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GA ČR

GA CR calls 2026 - seminars and Research Ethics Committee deadline

The Research Ethics Committee (REC) will accept applications for ethics review of GA CR project proposals until Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. The deadline must be met; applications submitted after this deadline will not be considered!

When does a proposal require the attachment of a preliminary ECR approval here.

An internal seminar for scientists organized by the RMU Research Council in English will be held on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Kounic Hall/online), registration here.

Registration is also open for GA CR seminars in Prague (February 28, 2025) and Brno (March 5, 2025) - both in person and online.

Lecture

The lecture - Getting the Balance Right: Gender and the Academic Workplace - CENTREPEACE

On behalf of CENTREPEACE (Horizon Europe - Twinning), we would like to invite you to the lecture - Getting the Balance Right: Gender and the Academic Workplace.

Event details:

Date: 19.03.2025

Time: 09:00 - 10:40

Place: Komenského nám. 2, Room S117 (map)

The deadline for registration is 14.03.2025.

Register here: https://forms.office.com/e/ChBa5uhb1n

The seminar will be held in English.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Application to create publication analysis

Colleagues from the MU University Campus Library have created an application for generating publication overviews including citations and metrics from Web of Science and Scopus.

If you are interested, you can find it at https://kuk.muni.cz/pa/

workshop

Writing for Publication in Academic Journals Workshop - CENTREPEACE

On behalf of CENTREPEACE (Horizon Europe- Twinning), we are pleased to invite you to a Writing for Publication in Academic Journals Workshop. The workshop will take participants through some of the main challenges of academic writing and publishing: formulating the core argument, identifying a target audience, thinking through structure, submitting to a journal, handling feedback from reviewers, and approaching the writing process.

Event details:

Date and time: 20. - 21.03.2025 9:15 - 15:00
Place: Room 343, Komenského nám. 2 (map)

We are delighted to welcome Lynn P. Nygaard, a special advisor from the prestigious Peace Research Institute Oslo. Her tasks include supporting academics in writing and publishing, and other support roles in professional development, gender and diversity.

The lecture will be held in English.

Registration deadline: 12 March 2025

Register here.

A light snack will be provided during the session.

TAČR

TA CR Transport 2030 call

The public competition covers research in the entire transport sector and all modes of transport, i.e. land, water and air, including all types of transport means and transport infrastructure.

The emphasis is on strengthening cooperation between the research, academic and private sectors and creating suitable conditions for the commercialization of research outputs/results and their use for the needs of society.

TA ČR

Environment for Life Program 2: Announcement of preliminary parameters of the 2nd public competition, PP1

The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, together with the Ministry of the Environment, informs about the preparation of the 2nd public competition in the Program for the Support of Applied Research and Innovation in the Field of Environment, Climate Protection and Sustainable Development – ​​Environment for Life 2.

The announcement of this public competition is planned for 28. 5. 2025.

TA ČR

TA CR - Preliminary parameters of the 11th public competition of the SIGMA program - DC4, Bilateral cooperation

The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic informs about the preparation of the 11th public competition in the Program for the Support of Applied Research and Innovation SIGMA - sub-objective 4, Bilateral Cooperation.

Probable competition deadline: 8. 5. 2025 - 9. 7. 2025

Seminář

RMA Breakfast on the topic of ERC CZ within the ERC Series

In the name of CENTREPEACE (Horizon Europe - Twinning), we would like to invite you to the RMA Breakfast on the topic of ERC CZ within the ERC Series, during which we introduce various types of ERC projects.
These types of events are organised within the implementation of international events, and it should pose as an informal space for meetings with academic and non-academic personnel and for discussions about common topics.
The guest of this lecture will be Hana Macháčková, who is the head of the Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society at the Faculty of Social Studies, MUNI and is a successful principal investigator of ERC CZ. She will talk about her journey to the good evaluation of her ERC project and its transition to ERC CZ.