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In an effort to improve the situation for research teams, the GACR Presidium in connection with the declaration of an emergency, restrictions on movement and personal communication approved temporary changes in the definition of eligible costs. Changes in the course of the grant project: transfers between basic structure items of the allocated grant funds to […]

Dear applicants, The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has extended the submission deadline for the project proposals until 8 April 2020. For the cooperation within CEUS initiative, the submission deadline for project proposals when GACR is in the role of Lead Agency is newly 4 May 2020. Thank you for your understanding.

In the context of the coronavirus epidemic in the Czech Republic, the scientific community warns that the announcement of a state of emergency disrupts the preparation of project proposals in the currently announced public tenders. In an effort to respond to the current state of emergency and to accommodate as much as possible all researchers, […]

On 27 November 2019, GACR President signed a memorandum of understanding with the Swiss National Science Foundation on bilateral cooperation on the Lead Agency principle. This new cooperation enables scientists from the Czech Republic to carry out scientific projects in basic research with new foreign partners. The first call is announced now with the SNSF […]

On Monday 17 June 2019, the highest representatives of GACR, FWF (Austria), NCN (Poland) and ARRS (Slovenia) solemnly signed the “CEUS – Central European Science Partnership” Lead Agency Agreement: Memorandum of Understanding on the unilateral administration and mutual recognition of evaluation procedures. This new cooperation enables scientists from the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland and Slovenia […]

On Monday 17 June 2019, the top representatives of GACR, FWF (Austria), NCN (Poland), ARRS (Slovenia) signed the ‘’CEUS – Central European Science Partnership” Lead Agency Agreement: Memorandum of Understanding on the unilateral administration and mutual recognition of evaluation procedures”. This new collaboration will enable scientists from the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland and Slovenia to […]

On 5 November 2018, GACR President signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). As a result of this agreement, Czech scientists have the opportunity to expand their basic research activities abroad. In case of this new cooperation, project proposals were submitted for the first time in 2019. This cooperation is […]

On Monday 15 October 2018, GACR President Dr. Alice Valkárová met with the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Taiwan (MOST) Yu-Han Tsou accompanied by a delegation of representatives from the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) and the National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) to discuss the possibilities for developing bilateral cooperation between the two […]

On 14 May 2018, GACR President signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) in Moscow. As a result of this Memorandum, Czech scientists have the opportunity to expand their basic research activities abroad. The first call was announced this year and is based on bilateral cooperation with project duration […]

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. The Prague meeting followed the Ljubljana and the Vienna meetings. Heads of individual research grant agencies […]