I. New Successful Projects

• Prof. Jan Slovák (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics) was awarded Horizon Europe project within MSCA Staff Exchange call. The international and intersectoral mobility of researchers planned with the CaLIGULA project fosters cross-fertilization of ideas within Cartan Geometry, Lie Theory, Integrable Systems and Quantum Groups. The project will start on 1.1.2023 and will last 4 years.
• Associate Professor Tomáš Řezník (Dept. Of Geography) succeeded with his project proposal in the GAMU HORIZON competition. Thanks to the funding from this project, he will submit two Horizon Europe project proposals.

II. Upcoming Calls

GAMU

• Career restart, Interdisciplinary and MUNI Scientist (Deadline: 15.10.2022, Faculty deadline: 5.10.2022 for budget control)
• GAMU MASH and MASH Junior (Deadline: 10.12.2022, Faculty deadline: 30.11.2022 for budget control). More information available: HERE

GAČR

• GAČR LA – Lead Agency (CNC): Czech – Polish projects. Deadline in Poland: 15.12.2022, Deadline in Czech: 22.12.2022 (Faculty deadline: 5.12.2022). More information available here: GACR LA
  
• GAČR international collaborative LA grants – with German agency DFG – call open continuously, Austrian agency FWF – call open continuously, American NSF - call open continuously, and Swiss agency SNSF – deadline on 1.10.2022 for CZ. More information on calls available HERE.
  
  

TAČR

• Preliminary parameters of the 8th public competition TA ČR TREND Technology Leaders (5G networks) - (announcement 5 October)
• Preliminary parameters of the SIGMA public competition for sub-objective 3 (social sciences) - (announcement 26 October)
• Water4All - call open (deadline 31 October) - faculty info HERE
  Biodiversity Partnership Call 2022 (deadline 9 November) - MU information HERE
• Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership Call 2022 (deadline 21 November) - MU information HERE
• Partnership Clean Energy Transition (CET) Call 2022 - (deadline 23 November) - MU information HERE
• CHIST-ERA - Open Research Data Call (deadline 14 December)

AKTION AT-CZ

• Academic staff of public universities in the Czech Republic can apply for stays of 1 to 3 months. The monthly amount of the scholarship is 1.250 Eur. (Deadline 31.10.2022, faculty deadline: 14.9.2022) More information can be found here: HERE. If you are interested, please contact Ing. Lucie Bodova.

MISTI

• MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) - seed fund supporting bilateral collaboration between Czech team and team from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with deadline on 13.12.2022. More details available HERE.

HORIZON EUROPE

• ERC Starting: supports excellent early career scientists (2-7 years since PhD defence) and their teams to pursue groundbreaking high-risk / high-gain research. You can apply for up to 1,5 mil. EUR for 5 years. Deadline 25.10.2022. More information available HERE.
  
• ERC Synergy: support for 2-4 PIs with distinct expertise to tackle ambitious research problems taking advantage of unique synergy. Max. project budget is 10 mil. EUR for max. duration of 6 years. Deadline 8.11.2022. More information available HERE.
  
• Hop On Facility: enables a partner from a Widening country (ie Czech Republic) to join already successful consortium and get a financial support. You can join only collaborative projects from Pillar 2 and EIC Pathfinder Pillar 3 calls (listed on the link below), which do not have a partner from Widening country yet. Apply anytime until 10.11.2022. More information available HERE.
  
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks 2022: PhD training network based on joint research project conducted by collaborating investigators and their PhD students from min. 3 institutions from min. 3 EU Member or Associated States. Deadline: 15.11.2022 More information on the call available HERE.
  

• ERC Consolidator: supports excellent Principal Investigators (8-12 years since PhD defence) to consolidate their teams and perform groundbreaking highly risky research. You can apply for up to 2 mil. EUR for 5 years. Deadline 2.2.2023. More information available HERE.

INNOVATION – EIC Pathfinder Challenges

• Cardiogenomics. Deadline: 19.10.2022. More information available HERE.
• Alternative approaches to Quantum Information Processing, Communication, and Sensing. Deadline: 19.10.2022. More information available HERE.
• Carbon dioxide and Nitrogen management and valorisation. Deadline: 19.10.2022. More information available HERE.

• DNA-based digital data storage. Deadline: 19.10.2022. More information available HERE.

To consult future so far unpublished Horizon Europe calls planned for 2023 and 2024 contact Veronika Mikitová.

III. Other News

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.

AZV

Application form for approval of changes in MZdr projects (Requests for changes can only be submitted 60 calendar days before the end of the calendar year; if the change concerns an extension of the project duration, the application must be submitted within 90 calendar days before the end of the project)

TA ČR

Deadline for submission of change applications: 10 November 2022

IV. Training and other grant-related events

MUNI: REGON - October 2022: TA ČR SIGMA Programme (5 October, online)

TA ČR: Seminar on change requests (12 October, online)

TC CAS: National Information Day - Horizon Europe - Life Sciences (22 October, physically)

TC CAS: National information dayin clastr 5 - Climate, Energy a Mobility (23 November)

TC CAS: Matchmaking event “Projects4GreenEnergy:Connected” (8 November, online)

TC CAS: Series of workshops “How to approach Horizon Europe (5 - 14 October, online)

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