Introduction
The Presidium of the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) has set the promotion and strengthening of international cooperation and supporting the better integration of Czech scientists into the world scientific community as one of the priorities of the GACR programme. The main objective of the international cooperation is to establish bilateral research project schemes with foreign partner funding agencies, in order to enable the better exchange of scientific information and techniques and the use of specialized equipment available in the countries involved.
On June 8, 2005 a Memorandum of Understanding on Research Cooperation between the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) and the Korea Research Foundation (KRF), presently National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), was signed in Prague and subsequently on January 23, 2006 a Memorandum of Understanding of Scientific Cooperation between the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) was signed in Bonn. Another Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC) on 3 November 2008 in Prague.
Call for Proposals in research and development to support bilateral grant projects in cooperation with the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
and
Call for Proposals in research and development to support bilateral grant projects in cooperation with the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC)
with the deadline on April 16, 2010. Starting date of awarded projects is January 1, 2011.
The Joint Research Project proposals shall be prepared jointly by collaborating researchers from the above-mentioned countries. Proposal shall be submitted in parallel to the research funding organizations.
The project proposals should have one responsible principle investigator on each side. The duration of bilateral is max. three years. Each of research funding organizations will support the basic costs of the approved projects only within its own territory. The conditions for financial support of individual parts of joint bilateral project must be in accordance with national regulations and guidelines established by each national research funding organization.
The partner research funding organizations have agreed to conduct the peer review evaluation of the proposals jointly. The evaluation will pay special attention to the collaboration and coordination between research teams, the quality and feasibility of the proposal, its synergy and added value, the integration of complementary expertise and methodologies and the mutual use of scientific equipment. The final decision on the funding of the bilateral research proposal will depend on final approval from the research funding organizations (DFG, NRF and NSC).
On-line submission of bilateral projects - in Czech only.
Time schedule of bilateral projects 2010
