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Research Office Newsletter 9/2020
18 Dec 2020, 12:29

News

Three Prestigious ERC Grants to MU Scientists

Four Czech applicants succeeded, three of them from the Masaryk University: jurist David Kosař, historian of religion David Zbíral and biophysicist Robert Vácha. Out of the total 327 awarded Consolidator grants, only 10 were awarded to the new EU member states.

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MUNI Scientist Awards 2020

Selected scientists from the Masaryk University were awarded for their outstanding research results and significant achievements in the field of research from 2019 to 2020 by the Vice-Rector for Research and Doctoral Studies prof. Šárka Pospíšilová. The MUNI Scientist award ceremony took place virtually at the Annual Conference of the Grant Agency of Masaryk University (GAMU) in mid-December. Thirty seven scientists and their teams from various faculties, institutes and research centers received the award.

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Calls for Proposals

MU Internal Calls

Grant Agency of Masaryk University (GAMU)

In mid-September, detailed information regarding the open calls was published on the GAMU website. Specific conditions and important deadlines can be found on the websites of each call.

On November 16, 2020, a call was announced within the Specific Research Support Program - Support for Outstanding Diploma Theses (formerly the Rector's Program). All information will be published on the GAMU website.

 

Open Calls

GA CR – LA grants CEUS (international projects evaluated on the Lead agency principle, with GA CR in the role of Partner organization), ARRS Call – cooperation with Slovenia

  • On December 14th, 2020 the 1st Call has been announced. The Call aims to support international cooperation in basic research and is opened to applicants at any stage of their career.
  • More detailed information including parameters of the competition can be found here.

GA CR – LA grants CEUS (international projects evaluated on the Lead agency principle, with GA CR in the role of Partner organization), ongoing FWF Call – cooperation with Austria

  • The Call aims to support international cooperation in basic research and is opened to applicants at any stage of their career.
  • More detailed information including parameters of the competition can be found here.

TA CR – EuroNanoMed3 Call 2021 (Cofund Call)

  • On November 16th, 2020 the 3rd Call has been announced. The international call focuses on Diagnostics and Targeted delivery systems.
  • More detailed information including parameters of the competition can be found here.

TA CR – EnerDigit Call 2020 (Cofund Call)

  • On December 14th, 2020 the 1st Call has been announced. The international call focuses on digital transformation for the green energy transition.
  • More detailed information including parameters of the competition can be found here.

H2020Call ID: H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018-2019-2020, published on 1st October 2020

H2020€1 billion European Green Deal Call was launched on 18th September, 2020

  • On 22th September, 2020, 20 topics in 10 thematic areas were published; the topics are to tackle climate change, with wide scope of research desciplines to be potentially participate.
  • Deadline model & date: single-stage, 26th January, 2021, 17:00 CET

 

Oncoming Calls

TA CR – 2021 Calls Schedule here

TA CR – CHIST-ERA Call 2020 (Cofund Call)

  • On December 21st, 2020 the 4th Call will be announced. The international call will focus on Advanced Brain-Computer Interfaces for Novel Interactions and on Towards Sustainable ICT.
  • Pre- information can be found here.

TA CR – TREND – „Newcomers“

  • On January 13th, 2021, the 4th Call will be announced.
  • Pre-information can be found here and more detailed information for MU applicants is here.

TA CR – THÉTA

  • On February 10th, 2021, the 4th Call will be announced.
  • Pre-information can be found here and more detailed information for MU applicants is here.

TA CR – ERA-MIN Call 2021 (Cofund Call)

  • On January 15th, 2021 the 2nd Call will be announced. The international call will focus on raw materials for sustainable development and the circular economy.
  • Pre- information can be found here.

 

Grants Received

GAMU Career Restart

To create conditions for the inclusion of researchers after the interruption of their careers into research teams at Masaryk University. Such is the goal of the Career Restart grant, which was announced in September this year by the Grant Agency of Masaryk University (GAMU). Six female scientists from various MU workplaces succeeded in the evaluation, their projects will start from the New Year. Read more here.

TA CR - 2nd VS TRANSPORT 2020+

On November 30, 2020, the results of the 2nd public tender of the TRANSPORT 2020+ program were published. Of the 2 MU submitted proposals, 1 project succeeded. More information here.

Ministry of Agriculture – 4. VS Země

On November 4, 2020, the results of the 4th public tender of the Program Earth were published. Out of 11 MU submitted projects, 3 projects succeeded. More information here.

GA CR – standard grants

On December 1, 2020 the results of standard projects were published. 294 standard projects will be funded by the Czech Science Foundation, of which 37 projects at MU (including partnership projects). More information is here.

GA CR – LA-FWF (GA CR in the role of Partner organization)

On December 7, 2020 the ongoing results of the LA-FWF Call (with Austrian agency in the role of the Leading Agency) were published with 4 more funded projects. MU will participate on 1 project as partner organization. More information is here.

GA CR – international projects with German agency DFG and South Korean agency NRF

On December 11, 2020 the results of the international Call (with German agency DFG and South Korean agency NRF) were published. 12 international projects in cooperation with German agency DFG will be funded by GA CR, of which 1 project at MU. More information is here.

Horizon 2020 - MSCA-RISE-2020 (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange)

On 20 November 2020, a grant agreement was signed for the CONQUES project (Conques in the Global World. Transferring Knowledge: from Material to Immaterial Heritage). It is an MSCA-RISE project that supports international and cross-sectoral cooperation through exchanges for employees of individual partners. The project is coordinated by prof. Ivan Foletti from the Center for Early Medieval Studies, MUNI ARTS. It is the only coordinated RISE project in the Czech Republic that has been acquired this year.

 

Interesting Links and Information

An overview of submitted proposals and the success of MU in grant competitions

We regularly update the list of submitted proposals.

EC & TC CAS Information

  • Horizon Europe - a budget agreement was reached. The European Parliament and the European Council have agreed on a Horizon Europe (HE) budget of € 95.9 billion (€ 84.9 billion in 2018 prices). HE can thus start on January 1, 2021. During the negotiations, four billion euros were distributed among the individual chapters of HE's budget, which HE negotiated in addition - the ERC improved its budget by about 1 billion (14.956 → 16.099 billion EUR). The budget of the previously relatively underfunded Cluster 2: Inclusive and Creative Society increased relatively the most (1.253 → 2.280 billion EUR), which is good news especially for the social sciences and humanities.
  • Presentation from the Launch of the framwork for Research and Innovation Horizon Europe 2021-2027
  • A video produced by the National Information Center for European Research, which briefly presents the forthcoming Horizon Europe Framework Program.
  • We also recommend other short educational videos of the TC CAS, which will introduce you to concepts such as LEAR, PLSIGN, PIC, the roles of third parties in framework projects, the framework portal, annual and ongoing reporting, etc.]

 

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