Programme Johannes Amos Comenius - Research infrastructures
FAIR - participation of the Czech Republic - OP III.
The goal of the project is Czech scientific community’s full access to an International Research Infrastructure FAIR, part of the ESFRI roadmap, which is currently under construction at Darmstadt. Czech Republic committed to contribute in-kind to experiments with Czech participation in Aspirant membership agreement signed with FAIR. Part of the in-kind contributions was realized during previous period, this project concentrates on rest of these contributions into HADES, CBM, PANDA, NuSTAR and BIOMAT. This will lead to fulfilment of our obligations committed in Aspirant membership agrement. These in-kind contributions into experiments are treated as investment into the FAIR infrastructure according to the above-mentioned agreement. As a result of the project, the top level experimental infrastructure FAIR will be available to the Czech scientific community.
The project coordinator is the Nuclear Physics Institute.
NPI Project manager: Kugler Andrej
E-mail: kugler@ujf.cas.cz
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Research infrastructure for experiments at CERN
The large research infrastructure CERN-CZ organizes and supports the participation of universities and research institutions from the Czech Republic (CR) in the international laboratory CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva. With the world's largest proton and heavy ion accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN plays a worldwide leading role in research of elementary particle physics and behavior of matter at extremely high energies. The goal of research at CERN is to broaden our knowledge of the basic laws governing matter behavior, including the principles under which our universe evolves. The aim of CERN-CZ is to support the development, construction, maintenance and operation of scientific facilities in CERN experiments with Czech participation. This includes the local infrastructure and laboratories in the CR, which are necessary for the research, development and production of these detectors, and computing tools for large scale data processing. The LRI is developing new technologies for particle detectors including their applications, especially in the field of calorimetry and semiconductor tracking detectors.
NPI Project manager: Křížek Filip
E-mail: krizek@ujf.cas.cz
Czech National Node of the European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine
The main objective of the EATRIS-CZ research infrastructure is to further develop, maintain and operate a unique infrastructure/platform at the interface of chemistry, translational medicine and biomedicine of prestigious research centres in order to connect medical and life sciences researchers. EATRIS-CZ is the national counterpart of the EATRIS-ERIC infrastructure in Europe. This activity is based on the collaboration of existing institutions and scientists, creating an extremely interactive research and development platform and a unique combination of basic, applied and clinical research, creating an ideal environment for conducting translational research and services at the interface of chemistry, biology, data sciences and medicine. The services of the research infrastructure will be predominantly focused on the application of chemical approaches to important human health problems, ranging from infectious diseases, inflammation, cancer, neurodegeneration and chemoprevention, where the involved research and service teams have long-standing experience and have made significant contributions to research knowledge and unique service offerings. The network will offer technologies, services and expertise in the molecular details of biological processes in normal and functionally impaired cells and tissues using a variety of biological and chemical approaches, and with the training of young scientists and students in multidisciplinary research in this area.
NPI Project manager: Lebeda Ondřej
E-mail: lebeba@ujf.cas.cz
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