European Commission organizes Bioeconomy conference at Brusel in October.

ERC grants call and work programme for 2019 will be opened in September.

The European Commission published updated Work Programmes of Horizon 2020 on Participant portal.

A „Research and Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security – Transforming our food systems“ conference took place in June.

Scholarship Awards within the Foreign Development Assistance Programme for students from developing countries.

Currently, you can find the stand of the Office for the Support of International Projects in Life Sciences at MCEV II.

CULS representatives at three days seminar with workshops, organised in Brussels by the ELLS member universities project centres.

National Information Day 2018 on new calls in Life Sciences will be held on October 11th 2018 at CULS.

Have your say in the food system of the future! – Online survey on trends, showcases and potential breakthroughs. Till 30th June 2018

Call for MSCA - IF was launched on 12 April 2018.

Although reporting the eligible costs of a Horizon 2020 project is the sole duty and responsibility of each Beneficiary, the mistakes and errors made during the calculations show some typical patterns. 

In November, the CULS’ Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences succeeded with its EVA 4.0 project in one of the key national competitions for support of excellent research, having taken the 5th place among 130 competing project proposals evaluated on a two-stage basis.

A CULS student Martin Hořínek with his project FishRAS became the absolute winner of the Student Startup Battle taking place as part of the Startup World Cup & Summit international conference.

The idea of using Earth Observation data for soil optimization and fighting inefficient farming or soil quality degradation has won this year’s hackathon on innovation in agriculture.

Information on new calls in the Horizont 2020 programme in Life Sciences was provided by European Commission delegates in Prague at the National Information Day taking place on 18 October at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague (CULS).

The delegates of the AGRI Directorate General Marc Duponcel and the Directorate General for Research and Innovation Jean-François Hulot presented the calls in food security, sustainable agriculture and bioeconomy, as well as in environmental protection.

The National Information Day also included a presentation of initiatives towards support of international projects by Ministry of Agriculture. Delegates of the Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences summarized the success rate so far of Czech scientific teams within the H2020 programme. Opportunities for facilitating of involvement by Czech teams were presented by the successful project executor prof. Jana Hajšlová, Ing., CSc., project consultant Zuzana Boukalová, RNDr. and head of the Czech Liaison Office in Brussels Pavlína Pancová Šimková, Ing., Ph.D.

The whole-day agenda was attended by over a hundred experts from the whole Czech Republic. The presentations can be downloaded here.

The National Information Day was held at CULS for the third time, as it is always organized before calls for another two-year period. CULS sets it up together with the Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Similar events attended by European delegates are held only once in each European country.

National Information Day Horizon 2020, opportunities in:
food security, sustainable agriculture, bio-economy, climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

Tthe League of European Research Universities (LERU) will present its new advice paper with view on the 9th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

The second Call for Proposals is open.

LIFE launched 2017 call for action grants: more than €373 million available.

An updated version of the Model Grant Agreement for projects financed within the Horizon 2020 framework programme has been published.

On April 5, 2017 the Technology Centre CAS organizes National Information Day on "Support for mobility, training and career development of researchers - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA)".

In October 2016, the Science|Business Network of universities, companies and innovation organisations gathered in Brussels to debate the future of EU R&D programmes.

European commission published first version of the Horizon 2020 work programme for the years 2018 - 2020.