The objectives of the Programme are strengthened social dialogue and cooperation between employer organisations, trade unions and public authorities, the promotion of decent work and facilitated access to employment, in close cooperation with Norwegian partners.
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports announces the LUAUS23 public tender within the INTER-EXCELLENCE II program and the INTER-ACTION sub-program for bilateral projects in the Czech Republic and the United States of America.
It is possible to submit projects in all scientific fields without thematic restrictions.
The Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic announces a public competition in the research, experimental development and innovation program Strategic support for the development of security research in the Czech Republic 2019-2025 (IMPAKT 1) in Subprogramme 3 "Development of initiatives in security research".
The goal of the Program is to achieve a knowledge, technological and technical level that will enable the Czech Republic to acquire, adopt, maintain and develop the specific capabilities needed to ensure the security of the state and its citizens.
Sub-programme 3 aims to support the development of an internationalization initiative in the security research community, which is further divided into three sub-goals:
1. ensure support for the international project initiative of established workplaces,
2. ensure support for strengthening institutional contacts with leading workplaces abroad,
3. to ensure an adequate and effective information background, supporting internationalization efforts and the internal organization of the community.
On October 26, 2022, the TA CR announced the first public competition in the Program for the support of applied research and innovation SIGMA – Sub-goal 3 – Support of the innovation potential of social sciences, humanities and arts.
Challenge Themes: SOCIETY RESILIENCE, EDUCATION AND APPLICATION, SUSTAINABILITY
More on the focus of the call here (in Czech).
Each project proposal must fulfill exactly one main theme and one sub-theme from the chosen main theme.
The call aims to increase the involvement of beginning researchers in all areas of applied research when solving specific projects directly with subjects from applied practice. Another goal is to promote the equalization of opportunities for women and men in applied research competition.
GA CR (Czech Science Foundation) is announcing calls for proposals for tenders in the area of Standard Projects, JUNIOR STAR, POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP, and International and Lead Agency projects. The submission deadline is 4 April. The results of the competition will be announced on 30 November 2023 (Junior Star 3 November 2023).
It is possible to submit a proposal for the following types of projects:
MU internal seminar on the new 2024 competitions for researchers in English and the seminar "How to Request a Project Assessment by the Research Ethics Committee?" in Czech will take place on February 27, 2023.
GA CR organizes a seminar with GA CR chairman prof. Baldrian – Brno, March 1, 2023, 9:30-11:30 a.m., room 300, 3rd floor, Komenského náměstí 220/2, Brno. Registration.
If you are considering submitting a proposal to one of the GA CR 2024 calls, please let me (lorencova@fss.muni.cz) know by February 20, 2023.
Calls for projects: Support for Teaching Innovations in Key Courses of Masaryk University Study Programmes
Project may focus on any of the following teaching methods leading to interactivity in teaching and/or the introduction of distance forms of teaching, or a combination thereof: 1) simulation-based teaching; 2) project-based teaching; 3) research-oriented teaching.
Eligible applicants and project managers-in-chief are the guarantors of the study programmes in which the innovation will be applied.
The text of the call for project proposals is available HERE
The online seminar for submitting project proposals (in Czech only) will take place on March 7, 2023 from 14:00 (LINK).
The outputs/results of the project proposals submitted to this public competition must have the potential for further application in new approaches, technological procedures and services leading to the strengthening of social and economic benefits in the transport sector. The focus of the public competition covers the research of the entire transport system and all types of transport, i.e. land, water and air, including all types of means of transport and transport infrastructure.
The announcement of the call is planned for 26 April 2023
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports announces a call for the implementation of bilateral research, development and innovation projects Czech Republic - Germany within the framework of the activity Supporting the mobility of male and female researchers within the framework of international cooperation.
The main goal of the Mobility activity is to support the formation of international bilateral research teams dealing with research, development and innovation topics with a high potential for application in international research programs, thereby strengthening the research capacities of both partner countries.
The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic announced, in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport, on April 26, 2023, the first public competition in the DOPRAVA/TRANSPORT 2030 program for the support of applied research and innovation in the field of transport.
The main goal of the program is to develop the transport sector in a way that will reflect social needs, accelerate the technological and knowledge development of the Czech Republic and thus help the growth of the Czech Republic's competitiveness.
The call is aimed at supporting international cooperation in the field of applied research through joint projects of Czech entities supported by TA CR and foreign partners with the expected support of foreign institutions.
Only a company/enterprise can be the main applicant, a research organisation can be an additional participant on the Czech side. The additional participant may also be an entity from EU, EEA and Switzerland.
Project proposals may be submitted with organisations from the following countries: Republic of Korea; Saxony, Germany; United States of America Department of Energy of the United States of America; Israel Israel Innovation Authority IIA; Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs MoEA and National Science and Technology Council
Thematic limitations of the call by foreign partner here.
The intention of the call is to select joint research projects of applied research, focusing on the following areas/sub-areas:
1. Health and medicine – drug design and development; 2. Environmental sustainability and protection – climate change, clean energy, desert research, water; 3. Data science – application of artificial intelligence.
On September 13, 2023, TA CR announced the first public competition in the THÉTA 2 Program for the Support of Applied Research and Innovation.
The public competition of the THETA 2 program is aimed at fulfilling the vision of transformation and modernization of the energy sector in accordance with the approved strategic materials. This goal will be achieved through the support of research, development and innovation projects in the field of energy, which are aimed at improving the management of the energy sector by the public administration, new technologies and system elements with a high potential for rapid application in practice, as well as long-term technological perspectives.
The Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA CR) announces a call for submission of projects based on the Lead Agency evaluation principle with the expected start of implementation in 2025. The call concerns projects financed in cooperation with the Polish agency National Science Center (NCN) within the framework of the Weave initiative.
In this call, the Polish agency NCN acts as the Lead Agency, i.e. it evaluates the project proposals from a scientific point of view, and the GA CR takes over the results of the evaluation process.
On 8 November, 15 November and 22 November, Grants Week is held at Masaryk University (online or Komenského square 2, Roger Scruton Hall) on the topic of international research support (ERC, MSCA-PF, TWINNING, ethics in the Horizon Europe projects).
Program and registration here.
GA ČR announced an LA call in cooperation with the Luxembourg agency FNR, which acts in the role of "Lead" agency in this call, the deadline for foreign agencies is 17/04/2024 (the Czech part of the application must be sent by 24/04/2024).
All project proposals submitted to this call will be evaluated only by the Luxembourg agency FNR.
Project proposals submitted to this call are included in the maximum number of project proposals submitted to calls with the expected start of implementation in 2025, i.e. will be included in the limit of the number of call proposals announced in 02/2024 (one person can be the proposer of only one project and the co-proposer of only one project).