National Information Day on ERC grants

Technology Centre Prague in cooperation with Charles University and Expert Group for supporting ERC applicants (common initiative of Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences)
are pleased to invite you to the

National Information Day on ERC grants

The event aims to explain the raison d’être of the European Research Council (ERC) grants as well as the rules for participation, proposal structure and evaluation process according to the 2024 ERC Work Programme. The Information Day is focused on Czechia-based future ERC applicants, project managers and administrators as well as high-level representatives of Czech universities and research organisations that wish to learn more about ERC projects.

Date: 15 November 2023, 9.30 – 16.30

Format: on-site

Venue: Vlastenecký sál, Charles University (Ovocný trh 5, Prague 1)

PROGRAMME

                                  09.00–09.30                                   

Registration on-site

                                  09.30–09.35                                   

Welcome

Lyudmyla Tysyachna, ERC NCP, Technology Centre Prague   

                                  09.35–10.00                                   

Recent ERC activities and novelties related to the ERC Work Programme 2024

Alice Valkárová, member, ERC Scientific Council

                                 10.00–10.30                                   

Philosophy of the ERC as an opportunity for science in the Czech Republic

Zdeněk Strakoš, Coordinator of the Expert Group for supporting ERC applicants, Faculty of Mathematics and Charles University

                                10.30–10.50                                   

ERC grants: rules for participation and proposal structure Lyudmyla Tysyachna, ERC NCP, Technology Centre Prague

                                  10.50–11.20                                    

Q&A

                                   11.20–12.30                                    

Lunch break

                                   12.30–13.20                                   

ERC evaluation process

Matthew Rampley, member of the Expert Group for supporting ERC applicants, ERC AdG grantee and ERC panel member, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

                                13.20–13.40                                 

Q&A

                                   13.40–14.10                                    

Institutional support to ERC applicants

Veronika Palečková, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Veronika Syrovátková, Rectorate of Charles University TBA

                                 14.10–14.30                                   

Q&A

                                 14.30–14.45                                    

Short break

                                14.45–16.15                                   

“How to write a competitive ERC proposal?” – Presentations by ERC and ERC CZ grant holders followed by a panel discussion

Panellists:

Libor Barto, ERC CoG and ERC SyG, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University

Peter Fabian, ERC StG, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 

Michal Holčapek, ERC AdG, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice,

Jan Hrček, ERC CoG, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Kateřina Rohlenová, ERC StG, Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences,

Marek Stibal, ERC CZ, Faculty of Science, Charles University

Moderator: Mirjam Fried, member of the Expert Group for supporting ERC applicants, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

                                 16.15–16.30                                    

Final discussion and closing of the event

The event is held within the project CZERA – MS2103 supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.

The information day will be held in English without translation. The participation is free of charge, registration is, however, required. The capacity is limited (first come, first served).

For more information about the programme please contact ERC NCP Lyudmyla Tysyachna (tysyachna@tc.cz).

The document can be found here.