CEITEC MU
Scientific Board Meeting
Jiří Nantl
Brno, 7th November 2019
Agenda
• CEITEC MU report
• Establishment of Gabriel Demo Research Group
• Per-rollam voting results
• General discussion
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Performance
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Nature Index (NI) – Czech Institution, Life Sciences
Institution # Results in NI
Proportion of Local
Authors According to
the NI
1. Academy of Science of the Czech Republic 356 84,04
2. Charles University 297 34,71
3. Masaryk University 90 23,76
4. Palacký University 89 17,13
5. University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague 34 16,97
6. CEITEC 41 8,27
7. University of South Bohemia 84 7,47
8. Silesian University in Opava 10 5,77
9. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague 18 3,82
10. BIOCEV 14 3,53
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Publications - Productivity
32
100 126
153
173 173 162
156
23 51
82
73
78
91 81 96
13
38
37
48 41 37 38 37
17 41 41 21 22 19 17 18
17 43 55 53
70 75
65
71
7
13 20 22 24
35 34
31
2
0 5 1 4 4 6 2
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Numberofresearchgroups
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 T10 T5 T1 Number of research groups
Number and Percentage of CEITEC MU Publications by Year
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Benchmarking
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Flanders Institute for
Biotechnology (Belgium)
Friedrich Miescher Institute
for Biomedical Research
(Switzerland)
Institute of Organic Chemistry
and Biochemistry of the CAS
(Czech Republic)
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PERCENTAGE
% publications in Q1 % publications in T10
% publications in T1 Czech average % publications in Q1
4,88
2,89
0,76
1,54
0,86
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Flanders Institute for
Biotechnology
(Belgium)
Friedrich Miescher
Institute for Biomedical
Research
(Switzerland)
Institute of Organic
Chemistry and
Biochemistry of the
CAS (Czech Republic)
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%HIGHLYCITEDPAPERS
% Highly Cited Papers Czech average
Percentage of Publications in Q1, T10 and T1 Percentage of Highly Cited Papers
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International Collaboration
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67
57
58
52
49
49
46
49
22
22
29
36
35
44
46
53
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
PERCENTAGE
Percentage of corresponding authorship to CEITEC MU
Percentage of corresponding authorship to CEITEC MU in international collaboration
European average of corresponding authorship
72
73
52
64
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Flanders Institute for
Biotechnology (Belgium)
Friedrich Miescher Institute
for Biomedical Research
(Switzerland)
Institute of Organic Chemistry
and Biochemistry of the CAS
(Czech Republic)
CEITEC MU
%INTERNATIONALLCOLLABORATIONIN2018
Percentage of Publications with CEITEC MU
Corresponding Authorship
Comparison of International Collaboration in 2018
Research Field-Oriented Analysis
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
PLANT SCIENCES CHEMISTRY,
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
BIOCHEMISTRY &
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
MATERIALS SCIENCE,
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL
PercentageofpublicationsinQ1
ceitec czech world
Quality of CEITEC MU Publications in Subject
Categories: Percentage of Publications in Q1 in 2018
Open Access
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8
12
15
16
19
15
20
25
7
9
11 11
13
12
13
17
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
%OPENACCESSPUBLICATIONS
CEITEC MU MU Czech average Europe average USA average
19
30
37
25
I O C B ( C Z E C H
R E P U B L I C )
F L A N D E R S I N S T I T U T E
F O R B I O T E C H N O L O G Y
( B E L G I U M)
F R I E D R I C H MI E S C H E R
I N S T I T U T E F O R
B I O ME D I C A L
R E S E A R C H
( S W I T Z E R L A N D )
C E I T E C MU
%OPENACCESSPUBLICATIONSIN
2018
Percentage of Open Access Publications Comparison of Percentage of Open Access
Publications in 2018
Annual Analysis and Assessment Reports
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Analysis and Benchmarks on:
• Productivity
• Citation analysis
• Collaboration
• Open Access
• Research group productivity
• RGs and RPs impact
Benchmarks Among A4L Partners
• Research excellence
• Knowledge transfer
• Funding
• Human Resources
• Core Facilities
Postdoctoral Programme
Postdoc Peer Committee
• Formed in 2018
• To support postdoctoral community
• To create fit-to-purpose training and events
• To involve in institutional governance
Chair of the PPC
Michael Christopher Owen
Postdocs at CEITEC MU in Numbers
• 47 researchers
• 77 % foreigners
• Gender balance: 24F/23M
• 16 nationalities
Postdocs Retreat
• 7 institutions involved
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Training and Mentoring
• Expanding training portfolio for researchers in
all stages (primarily for early-stage ones)
• Soft skills and transferable skills courses
• Career development events and courses
Programme 2019
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Financial Situation and
Perspective 2019 - 2021
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Current Economic Situation – Budget 2019
• Since 2016, CEITEC MU has enjoyed more favourable MU rules on the
allocation of institutional funds (NPU-II is excluded from „MU taxation
mechanism,“ unlike VaVpI until 2015).
• Average yearly growth in gross institutional sources from 2016-2019 is 17 %.
• CEITEC MU has been generating a budget surplus of institutional sources since
2017.
• Stabilized budget of research groups (cca 2 – 3 mil CZK/year institutional
allocation, incl. NPU)
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Financial Outlook and Strategy After 2020
• End of sustainability period in 2020.
• Details of institutional funding at national and university level to be developed
(current level of institutional funding has been predicted as safe)
• End of funding via NPU project in 2020. Regular institutional funding probably will
not be sufficient to cover the discontinuation of NPU. The total income decrease
of 30 mil. CZK is expected in 2021.
• Accumulation of financial reserve exceeding 100 mil. CZK to overlap the
transitional period 2020-2022.
• Structural changes of CEITEC MU after 2020 (approved by amendment to the
CEITEC MU strategic plan). Decrease in number of research groups by a figure
of at least 6. Reorganization (mergers) of some Core Facilities will be considered.
• Feasible aim to maintain current level of institutional funding for (remaining)
research groups after 2020.
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Per-rollam Voting Results
1. Amendment to the Strategic Plan of the Central European Institute of
Technology at Masaryk University
Passed, with 17 votes in favor and 1 abstention.
2. Nomination of Prof. Josef Humlíček for the Silver Medal of Masaryk
University
Passed, with 17 votes in favor and 1 abstention.
The Scientific Board constituted a necessary quorum of a two-third majority of all members voting per rollam, which
is 16 members. In both cases, the absolute majority, namely 17 out of 18 of the voting members of the Scientific
Board, expressed their agreement by voting “agree”.
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