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AMU Project Competition

AMU PROJECT COMPETITION (PC)

 

  • AMU Project Competition is intended primarily for FAMU’s academics and researchers; under certain specific conditions, applications may also be submitted by post-doctoral students and/or external FAMU researchers or teachers employed under part-time contracts.
  • The competition call is made in late September, the deadline for the submission of applications is in November, and the final decision on grants is made in February to March of the following calendar year.
  • The Project Competition is newly open also to applications for research and artistic-research projects.
  • The Project Competition is newly open for projects of two types:
    1. Standard projects – with project period being three years maximum, with the option of adding the fourth year reserved for the publication of the results.
  • This is intended for applicants (as per above) who, in the past, were the chief researchers of at least one successfully completed research project under the Project Competition or using external funding and also published at least three reviewed outputs;

    1. Junior projects – with project period of two years maximum and the maximum total annual budget of CZK 300,000.
  • This is intended for all academics and researchers of FAMU; under certain specific competitions, applications may also be submitted by post-doctoral students and/or external FAMU researchers or teachers employed under part-time contracts.

  • It is possible to apply for grants to finance projects whose outputs can be registered in the Register of Information on Results (RIV) in the field of science, research, and innovation, i.e. projects completed with the writing and publication of a specialised book or article in an impacted periodical, or organising a workshop, a conference in which the researcher presents a paper, an exhibition accompanied by the issue of a critical catalogue, etc. In addition to basic research, this competition is also open to projects focused on applied research (e.g. experiments focused on art/technology or on the production of prototypes and methodologies) as well as artistic research in which the research takes place through artistic creation (provided that at least some of the outputs of such a project can be registered in the RIV).
  • In the past, AMU used to distribute approximately CZK 4 million in this competition annually (this includes the finances for the first project year), and approximately four to seven successful projects are selected for each Faculty.
  • Budgets usually include personnel costs as well as services, procurement of small assets, travel expenses, and costs of publication of books.  
  • For information on the current edition and the past editions of the competition, use the menu on the left.