Research projects
A number of scientific and research activities of the members of the academic community (conference organisation and participation, implementation of publishing plans, foreign assignments, etc.) are possible thanks to grant projects. Grants are an important source of funding and enable the implementation of interesting ideas. Ph.D. students and new members of the academic staff are thus given an opportunity to take active part in the research work of institutes and departments and gather valuable experience.
The most important grant agencies to which the project proposals are submitted are the Czech Science Foundation, the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the CR (GA AV) and the Grant Agency of Charles University (GA UK). Projects supporting academic staff development form a separate category (European Structural Funds). Of no less importance are projects based on existing and developing international cooperation (e.g. the Seventh Framework Programme of the EU, Aktion, Kontakt, etc.).
International Projects
Our teams and individual members of the academic community take part in various international bi- and multilateral research projects. Most cooperation takes place under EU framework programmes and similar grant systems. Several dozen such projects are under way each year.
Examples of international scientific projects
National Projects
The national projects running at the CUFA are numerous. The most important provider of grants for basic research projects is the Czech Science Foundation (GA ÈR). Every year the Faculty of Arts is the bearer of around 50 such multiannual grants, covering in fact the whole range of fields pursued at the Faculty of Arts. The projects funded by the GA ÈR are diverse. Standard GA ÈR projects are designed for more experienced researchers working in teams and deepening cooperation with foreign scholars (e.g. the Central-Romani Language Atlas). The GA ÈR framework also involves the extension of post-doctoral grants to young researchers at the start of their scientific and teaching careers (e.g. Literary Anthropology – Object and Objectness). A separate category includes special GA ÈR doctoral projects aimed at supporting the comprehensive scientific and pedagogical training of doctoral teams from various institutions in the CR and working on common topics (e.g. Doctoral School of Archaeology II, Status of Literary Translation in Czech Society after 1945 or Logical Foundations of Semantics). The Faculty of Arts is also implementing projects in the field of applied research (Stories from the History of the Czechoslovak State: research and experimental development of software simulation for teaching the history of the Czech lands in the 20th century).
Examples of national scientific projects
Student Projects
CUFA students take part in research projects at their institutes and departments and also implement their own research projects, either independently or in small teams. The most common source of funding for such projects is the Grant Agency of CU and internal CUFA grants; certain smaller amounts are provided by, for example, the Czech-German Fund for the Future and the International Visegrád Fund. Some one hundred projects are implemented each year, worth almost 1 million euro. Student research projects are usually one to three-years long. They include field research and research fellowships at home and abroad. Subject area projects reflect the diversity of the fields of study offered by the CUFA. Project output includes active participation at conferences, scientific articles, monographs or translations of foreign literature.
Examples of student research projects
Projects implemented at the CUFA in 2006 – 2010
|
Programme |
Number of projects |
|
|
2010
|
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
2006
|
|
Aktion
|
3
|
1
|
4
|
4
|
3
|
|
Czech-German Fund for the Future
|
1
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
2
|
|
European Commission
|
8
|
5
|
9
|
12
|
7
|
|
European Structural Funds
|
12
|
7
|
7
|
12
|
13
|
|
European Parliament
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
-
|
|
EEA/Norway Financial Mechanism
|
-
|
3
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Higher Education Development Fund
|
10
|
12
|
8
|
6
|
4
|
|
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the CR
|
8
|
12
|
8
|
8
|
4
|
|
Czech Science Foundation
|
59
|
62
|
49
|
65
|
58
|
|
Grant Agency of Charles University
|
70
|
83
|
93
|
69
|
20
|
|
International Visegrád Fund
|
1
|
3
|
3
|
-
|
-
|
|
Ministry of Culture of the CR
|
1
|
4
|
6
|
4
|
2
|
|
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the CR, including research programmes
|
27
|
31
|
27
|
69
|
29
|
|
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the CR
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
|
Specific university research
|
7
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Others
|
4
|
4
|
2
|
4
|
-
|
|
TOTAL
|
215
|
230
|
218
|
250
|
142
|