• EEA and Norway Grants – deadlines for submission of applications: 17^th February 2021 (Institutional cooperation projects), 17^th June 2021 (Bilateral Relations)

• Barrande Fellowships (France) with the deadline for submission of applications on 26^th February 2021

• AKTION Scholarships and projects (Austria) - deadlines for submission of applications: 15^th March 2021 (semester scholarships and short-term research scholarships for students), 15^th March 2021 (scholarships for university teachers - 1 to 3 months research and lecture stays, stays for preparation of habilitation thesis), 15^th April 2021 (scholarships for university teachers - 1-month research and lecture stays); see information and deadlines for submission of project proposals HERE

• DAAD Scholarships (Germany) – see information about scholarships and deadlines HERE

• Visegrad Fund (Visegrad Grants, Visegrad+ Grants, Strategic Grants) with the deadline for submission of applications on 1^st June 2021

• Visegrad Scholarship Program with the deadline on 15^th March 2021
  
  

• Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) - Research Grants (Research Grants – Early Career, Research Grants – Program) with the deadlines on 18^th March 2021 (initiation of online application) and 30^th March 2021 (submission of Letter of Intent)

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) - Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers 2021 with the deadline for submission of applications on 31^st March 2021

• The Polish Academy of Sciences - PASIFIC Fellowship Programme (funded by MSCA COFUND) with the deadlines for submission of applications: 30^th June 2021 (Call 1) and 30^th December 2021 (Call 2)

MEYS

• Call for funding V4-Japan Joint Research projects – Deadline April 9, 2021
  
  
• JPND - Linking Pre-Diagnosis Disturbances of Physiological Systems to Neurodegenerative Diseases – Pre-proposals deadline March 2, 2021
  
  
• JPI HDHL - Standardised measurement, monitoring and/or biomarkers to study food intake, physical activity and health (STAMIFY) - Pre-proposals deadline March 31, 2021

European Research Council (ERC) 

As previously announced, the first ERC calls in 2021 will be delayed due to the late adoption of the EU Budget 2021-2027 and the Horizon Europe Programme. The ERC is currently preparing draft documents for 2021 ERC calls and aims to publish them as soon as possible.

Expected calls deadlines: Starting Grants 24/03/2021, Consolidator Grants 20/04/2021, Advanced Grants 31/08/2021, Proof of Concept - 16/03/2021, 17/06/2021, 20/10/2021.

„ERC Classes“ - instructional videos prepared by the ERC explaining all you need to know about the application and evaluation process.

Expert group established to support ERC applicants from the Czech Republic

In January 2021, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences signed a Joint declaration establishing an Expert group to support applicants in ERC calls. The Expert group will consist of a coordinator and three members from the basic research areas as divided by the ERC. The main task will be to systematically support ERC grant applicants at national level. Further information (in Czech) can be found at the website of the Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Portal Vědavýzkum.cz.

To support or internal applicants at RECETOX, we have established our internal advisory ERC panel to help our colleagues, who are applying for ERC project to develop excellent proposals. 

Submitted proposals:

• H2020 LC-GD-8-1-2020: Babica Pavel, doc. RNDr. PhD, Plasma based Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water
  
  
• H2020 LC-GD-8-1-2020: Čupr Pavel, doc. RNDr. PhD, Transforming Knowledge to Action to Protect Childrens Environmental Health
  
  
• H2020 LC-GD-8-2-2020: Hilscherová Klára, doc. Mgr. PhD, Managing the Combined Effect of Chemical Contaminant Mixtures on Human Health and the Aquatic Environment under Global Change Implications for Regulation
  
  
• H2020 LC-GD-8-1-2020: Hofman Jakub, prof. RNDr. PhD, Innovative solutions to protect from persistent and mobile chemicals
  
  
• H2020 LC-GD-8-1-2020: Jana Klánová, prof. RNDr. PhD, Building a Holistic Strategy to Address the Challenges of Persistent, Mobile and Toxic Chemicals
  
  
• H2020 LC-GD-8-1-2020: Vrana Branislav, doc. Ing. PhD, Mitigation and prevention of PFAS health risks through an integrated framework - a path forward

The number of applications for LC-GD-8-1-2020 (Innovative, systemic zero-pollution solutions to protect health, environment and natural resources from persistent and mobile chemicals; RIA): 94

The number of applications LC-GD-8-2-2020 (Fostering regulatory science to address combined exposures to industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals: from science to evidence-based policies; RIA): 21

T10:

Stourac, J., Dubrava, J., Musil, M., Horackova, J., Damborsky, J., Mazurenko, S., & Bednar, D., FireProtDB: database of manually curated protein stability data. (2021) Nucleic Acids Research,  doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa981

Barouki, R., Kogevinas, M., Audouze, K., Belesova, K., Bergman, A., Birnbaum, L., Klanova, J. … Vineis, P., The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs. (2021) Environment International, doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106272

Hua, Q., Adamovsky, O., Vespalcova, H., Boyda, J., Schmidt, J. T., Kozuch, M., … Martyniuk, C. J., Microbiome analysis and predicted relative metabolomic turnover suggest bacterial heme and selenium metabolism are altered in the gastrointestinal system of zebrafish (Danio rerio) exposed to the organochlorine dieldrin. (2021) Environmental Pollution, doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115715

Lanzafame, G. M., Srivastava, D., Favez, O., Bandowe, B. A. M., Shahpoury, P., Lammel, G., … Albinet, A., One-year measurements of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) markers in the Paris region (France): Concentrations, gas/particle partitioning and SOA source apportionment. (2021) Science of The Total Environment, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143921

Q1:

Kutilova, I., Valcek, A., Papagiannitsis, C. C., Cejkova, D., Masarikova, M., Paskova, V., Videnska, P., … Dolejska, M., Carbapenemase-Producing Gram-Negative Bacteria from American Crows in the United States. (2020) Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00586-20

Sánchez-Avila, J. I., García-Sánchez, B. E., Vara-Castro, G. M., & Kretzschmar, T., Distribution and origin of organic compounds in the condensates from a Mexican high-temperature geothermal field. (2021) Geothermics, doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2020.101980

Lelli, M., Kretzschmar, T. G., Cabassi, J., Doveri, M., Sanchez-Avila, J. I., Gherardi, F., … Norelli, F., Fluid geochemistry of the Los Humeros geothermal field (LHGF - Puebla, Mexico): New constraints for the conceptual model. (2021) Geothermics, doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2020.101983

• ČRo - Dvojka: Vojtěch Thon: Boj proti virům vede do pekla. Nikdy totiž nevyhrajeme. Z krize nás může vyvést 1. dávka vakcíny (Czech only)
  
  
• forum24.cz: Imunolog: Pokud okamžitě nenaočkujeme rizikovou skupinu, společnost dál posuneme do zmaru (Czech only)
  
  
• czechcrunch.cz: Je jich dvacet, jsou kreativní a inspirativní. Představujeme Innovators 20, osobnosti, které pomohly změnit Česko (Czech only)
  
  
• ceskatelevize.cz: Reportéři ČT: Viník otravy Bečvy už je známý, Deza to není, uvedl znalec (Czech only)

Save the date:

• Webinar: EIC Akcelerátor v programu Horizont Evropa - organized by Technology Centre CAS, 18. 2. 2020 from 10:00 am
  Registration is HERE
  
  
• Zapojte se do Horizontu Evropa - organized by Technology Centre CAS, 8. - 11. 3. 2021
  Registration is HERE

Currently, we have these open vacancies

• Postdoctoral Position in the field of Soil Ecotoxicology
• Postdoctoral Position: Bioinformatician for NGS data analysis

We would be grateful for sharing them as well, or if you already know about a great candidate for one or 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 centre and wish them a lot of work success!