The Festival of Science

Stop by the RECETOX MUNI stand on the weekend of September 9, 2022, at the Brno Exhibition Centre, Pavilion A1 - we will measure you from head to toe, examine the arches of your feet and check your body composition with the Inbody device. Kids can build their own molecules, and adults will learn more about whether the world is going down the drain with plastics and microplastics.

CELSPAC celebrates its 30th anniversary at the Science Festival.

The CELSPAC population study celebrates its 30th anniversary - this deserves a big celebration!

CELSPAC will officially release The Story of a Generation, a book commemorating the tremendous work of Brno scientists and thousands of South Moravian families throughout the past three decades On Saturday, September 10, at the Rotunda.

Come and enjoy music by Ondřej Havelka and the Melody Makers and the Brno singer-songwriter Pavel Čadek.

CELSPAC launched an extension study DUST focusing on dust in households with children

From the dust samples collected in households with small children, scientists will mainly investigate the microbiological composition and chemical pollution, which is still largely unknown. It is dust that can affect a child's health from birth to younger childhood. The study is intended for all mothers involved in The Next Generation tribal study.

Selecting deputy for approvals when submitting vacation request

Please select deputy for approvals while submitting your vacation/leave request.

Horizon Europe

• Currently open Calls for Proposals: Funding & tender opportunities
  
  

Czech Science Foundation

• Lead Agency grants - GA CR in the role of partner organization (deadline according to the foreign agency - currently it is still possible to submit project proposals in cooperation with the German agency DFG/ongoing call, Austrian agency FWF/ongoing call, American NSF/ongoing call and the Swiss SNSF agency/deadline 1 October 2022 for the Czech Republic). If you are interested in this call, please contact Nikola Stejskalová.

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• Environment for life program - the sixth public competition to support applied research, experimental development and innovation in the field of the environment: Sub program 1 Operational research in the public interest (PP1), Sub program 2 Eco-innovation, technologies and procedures for environmental protection (PP2). The deadline of this call is September 14, 2022.
  
  If you are interested in this calls, please contact Nikola Stejskalová.

OP JAK (2.8.2022 - 30.11.2022)

• MSCA Fellowships CZ - support for Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions fellowship projects that achieved at least 70 % of the total number of points in the evaluation of the Horizon 2020 (call H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-EF) and Horizon Europe programmes, but could not be funded due to lack of funding in the call.

  • SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES

    • Activity 1. Support for "no money" MSCA projects – incoming to the Czech Republic

    • Activity 2. Support for "no money" MSCA projects – outgoing from the Czech Republic

    • Activity 3. Support for "no money" MSCA projects - Global Postdoctoral Fellowships (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 call)

In last year's HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 call there were 5 successful MSCA projects, and the researchers will have the possibility to be funded from the OP JAK programme.

Planned calls

• Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
  
  The new TAČR SIGMA program was approved, which is designed as a broadly focused tool to support applied research and innovation. The first competition will be announced at the end of the year.

• Water4All - the call will probably be announced on September 1, 2022.
  
  
• Partnership for Biodiversity Call 2022 - the call will probably be announced on 8/9/2022, you can register for the international webinar that will take place on 20/9/2022.

Project events

• Letní škola statistických metod (15. - 19. 8. 2022) – online (Czech only)
• Letní škola statistických metod (22. - 26. 8. 2022) – in person (Czech only)
• GRANTS WEEK 2022 (19. - 20. 9. 2022) – Registration opened – hybrid
• SAVE THE DATE : NCURA Global Workshop | Improve (muni.cz) (21.- 23. 9. 2022) – personally
• Online registration for European Research and Innovation Days 2022 (28. - 29. 9. 2022) – online
• European Conference on Security Research in Cyberspace (12.-14.9.2022), in person European Conference on Security Research in Cyberspace - European Conference on Security Research in Cyberspace (eu-secres.eu)

Other information

• European Commission ´s Draft budget for the year 2023 - Horizon Europe | Horizon Europe Portal (horizontevropa.cz)
  
  
• Approved ERC work program for 2023 Návrh rozpočtu EK na rok 2023 – Horizont Evropa
  
  
• The Conference recording on Synergies in the Research and Innovation Funding in Europe SYNERGIES 2022 |
  
  
• Synergies between Horizon Europe and ERDF programmes Staff Working Document (horizontevropa.cz)
  
  
• Template for reporting created by EC periodic-report_horizon-euratom_en.pdf (europa.eu)
  
  
• Calling for evidence - Horizon 2020 Final Evaluation and Horizon Europe Interim Evaluation | Horizon Europe Portal (horizontevropa.cz)
  
  
• Open Research Europe indexováno ve Scopus
  
  
• GACR actions taken for COVID-19 for projects under implementation in 2022 + support for Ukrainian scientists and students

Below you will find selected publications already available at WoS in last month. The list of other publications is available HERE.

T10:

Komprdová, K., Domínguez-Romero, E., Sharma, B. M., Komprda, J., Melymuk, L., Murínová, Ľ. P., Čonka, K., Trnovec, T., Černá, M., Drobná, B., Fabišiková, A., Sejáková, Z. S., & Scheringer, M., Application of a pharmacokinetic model in characterizing sources of polychlorinated biphenyl exposure and determining threshold daily intakes for adverse health effects in infants and toddlers. (2022) Science of The Total Environment, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154734

Q1:

Wietzoreck, M., Kyprianou, M., Musa Bandowe, B. A., Celik, S., Crowley, J. N., Drewnick, F., Eger, P., Friedrich, N., Iakovides, M., Kukučka, P., Kuta, J., Nežiková, B., Pokorná, P., Přibylová, P., Prokeš, R., Rohloff, R., Tadic, I., Tauer, S., Wilson, J., … Lammel, G., Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their alkylated, nitrated and oxygenated derivatives in the atmosphere over the Mediterranean and Middle East seas. (2022) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8739-2022

Gregušková, E. K., Mihálik, D., Kraic, J., Mrkvová, M., Sokol, J., Gregor, P., Rafajová, A., & Čupr, P., Genotoxic effects of transboundary pollutants in Pinus mugo in the high mountain habitats. (2022) Ecological Indicators, doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109009

• Ekolist.cz: Proč je válka na Ukrajině ekologická katastrofa? Odborníci popisují dopady konfliktu na životní prostředí a ochranu přírody (czech only)
  
  
• vsb.cz: Superpočítače – nedílná součást při vývoji léků (czech only)
  
  
• Rozhlas.cz: Práce, vztahy, spánek. Jak stres ovlivňoval polární expedici, zjišťovala antropoložka Lucie Ráčková (czech only)

Save the date

• Synthesis and Analysis of Drugs 2022, 7 - 9 September 2022
  
  
• The Festival of Science, 9 - 11 September 2022
  
  
• CELSPAC celebrates its 30th anniversary at the Science Festival, 10 September 2022
  
  
• The International Congress of Toxicology (ICT 2022), 18 - 22 September 2022
  
  
• International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2022), 19 - 21 October 2022

We are looking for new colleagues

We would be grateful for sharing them as well, or if you already know about a great candidate for one or a few of the positions, feel free to recommend them to us by sending their CV to rcx-hr@recetox.muni.cz

We welcome new colleagues to the center and wish them a lot of work success!