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INTERNATIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
of
Research, Development and Innovation
Schedule
1) Introduction to international funding
2) Career path towards independent research
3) International collaboration support
4) Support at Masaryk University
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INDIVIDUAL
COLLABORATIONS
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I. INTRODUCTION:
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FUNDING
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Definitions
 Research and development = the basis for the new
technological developments
 Research funding = financing the development of new ideas
and technologies
 Funding of projects in a wide spectrum of research areas
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Why International Research Funding?
 to keep abreast of the latest development in the field and ensure the
relevance of research
 higher citations of publications published by an international team of authors
 a sign of prestige and proof of competitiveness in the international field
 significant source of funding - grants from hundreds of thousands to millions
EUR
 the National Programme for Sustainability - the need to obtain 30% of the
total funding from international sources
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National v. International Research Funding at MU*
* deadline for application in 2014 - total budged of accepted proposals; without Structural Funds
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international
12%
national
88%
 very prestigious
 confirmation of the quality of
research
 all research areas
 permanent rules
 oportunity to "keep up" with the
global science (information and
know-how)
 similar rules for national grants
(in the future)
big competition
low success
the need to cooperate with a
foreign partner
language barrier and different
rules
IPR issues
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Pros and Cons
Funding Lanscapes
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International research funding - sources
 90 % of grants – European Commission
 10 % other (private foundations, international collaboration
support - national grants)
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European Commission – research funding
 Framework Programs (FP7/H2020)
o FP7 (last calls in 2013, some of FP7 projects at MU will run until 2019)
o HORIZON 2020 (1. 1. 2014)
 3 main pillars
 2 specific objectives
 Public-private, public-public partnerships, H2020 Contests for Prizes, H2020 calls for tenders
 Research Fund for Coal & Steel
 3rd Health Programme
 Promotion of Agricultural Products
 Consumer Programme
 COSME
 Justice Programme
 Other
o Open calls for proposal - Directorate General (DG) – JUSTICE, HOME, SANCO, …
o Creative Europe
o Central Europe
o … 11
H2020 structure
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Industrial LeadershipExcellent Science
Future and Emerging
Technologies
Research Infrastructures,
including e-Infrastructures
Marie Skłodowska-Curie action
European Research Council
Societal Challenges
Health, Demographic Change
and Wellbeing
Food Security, Sustainable
Agriculture and Forestry,
Marine, Maritime and Inland
Water Research and the
Bioeconomy
Secure, Clean and Efficient
Energy
Smart, Green and Integrated
Transport
Climate Action, Environment,
Resource Efficiency and Raw
Materials
Europe in a changing world Inclusive,
innovative and
reflective societies
Secure societies – Protecting
freedom and security of
Europe and its citizens
Access to risk finance
Leadership in Enabling and
Industrial Technologies
o Information and
Communication
Technologies
o Space
o Nanotechnologies,
Advanced Materials,
Advanced Manufacturing
and Processing, and
Biotechnology
Innovation in SMEs
Spreading Excellence and
Widening Participation
Science with and for Society
Cross-cutting activities (focus
areas)
o Industry 2020 in the
Circular Economy
 Factories of the Future
(FoF)
 Sustainable Process
Industries (SPIRE)
o Internet of Things,
o Smart and Sustainable
Cities
Fast Track to Innovation Pilot
Euratom
European Institute of Innovation
and Technology
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Smart Cyber-Physical Systems
Joint Programming P2P
Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs)
Key strategic document - Europe 2020
o Institute for Environment and Sustainability
(IES)
o Institute for Energy and Transport (IET)
o Institute for Health and Consumer Protection
(IHCP)
o Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
(IPTS)
o Institute for Reference Materials and
Measurements (IRMM)
o Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU)
o Institute for the Protection and Security of the
Citizen (IPSC)
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Joint Research Centre (JRC)
o Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 (IMI2)
o Clean Sky (Aeronautics) 2 (CS2)
o Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 (FCH2)
o Bio-based Industries (BBI)
o Electronic components & systems (ECSEL)
o Shift2Rail
o Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR)
o Fusion for Energy (F4E)
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Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs)
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o Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs)
- Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND)
- Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE JPI)
- Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life (HDHL)
- Cultural Heritage & Global Change (JPICH)
- Urban Europe (UE JPI)
- Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe (JPI Climate)
- More Years, Better Lives – The Potential and Challenges of
Demographic Change (JPI MYBL)
- Antimicrobial Resistance: The Microbial Challenge – An
Emerging Threat to Human Health (JPIAMR)
- Water Challenges for a Changing World (Water JPI)
- Healthy & Productive Seas and Oceans (Oceans JPI)
Joint Programming P2P
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o Public-public partnership - Joint Research Programme (article 185)
- Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
- Baltic Sea Research Programme (BONUS)
- European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
(EDCTP)
- European Metrology Programme for Research and innovation
(EMPIR)
- Eurostars Programme (EUROSTARS)
o ERA-nets
Joint Programming P2P
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o European Innovation Partnerships (EIPs)
- Active & Healthy Ageing
- Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability
- Smart Cities and Communities
- Water
- Raw Materials
Other activities
H2020 structure – main pillars
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Industrial LeadershipExcellent Science
Future and Emerging
Technologies
Research Infrastructures,
including e-Infrastructures
Marie Skłodowska-Curie action
European Research Council
Societal Challenges
Health, Demographic Change
and Wellbeing
Food Security, Sustainable
Agriculture and Forestry,
Marine, Maritime and Inland
Water Research and the
Bioeconomy
Secure, Clean and Efficient
Energy
Smart, Green and Integrated
Transport
Climate Action, Environment,
Resource Efficiency and Raw
Materials
Europe in a changing world Inclusive,
innovative and
reflective societies
Secure societies – Protecting
freedom and security of
Europe and its citizens
Access to risk finance
Leadership in Enabling and
Industrial Technologies
o Information and
Communication
Technologies
o Space
o Nanotechnologies,
Advanced Materials,
Advanced Manufacturing
and Processing, and
Biotechnology
Innovation in SMEs
individual cooperative bottom-up top-down
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II. CAREER PATH TOWARDS INDEPENDENT
RESEARCH
PhD career: MSCA ITN
 ITN = Innovative Training Networks
 Networks created by international consortia of academic and nonacademic
institutions.
 Each network runs a research programme.
 Training/doctoral programmes for Early Stage Researchers (ESR)
 Each ESR has an individual research project
 Strong mobility element including short-term „secondments“
 Lenght of employment – up to 36 months
 Usually lead to a PhD degree award
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PhD career: MSCA ITN
3 types of ITN programmes:
 ETN – European Training Networks
 EID – European Industrial Doctorates
 EJD – European Joint Doctorates
How can I join an existing network?
→ EURAXESS
→ CORDIS
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THE MOUNTAIN:
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
(MSCA), Individual Fellowships
The ascent to the mountain is long
and demanding, many do not make it
to the top!
MSCA INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIPS:
KEY PRINCIPLES
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MOBILITY
FREE CHOICE OF TOPIC
RESEARCH & TRAINING
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS
WORK/LIFE BALANCE
NO AGE LIMIT
MSCA: Individual Fellowships – types of grants
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EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIPS
 Standard European Fellowships (mobility across Europe or into
Europe)
 Career Restart Panel (Europe, after at least 12 months’ break)
 Reintegration Panel (from a 3rd country to Europe)
GLOBAL FELLOWSHIPS
 3rd country + a mandatory return phase in Europe
MSCA: Individual Fellowships – how it works
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 A researcher applies jointly with a host institution (and a supervisor)
 12–24 months full-time (GF 24–36 months)
 Possible additional secondments (3–6 months)
 Deadline once a year (September)
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 Success rate 2014: 11% GF, 19% EF
 Many fellows succeed only after re-submission.
 Success requires excellent project, excellent CV, excellent
motivation, excellent match with the supervisor/host.
 However, expectations from young PhDs and expectations from
more senior researchers differ.
 Mutual enrichment between the fellow and the host is expected.
 The fellowship shall represent a significant step forward in the
researcher‘s career.
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max. 10
pages
weight 50%
weight 30%
weight 20%
MSCA IF – proposal structure
applicants
often
underestimate
SoMoPro: South Moravian alternative to IF
 From MSCA family
 EU + South Moravian Region
 Nearly same structure of the proposal as IF
 For researchers coming from abroad (including MU PhDs returning from
postdoc stays)
 2015 success rate 16%
 12–36 months’ projects
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Supported domains: Material Research
ICT
Electronics and Photonics
Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
Biotechnology and Biomedicine
MSCA IF, ITN, SoMoPro – indicative budget
Researcher unit cost in EUR
(person/month)
Institutional unit cost in
EUR (person/month)
Living
allowance
Mobility
allowance
Family
allowance
Research,
training,
networking
Management
+ overheads
Optional
contribution
IF 4 650*) 600 500 800 650
ITN 3 110*) 600 500 1 800 1 200
SoMoPro 3 750 500 500 1 000
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*) Living allowance subject to a country correction coefficient (CZ 83,3 %, UK 120,3 %)
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FELLOWSHIPS
• 2015-2016 - Fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena, Germany
• 2012-2013 - Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on
Women and Gender at Columbia University, New York, USA
• 2010 (spring) - Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Gender
and Sexuality at New York University, USA
• 2003-2004 - Fulbright Visiting Scholar, New School for Social
Research, New York, USA
• 2000 (fall) - SOCRATES/ERASMUS, Tilburg University, Netherlands
„Constructing Sexuality and Gender in Czechoslovak Sexological
Discourses during Communism (1948–1989)“ SEXOCOM
1 year → University of Columbia
1 year → MU
Source: http://sexocom.fss.muni.cz/
Marie Curie at MU: Kateřina Lišková (FSS)
Fulbright Commission
 Provides fellowships for studies, teaching or research in
the USA
 At MU level administered by Centre for International
Cooperation
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EMBO
EMBO Short-term fellowships
 Exchanges between 2 laboratories in different countries; up to 3 months
 For PhD holders and PhD students
EMBO Long-term fellowships
 Post-doctoral research visists for up to 2 years
Installation Grants
 Support for talented researchers in the Czech Rep., Poland, Estonia,
Croatia, Portugal and Turkey.
 Annual support of 50,000 euro for 3 years (possible extension for 2 more
years).
 Grantees integrated into the EMBO Young Investigators network (number of
benefits)
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EMBO INSTALLATION GRANTS
10 out of 16 Installation Grantees in the Czech Republic are from MU.
Picture: http://www.online.muni.cz/
THE SUMMIT:
European Research Council
(ERC)
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ERC: KEY PRINCIPLES
FRONTIER
RESEARCH
HIGH
RISK/HIGH
GAIN
FREE
CHOICE OF
TOPIC
ANY FIELD OF
RESEARCH
NO POLITICS
SCIENTIFIC
EXCELLENCE
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ERC – How it works
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 Individual grant (Principal Investigator + his team)
 Researcher‘s nationality: any
 Host institution: member or associated country
 Typical duration: 5 years
 Portability of the grant
 High competitiveness – low score = restriction for next call(s)
 Often considered as the most prestigious grant available.
 Junior researchers can become part of the ERC team (EURAXESS).
 MU runs an ERC Support Scheme for the applicants.
ERC – types of grants
Starting Consolidator Advanced
2–7 years from Ph.D. 7–12 years from Ph.D. (a track record of significant
research achievements in
the last 10 years)
€1,5 M + €0,5 extra €2+ €0,75 extra €2,5 M + €1 M extra
success rate 2014: 11,7 % success rate 2014: 15 % success rate 2013: 12,3 %
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proposal onlyproposal + interview
ERC – proposal structure
 B1:
Extended Synopsis: 5 pages
Curriculum Vitae: 2 pages
Track Record („a list of achievements“): 2 pages
 B2:
Scientific Proposal: 15 pages
(Host Institution Binding Statement of Support;
Ethics Review Table)
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Step 1
Step 2
ERC grants at MU
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ERC Starting
2016
David Kosař,
Faculty of Law
„The Rise of Judicial
Self-Government:
Changing the
Architecture of
Separation of Powers
without an Architect“
JUDI-ARCH
ERC Starting
2013
Pavel Plevka
Ceitec MU
„Structural studies of
human picornaviruse“
PicoStructure
ERC Consolidator
2015
Richard Štefl
Ceitec MU
„Dynamic assembly
and exchange of RNA
polymerase II CTD
factors“
DECOR
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II. INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION SUPPORT
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THE SWAMP:
KONTAKT, COST CZ, MOBILITY
Formalism and culture of irresponsibility has
turned local Czech landscape into a swamp
where the bureaucrats chomp over tons of
papers requested from the beneficiaries
receiving their meager support.
COST
 Aims at coordination of research activities financed from national
sources.
 Support of networking activities (not research).
 COST actions – large consortia formed around concrete topics
(bottom-up principle – free choice of topic)
 Duration of action: 4 years
 Participants: at least 5 member states
 Average budget: 130 000 EUR/year (average no. of
participating countries – 22)
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MŠMT – COST CZ
 Research projects for CZ participants in COST actions
 Call once a year
 Basic research (applied research since 2016)
 Up to100% of eligible costs covered
 Max. length – 3 years
 Max. 300,000 CZK/year – Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health
(ISCH) domain
 Max. 750,000 CZK/year – other domains
 Principal Investigator: typically PhD/doc.
 PhD students: typically participate as team members
 Since 2016 – under „Inter-Excellence“ programme (new rules)
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MŠMT – KONTAKT II
 Call once a year
 Basic and applied research
 Basic research = up to 100 % eligible costs covered
 All research fields
 Max. length – 3 years
 Cooperation limited to particular non-EU countries (specified in the call,
previously USA, Russia, China, Japan, India, Israel, South Korea)
 Approx. 1,500,000–2,000,000 CZK per project
 Principal Investigator: typically PhD/doc.
 PhD students: typically participate as team members
 Since 2016 – under „Inter-Excellence“ programme (new rules)
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MŠMT – MOBILITY
 Small bilateral projects (co-financed by 2 participating countries)
 All fields of basic research
 Typically 2 years‘ projects
 Only travel costs are eligible
 MŠMT contribution: max. 100 000 CZK/year (depending on the call)
 2016: Expected calls for proposals – France, Austria and Germany,
possibly also Poland and Argentina
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The International Visegrad Fund
Projects in cultural cooperation, scientific exchange and research,
education, youth exchange, cross-border cooperation or promotion of
tourism
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Small Grants
• < 6 000 €
• 1 Mar., 1 June, 1 Sept., 1 Dec.
• project duration: max. 6 months
• co-financing 20%
Standard Grants
• > 6 001 € (typically around 13 000 €)
• 15 Mar., 15 Sept.
• project duration: max. 12 months
• co-financing 20%
 Participants from at least 3 Visegrad countries
 „Applicant“ (coordinator) + Partners
Visegrad projects at MU
Faculty of Arts: Visegrad Conference of Information Literacy and Education
„The purpose of this project is to realize the international conference…“
FSS: New Public Governance in the Visegrád Group (V4)
The main aim of the project is to initiate the international research concerning the issue of
New Public Governance in the countries of the Visegrad Group. The project consists in
organising the conference… and publishing a scientific publication.
→ „Visegrad added value“
→ Communication/support activities rather than research
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THE HORIZON: H2020 collaborations
H2020: Collaborative projects
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Industrial LeadershipExcellent Science
Future and Emerging
Technologies
Research Infrastructures,
including e-Infrastructures
Societal Challenges
Health, Demographic Change
and Wellbeing
Food Security, Sustainable
Agriculture and Forestry,
Marine, Maritime and Inland
Water Research and the
Bioeconomy
Secure, Clean and Efficient
Energy
Smart, Green and Integrated
Transport
Climate Action, Environment,
Resource Efficiency and Raw
Materials
Europe in a changing world Inclusive,
innovative and
reflective societies
Secure societies – Protecting
freedom and security of
Europe and its citizens
Access to risk finance
Leadership in Enabling and
Industrial Technologies
o Information and
Communication
Technologies
o Space
o Nanotechnologies,
Advanced Materials,
Advanced Manufacturing
and Processing, and
Biotechnology
Innovation in SMEs
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How it works
o All calls published in WORK PROGRAMMES (WP) at Participant Portal
o List of problems EU wants to solve – CALLS
o Each call diveded into TOPICS
 Deadlines defined in WP
 Basic and applied research - specified in description
 100% funding, 25% overheads
 Maximum amount - specified in description (recommendation)
(projects at MU: overall budget 250 000 – 50 mil. EUR,
MU share: 70 000 – 2 mil EUR)
 All research fields
 Principal Investigator: experienced researcher
 PhD students: can participate as team members, task managers
o EXAMPLE - seminars
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Main rules
o 3 from 3 (minimum 3 partners from 3 different countries - defined in WP)
o Different „actions“ (mostly „research and innovation action“ – RIA,
„coordination and support action“ – CSA)
o New in H2020 – Open Access to all publications and to data (pilot for
defined calls)
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III. PILLAR - Societal Challenges
Societal Challenges
1. Health, Demographic
Change and Wellbeing
2. Food Security, Sustainable
Agriculture and Forestry,
Marine, Maritime and
Inland Water Research
and the Bioeconomy
3. Secure, Clean and Efficient
Energy
4. Smart, Green and
Integrated Transport
5. Climate Action,
Environment, Resource
Efficiency and Raw
Materials
6. Europe in a changing
world - Inclusive,
innovative and reflective
societies
7. Secure societies –
Protecting freedom and
security of Europe and its
citizens
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SC1 - Health, demographic change and wellbeing
o Project: Advanced bioinformatics platform for PERsonalised cancer IMmunotherapy
o Acronym: APERIM
o Duration: 36 months
o Budget: 3 mil EUR (135 000 EUR for MU)
o Consortium: 11 partners (coordinator - Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria)
o PI at MU: Dmitriy Chudakov (CEITEC)
Project focus:
o practical implementation of immunotherapies targeting unique tumor mutations
o development of user-friendly software modules as well as analytical standard
operating procedures for clinical use, and application of the bioinformatics platform
in clinical settings
o maximization of the accessibility and utility of biomedical data in research and
medicine
www.aperim.eu
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SC5 - Climate action, environment, resource
efficiency and raw materials (1)
o Project: Guiding European Policy towards a low-carbon economy. Modelling Energy
system Development under Environmental And Socioeconomic constraints
o Acronym: MEDEAS
o Duration: 48 months
o Budget: 3,7 mil EUR (300 000 EUR for MU)
o Consortium: 12 partners (coordinator - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Cientificas, Spain)
o PI at MU: Christian Kerschner (FSS)
Project focus:
o implementation of a policy oriented tool for policymaking in the energy sector to
evaluate socio-economic impacts of selected policies in their future investments
within a low-carbon economy
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SC5 - Climate action, environment, resource
efficiency and raw materials (2)
o Project: Integrated Climate forcing and Air pollution Reduction in Urban Systems
o Acronym: ICARUS
o Duration: 48 months
o Budget: 6,8 mil EUR (390 000 EUR for MU)
o Consortium: 18 partners (coordinator - ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO
THESSALONIKIS, Greece)
o PI at MU: Jana Klánová (PřF – RECETOX)
Project focus:
o development of an innovative tools for urban impact assessment of the impact of
current and alternative national and local policies on reducing greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions
o air quality improvement through a full chain approach and evaluate the future public
health and well-being impacts of these policies in European cities
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SC6 - Europe in a changing world - inclusive,
innovative and reflective societies (1)
o Project: Negotiating early job-insecurity and labour market exclusion in Europe
o Acronym: NEGOTIATE
o Duration: 36 months
o Budget: 3 mil EUR (170 000 EUR for MU)
o Consortium: 10 partners (coordinator - HiOA-NOVA Norwegian Social Research,
Norway)
o PI at MU: Tomáš Sirovátka (FSS)
Project focus:
o to deliver gender-sensitive comparative knowledge about consequences of early job
insecurity
o investigation of the linkages across macro, meso and micro levels as mechanisms
of early job insecurity
o core question: how young people’s scope for agency interacts with different layers
of structural conditions in a multi-level governance system
www.negotiate-research.eu
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SC6 - Europe in a changing world - inclusive,
innovative and reflective societies (2)
o Project: Constructing Active Citizenship with European Youth: Policies, practices,
challenges and solutions
o Acronym: CATCH-EyoU
o Duration: 36 months
o Budget: 2,5 mil EUR (230 000 EUR for MU)
o Consortium: 9 partners (coordinator - Universita di Bologna, Italy)
o PI at MU: Petr Macek (FSS)
Project focus:
o identification of the factors, located at different levels (psychological, developmental,
macro social and contextual) influencing the different forms of youth active
engagement in Europe
www.catcheyou.eu
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II. PILLAR - Industrial Leadership
The goal: to make Europe a more attractive location to invest
in research and innovation Industrial Leadership
Access to risk finance
Leadership in Enabling and
Industrial Technologies
o Information and
Communication
Technologies
o Space
o Nanotechnologies,
Advanced Materials,
Advanced Manufacturing
and Processing, and
Biotechnology
Innovation in SMEs
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THE CLOUDS:
Future and emerging technologies
When your ideas are too crazy to be followed by the
operators in the forest or on the horizon…
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FET actions - expected to initiate radically new lines of technology
through unexplored collaborations between advanced multidisciplinary
science and cutting-edge engineering
3 complementary lines
o FET OPEN – on new ideas for radically new future technologies, at an
early stage when there are few researchers working on a project topic
o FET PROACTIVE – further exploratory of promising research topics,
with the aim of building up and structuring new interdisciplinary
research communities
o FET FLAGSHIPS – 1-billion, 10-years initiatives where hundreds of
excellent European researchers unite forces to focus on solving an
ambitious scientific and technological challenge
- Human Brain
- Graphene
Future and Emerging
Technologies
I. PILLAR – EXCELLENT SCIENCE
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THE FACTORY:
Research
Infrastructures
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State-of-the-art research infrastructures becomes increasingly
complex and costly, often requiring integration of different
equipment, services and data sources, as well as extensive
transnational collaboration.
EU approach in H2020:
o developing and financing research infrastructures (INFRADEV)
o integrating and opening research infrastructures of European
interest (INFRAIA)
o e-Infrastructures (EINFRA)
o fostering the innovation potential (INFRAINNOV)
o support to policy and international cooperation (INFRASUPP)
I. PILLAR – EXCELLENT SCIENCE
Research Infrastructures,
including e-Infrastructures
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Research infrastructure - INFRADEV (1)
o Project: ELIXIR-EXCELERATE: Fast-track ELIXIR implementation and drive early
user exploitation across the life-sciences
o Acronym: ELIXIR-EXCELERATE
o Duration: 48 months
o Budget: 19 mil EUR (500 000 EUR for MU)
o Consortium: 41 partners (coordinator - EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
LABORATORY, Germany)
o PI at MU: Jaroslav Koča (CEITEC)
Project focus:
o implementation of ELIXIR infrastructure to support the management, analysis and
re-use of data across life science
o enabling of the easy access to validated workflows and tools to deposit and analyse
data
www.elixir-europe.org
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Research infrastructure - INFRADEV (2)
o Project: Euro-BioImaging Preparatory Phase II - Project
o Acronym: EuBI PPII
o Duration: 48 months
o Budget: 1,5 mil EUR (no money for MU)
o Consortium: 22 partners (coordinator - EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
LABORATORY, Germany)
o PI at MU: Jaroslav Koča (CEITEC)
Project focus:
o the submission and approval procedure of ERIC statutes with the EC
o obtain commitments for the sustainable funding for the EuBI-ERIC by its Member
States
o implement the operational EuBI Hub and recruit its staff to provide user access and
services
o define and sign the service level agreements between EuBI-ERIC and the 1st
generation of EuBI Nodes
www.eurobioimaging.eu
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Research infrastructure - INFRAIA
o Project: Infrastructure for NMR, EM and X-ray crystallography for translational
research
o Acronym: iNEXT
o Duration: 48 months
o Budget: 10 mil EUR (470 000 EUR for MU)
o Consortium: 23 partners (coordinator – University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
o PI at MU: Vladimír Sklenář (CEITEC)
Project focus:
o providing the full range of infrastructures necessary to translate technical excellence
and scientific leadership of Structural Biology in Europe to impact modern
biomedicine
www.inext-eu.org
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Research infrastructure - EINFRA
o Project: World-wide E-infrastructure for structural biology
o Acronym: West-Life
o Duration: 36 months
o Budget: 4 mil EUR (400 000 EUR for MU)
o Consortium: 10 partners (coordinator – SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
FACILITIES COUNCIL, United Kingdom)
o PI at MU: Aleš Křenek (ÚVT)
Project focus:
o pilot an infrastructure for storing and processing data that supports the growing use
of combined techniques
www.west-life.eu
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IV. SUPPORT AT MASARYK UNIVERSITY
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International Grant Support
 Project support at faculties – first contact
 Research Office (Rectorate)
 Technology Transfer Office (IPR)
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Research Office: International Grant Support
 Information service: web, newsletter & e-mail news, workshops
 Individual support: consultations of project proposals/ grant
opportunities
 Financial support: for preparation of project proposals (prestigious
schemes)
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Scheduled Events
 H2020: MSCA – 30 March 2016
 H2020: Consortium agreements – 3 May 2016
 H2020: IPR a Open Access – 22 June 2016
 H2020 for social sciences and humanities – June 2016
 ERC grant-writing workshop – ca. October 2016
 Grants Week – 12–14 October 2016
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4 days
17 lectures
600 attendees
26 speakers
Grants Week 2016: 12–14 October
Grants Week: „All you need to know about the research
funding“
Links
 Horizon 2020
 EMBO
 ERC
 MŠMT
 COST
 International Visegrad Fund
 Fullbright Commission
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Collaborative projects:
Ida Součková Olšová
i.souckova@rect.muni.cz
Eva Ptáčková
ptackova@rect.muni.cz
Thank you for your attention
Individual projects:
Radka Martincová
martincova@rect.muni.cz