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We invite you to a seminar on the new "VES 2027" competition

We would like to invite you to a seminar on the new "VES 2027" competition, which is primarily intended for grant department staff and project proposers. The seminar will take place in a hybrid form on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to...

Guidelines for preparing Partial Reports for 2025

Projects that have been approved for more than 1 year are evaluated annually through the Health Research Agency's Expert Advisory Panels (Panels) ČR (AZV) in the form of Project Milestone Reports. These are brief summaries of the individual objectives achieved over...

The AZV ČR Newsletter has been published

We have prepared this year's second issue of the ČR Health Research Agency newsletter, which summarizes the most important events of the past six months. We have seen record interest in the VES 2026/J competition – the number of project proposals submitted has increased by almost 20%, with support...

Publication of the second joint transnational call of the ERDERA (European Rare Diseases Research Alliance) partnership: "Resolving unsolved cases in rare genetic and non-genetic diseases"

The Ministry of Health (hereinafter referred to as "MZD") publishes on December 10, 2025, in accordance with Act No. 130/2002 Coll., on support for research, experimental development, and innovation from public funds and on amendments to certain acts, the following December 2025, in accordance with Act No. 130/2002 Coll., on the support of research, experimental development, and innovation from public funds and on amendments to certain related acts (Act on the Support of Research, Experimental Development, and Innovation), in...

Europe took stock of 10 years of personalized medicine in Prague

At the end of November, more than a hundred experts from across Europe gathered in Prague for the first joint conference of the European Partnership for Personalized Medicine (EP PerMed) and the International Consortium for Personalized Medicine (ICPerMed). The opening address was given by Chair AZV ČR

Results of the European Research Partnership transnational joint calls for 2025

The Ministry of Health publishes the results of joint transnational calls of European partnerships for 2025 Abbreviation of partnership Abbreviation of call Acronym of project Project consortium coordinator Czech partner ERA4Health EffecTrial ATTENTION-T2D Medical University of Graz, Austria IKEM DIET-SLIM Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany IKEM PerMed...

Publication of the joint multinational call of the PerMed EP Partnership: 'Personalised Medicine for CARdiovascular, MEtabolic, and kidNey diseases (CARMEN 2026)'

On 25 November 2025, the Ministry of Health (hereinafter referred to as the "MZD") publishes, in accordance with Act No. 130/2002 Coll., on support for research, experimental development and innovation from public funds and on amendments to certain related acts (Act on support for research, experimental development and innovation),...