Operational programme Research and Development for Innovation
The Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation (OP RDI) is one of the major operational programmes contributing to the growth of the country’s competitiveness and orientation towards the knowledge-based economy. Together with the Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation (OP EI) and the Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness (OP EC), OP RDI represents an interconnected system of interventions aimed at ensuring the long-term sustainable competitiveness of the Czech economy and the target regions within the framework of the Convergence objective.
Implemented projects
Project title: INSULATION OF BUILDINGS AT THE TECHNICKÁ 2 CAMPUS
Registration number: CZ.1.05/4.1.00/11.0248
Project launch date: 18/03/2013
Project end date: 28/02/2015
Total amount of grant: CZK 100,000,000.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 85,000,000.00
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 25,000,000.00
The project has the following aims:
The aim of the project is to modernise the infrastructure for teaching by bringing selected buildings on the FME campus up to current technical standards. Buildings A and B serve as teaching spaces, laboratories and testing rooms and they are used for theoretical and practical education of students of bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctoral studies, which is closely linked to the research activities of the faculty, especially applied research.
The aim of the project is to comprehensively solve the teaching and laboratory spaces in terms of infrastructure quality. The subject of the project is the insulation of the building envelope, including new facade and roofing of buildings A and B, except for building A1. The implementation of the project will not change or restrict in any way the modernised study programmes and educational methods; on the contrary, it will enable the modernisation of the educational process and the use of modern technology, which cannot be used in the current technical conditions (unstable temperature, dustiness).
Project title: BUT MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY
Registration number: CZ.1.05/3.1.00/14.0311
Project launch date: 13/12/2013
Project end date: 31/10/2015
Total amount of grant: CZK 19,644,812.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 16,698,090.20
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 2,946,721.80
The project has the following aims:
The purpose of the project is to establish effective commercialisation of promising technologies and inventions with high application potential as an integral part of the third role of the university. The aim of the project is to prepare the commercialisation of two research results in the field of molecular biotechnology.
Project title: RECONSTRUCTION OF THE “TECHNICKÁ 8” BUILDING OF BUT
Registration number: CZ.1.05/4.1.00/11.0247
Project launch date: 01/04/2013
Project end date: 30/06/2015
Total amount of grant: CZK 86,223,668.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 73,290,117.80
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 12,933,550.20
The project has the following aims:
The aim of the project is the reconstruction and modernisation of the Technická 8 building to make it fully suitable for modern high-tech teaching of technical disciplines. The project is aimed at supporting teaching activities, especially through improvements of the teaching conditions (bachelor’s and master’s degree study fields) and research profiling of students of doctoral study programmes. The basic prerequisite for increasing the level of teaching is a high-quality, technically advanced and efficient environment that allows for the latest methods to be applied to the teaching processes, i.e. the interworking of modern audiovisual technology and teaching aids with object technologies associated with the BMS (Building Management System) concept. All the implemented modifications and retrofitting of teaching spaces with the necessary modern technology will allow for a qualitatively higher level of ICT to be used in teaching and for modern AV technologies to be implemented.
The project will create new modern facilities for educational and research activities of students of bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctoral study programmes, which should significantly and sustainably boost, especially in the long term, the number of doctoral students, while improving the quality of graduates and their readiness for entering the labour market.
Project title: MODERNISATION OF THE BUT CAMPUS Purkyňova 118
Registration number: CZ.1.05/4.1.00/11.0239
Project launch date: 01/04/2013
Project end date: 30/06/2015
The major objectives of the project are the following:
- through internal modernisation and retrofitting of selected facilities, ensuring the establishment and consolidation of new laboratories and the relocation and modernisation of teaching facilities, which will directly improve the conditions for the study programmes and research and development aspect of chemistry and environmental technology, macromolecular chemistry, chemistry and technology of materials, physical chemistry, chemistry and food technology.
- Through internal modernisation and retrofitting of selected premises, ensuring the possible relocation of the IFE to the vacant premises at the P118 campus, thus covering the complex needs of the USI, specifically improving the conditions for professional teaching and research and development activities related to the master’s degree and doctoral programmes in Forensic Engineering and Risk Engineering.
- Through the complementary acquisition of specialised equipment, network upgrades, structured cabling, installation of active elements and related equipment in the field of ICT and other items, ensuring an increase in the quality of teaching and research activities in the fields guaranteed by both the FCH and IFE.
- Through comprehensive renovation of the envelopes (external modernisation) of outdated buildings, improvement of the building connection (reconstruction and strengthening of the neutralisation station), ensuring suitable operating conditions for the implementation of the major teaching and research activities, including energy savings and optimisation of waste management of the buildings.
Project title: BUT MATERIALS RESEARCH
Registration number: CZ.1.05/3.1.00/13.0273
Project launch date: 17/10/2012
Project end date: 30/06/2015
Total amount of grant: CZK 31,363,134.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 26,658,663.90
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 4,704,470.10
The project has the following aims:
The aim of the project is to commercialise promising technologies and inventions with high application potential in the field of materials research.
Its sub-objectives are as follows:
(a) development of infrastructure to support commercialisation/TT; and
(b) preparations for commercialisation of R&D results in the field of materials research.
The predominant method of commercialisation is LICENSING; contractual research cooperation is also used in selected cases, as well as a combination of both methods.
Project title: BUT SECURITY AND DEFENCE
Registration number: CZ.1.05/3.1.00/13.0271
Project launch date: 17/10/2012
Project end date: 30/06/2015
Total amount of grant: CZK 16,088,407.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 13,675,145.95
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 2,413,261.05
The project has the following aims:
The aim of the project is to commercialise promising technologies and inventions with high application potential in the field of security and defence.
Its sub-objectives are as follows:
(a) development of infrastructure to support commercialisation/TT; and
(b) preparations fir commercialisation of R&D results in the field of security and defence.
The predominant method of commercialisation is LICENSING; contractual research cooperation is also used in selected cases, as well as a combination of both methods.
Project title: BUT ENERGY RESOURCES
Registration number: CZ.1.05/3.1.00/13.0274
Project launch date: 17/10/2012
Project end date: 30/06/2015
Total amount of grant: CZK 41,047,533.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 34,890,403.05
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 6,157,129.95
The project has the following aims:
The aim of the project is to commercialise promising technologies and inventions with high application potential in the field of energy resources.
Its sub-objectives are as follows:
(a) development of infrastructure to support commercialisation/TT; and
(b) preparations fir commercialisation of R&D results in the field of energy resources.
The predominant method of commercialisation is LICENSING; contractual research cooperation is also used in selected cases, as well as a combination of both methods.
Project title: IT4Innovations Centre of Excellence
Registration number: CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0070
Project launch date: 01/07/2011
Project end date: 31/12/2015
Total amount of grant: CZK 1,819,490,241.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 1,546,566,704.85
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 272,923,536.15
Web: http://www.it4i.eu/index.php
Consortium of partners: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Brno University of Technology, University of Ostrava, Silesian University in Opava, and the CAS Institute of Geonics.
The project has the following aims:
The main contribution of the IT4Innovations Centre of Excellence project is the creation of a unique structure of national and international importance focused on key areas of science and research, such as the development of the information society, the development of embedded systems, innovative medicine and nanotechnology, and last but not least, information technology itself. The IT4Innovations Centre of Excellence project also represents an exceptional unification of scientific, research and development capacities in the field of computer science and computational mathematics to ensure the development of a range of modern and progressive technologies. The potential creation of such a centre stimulates further demand for new sophisticated services that would not be possible without such a research infrastructure of national importance. Through this, we are creating a basis for a close integration of basic and applied research with a clearly specified impact on innovation.
The planned centre will be mainly based on computing, which is set ahead of other disciplines and formulated into three interconnected key research areas:
– IT4People – research focused on improving the quality of life of society through modern information technology.
– SC4Industry – supercomputing for industrial problem solving, modelling in the field of life sciences and nanotechnology (shape optimisation, material design, biomechanical simulations, ...).
– Theory4IT – an area focused on basic research, especially on the development of new non-traditional computational methods (knowledge mining, ant colony optimisation theory).
Project title: CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology
Registration number: CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0068
Project launch date: 01/06/2011
Project end date: 31/12/2015
Total amount of grant: CZK 5,246,000,000
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 4,459,100,000
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 786,900,000
Website: www.ceitec.cz
Press release: http://www.ceitec.cz/v-brne-vyroste-do-tri-let-evropske-vedecke-centrum-ceitec/; http://www.ceitec.cz/avizo-pozvanka-na-tiskovou-konferenci-ke-schvaleni-ceitecu/
Project partners: Masaryk University, Brno University of Technology, Mendel University in Brno, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno, Institute of Physics of Materials of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Veterinary Research Institute
The project has the following aims:
The research and development activities of all seven research programmes and their associated groups are aimed at fulfilling the four objectives set by CEITEC. The disciplinary breadth of activities required to meet the stated objectives makes collaboration between different teams in different phases of research and development necessary. The core facilities (large laboratory units) that are available to all staff across the research programmes can also be seen as another unifying element.
CEITEC is a project for the construction of a Central European scientific research centre of excellence, jointly developed by local universities and research institutes in Brno. These are laboratories with first-class instrumentation and facilities that offer optimal conditions for basic and applied research in the field of life sciences and advanced materials and technologies.
The CEITEC project was established primarily to help the current basic and applied research in the South Moravian Region to reach the top level by appropriate mechanisms. Its purpose is not only to integrate the activities carried out in this region into the European Research Area, but also to open it up to the world by creating favourable conditions for cooperation with the private sector.
CEITEC will become a major European centre for science and education. The project will contribute to the concentration of scientific research capacities in the Czech Republic and at the same time improve the link between Czech science and top foreign research institutions and companies. Quality relationships with leading foreign scientific research institutions will be established and maintained within the framework of research cooperation and joint technological development projects. Intensified cooperation will significantly and positively impact Brno and the South Moravian Region, as well as the entire European Research Area.
The main benefit of the CEITEC project is the unique combination of life and materials sciences. The core of the project consists of seven research programmes, bringing together research groups specialising in specific, progressive scientific fields and disciplines. The project’s multiple synergies are generated in particular by the interaction of the research programmes and by addressing multidisciplinary issues across research groups.
Project title: VAVINET ICT infrastructure for R&D centres
Registration number: CZ.1.05/3.2.00/08.0146
Project launch date: 01/05/2011
Project end date: 31/10/2013
Total amount of grant: CZK 70,345,814,00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 59,793,941,90
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 10,551,872,10
The project has the following aims:
The aim of the project is to build a comprehensive ICT infrastructure for research and technological development, including equipment, tools and high-speed computer networks connecting research centres, which will cover the existing and expected ICT needs of existing and new R&D departments at the BUT such as NETME, CEITEC, IT4Inovations and others. The VAVINET project and its objectives are based on the outputs of a survey on the expected needs of relevant projects and scientific research entities.
Project content:
- Construction of fibre optic routes necessary for the connection of the new NETME, CEITEC workplaces and reconstruction of existing fibre optic routes to achieve back-up connectivity (workplaces at FIT BUT for IT4Innovation)
- Reconstruction of BUT premises into a data centre. This is based on the assumption that the computing capacities planned in downstream projects (CESNET Large Infrastructure) will have to be located in secure data centre facilities.
- Small computing and storage capacities intended mainly as intermediate storage for connection to large computing capacities built within the IT4Innovation and CESNET projects.
- Investment software for applied R&D, scientific and technical calculation and project management support
- Computer classrooms for the training of science project managers in cooperation with the BUT Project Support Office.
- Information system for supporting Research and Development, registration and processing of R&D results, teamwork, environment for sharing of scientific and technical data and documents.
- Web-based systems for online presentation of applied research results.
Downstream projects that expect local infrastructure, guaranteed by:
- NETME (FME);
- CEITEC BUT (component of BUT);
- IT4Innovation (component of BUT, guaranteed by FIT);
- CESNET large infrastructure (Cesnet z.s.p.o.).
Project location: Brno, optical networks in Brno, NetME building, BUT Rectorate building, Kounicova data node, FIT data node, FIT data node.
Completion and renovation of the premises of the BUT Faculty of Civil Engineering at Veveří and Žižkova Streets
Project title: Completion and renovation of the premises of the BUT Faculty of Civil Engineering at Veveří and Žižkova Streets
Reg. No: CZ.1.05/4.1.00/04.0138
Project launch date: 28/02/2011
Project end date: 30/11/2013
Total project amount: CZK 548,812,782
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 466,490,864.70
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 82,321,917.30
The project has the following aims:
The project’s main objective is to improve and increase the capacity of the BUT Faculty of Civil Engineering with a link to research and development and innovation activities of staff and students. The subject of the project is the reconstruction of the existing FCE buildings and the subsequent new construction (i.e. completion of the campus) at a technical level corresponding to the top workplaces of leading universities.
The output of the project will be spaces (classrooms, offices, studios, laboratories, warehouses and related infrastructure) that will be available not only to academic staff but also to students, ensuring quality conditions for the development of master’s degree and especially doctoral studies with a link to the involvement of students and graduates in research and development activities guaranteed and provided by the dynamically developing faculty.
The completion of the FCE BUT campus will implement one of the basic milestones of the BUT dislocation strategy, the primary purpose of which is to maximise the efficiency of education and related scientific research activities (with the involvement of students at individual levels of study) while maintaining or increasing the quality of educational and scientific research processes.
A total of 15,737 m2 of educational and scientific research areas will be reconstructed and 3,588 m2 of educational and scientific research areas will be newly built.
Construction of the FEEC BUT educational complex at 12 Technická Street (T12)
Project title: Construction of the FEEC BUT educational complex at 12 Technická Street (T12)
Registration number: CZ.1.05/4.1.00/04.0129
Project launch date: 25/08/2010
Project end date: 31/07/2013
Start of operations: the actual implementation started on 1 September 2010
Total amount of grant: CZK 991,547,335.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 842,815,234.75
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 148,732,100.25
The project has the following aims:
(1) To complete the relocation of the currently fragmented activities of the BUT Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication (FEEC BUT) into a single campus through the investment project for the construction of the Technická 12 (T12) educational complex.
(2) To provide quality conditions for the development of master’s degree and especially doctoral studies with a link to the involvement of students and graduates in research and development (R&D) activities guaranteed and provided by the dynamically developing faculty.
In connection with the construction of the campus-type educational complex, the prerequisites for the qualitative development of the teaching and research and development activities of the faculty will be fulfilled. The FEEC will improve the quality of study programmes at all levels. Among other things, the plan is to introduce a new interdisciplinary two-year post-bachelor master’s degree programme Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics and subsequently a four-year doctoral programme of the same name. Doctoral study programme Electrical Engineering and Communication, which was accredited in 2007, will be intensively involved in scientific research activities in connection with the planned establishment of R&D centres, such as CEITEC, CVVOZE or SIX. At the same time, a system will be put in place to motivate students and young researchers to stay in research.
A press release about the launch of the project can be found in the top left corner of this page.
NETME Centre – Research and Development Centre
NETME Centre, i.e. the New Technologies for Mechanical Engineering Centre, is conceived as a regional research and development centre, based on the high-quality scientific and research background of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The activities of the Centre aim to develop cooperation with the application sector and thus improve the region’s competitiveness, to participate in the development of the knowledge economy of the region and to enable private entities easy access to the latest research results on a contractual basis and to ensure maximum application potential.
Research and development will be carried out in the fields of engineering technology, environmental protection and energy, transport and aircraft technology, virtual design and testing, mechatronics and progressive metallic materials with an emphasis on the practical applicability of the results. A number of planned projects will be implemented in cooperation with Czech and foreign companies that have already expressed interest in cooperation with the NETME Centre. Based on thorough analyses, it can be concluded that the results of our work will be widely used not only in the Czech Republic but also abroad.
NETME Centre is seeking funding from the European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation, which was announced in January 2009 by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
Basic information about the project:
Project title: NETME centre – new technologies for mechanical engineering
Registration number: CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0002
Place of implementation: Technická 2, 616 69 Brno
Project launch: May 2009
Project end: December 2013
Start of operations: January 2014
Total project expenditure: CZK 876,947,634.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 652,376,943.95
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 115,125,343.05
Project website http://www.netme.cz/cs/
Materials Research Centre at FCH BUT
Project title: Materials Research Centre at FCH BUT
Registration number: CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0012
Project launch date: 01/12/2008
Project end: December 2013
Start of operations: 3.Q./2010
Total eligible project expenditure: CZK 232,772,000.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 197,856,200.00
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 34,915,800.00
The project has the following aims:
- To build a regional centre specialised in materials research as an independent workplace at FCH BUT called “Materials Research Centre”.
- To improve the cooperation of university research with the application sector in the form of contract research and joint research projects and accelerate the transfer of knowledge and technology into practice.
- To involve students, especially from doctoral and master’s degree programmes, in cooperation projects with the application sector within the framework of the Centre’s research activities.
Project website: http://www.materials-research.cz/cz/
Centre for Research and Utilisation of Renewable Sources of Energy
Project title: Centre for Research and Utilisation of Renewable Sources of Energy
Registration number: CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0014
Project launch date: 01/05/2010
Project end date: 31/12/2013
Start of operations: 01/01/2013
Total project expenditure: CZK 357,895,636.00
Total eligible project expenditure: CZK 260,166,439.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 221,141,473.15
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 39,024,965.85
The project has the following aims:
(1) To establish cutting-edge basic and applied research in the promising field of renewable energy, including applications;
(2) to prepare and train highly qualified workers, graduates of doctoral studies, for industry;
(3) to deepen the cooperation between the university and the application sector.
The subject of the project is the technological equipment of the existing selected laboratories of the four associated institutes of the BUT Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, i.e. state-of-the-art instruments and devices.
Project website: http://www.uvee.feec.vutbr.cz/CVVOZE/index.html
Centre for Sensor, Information, and Communication Systems (SIX)
Project title: Centre for Sensor, Information, and Communication Systems (SIX)
Registration number: CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0072
Project launch date: 12/07/2010
Project end date: 31/12/2013
Start of operations:
Total amount of grant: CZK 293,781,336.00
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 249,714,135.60
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 44,067,200.40
The project aims to...
... build a South Moravian centre of basic and applied research focused on promising technologies of electronic communication systems. The centre will benefit from the symbiosis of a dynamically developing technical university and successful companies in the region.
The newly created research capacities will serve as a base for industrial research of companies linked to the centre. The centre’s activities will increase the innovation potential of these companies and enable them to coordinate their research activities with the research of foreign partners involved in joint European projects.
Research will focus on promising communication subsystems based on nanoelectronics, optoelectronics and terahertz electronics, on secure converged terrestrial and satellite communication systems, on the coexistence of communication and information systems and services. Emphasis will be placed on wholly new, unconventional procedures and solutions.
Advanced Materials, Structures and Technologies – AdMaS
Project title: AdMaS – Advanced Materials, Structures and Technologies
Registration number: CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0097
Place of implementation: Brno
Project launch date: 01/01/2011
Project end date: 31/12/2014
Start of operations: 01/07/2014
Total amount of grant: CZK 817,903,463
Subsidy provided by the EU: CZK 695,217,943.55
Subsidy from the state budget of the Czech Republic: CZK 122,685,519.45
www: www.admas.eu
The project has the following aims:
The Centre will focus on the development of scientific knowledge and the formulation of basic technical and technological principles and procedures oriented on the comprehensive area of theory, analysis and methods of design of building materials, structural systems of buildings and other systems. In the field of technology, the Centre focuses on technologies for the diagnosis of structures and the effects on buildings, structural design and technologies in the field of urban and municipal economy.
Responsibility: Mgr. Tereza Stodolová