Major research project CEITEC approved by the European Commission

CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology is a major research infrastructure project to be set up in Brno, Czech Republic.

In June 2011, European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn approved the project. With budget of more than €210 mil it is striving to interconnect research in life sciences and technical fields.

Funding for the new European centre of excellence will come from EU Structural Funds. This investment shall help to improve the existing capacities in basic and applied research not only in Brno in order to increase competitiveness of Czech research in the EU and on international level.

The project is developed by a consortium of universities and research institutes from Brno, which is led by the Masaryk University. For more information see http://www.ceitec.eu.