The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic has published the preliminary parameters of the 1st public tender of the 3rd sub-objective of the TACR SIGMA programme, the announcement of which was made at the end of August.

The allocation of the competition is planned to be 500 million EUR. The maximum support per project is CZK 12 million. CZK. This sub-objective is aimed at strengthening the social sciences, humanities and arts (SHUV) in applied research and innovation activities and the application of the outputs of these activities in the form of new or substantially improved products, procedures, processes or services, and is a follow-up to the closed ÉTA programme.

More information and all the conditions for the submission of a project proposal will be provided in the tender documents on the day of the call for proposals, which is scheduled for 26th October 2022.
The tender period is expected to end on 14th December 2022.

More information can be found on the TACR website.

We kindly ask those interested in participating in this competition to contact the Research and Development Department as soon as possible.

A representative of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic will present the calls prepared under the new programme on 5 October 2022 at 9.00. The event will be held in a hybrid format. Information on the event and the application form for attendance can be found here.