Current grants

IGA MU Jitka Hotárková

Masaryk University Internal Grant Agency (IGA MU) - online meeting and presentation

The on-line webinar to the 2nd round of the Masaryk University Internal Grant Agency (IGA MU) competition will take place on September 23, 2021 at 9:30 a.m.

Link here.

After the end of the online meeting, it will be possible to come to the 5.52 office for personal consultations throughout the day or then on other days on the basis of a personal agreement. Questions are welcome in advance, please send them to jitka.hotarkova@fss.muni.cz

Information on the call, including all documents and deadlines, can be found on the website of the Office for Research and Project Support.

GA ČR Alena Lorencová

Call for submission of Czech-Polish projects - LA GA CR projects

The Czech Science Foundation (GA CR) announces a call for projects based on the Lead Agency evaluation principle, with an implementation expected to begin in 2023 in cooperation with the Polish National Science Center (NCN) within the Weave initiative.

In this call, the Polish agency NCN acts as the Lead Agency, ie it evaluates project proposals and the GA CR takes over the results of the evaluation process.

It is possible to submit bilateral and trilateral projects (possible partner countries here).

Horizon Europe Alena Lorencová

E-learning courses for Horizon Europe

As part of the Bridge2HE project, the National Contact Officers for Horizon Europe (NCP) have prepared a series of online courses that will introduce you basic information about the European Union, Horizon Europe, project preparation, ethics in research and the role of NCP.

You can register for the courses on the NCP Portal for Horizon Europe here: https://courses.horizoneuropencpportal.eu/

You can watch them for free, at a time that suits you.

Horizon Europe Alena Lorencová

Summary of the deadlines for Horizon Europe calls for 2021

A leaflet summarizing the deadlines of Horizon Europe calls in 2021 was published on the information pages for the Horizon Europe Framework Program.

More information about open and upcoming calls can be found on the Funding & tender opportunities portal.

Jitka Wolfová

Research support programme GAMU

Research support programme GAMU

OP VVV Jitka Hotárková

the Rector of Masaryk University announces a call in the IGA MU university-wide competition for individual student grants in research and development

On 1 September 2021, the Rector of Masaryk University announces a call in the IGA MU university-wide
competition for individual student grants in research and development, in the fields of science under the
Frascati Manual 2015:1
• natural sciences,
• medicine and health sciences,
• social sciences,
• humanities and artsStudent grant projects to be submitted to the competition shall last one year (investigation from 1
January 2022 to 31 December 2022). Applications may be submitted only for individual student
grants – i.e. the applicant must be the sole investigator.
• Funds allocated to 1 project: CZK 479,160.

Seminář Alena Lorencová

Horizon Europe seminars

Webinars - Horizon Europe programme:

National Information Day on the ERC grants, 8.9.2021

Information Day CZ-SK on Widening Instruments 2021-2022, 31.8.2021

Webinar: Pathfinder Challenges 2021, 2.9.2021

How to become an evaluator of Horizon Europe projects, 14.9.2021

Budget preparation and cost reporting in Horizon Europe projects, 11.10.2021

Communication, dissemination and exploitation of results in Horizon Europe projects, 12.10.2021

Coordination of Horizon Europe projects, 13.10.2021

Intellectual property, contractual relations in Horizon Europe projects, 14.10.2021

ERC Grant Competitions 2022, 6.9.2021

German Aerospace Center Project Management Agency: call A sustainable future for Europe in Cluster 2 "Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Societies" , a matchmaking event, 30. 9. 2021

The Publications Office of the European Union: EU Open Data Days, 23. – 25. 11. 2021

workshop Alena Lorencová

Grants Week MUNI 2021

Masaryk University Research Office organizes Grants Week 2021 (October 12.-15. 2021).

Programme and registration here.

12.10.2021: H2020 a Horizont Evropa

13.10.2021: How to write a competitive proposal for Horizon Europe (Dr. Seán McCarthy)

14.10.2021: ERC and MSCA in H2020/HE

15.10.2021: International research cooperation - national support (GAČR, TAČR)

GA ČR Alena Lorencová

GA ČR - LA granty - aktuální výzvy - GA ČR v roli partnerské organizace

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

GA ČR Alena Lorencová

GA CR - announcement of the LA call in cooperation with the American NSF (National Science Foundation)

GA CR announces a call for submission of projects on the principle of evaluation of the Lead Agency with the expected beginning of the implementation in 2022 within the new cooperation with the American National Science Foundation (NSF).

More information about the call here (GA CR website, in Czech only) and here (NSF website).

Horizon Europe Alena Lorencová

First calls of cluster 6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment - opened

Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment - firt calls were opened on June 22 2021.

Deadline on October 6 2021.

More information including work programme here.

Horizon Europe Alena Lorencová

Opening of the calls of Horizon Europe for the social sciences and humanities in 2021

Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive society - first calls were opened on June 22, 2021 with deadlines on October 7, 2021

Areas of intervention

• democracy
• cultural heritage
• social and economic transformations

All information including work programme for 2021 here.

Horizon Europe Alena Lorencová

A series of partner meetings on the Horizon Europe calls

Networks of national contact points, in cooperation with the EC, organize a series of online partner meetings (brokerage events). The actions will focus on the themes of the first calls of Horizon Europe clusters. The aim of the meeting is to establish cooperation in the preparation of research projects.

Participation in brokerage events is free, but it is necessary to register and fill in the profile of the organization, including the offered or requested expertise.

Partner meetings always for individual clusters take place at the beginning of July 2021, registration for some meetings ends on June 30, 2021.

TAČR Alena Lorencová

TA ČR - nová verze směrnice SME-07 Změnová řízení projektů

The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) has issued a new version of the SME-07 Change Project Management Directive (in Czech) with effect from 14 June 2021.

Some guidelines from the new version of the directive:

• changes in the budget (transfer between years, reduction / increase of total costs, change in the share of the research category in the project costs - industrial research, experimental development, innovation) - a request must be submitted by November 11 of relevant year through ISTA.
• request for change of result - must be submitted no later than 60 days before the end of the project via ISTA.
• changes in participants' data (change of legal form, statutory representative, ownership structure, change of application guarantor) - a request must be submitted / notified within 7 days from the moment it occurred via ISTA.

Horizon Europe Alena Lorencová

Horizon Europe - Work Programs 2021-2022 published

The EC published work programs for individual parts of the Horizon Europe program for the years 2021-2022 on the Funding & tender opportunities portal.

Work programs (WP) can be downloaded here.

WP for individual clusters and other components of Horizon Europe (ERC, MSCA ...) contain details of individual calls for the years 2021 and 2022.

The first calls will be announced from 22.6.2021.

GA ČR Alena Lorencová

Agreement between GA CR and National Science Foundation (USA) - possibility of submitting joint projects

The Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA CR) has concluded a cooperation agreement with the US government agency National Science Foundation (NSF).

Researchers from the Czech Republic and the USA, with the support of both agencies, will be able to prepare proposals in the fields of artificial intelligence, nanotechnology or plasma sciences or astronomy and astrophysics, and in some areas of the social sciences.

The call for project proposals will be opened later this year. The costs of individual projects will be shared by the agencies - the Czech part of the project will be financed by the GA CR and the American part by NSF.

We will inform you about the opening of the call.