovation dimension of the widening component and increase the overall competitiveness of these countries. Additional information HERE. DDL 18.11.2025.
- EIC: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01: Biotech for Climate Resilient Crops and Plant-Based Biomanufacturing. DDL 29. 10.2025
Contact persons: Kateřina Ježová, Tomáš Lády
Other Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
- HORIZON-MSCA-2025-CITIZENS-01-01: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2026-2027
Collaborative Actions (Clusters)
CLUSTER 3: CIVIL SECURITY FOR SOCIETY
CLUSTER 4: DIGITAL, SPACE & INDUSTRY
CLUSTER 5: CLIMATE, ENERGY & MOBILITY
Contact persons: Kateřina Ježová, Tomáš Lády
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