Call for applications for joint workshops within the Central network.

• Submission deadline: 31/03/2025 – 23:59 CET
• Eligibility check: 30/04/2025
• Academic evaluation: 16/06/2025

Aim

CENTRAL-Workshops are networking projects for groups of researcher of the CENTRAL universities in order to initiate new collaboration (incl. innovative teaching/training for young researchers) or to consolidate existing collaboration.

Supported activities

CENTRAL-Workshop projects will fund one or two, 2-3 day meetings at one of the involved CENTRAL partner universities (or two, if two meetings will be held).

Execution period: 01/09/2025 – 31/08/2026

Funding

• In 2025 up to 8 projects may be funded.
• Costs for travelling and accommodation: will be covered by the sending institutions.
• Costs for catering, rental costs for of seminar room: will be covered by hosting institution.
• Funding regulations of each institution shall apply.

Project Team

Each project team shall comprise groups of researchers of at least three CENTRAL universities. Each group of researchers preferentially consists of 2-4 researchers of one CENTRAL university (inter/multi-disciplinary groups are possible) and has to include at least one established researcher (Post-Doc with at least 5 years of research experience), who will also act as group leader of its university, and at least one PhD-student.

Application

Applications have to be submitted before deadline via e-mail to central-network@cuni.cz using the application form

Applications submitted after deadline will not be considered for evaluation.

Applicants can be any established researcher (at least 5 years of postdoctoral research experience) of any academic discipline, employed at any university of the CENTRAL network.

Joint workshops supported in previous years can be found here