Offers of Grants and Scholarships

This page gives important information on the procedure for grant applications and details of how to register Charles University in relevant databases.

Applications for International grants – Charles University Registration Details

• Ensure you always enter the correct official details of Charles University in relevant databases. The address should always be that of the University: Ovocný trh 3/5, 116 36 Praha 1; it is NOT the address of your faculty or institute. The same details must be given in all international applications, regardless of whether the agency is situated within or outside the EU and regardless of whether the grant is funded via an EU programme or not.

• Please do not register yourself in any database as an employee of Charles University without informing the Research Department at the Rectorate; by doing so you will probably make it impossible for other applicants at the University to register their own grant applications.

• If (e.g. due to time pressure) you are forced to register Charles University with an agency, please inform the Research Department at the Rectorate of this fact without delay.

• You can request registration by sending an email to Mgr. Adéla Jiroudková (tel. 224 491 731), copied to the Head of the Department RNDr. Helena Kvačková.

Applications for Grants from the USA

If you encounter any of the acronyms given below when completing an application for a grant from an agency based in the United States, please give the following details for Charles University:

Note: If it is not set otherwise the overheads are counted as a flat rate 20%.

International Visegrad Fund

The International Visegrad Fund (IVF) was established on 9 June 2000. Its member states (collectively known as the ‘V4’) are the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The Fund’s supreme bodies are the Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Council of Ambassadors. Responsibility for day-to-day operations rests with the Executive Director, who is based at the Fund’s head office in Bratislava. The Fund’s official language is English. The purpose of the International Visegrad Fund is to contribute to close cooperation among member states and to strengthen links in culture, research, education, youth exchanges, tourism and cross-border cooperation. The Fund’s budget is made up of four equal annual contributions, one from each member state.

International Visegrad Fund Programmes

Small Grants:

• Small grants support cooperation projects involving entities from the V4 countries (culture, research, education, youth exchanges, cross-border cooperation and tourism);

• The deadlines for submitting applications are 1 March, 1 June, 1 September and 1 December each year;

• The maximum sum allocated to any project is 4000 EUR (the IVF’s contribution cannot exceed 50 % of the total project implementation costs) and the grant is provided for a maximum of 6 months (though the implementation phase may last longer).

Standard Grants:

• Standard grants support cooperation projects involving entities from the V4 countries in the same fields as small grants, but each project is allocated over 4000 EUR and the project implementation period is 12 months (the IVF’s contribution cannot exceed 50 % of the total project implementation costs);

• The deadlines for submitting applications are 1 March and 1 September each year.

Visegrad University Studies Grant:

• This grant is designed to support the creation of new courses or degree programmes related to issues affecting the V4 countries.

Visegrad Strategic Programme - Strategic Grants:

• Strategic grants support major long-term strategic projects involving institutions from all four Visegrad countries;

• The projects must be focused on the priorities set for the given year;

• The deadlines for submitting applications are 15 February and 15 May each year;

• The grants are provided for a maximum of 3 years (each project is typically allocated around 50 000 EUR); as with the other types, the IVF’s contribution cannot exceed 50 % of the total project implementation costs.

Visegrad Scholarships:

Visegrad Scholarships support students of Master’s degree programmes and those involved in post-Master’s studies or research for a period of 1 – 4 semesters at all accredited public or private universities or accredited units of Academies of Sciences in the V4 countries (or other countries – see below). The deadline for submitting scholarship applications is once a year (31 January).

Types of scholarships:

• In-coming scholarships for applicants from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia/FYROM, Montenegro, the Russian Federation, Serbia and Ukraine, enabling applicants to study at a V4 university. The same rules apply to applicants from Kosovo;

• Intra-Visegrad scholarships, provided to applicants from V4 countries wishing to study or pursue research in another V4 country;

• Out-going scholarships, provided to applicants from V4 countries wishing to study or pursue research in any of these countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia/FYROM, Montenegro, the Russian Federation, Serbia and Ukraine, enabling applicants to study at a V4 university. The same rules apply to applicants from Kosovo.

Visegrad Artist Residency Programme:

Artists who are citizens of the V4 countries can apply for grants to implement artistic projects in a V4 country (except their country of permanent residence). The residency grant is provided for 3 months. Each applicant must find a receiving organization in the V4 country in which he/she wishes to implement the project; a letter of invitation must be provided.

Detailed information on these grants and scholarships, including scholarship application forms, can be found on the website of the International Visegrad Fund together with more information on the Visegrad Group.

European Commission Grant Programmes

ESPON – European Observation Network, Territorial Development and Cohesion - Information for Czech applicants can be found here

CIP – Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (DG Enterprise)

European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) – Lifelong Learning Programme, Erasmus Mundus Programme, Tempus Programme, etc.

Life+ (DG Environment)

Marco Polo (DG Transport & Energy)

Public health (DG Health & Consumer Protection)

Joint Research Centre - JRC

EuropeAid – Development aid projects

European Science Foundation

COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology - Czech Ministry of Education website on the COST programme

EUREKA – Cooperation in applied and industrial research

EIROforum – Cooperation among inter-governmental research organizations

European Defence Agency - EDA obranná agentura

European Space Agency - ESA

Human Frontier Science Programme – Funding basic research in life sciences (G7, Australia, Korea)

Science for Peace & Security Program (NATO)

Norway / EEA Financial Mechanisms

Technology platforms

Research Fund for Coal and Steel (DG Research)

Digital Content (DG Information & Communication)