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Destination Europe, Chicago, Oct. 16, 2015 Presentation by Bořek Lizec, Ph.D. Consul General of the Czech Republic in Chicago
Research and Development in the Czech Republic DELTA and Kontakt II Programs
Czech Republic
● Area: 78,864 km2
● Population: 10,266,000
● Official language: Czech
● Currency: 1 Czech crown (CZK)
● Capital: Prague
● Membership: EU, NATO, IMF, WB,
WTO, OECD, OSCE
Czechs & Chicago: Anton Cermak (Chicago Mayor)
Ray Kroc (McDonalds), George Halas (Bears),
Kim Novak (Film Vertigo), Judy Baar Topinka,
Jim Lovell and Eugene Cernan (astronauts) and others
Science in Czech lands Charles University established in Prague
Czech Technical University established
Prokop Diviš invents lighting rod
J. E. Purkyně formulates the cell theory
First car in Central Europe „President“
Jan Jánský discovers the four blood types
Viktor Kaplan invents the Kaplan Turbine
J. Heyrovský´s polarographic method
Otto Wichterle invents soft contact lens
Invention of Semtex explosive
Jiří Čížek nominated for a Nobel Prize for
his method of calculating correlation energy
The FDA approves the B-hepatitis drug
Hepsera (compound discovered by A. Holý)
Elmarco introduces Nanospider
The FDA approves atripla treating HIV
based on A. Holý‘s compound
1348
1707
1754
1837
1897
1907
1912 1922
1961
1966
1998
2002 2004
2006
Main Universities in the Czech Republic
University of West Bohemia Plzeň Students: 13,459 Graduates: 3,303
Jan Evangelista Purkyně Univesity
Ústí nad Labem Students: 9,678
Graduates: 1,955
Charles University Prague
Students: 48,200 Graduates: 8,873
Czech Technical University Prague Students: 21,542 Graduates: 5,008
University of Economics Prague
Students: 17,215 Graduates: 4,987
University of South Bohemia
České Budějovice Students: 12,301 Graduates: 3,010
Technical University
Liberec Students: 7,890
Graduates: 1,728
University of Hradec Králové Students: 8,824 Graduates: 2,080
University of Pardubice Students: 10,317 Graduates: 2,130
Palacký University Olomouc
Students: 21,316 Graduates: 4,841
Brno University of technology
Students: 22,046 Graduates: 5,567
Masaryk University Brno
Students: 37,351 Graduates: 9,180
Tomáš Baťa University Zlín
Students: 11,299 Graduates: 2,524
VŠB-Technical University Ostrava
Students: 19,237 Graduates: 4,956
University of Ostrava
Students: 10,299 Graduates: 2,524
CZECH REPUBLIC
Students: 368,304 Graduates: 91,551
Source: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, 2014; CzechInvest, 2014
University of Life Sciences, Prague Students: 22,256 Graduates: 5,496
Opportunities for cooperation in the area of research and development in the Czech Republic
The country has marked impressive volumes of FDI, which included the area of R&D. The United States is no exception. The Czech Republic is the cornerstone of Honeywell’s global engineering strategy in Europe. The company’s Prague laboratory opened in 1993, followed by its Brno design center ten years later. GE Aviation is successfully developing and manufacturing aero engines in the Czech Republic since 2008. (Czech lands have been the traditional industrial center of Central Europe, including vibrant aerospace sector; Czech airplanes in the light sport aircraft (LSA) category have a large share in the US market)
Company Sector
Honeywell Aerospace, Strategic services
GE Aviation Aerospace
Hayes Lemmerz Automotive
Visteon Automotive
Johnson Controls Automotive
IBM IT, Strategic Services
Caterpillar Solar Turbines Machinery
Ingersoll Rand Machinery
Hewlett - Packard Machines & Equipment
Accenture Strategic Services Centre
Gardner Denver Strategic Services Centre
Exxon Mobil Strategic Services Centre
Amazon.com Consumer Products
Source: CzechInvest, 2015; fDi Markets 2015
Selected U.S. investors in the Czech Republic
MAJOR INVESTORS – Technology Centres
BANG & OLUFSEN (el.) OLYMPUS (med.)
ROBERT BOSCH (aut.) ON SEMICONDUCTOR (el.)
DENSO (aut.) PANASONIC (el.)
EMERSON (el.) PROCTER&GAMBLE (chem.)
GE AVIATION (aero.) RICARDO (aut.)
HONEYWELL (el.) RIETER
INGERSOLL RAND SIEMENS (el.)
LATÉCOÈRE (aero.) VARROC LIGHTING (aut.)
LONZA (bio) VOLKSWAGEN (aut.)
MERCEDES-BENZ (aut.) VISTEON (aut.)
Source: CzechInvest, 2014
MAJOR INVESTORS – IT & Software Development
ACISION ORACLE
ADOBE PIXMANIA
AVG TECHNOLOGIES RED HAT
BOHEMIA INTERACTIVE SKYPE
COMPUTER ASSOCIATES SOLARWINDS
DEUTSCHE BÖRSE STORA ENSO
DHL SUSE LINUX
HEWLETT PACKARD TELEFÓNICA
IBM TELOGIC
INFOSYS TERADATA
MICROSOFT TIETO
NESS TECHNOLOGIES
Source: CzechInvest, 2014
Czech R&D Sector
The Czech scientists introduced the world to the contact lens and successfully developed the compounds on which current anti-AIDS drugs are based, Czech companies have already left a large foot print on groundbreaking technologies with respect to hologram production, nanofibres, speech recognition, hyaluronic acid, cybernetics, stem-cell research and astrophysics.
The partnership between ICR Center in Brno and the Mayo Clinic of Minnesota, and between Czech Academy of Sciences and Fermilab can serve as examples of successful cooperation between research institutions from the Czech Republic and the US Midwest.
Science and Technology Parks in the Czech Republic
In science and technology parks, young, innovative firms cross paths with well established companies with a shared interest in research and development. The Czech Republic supports cooperation between the research and business spheres through the operational programs of the EU as well as other programs. More than fifty science and technology parks including incubators and innovation centers have been established in the Czech Republic since 1994.
In 2004 the country became a member of the European Union, which spurred an additional, fundamental increase of support for science and research, including infrastructure.
Science and Technology Parks in the Czech Republic
Science and Technology Parks in the Czech Republic
• South Moravian Innovative Center Brno • Technology Park Brno • Science and Technology Park Ústí nad Labem • Science and Technology Park Plzeň • Business Innovation Center Plzeň • South Bohemian Science and Technology Park České
Budějovice • The Technology Park at Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín • Technology Innovation Center Zlín • Technology Park of Information and Communication
Technology Zlín • Science and Technology Park of Palacký University, Olomouc • Science-Technological Park Ostrava • Business Innovation Centre Ostrava • Technological Center of Hradec Králové • CTTV – The Center of Textile Technologies and Education,
Hradec Králové
Selected Institutes and Research Centers in the Czech Republic
• CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology
Center of scientific excellence in the fields of life sciences and advanced materials and technologies
• Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine
A modern institution at the Palacký University in Olomouc for drug and biomarker discovery, research and development
Selected Institutes and Research Centers in the Czech Republic
• The International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne´s University Hospital in Brno
An international team of researchers and physicians is building a unique center for multidisciplinary medical research focusing on some of the most serious health problems and diseases.
• Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics
founded by Czech Technical University in Prague
Support of R&D in the Czech Republic
Pavel Bělobrádek, Ph.D. Deputy Prime Minister for the Science, Research and Innovation
Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 was officially launched in the Czech Republic in 2013. Already before the country benefitted €220m of RDI funding from 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) with its greatest research successes in many of the European Commission’s Key Enabling Technologies, namely ICT, nanotechnology and nanosciences. The Czech Republic has also been highly successful in the areas of transport and health research.
DELTA Program Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
The DELTA Program supports the cooperation of Czech companies and research organizations with their foreign partners in the area of applied research and experimental development. The program is designed particularly for cooperation with non-European countries, including the United States. The program will support projects that focus on specific results in applied research, i.e. leading to the acquisition of new knowledge and skills for the development of new or significantly improved products, processes or services, and in experimental development, i.e. leading to a new product, process or service. Thanks to the DELTA program the access of researchers from the Czech Republic to international know-how and foreign research capacities and vice versa shall be facilitated as well as the access to foreign markets.
DELTA Program Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Estimated total amount of aid from the state budget: CZK 770 mil. = approx. USD 32 mil. Estimated duration of the program: 6 years (2014 – 2019) Launch of the first call for proposals: during the spring months of 2014 Launch of other calls for proposals: up to four times per year, last call for proposals is expected in 2017
DELTA Program Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Duration of projects: up to three years, all projects must be completed before the end of the program The maximum support rate: 74 % of total project costs The maximum amount of support per a project: CZK 25 mil. = approx. USD 1 mil. Estimated minimum amount of projects to be supported: 60
Thematic focus of the DELTA Program Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
The program itself is not thematically focused. The themes of joint projects will be determined ad hoc based on jointly selected fields preferred both by TA CR and the foreign partner agency. The selection of the themes will be made for each partner agency separately and will reflect the priority area or area of excellence of applied research and experimental development in both countries. However, the projects shall corespond with the following priority areas, national priorities of targeted research, experimental development and innovation:
Thematic focus – National Priorities DELTA Program - Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
• Competitive knowledge-based economy (Application of new
findings from the area ofGeneral Purpose Technologies, Strengthening of sustainability of productionand other economic activities, Strengthening of safety and reliability)
• Sustainability of energetics and material resources (Sustainable energetics, Lowering the energetic demands of the economy, Material base)
• Environment for quality life (Natural resources, Global changes, Sustainable development of landscape and settlements, Environmental technologies and eco-innovations, Environment-friendly society)
• Safe society (Safety of citizens, Security of critical infrastructures and resources, Crisis management and security policy)
Required outputs DELTA Program - Technology Agency of the Czech Republic All projects that are supported by TA CR must achieve a practically usable output. The DELTA program can only support projects that are reasonably expected to achieve at least one of the following types of outputs: P – patent Z – pilot plant, verified technology, variety, breed F – Results of the legal protection – the utility model, industrial design
G – Outcomes – a prototype, working sample N – certified methodology, treatment, conservation methods, specialized map with expert content R – software
DELTA Program Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Projects can be supported only with partners from those countries, where technology or innovation agencies have established cooperation with Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. In the United States, collaboration, particularly in the area of transfer of know-how, was established with the National Science Foundation (NSF). The negogiations are being finalized with the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT).
DELTA Program – More Information Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
www.tacr.cz [email protected] [email protected]
Kontakt II program Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
KONTAKT II program is intended to support individual projects of international bilateral and/or multilateral cooperation in research and development, with special emphasis on bilateral cooperation with countries outside the European Union. Applicants shall mainly be public universities, public research institutions and other research entities. They may also be government departments or organizational units of the Ministry, engaged in research and development, as well as legal entities or natural persons, where research and development is the subject of their business, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises.
The financial resources shall be used to cover the costs associated with the implementation of basic research conducted as a joint project, which involves at least one partner research organization in each country.
Kontakt II program Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
Estimated duration of the program: 7 years (2011 – 2017) Duration of projects: 2 to 3 years Estimated total amount of aid from the state budget: CZK 594 mil. = approx. USD 25 mil.
Maximum support rate: up to 100 % of total project costs for basic research up to 50 % for applied research Expected ratio of expenditure on basis and applied research: 8:1.
More information - Kontakt II program Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
www.msmt.cz www.dzs.cz/en/american-science-information-agency AMVIA – American Science Information Agency supports the cooperation between Czech and American scientists on the basis of the Agreement between Czech and US governments, provides information and consulaton service, administers Czech-American S&T proposals within Kontakt II [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
More information
Overview of Czech R&D sector www.czechinvest.org/data/files/randd-brozura-komplet-web-4970.pdf
Thank you for your attention
Bořek Lizec, Ph.D. Consul General of the Czech Republic in Chicago [email protected] Martina East Trade Officer [email protected] Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Chicago 205 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1680, Chicago, IL 60601, U.S.A. Phone: +1 312 861 1037, ext. 100 Web: www.mzv.cz/chicago (featuring this powerpoint presentation and additional information materials on theh Czech R&D sector, including DELTA and Konakt II programs)
