Internal Grant Competition for Ph.D. 1st - 3rd year students, second round

BUT's internal grants have their winners in the competition's second round

The second round of the competition for students of the first to third-year of accredited doctoral study programmes, announced by the Brno University of Technology on 15 September 2021 (deadline 20 October 2021), has been closed and the Rector of the Brno University of Technology, prof. RNDr. Ing. Petr Stepanek, CSC., Dr. h. c. decided on grants accepted and not accepted for investigation.

A total of 28 grants will be supported (25 in panel A and 3 in panel B) out of a total of 85 evaluated grants. In this round, more than CZK 16 million (a total of CZK 16,674,768) will be spent on individual and team grants.
As both panels did not utilizes the entire amount allocated to the grants in the second round of the competition, all unspent funds were transferred to panel A in accordance with the competition rules and based on the Evaluation Discipline Panel opinion. Thanks to this fact, it is possible to finance the grant, which was placed first below the allocation line in panel A.

After the publication of the results, students will also be informed about their grants by Decision by post. According to the conditions of the Internal Directive and the Tender documentation, the implementation of grants will start on 1 January 2022 and will last for 12 months.

The internal grant competition is financed from the OP RDE project Quality internal grants of BUT (KInG BUT), reg. number: CZ.02.2.69 / 0.0 / 0.0 / 19_073 / 0016948.

2nd round of Internal Grant Competition

The second and the last opportunity to obtain a research grant through the Internal Grant Competition for doctoral students is here. Do you have an interesting idea, a skilled team, or do you need to verify a part of your work in progress, organize an exhibition or conference, etc.? Submit your project proposal to the Internal Grant Competition and obtain funding for your research activities. The investigation of grants will also include education in project management; you will also receive funds for foreign journey. Last but not least, successful students will acquire skills which they might apply in the future, for example when submitting scientific project proposals to national and international competitions.

The grant proposal can be submitted by students of the 1st - 3rd year of doctoral study programmes who have not investigated the grant within the 1st round of the Internal Grant Competition and who will be students throughout the entire investigation period. The investigator or a team member can be a part of just one grant proposal, while the mentor can be a part of more than one team.

The key documents for successful submission and investigation of student grants are Directive No. 10/2020 Internal Grant Competition and Tender Documentation for the second round of the Internal Grant Competition. You will find all additional information on these documents in the Manual for Proposers and Investigators and in the Visual manual of Apollo IS. The manual Information for Mentors is also available to mentors.

• Panel A - results
• Panel B - results
• Directive Internal Grant Competition
• Tender Documentation for the second round of the Internal Grant Competition
• Manual for proposers and investigators of Internal Grants, second round
• Visual manual of Apollo IS for Internal Grant Competition, second round
• Information for mentors of Internal Grants, second round (in Czech only)
• Methodological letter No. 3, for Tender documentation for the second round of the Internal Grant Competition
• Methodological Letter No. 4 for Tender Documentation for the second round of the Internal Grant Competition
• Methodological Letter No. 5 for Tender Documentation for the first and second round of the Internal Grant Competition

Information and documents valid for the first round of Internal Grant Competition (realized from Feb 1, 2021 to Jan 31, 2023) can be found on this site.

The Internal Grant Competition is implemented under the Operational Programme Research, Development and Education, within the project Quality internal grants of BUT (KInG BUT); reg. number: CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/19_073/0016948.