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:

• Standard projects (for 3 years)
• Junior Star (for excellent scientists up to 8 years after obtaining the Ph.D. title, 5 years/up to 25 million CZK)
• POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP INCOMING and OUTGOING (focused on researchers who have completed their doctoral studies in the last four years)
• International projects (Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, USA)

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. 

Objectives

„GA ČR 2024 – workshop for researchers“ GA ČR 2024 presentation, Open Science presentation.

Limitations

Requests for assessment by Ethics committee for Research (ECR) (if your project proposal needs such approval, see here) are submitted through ISEP (the section Ethics in the recorded project proposal in ISEP).

The deadline for the request for the assessment by the Ethics Committee for Research on MU will be very probably on 6^th March 2023.

A single individual may submit no more than two Project Proposals within all of the public tenders administered by GACR and/or calls where GACR is involved in a given calendar year for Projects launched in 2024, and may be in the role of Applicant in one of the Proposals, and Co-applicant in the other. Exception: JUNIOR STAR projects, and the POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP (both INCOMING and OUTGOING) - see page 11 of the tender documents.