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Horizon Europe

FunGraB:  Functionalized Graphene Based Electrode Material for Lithium Sulfur Batteries
  • Project number: 101069293
  • Principal investigator: Prof. RNDr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 150 000 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024
AMADEUS:  Automated, miniaturized and accelerated drug discovery
  • Project number: 101098001
  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Alexander Dömling

  • Funding: 3 409 401 EUR
  • Duration: 11/2023-10/2028
GRADINK:  Functionalized graphenes for ink technologies
  • Project number: 101137959
  • Principal investigator: Prof. RNDr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 150 000 EUR
  • Duration: 10/2023-03/2025
SUSNANO:  Twinning to boost the scientific and innovation capacity of the Universiteti i Tiranes to develop sustainable nanosensors for water pollution detection
  • Project number: 101059266
  • Co-investigator for UP: Prof. RNDr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~326 900 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024
Trans2Dchem:  Transition of 2D-chemistry based supercapacitor electrode material from proof of concept to applications
  • Project number: 101057616
  • Principal investigator: Prof. RNDr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~2 485 700 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2022-08/2025
  • Project website: https://trans2dchem.upol.cz/
SAN4Fuel:  Single atom based nanohybrid photocatalyts for green fuels
  • Project number: 101079384
  • Principal investigator: Ing. Štěpán KMENT, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 757 000 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 11/2022-10/2025
  • Project website: https://san4fuel.com/
ACCELERATOR:  ERA Chair for Accelerated Synthetic Chemistry Technologies at Palacký University Olomouc
Crystals4Skin:  Rational development of nanocrystalline drugs for skin administration
  • Project number: 101090272
  • Principal Investigator: Mgr. Kateřina Poláková, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 150 438,72 EUR
  • Duration: 06/2023-05/2025
Z-ION:  Teaming conductivity and chemical functionality in metal-organic frameworks for zinc‑ion batteries
  • Project number: 101065296
  • Principal Investigator: Aristeidis Bakandritsos, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 166 278,72 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2024
BEST-CROP:  Boosting photosynthESis To deliver novel CROPs for the circular bioeconomy
  • Project number: 101082091
  • Principal Investigator for UP: Prof. RNDr. Ivo Frébort, CSc. PhD.

  • Funding: 356 260 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 07/2023-06/2028
  • Project website: https://www.bestcrop.eu/
PATAFEST:  Potato crop effective management strategies to tackle future pest threats
MESTUM:  Machine learning-based prediction and evaluation of supercapacitor performance of transition metal carbide developed by using waste surgical masks during COVID-19
  • Project number: 101108310
  • Principal Investigator: Aristeidis Bakandritsos, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 166 278,72 EUR
  • Duration: 08/2022-07/2025
MINIGRAPH2:  Minimally Invasive Neuromodulation Implant and implantation procedure based on ground-breaking GRAPHene technology for treating brain disorders
  • Project number: 101119323
  • Principal Investigator: Mgr. Kateřina Poláková, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 450 000 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 07/2023-09/2025
2D-BioPAD:  Supple Graphene Bio-Platform for point-of-care early detection and monitoring of Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Project number: 101120706
  • Principal Investigator for UP: Aristeidis Bakandritsos, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 866 875 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 10/2023-09/2027
  • Project website: https://www.2d-biopad.eu
APPROACH:  Advanced Photonic Processes for novel solar energy Harvesting Technologies
  • Project number: 101120397
  • Principal Investigator for UP: Aristeidis Bakandritsos, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 593 125 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 06/2023-09/2026
  • Project website: https://euproject-approach.eu/
LESIA:  Laser Engineered Surfaces/Interfaces for Advanced Batteries
  • Principal investigator: Prof. RNDr. Radek Zbořil Ph.D.

  • Funding: 161 000 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 05/2024-04/2028

Horizon 2020

VIDEC:  Visualizing Death Inducing Protein Complexes
  • Project number: 872195
  • Principal Investigator for UP: Prof. Alexander Dömling, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 55 200 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 07/2023-06/2025

OP JAK

TANGENC:  TowArds Next GENeration Crops
  • Project number: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004581
  • Principal Investigator for UP: Prof. RNDr. Ivo Frébort, CSc., Ph.D.

  • Funding: 32 234 724 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 10/2023-06/2028
  • Project website: https://tangenc.cz/
EXREGMED :  Center of Excellence in Regenerative Medicine
  • Project number: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004562
  • Principal Investigator for UP: Mgr. Kateřina Poláková, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 22 001 711 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 10/2023-06/2028
TECHSCALE:  Technology beyond nanoscale
  • Project number: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004587
  • Funding: 232 908 151 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 07/2023-06/2028
  • Project website: https://www.techscale.cz/

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

GLEBioassay:  Nano-Monitoring of Cancer Immunotherapy Efficiency: The Graphene Lateral Electrophoretic Bioassay platform
  • Project number: TH78020001
  • Co-investigator for UP: Prof. RNDr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.
    Partners: Fundació Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2); Fundació Privada per a la Recerca i la Docència Sant Joan de Déu (FSJD), Nehir Biyoteknoloji Ltd.

  • Funding: 1 269 499 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024
Automatizace RECLIME:  Podmíněná automatizace jednotky recyklace RECLIME
  • Project number: FW06010765
  • Co-investigator for UP: doc. RNDr. Michal Čajan, Ph.D.
    Industry Partner: FutureCycling Technology, a.s.

  • Funding: 16 026 948 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2025
Genebank 5.0:  Gene bank – the cornerstone for biodiversity conservation: development of new technologies for digitalization and process automation in storing plant genetic resources
  • Project number: SS06020208
  • Principal Investigator for UP: Mgr. Pavel Mazura, Ph.D.
    Co-principal investigator for VURV Genobank Prague:  Ing. Dagmar Janovská, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 9 000 000 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 04/2023-12/2025
Národní centrum kompetence polymerních materiálů a technologií pro 21. století
  • Project number: TN02000051
  • Principal Investigator for UP: Mgr. Jan Filip, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 23 625 000 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2028
AMP4SKIN:  Antimicrobial peptide produced by molecular farming in barley and its use in the formation of skin-applicable carriers
  • Project number: TQ03000264
  • Principal Investigator for UP: RNDr. Lenka Dzurová, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 3 851 722 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2024-12/2025

Czech Science Foundation

Nanoscale mapping of chemical reactions driven by multi-metallic plasmonic nanostructures
  • Project number: 22-26416S
  • Principal investigator: Alberto Naldoni, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 8 836 000 CZK
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024
Solvent mediated photoexcitation of spin-active species in fluorographene
  • Project number: 22-33284S
  • Principal investigator: Mgr. Petr Lazar, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 6 033 000 CZK
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024
Elateriform beetles as a model for studying the evolution of neoteny
  • Project number: 22-35327S
  • Principal investigator: prof. Ing. Ladislav Bocák Ph.D.

  • Funding: 6 860 000 CZK
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024
Lead-Free Double Perovskite Nanocrystals for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction
  • Project number: 23-07971S
  • Principal Investigator: Ing. Štěpán Kment, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 6 262 000 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2025
Atomic-scale control and visualization of charge delocalization in light-harvesting molecular nanomodels
  • Project number: 23-06781M
  • Principal Investigator: Bruno de la Torre, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 14 671 000 CZK
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2027
Single-Atom-based 2D-Photocatalysts
  • Project number: 23-08019X
  • Hlavní řešitel: Prof.Dr. Patrik Schmuki

  • Funding: 31 090 000 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2027
Graphene acid heterostructures with MXenes for lithium and sodium ion batteries
  • Project number: 22-27973K
  • Principal Investigator: Aristeidis Bakandritsos, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 231 200 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 07/2022-12/2024
Growing field : Advancing understanding of fish mucosal immunology through molecular farming
  • Project number: 24-13026S
  • Principal Investigator for UP: prof. RNDr. Ivo Frébort, CSc., Ph.D.

  • Funding: 3 207 735 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 03/2024-12/2026

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

National Institute for Cancer Research – NICR
  • Project number: LX22NPO5102
  • Principal Investigator: doc. MUDr. Marián Hajdúch, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 299 851 000 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 06/2022-12/2025
NanoEnviCZ III:  Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies for Environment Protection and Sustainable Future
  • Project number: LM2023066
  • Co-investigator for UP: Mgr. Petr Jakubec, PhD.

  • Funding: 13 627 000 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2026