The scientific and institutional ambition of this Twinning action is to establish a coherent, design-driven engineering biology platform at MUNI - seeded as the Czech National Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology - and to integrate it into the European Research Area through long-term partnerships with CNB-CSIC (Madrid) and Wageningen University (Wageningen), with DTU BRIGHT (Copenhagen) as an associated partner.

The project’s excellence is grounded in a single unifying scientific idea: Resillience-by-Design across biological scales. This axis naturally connects MUNI’s strengths in microbial biotechnology, structural biology and protein engineering and plant genome engineering, while creating clear, high-value knowledge-transfer pathways from the advanced partners in microbial synthetic and system biology, biofoundry development (CNB-CSIC), computational protein design (DTU-BRIGHT), plant/crop synthetic and systems biology, technology transfer, research ethics and biosafety (WUR). Together, the research activities form a coherent cross-scale pipeline (proteins → cells → photosynthetic systems → crops) while remaining fully compatible with Twinning’s focus: their primary purpose is to catalyse structural capability growth at MUNI via deep collaboration, shared standards, mobility and co-created methods.

Sustainable Development Goals

Masaryk University is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to improve the conditions and quality of life on our planet by 2030.