New helpdesk

The IT workplace will entirely switch to the MU ticketing system in September. As a result, incoming emails from IT will look slightly different. However, there is no need to do anything extra. You can find more information on the intranet.

The reminder of taking annual leave

Dear colleagues, we would like to remind you that you may only have three weeks of annual leave left before the end of September. Please ensure you have all the leave taken entered in your attendance record. If you have not or if you have any questions, please get in touch with Adriana Vystrčilová (adriana.vystrcilova@recetox.muni.cz).

RECETOX Seminars

The seminars at RECETOX in this semester will start next week (19.9. 2022).

BOOK YOUR CALENDARS – important for all PhD students and all supervisors at RECETOX. Seminar Tueseday 20.9.2022 9:00 „Advances in Environmental Health Sciences“ (E0401) will open the Autumn 2022 RECETOX Seminar Series. Ludek Blaha, head of PhD board, will present number of important messages, news and tasks for doctoral students and supervisors. Do not miss this obligatory kick off seminar.

Open calls

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.

Grant Agency of Masaryk University (GAMU)

Specific conditions and important deadlines can be found on the websites of each call.

• HORIZONS - competition period from September 1 continuously until December 31, 2023
• MUNI Award in Science and Humanities MASH - deadline 10. 12. 2022
• MUNI Award in Science and Humanities MASH JUNIOR - deadline 10. 12. 2022

For these calls, please contact Nikola Stejskalová by November 5, 2022.

• INTERDISCIPLINARY - deadline 15. 10. 2022
• Career restart - deadline 15. 10. 2022

For these calls, please contact Nikola Stejskalová by September 15, 2022

In connection with the announcement of the GAMU calls for 2023, we invite you to an information seminar. It will focus on the introduction of the programmes (in English) and then on the administration of the submission of project proposals (in Czech). It is intended for MU staff only.

The seminar will be held online via the Zoom platform at 10:30 September 20, 2022. Please register here.

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• Water4All Call 2022: The international call for water resource management is open. Deadline is October 31, 2022.
• Czech-Polish workshop on European partnerships - CET, DUT and Water4All – October 4, 2022
• CHRIST ERA call: OPEN RESEARCH DATA - This call addresses the issue of open research data and software from the point of view of their possible reuse. Its aim is to create conditions for research in any field based on open or shared data and software. Dealine is December 14, 2022.

For these calls, please contact Nikola Stejskalová by September 20, 2022 (Water4All) or by October 20, 2022 (OPEN RESEARCH DATA).

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 in the October.
  
  
• 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.

New Funded Projects

EU / Horizon Europe / Cluster 1 - Health

Klánová Jana, prof. RNDr. Ph.D.: Discovering the causes of three poorly understood cancers in Europe (DISCERN), role: partner

Project Events

• 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)
  
  
• GRANTS WEEK 2022 (19. - 20. 9. 2022) – hybrid
  
  
• NCURA Global Workshop (21. - 23. 9. 2022) – in person (paid workshop, on the basis of a nomination from the heads of R&D at HS, it is possible for 1 representative from HS to participate free of charge)
  
  
• European Research and Innovation Days 2022 (28. - 29. 9. 2022) – online
  
  
• Women and Girls in STEM Forum (26. 10. 2022) – online
  
  
• Ending gender-based violence in academia (24. – 25. 11. 2022) – hybrid
  
  
• #ECIS22: AllGreen - the final conference Tickets, Wed 21 Sep 2022 at 10:00 | Eventbrite
  
  
• Lump Sum Funding in Horizon Europe: How does it work? How to write a proposal? (20. 10. 2022) – online
  
  
• GAMU seminar (20. 9. 2022) - online
  
  
• Czech-Polish workshop on European partnerships TAČR - CET, DUT and Water4All (4. 10. 2022) - online

Other Information

• EIC Social Innovation Competition finalists | Horizon Europe Portal (horizontevropa.cz)
  
  
• Update on the state-of-play of the EIC Accelerator implementation | Horizon Europe Portal (horizontevropa.cz)
  
  
• Horizon Europe NCP virtual campus (horizoneuropencpportal.eu) new E-learning courses to HE (in English)

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

• Bartečků, E., Hořínková, J., Křenek, P., Damborská, A., Tomandl, J., Tomandlová, M., Kučera, J., Fialová Kučerová, J., & Bienertová-Vašků, J. (2022). Osteocalcin levels decrease during the treatment of an acute depressive episode. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.893012
  
• Cousins, I. T., Johansson, J. H., Salter, M. E., Sha, B., & Scheringer, M. (2022). Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS). Environmental Science & Technology, 56(16), 11172–11179. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765
• Pačínková, A., & Popovici, V. (2022). Using empirical biological knowledge to infer regulatory networks from multi-omics data. BMC Bioinformatics, 23(1), 351. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-022-04891-9
  
• Binda, G., Zanetti, G., Bellasi, A., Spanu, D., Boldrocchi, G., Bettinetti, R., Pozzi, A., & Nizzetto, L. (2022). Physicochemical and biological ageing processes of (micro)plastics in the environment: a multi-tiered study on polyethylene. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-22599-4

• Vědavýzkum.cz: Martin Toul: Do výzkumu se lze zapojit hned v prvním ročníku
  
  
• Česká televize: Dešťová voda už není pitná nikde na světě, říkají švédští vědci. Varují před PFAS.
  
  
• Lidové noviny: Julie Dobrovolná: Letní nákaza je děsivá zkušenost
  
  
• Městský úřad Znojmo: Populační studie CELSPAC otevírá čtvrtou dekádu své existence

Open Day

The Open Day for secondary school students who are selecting their future faculty.

Date: 17.9.2022, 9:00-16:00

Researchers' Night

You can't see, hear, or even smell it, but it's still toxic. What is it?

Are the five human senses enough for detecting environmental pollution?

The eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth, can be wrong. Let's find out what kind of pollution the human senses can detect and when science must come with a helping hand. Become a scientist at the RECETOX research center and discover what remains hidden from the human senses.

More information: Researcher's Night

date: 30 September 2022

venue: University Campus Bohunice

Save the date

• The International Congress of Toxicology (ICT 2022), 18. - 22. 9. 2022
  
  
• Panelová diskuze na téma "Možnosti kariéry v institucích EU", 20.9.2022, 16:00 - online (registrace ZDE)
  
  
• Experiences from stays and secondments in 2021/2022 (Daniela Brenner, Ishita Virmani, Darshak Chandara, Marina Grossi, Michal Bittner-all RCX): - 27.9.2022, 9:00, RCX1 (D29/252)
  
  
• Researchers' Night - 30.9.2022
  
  
• International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2022), 19. - 21. 10. 2022
  • EIRENE RI: Addressing a Challenge of Human Exposome (satellite event), 18.10.2022
    
  • Grand Opening of the CELSPAC Biobank (side event) 19.10.2022

Currently, we have these open vacancies

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 centre and wish them a lot of work success!