Announcement of the GACR calls for proposals

The Czech Science Foundation announces calls for proposals in Research, Experimental Development and Innovation for the Support of Basic Research – Standard projects, International projects, Junior projects and EXPRO projects with the expected start of projects in January 2020.

The tender period begins on 22 February 2019.

The submission of project proposals is possible until 8 April 2019.

Extracts from tender documents:

Tender document EXPRO 2020_extract
Tender document INT 2020_extract
Tender document JN 2020_extract
Tender document STD 2020_extract
Practical information for applicants for a grant project

The Czech Science Foundation signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research

The President of GACR signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research on 14 May 2018 in Moscow. This memorandum will offer an exciting opportunity to Czech scientists to establish new collaborations in basic research with their Russian colleagues. The first bilateral call will be announced next year. The duration of each project will be 3 years.

Announcement of the EXPRO PROJECTS public tender

The Czech Science Foundation announce a Public Tender in Research, Experimental Development and Innovation for the Support of Basic Research Grant Projects – EXPRO, which are supposed to start being carried out in 2019.

The tender period begins on 15 May 2018.

The submission of project proposals is possible until 28. June 2018.

The tender document for the EXPRO public tender and forms of solemn declarations to prove eligibility are to be found at this page

Access to the aplication for submitting project proposals

If you have any quastions, feel free to contact us via email expro@gacr.cz or, in working hours, on phone number +420 227 088 803.

Download:

Tender Document for EXPRO – 2019

CEI regional HORCs group meeting – Multilateral Lead Agency Cooperation

On 4 and 5 April 2018, the working group with provisional name – Central Europe Initiative (CEI) met in Prague to discuss the future possibilities of cooperation on the principle of Multilateral Lead Agency between involved national grant agencies.

In the second quarter of 2018 a public tender will be launched for a new group of grant projects of excellence in basic research - EXPRO

The goal of the new EXPRO grant projects is to support research teams led by top internationally recognized scientists or young scientists with a convincing potential for excellence. We aim to direct our support towards already existing excellence or where we hope it may emerge, and thus enhance the quality of Czech science. Excellent research depends on top scientists and is often executed through “high risk - high gain” projects, as we can see for example in European Research Council (ERC) projects.

Fellowship to visit ERC Grantee – Support of ERC Grant Applicants

European Research Council (ERC) published an announcement of the new initiative "Fellowship to visit ERC Grantee" on the ERC website on 19. 1. 2016. At the beginning of 2016, ERC stated in its report that certain countries of the European Union have considerably lower representation of scientists in ERC calls, which among others leads to an unused research potential. ERC therefore appealed to responsible national agencies to set up programmes of national fellowships to visit ERC projects.