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Representatives of the Neuron Endowment Fund, the IOCB Tech Foundation and other partners gathered at the residence of Israeli Ambassador Anna Azari to launch the first year of the Neuron & IOCB Tech Internships in Israel student scholarship program. Read more

Parenthood and cutting-edge science – two missions that require the whole person, but which young scientists at the beginning of their career often struggle to combine due to the lack of sufficient institutional support. This is why many of them quit science before they can change the world or why they postpone parenthood so as not to lose touch with science early in their careers. The Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship seeks to help them in this situation. The IOCB Tech Foundation will now support ten researchers with a total of CZK 1.5 million. Read more

On the basis of the merger agreement from 13 October 2022, IOCB Tech Foundation merged with Martina Roeselová Foundation. Our foundation is the successor entity, Martina Roeselová Foundation ceased to exist. Read more

Kateřina Sam, a recipient of the Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship, returned to České Budějovice in 2017 to head the Laboratory of Multitrophic Interactions at the Institute of Entomology of the Biological Centre of the CAS. A year later she received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant. Read more

IOCB Tech Foundation accepts applications for the Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship for 2023. Stipends in the amount of CZK 150,000 for one year support young researchers in the field of natural sciences who strive combining competitive scientific research with care for a preschool child or children. Read more

Our foundation has agreed with the Martina Roeselová Foundation to merge and take over its philanthropy. Read more

The foundation supported with the amount of CZK 7 milion five child care groups established by the Centre of Administration and Operations of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the children of employees of CAS institutes and their foreign interns. Read more

We donated CZK 180 thousand to the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague. The donation provides special financial support to six master or postgraduate students for one year. Read more

With CZK 200,000, we supported the Jaroslav Heyrovský Endowment Fund and its Jaroslav Heyrovský Award for gifted high school students and their teachers and mentors who support them in their growth. Read more