Processing and Protection of Personal Data for MU employees
In the MU Information System (MU IS), it is possible to complete the training on Processing and Protection of Personal Data for MU employees (GDPR training), also in English.
Current grants
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MSCA-PF - Workshop for applicants
The workshop is only for applicants who have sent a short project annotation.
Date: 29-30 May 2025
Registration will open in April.
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MSCA PF - Training day
The workshop is focused on explaining the purpose & basics of MSCA-PF. The proposal template – how to approach it, writing style and examples. Basic project management concepts and how to use them. Approach to preparation – plan, attitude, communication. How we support the proposal preparation at the Faculty of Arts, MUNI (MSCA-PF workshop, individual consultations).
Date: 30. 4. 2025
Time: 9:00-16:30
Online - ZOOM Session - You will receive a Zoom link to the session upon registration, no later than 24 hours before the event.
Lecturer: Jakub Zeman, FF MUNI
Register here.
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MSCA calls in 2025
Here is an overview of the open Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) calls for 2025:
1.) MSCA PF (Postdoctoral fellowships) - Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of PhD researchers who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality. The scheme also encourages researchers to work on research and innovation projects in the non-academic sector. It is open to researchers wishing to reintegrate into Europe, those displaced by conflict, and researchers with high potential seeking to restart their careers in research. For more information, see a separate post here.
Call opening: 8.5.2025
Call deadline: 10.9.2025
2.) MSCA COFUND 2025 - Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND) supports new or existing doctoral programmes and postdoctoral fellowship schemes. The action aims to spread the best practices of the MSCA, including international, inter-sectoral, and interdisciplinary research training, as well as international and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their careers. More information here.
Call opening: 23.1.2025
Call deadline: 24.6.2025
3.) MSCA Doctoral Networks - MSCA Doctoral Networks will implement doctoral programmes through partnerships with universities, research institutions, research infrastructures, businesses, SMEs, and other socio-economic actors from countries across Europe and beyond. MSCA Doctoral Networks are open to the participation of organisations from third countries, fostering strategic international partnerships to train and exchange researchers. More information here.
Call opening: 28.5.2025
Call deadline: 25.11.2025
4.) MSCA Staff Exchanges - MSCA Staff Exchanges involve organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (including SMEs) from across the globe. Support is provided for international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility of R&I staff, leading to knowledge transfer between participating organisations. More information here.
Call opening: 27.3.2025
Call deadline: 8.10.2025
5.) MSCA and Citizens: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2026-2027 - MSCA and Citizens aims to bring research and researchers closer to the public to increase awareness of research and innovation activities and boost public recognition of science and research education. It will show the role of the researcher in society and the economy, as well as the impact of researchers’ work on citizens’ daily lives. It also aims to raise the interest of young people in research and scientific careers. MSCA and Citizens will address the general public, attracting people regardless of the level of their scientific background, with a specific focus on families, pupils, students, and notably those who do not have easy access to, and thus are less inclined to engage in, STEAM fields (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) or research activities. Inclusiveness should be key because it broadens access to science and research for all. More information here.
Call opening: 17.6.2025
Call deadline: 22.10.2025
Source: https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/funding
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MSCA PF call 2024
Postdoctoral fellowships foster the creative and innovative potential of postdocs who want to acquire new skills through further training and international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility. For more information about the call here.
The 2025 call for postdoctoral fellowships will have a budget of €274,63 million.
Important deadlines:
Call opening 8.5.2025
Call deadline 10.9.2025
Please report your interest in submitting a project immediately to the contact person, Eva Šlesinger (slesinger@fss.muni.cz).
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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.
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GA CR calls 2026 announced
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) announces calls for project proposals for STANDARD PROJECTS, JUNIOR STAR, POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP, INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS, and a new scheme, the RESTART GRANTS addressing scientists returning to work after a career break.
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Webinar Fundamentals of Research Data Management
The lecture provides participants, especially PhD students, project data managers/curators/stewards or national or international grant investigators, with an insight into the basic practices of research data management (RDM) with an emphasis on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles and motivation in the context of Open Science (OS).
Participants will be introduced to basic terminology and, through examples and discussion, will learn the fundamentals of good RDM practice. Graduates of the course will have a basic overview of the field of RDM in the context of OS, will be able to apply FAIR principles to their projects, and will know resources for further self-education in this area.
Registration here.
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Activities of the MU Research Ethics Committee in February/March 2025
Due to the coincidence of the competition deadlines for the grant calls of the Czech Sciences foundation (GA CR) and the Czech Health Research Council (AZV) , for capacity reasons, the Research Ethics Committee (EKV) will be able to deal with the assessment of projects for these calls from the end of February to the beginning of April 2025 exclusively.
For applications submitted to the EKV after February 10, 2025, the assessment will not begin until April 2025.
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Seminars about GA CR calls 2026
The Czech Science Foundation (GA CR) invites to the seminars about new GA CR calls 2026 in Prague (28 February 2025) and Brno (5 March 2025) - in Czech, also online.
Registration here.