About CEITEC

• Vision
• Goals
• Strategy
• Core Facilities
  • Nanolithography and Nanofabrication
  • Nanocharacterisation
  • Structural Analysis Laboratory
  • Nanobiotechnology and Biointeractions
  • Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction
  • High-field NMR Spectroscopy
  • Cryo-electron Microscopy and Tomography
  • Proteomics
  • Genomics
  • Molecular and Functional Imaging
• Management of the Centre
• Time Scales
• Financing
• Visualisation
• Project Partners
  • Masaryk University
  • Brno University of Technology
  • Mendel University in Brno
  • University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno
  • Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • Veterinary Research Institute

Strategy

CEITEC is a very large and ambitious project; it is therefore necessary to clearly define the main strategic steps. These will lead to fulfilling the stated goals, to the successful completion of the Vision of the CEITEC project.

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• To attract and support
  the best scientists
  (local and international)
• The best infrastructure (a network of shared and specialized laboratories)
• Focus on scientific excellence (supported by a system of management and regular evaluation)
• Transparent and effective rules for cooperation with real world applications

Main points of the CEITEC strategy:

• To attract and support the best scientists (local and international)

CEITEC aims to become a centre of scientific excellence in terms of the results of studies, which will have an impact not only on European science. The quality of science is fundamentally dependent on the professional qualities of the participating scientists. To enable CEITEC to achieve unique results, we must be able to offer attractive conditions for the best scientists in their fields.

• The best infrastructure (a network of shared and specialized laboratories)

One indicator of a quality level of work environment is top-quality equipment. CEITEC will be associated with the best laboratory equipment, which provide optimum conditions for the emergence of new discoveries. An indisputable advantage of concentrating cutting-edge equipment in one place, i.e. key devices into logical, thematically defined units accessible to all researchers centers- „core facilities“. High-tech infrastructure will serve as a motivator to attract and support top experts from around the world.

• Focus on scientific excellence (supported by a system of management and regular evaluation)

CEITEC must maintain scientific excellence throughout its operation, to be constantly able to produce excellent results. The foundation of this will be regular evaluation of the quality of scientific performance conducted by an independent team of top international experts on the relevant subjects.

• Transparent and effective rules for cooperation with real world applications.

The vision of the project is to contribute to the quality of life and human health, which can be achieved only by active cooperation with other bodies. Given that the research teams in CEITEC will be motivated to cooperate with real world applications, it’s necessary to set rules on how cooperation can be run, to make contact with the commercial sector simpler, more accessible and transparent. To this end CEITEC intends to make use of all approved forums, including, for example, custom and contract research.