ERA Chair at J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry CAS - The institutional approach towards ERA
"ERA Chairs projects aim to attract and maintain high quality human resources under the direction of an outstanding researcher while at the same time implementing structural changes necessary to achieve excellence on a sustainable basis."
J. Heyrovský Chair project makes part of concerted actions of management of the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry to induce structural changes, which will help develop Institute´s most promising potential in long-term perspective, and turn into recognized, widely known research body. It is envisaged that this project will result in meeting the following main objectives:
Increase of scientific excellence
Support of structural changes within the Institute
Enhancement of international visibility and attractiveness
Improvement of human resources and capacities
Maintenance of sustainability of introduced changes.
"ERA Chairs stand for bringing excellence to institutions."
Full involvement of ERA Chair holder, steady support from the management of the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, and personal participation of its members in the project activities are the best prerequisites for the project success. The five-year duration of the projects focuses on reaching specific objectives, defined as follows:
Excellent research team
Excellent internal cooperation
Excellent scientific results.
By addressing the main and specific objectives, the J. Heyrovský Chair project will result in unprecedented interdisciplinary depth of knowledge, will change the institutional culture by strengthening the spirit of collaboration, and will create supportive measures inducing changes in the administrative setting.
Monitoring and advisory role at the project implementation provides Project Advisory Board (PAB), consisting of internationally recognized researches with scientific and managerial expertise. Members of PAB come from six different research organizations, from five European countries:
Prof. Dr. Timo Jacob, Ulm University, Germany - PAB chair
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Diebold, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Prof. Dr. Joachim Heberle, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Prof. Philipp Kukura, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prof. Peter Rapta, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
Thanks to the ERA Chair project, the Department of Nanocatalysis was established at J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry.
RNDr. Štefan VAJDA, CSc., Dr. habil. – ERA Chair holder, head of Department of Nanocatalysis
J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry
RNDr. Jan HRUŠÁK, CSc. – project coordinator
J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry
Klaudie SOUKUPOVÁ – project manager
J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry
Programme: Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
Funding Scheme: CSA - Coordination and support action
Topic: WIDESPREAD-03-2017 - ERA Chairs
Coordinator: J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry
Grant agreement ID: 810310
Start date: July 1, 2018
End date: December 31, 2023
