Programme ZEMĚ, applied research in agriculture: open call

The Ministry of Agriculture (Ministerstvo zemědělství, MZe) has announced a call for proposals in the programme for the support of applied research of the Ministry of Agriculture “ZEMĚ II” in the Sub-programmes I and II. Deadline is 4. 6. 2025.

If you plan to apply in this call, please, contact well in advance the Project Management Department (Romana Hogenová, romana.hogenova@natur.cuni.cz), so that all the formal requirements of the application can be prepared in time.

• Call announcement and documentation (in Czech).
• Research needs of the Ministry of Agriculture in call 2025, Detailed description of research needs 2025 (both in Czech) – topics to be supported by the Sub-programme II, 2025 call.
• Call webpage (in Czech) – updates regarding this call should be published here.
• Programme webpage (in Czech).
• Projects successful and unsuccessful in the previous calls (all in Czech): Sub-programme I (2023, source): Bioeconomy, Smart agriculture, Global changes in the biosphere; Sub-programme II (2024, source): Bioeconomy, Smart agriculture, Global changes in the biosphere.

Sup-programme I

• Supports research for the benefit of business and services in the agricultural sector.
• Projects addressing complex and multidisciplinary topics falling under at least one of the following three key areas will be supported: Bioeconomy, Smart agriculture, Global changes in the biosphere.
• The main applicant must be a research organisation, at least 1 enterprise must participate as a partner.
• Project duration is 24–60 months.
• Funding rate is up to 85 % for the entire project (and up to 100 % for research organisations).

Sup-programme II

• Supported projects must focus on one of the research needs of the Ministry of Agriculture defined for the call (Overview of the research needs for 2025, Detailed description of the 2025 research needs, both in Czech).
• The main applicant must be a research organisation, other research organisations or enterprises can participate as partners.
• Project duration is 24–48 months.
• Maximal funding rate for research organisations is 100 %.

Research needs for Sub-programme 2025 include (the titles are simplified and roughly translated to English):

• Bioeconomy
  • Determination of typical values of environmental criteria for agricultural and food products and enterprises
  • Long-term sustainable production of common zander hatchlings
  • Epidemiology of Grapevine flavescence dorée phytoplasma
• Smart agriculture
  • Update of agricultural production areas in the context of climate change and changing soil characteristics
  • Modern horticultural technological practices
  • Applying smart farming principles to hop drying
  • Testing the tolerance of wheat varieties to Tilletia caries
  • Use of drones for the application of plant protection products
  • Incorporating slow-growing broilers into production farms
  • Protecting grazing livestock against predators using smart technology
  • Assessing clearings, securing coppice and forest cover using low-cost methods, including the use of remote sensing technologies
  • Prevention of the occurrence and development of bacterial diseases in poultry farms
  • Multiplex detection and quantification of plant constituents in foodstuffs by molecular biology methods
  • Establishment of a physicochemical method for the demonstration of milk treatment by methods alternative to pasteurisation
• Global changes in the biosphere
  • Water erosion in cereal crops
  • Effective control of soil conservation technologies
  • Development of groundwater resources for water supply
  • Ecology of the Dama dama in a period of extreme population boom
  • Using the results of the National Forest Inventory of the Czech Republic to report greenhouse gas emissions
  • Varroasis: Methodology for the control of animal health and mandatory vaccination

News published by Ludmila Součková on 16. 4. 2025.

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