Current grants

TA ČR Alena Lorencová

TA CR - preliminary schedule of public competitions and calls (2023-2025)

The preliminary schedule of calls for the years 2023-2025 is published on the TA CR website:

2023

• July -  Environment for Life 7. VS
• November - SIGMA DC1 - Proof of concept (support for verification of applied research results from the point of view of their practical application and preparation of their subsequent commercial use or use for company needs)
• December - SIGMA DC5 - long-term research plans (long-term projects that, by their focus, set up and develop systemic solutions to current and future R&D issues in various fields (e.g. also in the field of social sciences). Those types of projects and results are not expected to be qickly implemented on the market, thanks to characteristically long development cycles)

TA ČR Alena Lorencová

TA CR Program THETA 2: Announcement of preliminary parameters of the 1st public competition

The public competition of the THETA 2 program is aimed at fulfilling the vision of transformation and modernization of the energy sector.

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 announcement of this public tender is planned for September 6, 2023.

workshop Alena Lorencová

Open Science Workshop 2023 at FSS MU

On June 14, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the third university-wide Open Science Workshop will be held. It will take place at the Faculty of Social Studies of the MU, Joštova 10, Brno, and at the same time on MS Teams. More info, program and possibility of registration here.

MŠMT Alena Lorencová

Announcement of the call in the INTER-EXCELLENCE II programme, sub-programme INTER-ACTION - LUAUS24 (bilateral projects Czech Republic-USA)

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic announces LUAUS24 - Bilateral Projects Czech Republic - United States of America competition.

Ministerstvo zdravotnictví Alena Lorencová

Call in the Program for the support of applied medical research for the years 2024 – 2030

The Ministry of Health announces a competition to support applied research projects aimed at solving problems related to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of human diseases.

The programme has three main areas, Public Health, Pathogenesis and Development of Diseases and Innovative Solutions for Medicine, which are further divided into 26 sub-areas and 95 sub-objectives. Proposals must be assigned to one or more of the sub-objectives and ensure the implementation of one or more of the sub-areas (see more on pages 10-14 of the tender document).

IVF Alena Lorencová

International Visegrad Fund calls

Visegrad Grants is a grant program run and financed by the International Visegrad Fund aimed at fostering cooperation between the V4 countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) and countries from the EaP region or the Western Balkans countries.

Proposals are accepted regularly three times per year always by February 1, June 1 and October 1.

Horizon Europe Alena Lorencová

Horizon Europe - new calls for 2024

See the calls within the other Horizon Europe clusters for 2024 (the calls of cluster 2 Culture, creativity and inclusive society are presented in a separate information).

Details of the calls are described in the individual work programs of the clusters (links below) and on the Funding & tender opportunities portal.

Horizon Europe Alena Lorencová

Horizon Europe - new call in cluster 2 Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society - 2024

Within the framework of cluster 2 – Culture, creativity and inclusive society, further calls for 2024 will be announced on October 4, 2023 according to the Work Program 2023-2024 with a deadline of February 7, 2024.

According to the WP, it is expected to support mostly 3 projects within each topic with a budget of 2-3 million EURO per project. Unless the conditions of the call stipulate otherwise, the project consortium must consist of at least 3 organizations from 3 different countries (EU member states or associated countries).

Details on open and planned calls can also be found on the Funding & tender opportunities portal, where it is also possible to search for suitable partners for the consortium.

Thanks to MU membership, everybody can set up their own profile on the Crowdhelix Network platform and offer their expertise for a specific call within Horizon Europe and other international calls/competitions, search for opportunities, respond to calls for cooperation (involvement in the preparation of proposals, etc.) and participate in matchmaking events for specific calls.

MŠMT Alena Lorencová

Czech-Austria bilateral research, development and innovation projects in mobility activity 2024-2025

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports announces a call for applications to support bilateral projects of research, development and innovation Czech Republic - Austria in the activity Supporting the mobility of male and female researchers within the framework of international cooperation in R&D&I, implementation period 2024-2025.

TA ČR Alena Lorencová

Environment for life program: Announcement of preliminary parameters of the 7th public competition, PP1 and PP2

The Environment for Life program is mainly focused on new solutions in the area of the environment, stabilization and expansion of the knowledge base, which will significantly contribute to ensuring a healthy and high-quality environment in the Czech Republic and to the sustainable use of its resources, by minimizing the negative impacts of human activity on the environment, including impacts beyond national borders and will thus contribute to improving the quality of life in Europe and in a global context.

The announcement of this call is planned for 6/28/2023, in the sub-programmes:

Subprogramme 1 Operational research in the public interest (PP1)

Subprogramme 2 Ecoinnovation, technologies and procedures for environmental protection (PP2)

GA ČR Alena Lorencová

GA ČR (Czech Science Foundation) - a call with the Swiss SNSF in the role of Lead agency

GA CR announced the LA call with the Swiss agency SNSF, which will be in the role of Lead agency.

In 2023, there will be two deadlines for submitting projects, namely 3/4 and 2/10/2023. For the 3/4/2023 deadline, the expected start date of the project is 1/1/2024, for DL 2/10/2023 the expected start date is 7/1/2024.

Webinář Alena Lorencová

Webinar for applicants - SIGMA Program - Sub-goal 2: Beginning researchers

TA ČR invites to a webinar for applicants to the announced 2nd public competition of the SIGMA Program - Sub-goal 2: Beginning researchers and equalization of opportunities in applied research projects (hereinafter referred to as "SIGMA - DC2").

Tuesday 21/02/2023 from 10:00, online

MSCA PF Eva Šlesinger

Workshop for MSCA PF applicants

On 6th March from 9 am-16pm, there will be a workshop for MSCA PF applicants. This will be an intensive training session on writing this project. This workshop is an important prerequisite for writing a good project draft, which will be a condition for participation in the follow-up workshop in June.

It is a hybrid event. You can attend physically (Kounicův sál, Rector's Office building, Žerotínovo náměstí 9) or virtually (via ZOOM). 

Faculty overhead costs - FSS MU - for 2023

According to Article 3 point 2 of MU Instruction No. 3/2017 Rules for determining the share of administrative overhead and the system of applying overhead costs to projects, the coefficient of common operating costs at FSS MU was determined for the period from February 6, 2023 to February 6, 2024 ("overhead costs for faculty") in the amount of 16.41%.
The coefficient will be used in the calculations of new projects (i.e. newly submitted subsidy projects and commercial activities) and to account for existing projects according to Article 5 of MU Instruction No. 3/2017.

GA ČR Alena Lorencová

GA CR - information about new calls 2024 and about seminars

This year's GA CR calls should be announced on February 13, 2023. Together with the new competitions, the LA call will also be announced in cooperation with Croatia (Croatian Science Foundation).

The MU internal seminar on GA CR calls for researchers in English will be held on February 27, 2023 (9:00-10:30 a.m.), followed by the seminar "How to Request a Project Assessment by the Research Ethics Committee?" in Czech.

Seminář Alena Lorencová

GA CR - presentation of calls 2024

Seminar with the participation of the chairman of GA CR prof. Baldrian - GA CR 2024 calls will be introduced.

March 1, 2023, 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
MU, Komenského náměstí 2, room 300 or online

Registration for both forms of participation here.