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Four Czech applicants succeeded, three of them from Masaryk University: jurist David Kosař, historian of religion David Zbíral and biophysicist Robert Vácha. Out of the total 327 awarded Consolidator grants, only 10 are hosted in new EU member states.
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From the beginning of July, the second-largest university in the Czech Republic will expand to ten faculties. The current nine faculties of Masaryk University (MU) will welcome the Faculty of Pharmacy into their midst when it transfers from the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences (UVPS).
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Masaryk University Took Part in National Research Evaluation
2020 was a year of Research Evaluation at Masaryk University. This process underwent at all universities in the Czech Republic as a major part of national research evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports following the Methodology 2017+. The qualitative assessment focused mostly on areas of social relevance (units level), level of support for the R&D&I and future developments (university level). These areas are complementary to the other parts of the evaluation methodology – publications output and review of selected results.
More than year-long efforts concluded with an online meeting of MUNI Research Evaluation Panel on November. Within five days, 11 national and international experts from prestigious institutions underwent discussions with representatives from 11 units and the university management. After that, the panel issued an evaluation report based on conclusions from meetings and self-evaluation reports completed by MUNI units and Rectorate earlier in Spring 2020. The report is in a comment procedure at MUNI now and will be finished at the end of January 2021. The results will serve the Ministry for university ranking and allocating the core budget for research for the next five years. The feedback will also influence internal policies and the direction the University will take in the upcoming years.
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Funding worth 40 million euros will help Masaryk University researchers to conduct comprehensive research into the impact of the environment, lifestyle and socio-economic status on human health.
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On 20th March, Masaryk University has received permission from the National Institute of Public Health to carry out coronavirus testing on CEITEC's premises. Three Masaryk University laboratories were set aside for possible coronavirus testing.
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CEITEC Masaryk University is offering priority access, free of charge, to their equipment in shared laboratories including research expertise for research that may lead to the development of a vaccine or drug against COVID-19.
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The astrophysicist Norbert Werner has been recently awarded a unique grant by Masaryk University – MUNI Award in Science and Humanities. Norbert Werner is an expert on the behaviour of black holes or intergalactic gas, and, among other things, wishes to work with companies developing small satellites during his stay in Brno.
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A researcher Daniel Kráľ from the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University received this prestigious recognition of his work on January 17, 2020 in Denver. The Fellows programme of the American Mathematical Society honours AMS members for their notable contributions to the advancement of mathematics.
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Masaryk University continues in its grant programme intended for promising researchers and introduces a major change. From this year, the support will also extend to young researchers through the MUNI Award in Science and Humanities JUNIOR.
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Rector Martin Bareš has presented two new MU leaders, Martin Kvizda and Simona Koryčánková, to the Academic Senate. He began making changes in the vice-rector team on 30 September, when Vladimír Žítek, vice-rector for development, and Hana Svatoňová, vice-rector for student and alumni affairs, resigned.
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The four Brno-based universities and two research institutes that founded the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) ten years ago have agreed to keep operating the centre after January 1, 2021, when the existing cooperation agreement of 2011 and its addendum of 2015 expire.
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Students in general medicine and dentistry programmes will be the first to use the newly built Simulation Centre of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University (SIMU) and the first to test a new approach to teaching.
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