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GAMU - Research Support Programme
Supporting the integration of post-career scientists into
MU research teams – CAREER RESTART
Call 2025
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Table of Contents
Objective of support................................................................................................................................... 2
Qualification criteria ................................................................................................................................... 2
Bonus Criteria............................................................................................................................................ 2
Submission of a proposal .......................................................................................................................... 3
Evaluation criteria ...................................................................................................................................... 3
Funding rules............................................................................................................................................. 3
Grant implementation and final report ....................................................................................................... 4
Download links and documents................................................................................................................. 4
Contact ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Objective of support
The aim is to create conditions for the integration of researchers into research teams at Masaryk
University after a career break, for example due to maternity/parental leave, long term ilness or long term
care of close person. This category will facilitate and accelerate the return of scientists to a productive
scientific career and thus increase the percentage of their representation in independent/senior scientific
positions.
Qualification criteria
An eligible applicant is a researcher:
• whose career has been interrupted, for example due to maternity/parental leave, long term ilness or
long term care of close person;
• Primarily researcher whose last employer before career interruption was MU and whose cumulative
time at MU was at least 0.5 FTE (Ph.D. studies are equivatelnt 0.6 FTE);
• Proof of completed Ph.D. studies;
• He/she has a minimum of 0.5 FTE when returning to MU after a career break (the grant does not
cover salary)
• Return to work after 1st of January 2023
Bonus Criteria
• He/she is the author (first, corresponding, or otherwise significant - depending on the specifics of the
field) of at least one scientific publication indexed in a journal belonging to the first quartile of the
field according to the impact factor in Web of Science or comparable scientific performance in fields
whose domain is not Web of Science-indexed publishing1
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Authorship may be an advantage, not a requirement
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Submission of a proposal
The proposal form in pdf format, including all attachments, must be uploaded to Project Manager
Informational System (PMIS) under one reference number - project proposal and statement by the
head of the department (+declaration) – no later than the closing date of the competition. The
submitted files will be submitted for evaluation. The proposal is submitted after approval of the cover
sheet in PMIS. Instruction „How to submit“ the proposal is in Document server.
Design documentation:
• Form prescribed for the CAREER RESTART competition (machine readable pdf)
• A statement from the head of the workplace where the project will be implemented on the
integration of the proposer into the workplace, his/her potential for workplace development and
potential for career development
• In case of long term ilness or long term care of close person, please provide it by the
statement/declaration (available at folder in Document server)
Evaluation criteria
The submitted application will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:
Criterion Weight in %
The applicant's potential to achieve independence and leadership in research 50
Applicant's contribution to the host site 50
Funding rules
Annual budget: 500 thousand CZK/calendar year
Duration of funding: 2 years
Eligible costs
• Personal costs
− salary supplement (salary component 642 - GAMU project allowance)
− Reward
• Other costs (e.g. consumables, services, domestic and foreign travel, etc.) - up to a maximum of
40% of the budget
• Additional costs or expenses (projects may include a share of the common operating costs
corresponding to the SPN coefficient for the economic centre in a given year according to the MU
Guidelines for the application of overheads to projects, as amended from time to time)
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Ineligible costs
• Scholarships
• Small tangible and intangible assets
• Investments
The use of the subsidy must comply with the rules for the use of institutional support. The amount of
financial support approved for a given calendar year will be allocated in non investments money to the
specific economic centre by way of an adjustment to the institutional support schedule.
The unspent amount for a given year of settlement may be transferred to the Special Purpose Fund (SPF)
up to a maximum of 5% of the amount awarded for that year. For the SPF, if the funds are not used in
the following year, the beneficiary is obliged to repay the unused funds. It is not possible to create
a SPF in the last year of the implementation.
The economic and administrative background of the projects will be identical to the economic and
administrative background of the sites where the scientist and his/her team are or will be based, and
these will also bear the common operating costs of the project. The technical and administrative
coordination of the project will be the responsibility of the project investigator.
Grant implementation and final report
The grant investigator has a minimum of half-time employment at MU for the duration of the
implementation (0,5 FTE).
The possbile changes in the project need the approval of the Vice-rector for research and doctoral studies.
The completed Change request form (available at folder in Document Server) has to be uploaded in
PMIS and the approval process of the change must be finished. Please inform the GAMU administrator
after the change request submission. If the change is accepted, the Decision of the change will be issued.
The final report (available at folder in Document Server), including all atachments and the approved
cover sheet, must be uploaded to PMIS within 60 days of project ending. The report shall report on the
integration of the investigator into the department, his/her contribution to the development of the
department and to the career development of the investigator.
Part of the end of the project is the realization of the final public lecture (the final public lecture will be part
of the final GAMU conference, which is held in the last quarter of each calendar year).
Download links and documents
Guidelines
GAMU website
PMIS – Project proposal editor
PMIS – Accepted project editor
Instruction How to submit the proposal
Document server - Forms of the Call
Contact
Grant office
RMU Research Department
Žerotínovo nám. 9, Brno 601 77
Pavla Pospíšilová
pavla.pospisilova@rect.muni.cz
+420 549 49 4747