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Horizon Europe – ERA Chair

ERA Chair for Accelerated Synthetic Chemistry Technologies at Palacký University Olomouc
Rational development of nanocrystalline drugs for skin administration
  • Project number: HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-02: 101090272

  • Principal Investigator: Mgr. Kateřina Poláková, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 150 438,72 EUR
  • Duration: 06/2023-05/2025

Horizon Europe – EIC

Transition of 2D-chemistry based supercapacitor electrode material from proof of concept to applications
  • Project number: HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITION-CHALLENGES-01: 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/

Horizon Europe – REA

Single atom based nanohybrid photocatalyts for green fuels (SAN4Fuel)
  • Project number: HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03-01: 101079384

  • Principal investigator: Ing. Štěpán KMENT, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 757 000 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 11/2022-10/2025
  • Project website: https://san4fuel.com/
Twinning to boost the scientific and innovation capacity of the Universiteti i Tiranes to develop sustainable nanosensors for water pollution detection
  • Project number: HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-02: 101059266

  • Co-investigator for UP: Prof. RNDr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~326 900 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024

Horizon Europe - MSCA

Teaming conductivity and chemical functionality in metal-organic frameworks for zinc‑ion batteries
  • Project number: HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01: 101065296

  • Principal Investigator: Aristeidis Bakandritsos, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 166 278,72 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2024

Horizon Europe - ERC

Functionalized Graphene Based Electrode Material for Lithium Sulfur Batteries
  • Project number: ERC-2022-POC1: 101069293

  • Principal investigator: Prof. RNDr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 150 000 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024

Horizon 2020 – REA

NANO4TARMED: Advanced hybrid theranostic nanoplatforms for an active drug delivery in the cancer treatment
  • Project number: H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5: 952063

  • Principal investigator: RNDr. Václav Ranc, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 745 000 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2021-12/2023
  • Project website: https://nano4tarmed.com/
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Horizon 2020 - ERC

2D-CHEM: Two-Dimensional Chemistry towards New Graphene Derivatives
  • Project number: ERC-2015-CoG: 683024

  • Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 1.8 million EUR
  • Duration: 06/2016-06/2022
  • Project website: https://2dchem.org/
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  • This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 683024).
UP2DCHEM: Upscaling of fluorographene chemistry for supercapacitor electrode material
  • Project number: ERC-2019-PoC: 899245

  • Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 150 000 EUR
  • Duration: 04/2020-07/2021
  • This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 899245).

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

MEYS - EXCELES

National Institute for Cancer Research – NICR
  • Project number: LX22NPO5102

  • Principal Investigator: doc. MUDr. Marián Hajdúch, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 333 808 000 CZK (total eligible costs) / 299 851 000 CZK (EXCELES funding) (UP)
  • Duration: 06/2022-12/2025

MEYS - ERC CZ

META-CAT: A light-driven biorefinery using metacatalysts
  • Project number: ERC CZ (LL1903)

  • Principal investigator: Alberto Naldoni, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 590 000 EUR
  • Duration: 10/2019-09/2021

MEYS - Operational Programme Research, Development and Education

Advanced Hybrid Nanostructures for Renewable Energy Applications
  • Project number: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000416

  • Project director: Ing. Štěpán Kment, Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~5 million EUR
  • Duration: 09/2016-10/2022
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Plants as a tool for sustainable global development
  • Project number: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000827

  • Project director: Prof. RNDr. Ivo Frébort, CSc., Ph. D.

  • Duration: 03/2018-06/2023
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Nanotechnologies for Future
  • Project number: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000754

  • Project director: Prof. RNDr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~13 million EUR
  • Duration: 01/2018-12/2022
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Support for international mobility of researchers – MSCA-IF at Palacký University Olomouc III.
  • Project number: CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/20_079/0018294

  • Project director: Aristeidis Bakandritsos, Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~160 000 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2021-12/2022
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MEYS – Large research infrastructures

Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies for Environment Protection and Sustainable Future

  • Principal Investigator: Mgr. Petr Jakubec, PhD.

  • Funding: 13 627 000 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2026
Pro-NanoEnviCz II: Modernization and upgrade of large research infrastructure Nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for protection of the environment and sustainable future
  • Project number: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0015586

  • Co-investigator for UP: Mgr. Petr Jakubec, PhD.
    Principal investigator: doc. RNDr. Ing. Martin Kalbáč, Ph.D. (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry)

  • Funding: ~410 000 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2021-12/2023
NanoEnviCZ II: Nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for environment protection and sustainable future
  • Project number: LM2018124

  • Co-investigator for UP: Mgr. Petr Jakubec, PhD.
    Principal investigator: doc. RNDr. Ing. Martin Kalbáč, Ph.D. (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry)

  • Funding: 700 000 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2020-12/2022

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

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: ~ 450 000 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2025
Nano-Monitoring of Cancer Immunotherapy Efficiency: The Graphene Lateral Electrophoretic Bioassay platform
  • Project number: TACR (JTC2021)

  • 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: ~42 500 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024
Personalized Medicine – Diagnostics and Therapy
  • Project number: TN01000013

  • Co-investigator for UP: MUDr. Petr Džubák, Ph.D.

    Partners: Ústav organické chemie a biochemie AV ČR, v. v. i., APIGENEX s.r.o., Fakultní nemocnice Brno, Fakultní nemocnice u sv. Anny v Brně, Fyziologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., i&i Prague, s.r.o., Institute of Applied Biotechnologies a.s., IntellMed, s.r.o., IOCB TECH s.r.o., Masarykova univerzita / Středoevropský technologický institut, Tilia Genomic a.s., Univerzita Karlova / 1. lékařská fakulta, Všeobecná fakultní nemocnice v Praze, Vysoká škola báňská – Technická univerzita Ostrava / IT4Innovations, Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze / Fakulta potravinářské a biochemické technologie

  • Funding: ~1.5 mil million EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2019-12/2022
Next Generation of Integrated Atomic Force and Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • Project number: TACR (FW01010183)

  • Co-investigator for UP: Prof. RNDr. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D.
    Partners: NenoVision s.r.o., Institute of Physics of Materials CAS, Brno University of Technology / Faculty of information technology

  • Funding: ~280 000 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 04/2020-03/2023
Development of a hybrid magnetic component based on iron oxide nanoparticles to replace solid permanent magnets used in magnetic closures
  • Project number: TACR (FW01010267)

  • Co-investigator for UP: Mgr. Ondřej Malina, Ph.D.
    Industrial partner: GZ Allure s.r.o.

  • Funding: ~450 000 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2020-06/2023

Czech Science Foundation

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
On-surface synthesis and characterization of polyradical molecules
  • Project number: 23-05486S

  • Principal Investigator: doc. Ing. Pavel Jelínek, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 6 600 000 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2023
Elateriform beetles as a model for studying the evolution of neoteny
  • Project number: CSF Standard (22-35327S)

  • Principal investigator: prof. Ing. Ladislav Bocák Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~274 400 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024
Solvent mediated photoexcitation of spin-active species in fluorographene
  • Project number: CSF Standard (22-33284S)

  • Principal investigator: Mgr. Petr Lazar, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 6 033 000 CZK
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024
Nanoscale mapping of chemical reactions driven by multi-metallic plasmonic nanostructures
  • Project number: CSF Standard (22-26416S)

  • Principal investigator: Alberto Naldoni, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 8 836 000 CZK
  • Duration: 01/2022-12/2024
Complexes of selected transition metals with plant-derived compounds with anti-NF-kappa B and pro-PPAR dual activities
  • Project number: CSF Bilateral AT-CZ (21-38204L)

  • Principal investigator for CZ: Prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Trávníček, Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~260 000 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2021-12/2023
Anticancer active coordination compounds with multimodal effect
  • Project number: CSF Standard (21-19060S)

  • Principal investigator: Prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Trávníček, Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~270 000 EUR
  • Duration: 04/2021-03/2024
Plasmonic catalysis with titanium nitride nanocrystals for sustainable chemical reactions
  • Project number: CSF Standard (20-17636S)

  • Principal investigator: Alberto Naldoni, Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~260 000 EUR
  • Duration: 01/2020-12/2022
Structural and Physical Aspects of Inverse Heusler Alloys Mn2FeZ, Z = Si, Al, Sn
  • Project number: CSF Standard (21-05339S)

  • Co-investigator for UP: Mgr. Ondřej Malina, Ph.D.
    Principal Investigator, Partner: doc. Ing. Ondřej Životský Ph.D. (Vysoká škola báňská – Technická univerzita Ostrava), Univerzita Karlova

  • Funding: ~80 000 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2021-12/2023

International Lead Agency

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

EXPRO

Single-Atom-based 2D-Photocatalysts
  • Project number: 23-05486S

  • Hlavní řešitel: Prof.Dr. Patrik Schmuki

  • Funding: 31 090 000 CZK (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2027

Junior Star

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 (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2023-12/2027

Ministry of Industry and Trade

Automatizovaný systém pro pěstování zeleniny pomocí optické fenotypizace a umělé inteligence na principu cirkulární ekonomiky
  • Project number: CZ.01.1.02/0.0/0.0/21_374/0027107

  • Principal Investigator: doc. RNDr. Petr Tarkowski, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 670 109 CZK
  • Duration: 09/2021-05/2023
Výzkum a vývoj optimalizace energetického příjmu při metabolických zátěžových stavech pro standardizaci regulace glykemie
  • Project number: CZ.01.1.02/0.0/0.0/20­_321/0024452

  • Principal investigator: Ing. Roman Kratochvíl (Euro Enterprise Development s.r.o.)
    Co-investigator for UP: prof. RNDr. Tomáš Adam, Ph.D.

  • Funding: ~580 000 EUR
  • Duration: 12/2020-10/2022
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Development of a new generation of RECLIME? recycling unit s for calcium (Ca++) recycl ing used to clean raw sugars and sugar cane
  • Project number: CZ.01.1.02/0.0/0.0/17_176/0015758

  • Co-investigator for UP: doc. RNDr. Michal Čajan, Ph.D.

  • Duration: 10/2020-11/2021
Reaching of low phosphorus effluent concentrations at wastewater treatment plants by using nanoparticle modified materials
  • Project number: FV30034

  • Co-investigator for UP: Mgr. Jan Filip, Ph.D.
    Industrial Partner: ASIO TECH, spol. s r.o.

  • Funding: 330 000 EUR (UP)
  • Duration: 01/2018-08/2021

Palacký University Olomouc Young Researcher Grant Competition

Insight into cellular proteotoxic stress response using a new microthermal protein damage methodology
  • Project number: JG_2023_033

  • Principal Investigator: Mgr. Zdeněk Škrott, Ph.D.

  • Funding: 3 986 000 CZK