Current calls within the international cooperation of LA grants (GA CR in the role of a partner organization, in the role of "Lead" agency is a foreign agency):

• Austria - Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - continuous challenge
• Germany - German Research Foundation (DFG) - continuous challenge
• Switzerland - Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - currently deadline until October 1, 2021
• USA - National Science Foundation (NSF) - continuous challenge

Upcoming calls within the international cooperation of LA grants for the year 2021

• NCN (Poland) - announcement autumn 2021, deadline winter 2021, start of implementation 1. 1. 2023
• ARRS (Slovenia) - announcement autumn 2021, deadline winter 2021, start of implementation 1.8. 2022

Objectives

More information (in Czech):

GA CR website

Research Department MU

 

Limitations

One person can submit in all competitions announced in 2021 (with the beginning of the solution in 2022):

one project as the applicant of POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP, or one project as the applicant of JUNIOR STAR, and

one project as a applicant and one project as a co-applicant under all other calls (standard projects, international projects, LA grants)

 

If successful in all calls, one person can accept:

1. POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP only, or

2. JUNIOR STAR only, or

3. max. 2 projects at the same time (one as an investigator, one as a co-investigator,), which were submitted in calls for standard projects, international projects or LA calls

The main applicant of the LA project on the Czech side is always considered to be the applicant, not the co-applicant!