SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

GA ČR is an independent public organisation supporting basic research throughout all scientific fields from public funds. GA ČR is the only institution in the Czech Republic, which provides public funding exclusively for basic research projects.

For more information see https://gacr.cz/en/.

TA ČR is an organizational unit of the state that was founded in 2009 especially for preparation and realization of its own programmes of applied research, experimental development and innovation and realization of programmes from those governmental departments without public financial support

For more information see https://www.tacr.cz/en/.

MŠMT is is the central organ of the state administration for scientific policy, research and development, including international cooperation in this area, and for scientific titles.

For more information see https://www.msmt.cz/?lang=2.

The Ministry of Culture is is the central organ of the state administration for cultural development, including international cooperation in this area, and for education and research in culture and arts.

For more information see https://www.mkcr.cz/en.

Since 2017 MSK has especially supported science and research in the region through the programme for support of talented doctoral students.

The aim of the Internal Grant System of the Silesian University is to support the development of scientific, research, creative and artistic activities of academic staff through selected grants aimed at the development of science and art fields and the university. More information is available at univeristy website.

• Václav Podestát, Institute of Creative Photography – Presentation of ICP FPS SU students at the international photography festival Off_fesitval Bratislava 2023.
• Josef Moucha, Institute of Creative Photography – Participation of ICP FPS SU at the international festival Mounth of Photography 2023 in Bratislava.
• Jiří Siostrzonek, Institute of Creative Photography – Co-organization and active participation of the ICP at international photograpgy-sociology conference and workshop in Zabrze.
• Karel Poneš, Institute of Creative Photography – ICP FPS SU presentation at Art Market Budapest 2023.
• Jana Orlová, Institute of Movie, Television and Broadcast Creation – The bounderies between image, performance and the possibilities of documentation.

The aim of the Student Grant Competition at the Silesian University in Opava is to support specific university research projects, which is defined as research carried out by students in the implementation of accredited doctoral or master's study programs and which is directly connected to their education. The researcher of the student project is a student of the doctoral study program of the university or an academic staff member of the university. More information is available at univeristy website.

• Vladimír Birgus, Institute of Creative Photography – Czech, Slovak and Polish Photography of the 21st Century.
• Josef Botlík, Institute of Historical Sciences – Mapping the history of computers by searching digital and digitized information sources.
• Jiří Knapík, Institute of Historical Sciences – Forgotten Opava journalist and writer Zdeněk Jerman. Josef Heller (1910-1971) between Opava and Prague.
• Irena Korbelářová, Institute of Historical Sciences – Manifestations of socio-culturally conditioned mentalities in historical context.
• Jana Brožovská Onderková, Institute of the Czech Language and Library Science – Information behaviour and reading preferences of primary school pupils in the COVID 19 period.
• Michaela Dombrovská, Institute of the Czech Language and Library Science – Information literacy of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic / Phase III.
• Dušan Katuščák, Institute of the Czech Language and Library Science – Model of automatic transcription of historical document using Transkribus and PERO.cz platform.
• Monika Horsáková, Institute of Movie, Television and Broadcast Creation – Slovak Audiolibrary IV.
• Vratislav Janák, Institute of Archaeology – The significance of the settlement in Litomyšl – Nedošín 11 for the beginnings of the Early Neolithic in Poodří and Polabí.
• Anna Novotná, Institute of Computer Science – Media in Information Society.
• Petr Sosík, Institute of Computer Science – Nature-inspired computing and its applications.
• Miroslav Urbanec, Institute of Foreign Languages – Interpretation of the text in terms of genre analysis.