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Brno scientists, whose team has one of the highest shares of the total budget within the CEITEC project, are organizing a meeting of leading teams from the Czech Republic researching in the field of nanotechnologies and nanosciences.
This meeting takes place in the South-Moravian metropolis. They want to agree on further direction of research in this area, find out what makes the individual projects unique, how they could cooperate, resp. what they could offer together to companies. It is a way to further use of billions acquired from the structural funds of the European Union. It is the research from these resources which governs the Czech Republic now. Some projects are already running, some have been approved or are waiting for approval. The aim is to coordinate the research activities of present and future projects in such way that they connect and cooperate.

The representatives of Central European Institute of Technology participated at an annual meeting of the INSTRUCT initiative (an Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure for Europe), which is a part of ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) in Hamburg.  The construction of a new centre for integrated structural biology, which is planned within the project, will significantly strengthen the position of CEITEC in the European context and its involvement in the European scientific-research activities.

The Czech assessment of projects applying for amounts in billions for science is finishing. The project of the Central European Institute of Technology – CEITEC got ninety-nine points from the Ministry of Education. With this result the Brno project of Masaryk University and University of Technology took first place among major projects. The vision of several billion crowns into science and research of Brno is again closer to reality. In the case of the approval by the European Committee the building could be started in Bohunice campus and Pod Palackého vrchem at the beginning of next year.

The representatives of CzechInvest have negotiated with the management of CEITEC about future cooperation. In it they see a unique opportunity on how to bring other foreign investors into Brno. The access to latest instruments, technologies and laboratory equipment, combined with experienced staff can be a big attraction for companies with their own research and development. There are many factors when deciding whether to choose Brno or another town, one of them is the facilities and specialists who will be interested in working for the company. CEITEC is able offer all this to potential investors and CzechInvest can significantly support CEITEC in this direction.

On the occasion of the exhibition of nanotechnologies, which has been held in the Technical Museum in Brno since December, scientists from CEITEC are initiating the general public into the world of nanotechnologies. The world that is invisible to the eye only, its secrets and possibilities are introduced to the public in six blocks. Nanotechnologies are expected to govern the world in the future. For instance nanomagnets, which will help with the treatment of cancer, can be a success.

The project application for building a first-class research centre CEITEC has successfully passed the assessment of formality and the check of acceptability. It has progressed onto the next phase. During February the Ministry of Education will start the assessment of expertise. The first results will be available in April.

Příprava projektu na vybudování Středoevropského technologického institutu CEITEC v Brně úspěšně skončila. Projektovou žádost, čítající více než tři tisíce stran, odevzdá vedení projektu v pátek 13. listopadu k posouzení na ministerstvo školství. Vysoké školy a ústavy Akademie věd v ní žádají o přidělení dotace 6,53 miliard korun z evropského programu Věda a výzkum pro inovace.

The final format of the CEITEC project (Central European Institute of Technology) was confirmed today by the official signatories of the partnership agreement between the seven institutions, who have been involved in the preparation of the project.

The project, which is seeking funding from the European Operational Program, Research and Development  for Innovation, will be handed into the Ministry of Education on the 15th of October.  And if the European commission approves the project, it will start in 2010.

The scientific level of the CEITEC project has been assessed by scientists from prestigious world institutions this weekend when they met in Brno to jointly assess the scientific level of the teams connected with the CEITEC project. …

On Thursday 5th of February 2009 in Brno, a lecture was given by the world-renowned expert in the field of nanotechnoloty, prof. Yoshio Nishi. Prof. Nishi has many years of experience with the issues of research and running a multi-function…