UHK has gained three new Czech Science Foundation grants for 2023. And we will participate in two more

"Of course, I am very pleased that our academics are not lagging behind other workplaces and are applying for support for their great scientific and creative ideas. I would be happy if other undoubtedly interesting projects of my colleagues could be found among the successful proposals. However, I still consider the results of this year's evaluation in the context of all the research institutions to be successful," comments UHK Rector Kamil Kuča. 

 

One of the successful project proposals (in the area of OK3 – medical and biological sciences) was submitted by Mgr. Eugenie Nepovimová, Ph.D., from the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science UHK, the project is called Alzheimer's disease and aging: can mTOR inhibitors kill two birds with one drug? This idea thematically follows her current project and thus successfully develops the principal topic. From the Philosophical Faculty UHK, the agency admitted support to the project Reframing Philosophical Anthropology: Searching for an Anthropological Difference Beyond the Nature/Culture Dichotomy, whose main investigator is Mgr. Filip Jaroš, Ph.D., from the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences. In the same area (OK4 – social sciences and humanities), the project BDSM under-CoV-2: The Central European BDSM subculture during the pandemic, which Mgr. Lucie Drdova, Ph. D., from the Institute of Social Studies, Faculty of Education UHK will lead. 

"We consider co-investigator projects as important as those where we are the main investigator. For both, the scientific and creative partnership has a high value not only in terms of outputs. Our academics utilize the experience gained from teamwork in their further research. GACR grants are one of the possibilities for financing science and creative activities. At the university, we try to support efforts to obtain funds continuously. I congratulate this year's successful projects and wish them further success," adds Vice-Rector for Science and Creative Activities UHK Ondřej Krejcar. 

 

Two co-investigation research projects will be carried out next year by colleagues from the Department of Archaeology, Philosophical Faculty UHK. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Petr Šída, Ph.D., works on Metabasites of the Jizerské Hory (Jizera Mountain) Type as a Trans-Cultural Link Between Central European Prehistoric Communities. And the head of the department, Mgr. Richard Thér, Ph.D., is a co-investigator of the project Pottery as a Witness to Cultural Change? The Early Bronze Age Settlement Agglomeration in Plotiště n. Labem in the Light of Multidisciplinary Research (both in the OK4 – social sciences and humanities).