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Over the next three years, nearly two hundred children and their parents, researchers at the Czech Academy of Sciences, will benefit from a substantial financial donation. The funds will go towards the administration of six children’s groups in Prague and subsidized places for children in Brno. The parents of the youngest children will thus find it easier to combine their childcare duties with those of their demanding scientific careers.  Read more

A call for joint project proposals within the framework of the MIT-Czech Republic Seed Fund is open until 12 December 2023. The call is open to all scientific disciplines. Read more

We accept applications for the Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship for 2024. Stipends of CZK 150,000 for one year support young researchers in the field of natural sciences who strive to combine competitive scientific research with care for a preschool child or children. Read more

We have made a donation of CZK 240,000 to the Endowment Fund of the Faculty of Science, Charles University. The donation will be used for scholarships for PhD and Master's students of the faculty going on internships to gain valuable experience in foreign scientific workplaces. Read more

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