MOBILITY Activity Innovation 2012, December 4-7, 2012

MOBILITY Activity  Characteristics  Aims and Goals  Financial Aspect  Partnership Countries  Projects

MOBILITY Activity - Characteristics  Activity designed for international cooperation  Institutions active in the field of research and development  public universities, public research institutions or other research entities classified as a research organization  natural persons  All fields of science  Industry, IT, Agriculture, Medical Sciences, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences  bilateral cooperation  Czech research team  foreign partner team

MOBILITY Activity – Aims and Goals  strengthening the international scientific cooperation  assistance in establishing and developing contacts between researchers and scientists  support of the mobility of researchers working on international research projects  bolstering mutual relations between countries through scientific and technological cooperation  contribution to the increasing of general knowledge

MOBILITY Activity – Financial Aspect  Funding of travel and accommodation costs  Sending party covers travel costs of its researcher  Receiving party covers living expenses on spot  Financial support limits  One joint project max CZK/year (European) max CZK/year (non-Europe)  Short-term visits (1 to 15 days) CZK daily  Long-term visits (1 to 3 months) CZK monthly  One trip CZK (Europe) CZK (non-Europe)

MOBILITY Activity – Partnership Countries  the Czech Republic + one European/Non-European country  Current projects (2012)  Argentina -15 projects  France - 24 projects  Germany -12 projects  Austria - 30 projects  Greece -15 projects  Slovakia - 50 projects  Slovenia -15 projects  Total number: 161 projects underway

MOBILITY Activity – Current Projects  Three concrete projects underway in 2012  Czech-Slovak Project  “Number Theory and its Implications“  Czech-French Project  “Involvement of Tau in neuronal functions of ghrelin: a new target for Alzheimer‘s disease?“  Czech-Argentinian Project  “Magnetosphere-ionosphere-troposphere coupling and its impact on ionospheric variability“

MOBILITY Activity – Czech-Slovak Project  Number Theory and its Implications  University of Ostrava  cooperation with Institute of Computer Science Academy of Science of the Czech Republic  Foreign partner: University of J. Selye in Komárno, Slovak Republic  Field: General Mathematics  Category of Research: Fundamental  Aim: to provide a frame for a process of proving new results in the number theory  Total financial support: CZK ( CZK per year)  2-year project ( )

MOBILITY Activity – Czech-French Project  Involvement of Tau in neuronal functions of ghrelin: a new target for Alzheimer‘s disease?  Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Academy of Science of the Czech Republic  Foreign partner: Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale  Field: neurology, neurosurgery, endocrinology  Category of Research: Fundamental  Aim: to study the effects of ghrelin agonist and antagonists that are potential anti-obesity compounds  Total financial support: CZK (first year)  2-year project ( )

MOBILITY Activity – Czech-Argentinian Project  Magnetosphere-ionosphere-troposphere coupling and its impact on ionospheric variability?  Institute of Atmosphere Physics Academy of Science of the Czech Republic  Foreign partner: Instituto de Ciencias Astronómicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio  Field: Atmosphere Sciences, Meteorology, Navigation  Category of Research: Fundamental  Aim: to carry out a qualitative and quantitavive analysis of the magnetosphere-ionosphere-troposphere coupling and its effects  Total financial support: CZK ( CZK per year)  2-year project ( )

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