The Project Centre strives to provide researchers with ideal support services throughout project life cycles.
- Methodical support
- Administrative support
Learn more about the Project Centre in the 14th edition of UCT Prague’s internal magazine, SPIN (in Czech).
Methodical support
In preparing project applications
- Ensuring compliance with internal regulations
- Organizing and making sure that you have the necessary UCT Prague attachments (e.g. affidavit or power of attorney)
- Communication with grant providers (sending project applications via secure data transfer box)
During project implementation
- Administering change procedures
- Communicating with grant providers, sending interim and final reports by secure data transfer box
- Publishing contracts with grant providers in the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic’s public register
Administrative support when concluding contracts with providers and project partners
Contact the project manager providing methodical support for the funding mechanism to which you’re applying.
Training sessions and seminars
The Project Centre also organizes seminars and workshops, with events announced on our website.
Individual consultations
- Understanding how specific scientific research projects might receive funding from Czech and international funding agencies.
- Presentation of suitable grant schemes and assistance with selection of the right one for your project.
- Tips on joining a high-quality consortium and in setting up consortia.
- For selected grant programmes, we will comment on your project proposal or have it reviewed on an external expert.
Contact one of the project managers providing methodical support to make an appointment for your individual consultation.
Project support for particular faculties
You can contact your faculty’s project manager when preparing a project proposal
Support activities include:
- Coordinating project proposal preparation
- Supporting communication with project partners
- Providing documents and assistance in preparing the administrative parts of a project
- Ensuring and inserting mandatory attachments into the funding agency's information system
- Checking the proposal to see if it meets all of a call’s formal requirements
- Ensuring that the final version is delivered by secure data transfer mailbox
- Creating the project budget: its content and appropriateness, calculation of personnel costs for project team members according to their job descriptions and overhead/indirect costs
- Establishing the project and entering the required data into the UCT Prague’s GaP (grant tracking) system, possibly also into the funding agency’s external information systems (the Czech Academy of Science’s GRIS system, the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic’s ISTA system)
And during the implementation of the project
- With a request for ongoing supervision and control of financial use of project funds: personnel expenses, changes in duties, and personal allowances
- With a request for help preparing the financial part of interim and final project report (e.g. providing mandatory annexes, communication with the Department for Planning and Budget)
- With coordinating regular UCT Prague project team meetings and/or consortium meetings
Other support options
If you want to submit a project application to an international provider:
If you want to invite an international expert to UCT Prague