Our mission is science and research
State-of-the-art equipment, cutting-edge technologies and international cooperation. This is what research at MU is all about.
We are dedicated to establishing the right priorities, committed to securing sufficient funding and fully aware of the ethical and social implications of our research results.
Research at MU and coronavirus
Despite the closure of the MU Headquarters building, the Research Office staff is accessible via phone and e-mail: contacts. Individual project agendas are fully secured - the Research Office will immediately forward all current news to its contacts at individual economic centers.
It is not yet possible to estimate the impact of measures on project implementation - the situation is continuously evolving. Please do not contact the provider individually - contact the Research Office so that the university can act uniformly.
GAMU projects - news is published in News on GAMU website. GAMU will do its best to help you within the limits allowed by the rules on the use of institutional support, respectively support for specific research.
To be informed, we recommend to follow providers’ websites and social networks - the situation is constantly evolving, so it is not possible to now compile a permanently valid summary of providers' responses.
You can read fresh coronavirus news here, internal information can be found here.
“Science is no longer a matter of an individual but requires collaboration of experts from various disciplines, institutions, often even continents. Masaryk University offers quality facilities and opportunities for its scientists as well as for scientists from abroad and thus it creates good conditions for continuous development of knowledge. The diversity and freedom of science, responsible world-class research, societal engagement, and cooperation are values that our university honors and promotes.”
Šárka Pospíšilová
Vice-Rector for Research and Doctoral Studies
Support from the International Scientific Advisory Board
The International Scientific Advisory Board provides us with very welcome feedback. The ISAB helps MU establish research priorities, develop scientific strategies and boost international cooperation.
We focus on areas we excel in
We have results.
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Our scientists have achieved success at national and international levels. In addition to issuing a wide range of significant scientific publications, we regularly organize seminars and lectures on science and research conducted at MU.
We share our technologies and facilities
Access to central laboratories equipped with unique instruments is provided to other university units as well as other academic workplaces and even private companies.
We are shaping the scientific environment
for the better
We participate in key infrastructures
MU Research infrastructures are an important pillar of research and innovation systems.
Their significance is emphasized by our participation in 15 projects listed in the Czech National Roadmap for Large RDI Infrastructures.
Nine of these projects are also part of research infrastructures of pan-European interest included in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) for 2016.
We provide our scientists with excellent working conditions
International grant projects
We have successfully obtained numerous international grants. The European Research Council (ERC) is tasked with awarding grants to top scientists from the 28 EU member states and associated countries; MU currently boasts three ECR grant holders.
Regional innovation support
The SoMoPro programme is co-funded by the Horizon 2020 programme, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions and the South Moravian region. Of 62 projects supported by the region to date, 44 were awarded to scientists associated with MU.