Rules

• A nomination for the award of a student or employee of MU can be submitted by anyone.
• The nominated person must be an employee or student of MU.
• The reasons for nomination are: inventions, projects, technologies, services and other relevant social valid activities and outcomes, which have been successfully implemented into the practice, helped to improve products or services, or about which the proposer is convinced that they have contributed to increase the social relevance of the MU research or that meet the criteria for a significant innovation act.
• A proposer may send several nominations.
• The nomination must be justified (by e.g. description of the innovative act, explaining what makes this act innovative, extraordinary and beneficial, what is its application in practice, why it should be awarded, etc.).
• The award is awarded for relevant outcomes or activities, that have arisen, have been published, used or applied in the period from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022.
• Up to 10 nominees can receive the award.
• The award recipients can receive a total of up to CZK 1,000,000, to which the nomination itself does not create a legal entitlement.

• Nominations can be submitted via the electronic form until 31 January 2023.

Evaluation

The evaluation is carried out by an independent commission composed of professional university and non-university public, the MU Council for Technology Transfer and Commercial Cooperation, MU management, and representatives of faculties or other interested MU economic centres.

Announcement of results

The results will be announced as part of the traditional MU Business Research Forum event in the form of a ceremony on 26 April 2023.

Further information can be found on the Competitions and awards website.