At its 6 November session, the Government of the Czech Republic approved a new type of funding prepared by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR). Restart Grants will allow female and male scientists to restart their careers after a break for parental leave or caring for a dependent person. The tender will be announced along with […]
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) will fund 15 EXPRO projects and 19 JUNIOR STAR projects starting next year. The aim of these tenders is to provide exceptional conditions for excellent scientists who have been carefully selected by experts from other countries. JUNIOR STAR grants will help early-career scientists establish their own research teams, while EXPRO […]
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) receives approximately 3,000 project proposals each year for its tenders and calls in all areas of basic research. More than 400 distinguished experts from the Czech Republic and other countries help to select the best ones. With the terms of office of a large number of them coming to an […]
The Presidium and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Czech Science Foundation have reorganized the panels and the fields they cover in Technical Sciences (Discipline Committee 1), Physical Sciences (Discipline Committee 2), Social Sciences and Humanities (Discipline Committee 4), and Agricultural and Biological-Environmental Sciences (Discipline Committee 5). These changes will apply to calls and tenders […]
The President of the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) Petr Baldrian awarded the five best scientific projects this evening at the Strahov Monastery. The awarded basic research has significantly contributed to the deepening of knowledge in the given disciplines and opened the way to further practical application. The winning projects and their results have contributed to […]
On Saturday, 16 March 2024, there will be a technical shutdown of the www.GACR.cz servers and the www.GRIS.cz grant information system due to maintenance of the substation by the contractor. The servers are expected to be back up around 6pm on Saturday. We apologize for any complications this outage may cause. We have only been […]
The Slovenian agency is looking for new potential foreign reviewers among Czech scientists to expand the agency’s database for possible cooperation. You can apply by filling in the questionnaire. If you have any questions, please contact the representative of the Slovenian Agency Maja Ambrožič (maja.ambrozic@aris-rs.si).
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) is announcing calls for proposals for tenders in the area of Standard Projects, JUNIOR STAR, POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP, and International and Lead Agency projects. The submission deadline is 3 April. The winners will be announced in October and November this year. Projects which win funding after passing the multi-stage evaluation […]
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), the largest Czech grant funding provider for basic research, will fund 357 scientific projects being launched next year in the Standard Projects and POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP grant schemes. These projects will receive CZK 2,75 billion over the next 3 years. The projects receiving funding cover a wide range of basic […]
Starting next January, the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) will fund seventeen new JUNIOR STAR projects. The highly selective tender is aimed at excellent early-career scientists coming to the Czech Republic from abroad or with significant international experience. With an exceptional funding amount of CZK 25 million for 5 years, the scientists will be able to […]