Research and development

Prof. Dr. Eduard Schmidt, Vice-Rector

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In the year 2000, the Academic Council of MU met five times. The Council was regularly informed by the Rector of the affairs of Masaryk University, and it discussed 30 motions for the conferring of the degree of Professor, honorary academic degrees and Great Gold, Gold and Silver Medals of Masaryk University. It also discussed proposals for the accreditation, or the extension of accreditation, of doctorate study programmes, full-and associate-professorship disciplines, and proposals for Research Centres.

full Professorships and associate professorships

The Academic Council of MU discussed 30 motions for the appointments of full professor, of which 28 were recommended

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vilém Novák, (OU Ostrava), mathematics

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vlastimil Švec, pedagogy

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marie Vítková, pedagogy

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petr Dubový, anatomy

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eva Hadašová, medical pharmacology

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zdeněk Kadaňka, neurology

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Milan Dzurilla, (FS UPJŠ Košice), organic chemistry

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petr Čornej, (FE UK Prague), Czech history

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zdeněk Adam, internal medicine

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zdeněk Měřínský, Slavonic archaeology

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Miroslav Holík, physical chemistry

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jan Lasovský, (FS UP Olomouc), physical chemistry

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jan Slovák, mathematics – geometry

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vilém Novák, (OU Ostrava), mathematics – algebra and theory of numbers

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ondřej Došlý, mathematics – mathematical analysis

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boris Vyskot, BFÚ AV CR, molecular biology and genetics

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jaroslav Meluzín, internal medicine

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Helena Kurzová, (FE JU České Budějovice) comparative Indo-European linguistics

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lubomír Slavíček, history of arts

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gerlinda Šmausová, (Saar University Saarbrücken), sociology

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zuzana Brázdová, hygiene, preventive medicine and epidemiology

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Věra Semrádová, dermatovenerology

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Naďa Hrčková, (FA UKo Bratislava), musicology

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Václav Holý, physics of condensed substances

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vladimír Nekuda, (Moravské zemské muzeum), Slavonic archaeology

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jaroslav Hroch, philosophy

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stanislav Stuchlík, (FPF SU Opava), ancient archaeology

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Milan Novák, geology with an emphasis on mineralogy and petrography.

The Academic Council discussed one motion for conferring the degree of associate professor.

The Academic Council conferred the degree of Doctor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences on

• Prof. Dr. Zdeněk Ryjáček

• Prof. Dr. Václav Slavík and the degree of Doctor of Sciences of Arts on

• Prof. Dr. Slavomír Wollman

 

FULL PROFESSORSHIPS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSORSHIPS

      The year 2000 marked a significant increase in the number of successful full professor degree conferment procedures, which balanced the decrease from the year before. The number of associate professor degree candidates has showed a steady slight decline, which is probably due to the increasing demands on the candidates and MU possibilities. The age averages are still not ideal, although the number of candidates in younger age brackets has increased compared with previous years. The relative number of women, particularly in the full professorship category, rapidly increased.

Tab. 1a – Full professorship appointments in 2000

 Tab. 1b – Associate professorship appointments in 2000

Faculty	Total	MU	Women	Average age	Range	Discontinued
FM	8	4	2	46.6	45–52	0
FA	7	2	2	51.9	40–61	0
FL	2	2	0	50.5	45–56	1
SchSS	1	0	0	48.0	48	0
FS	18	12	2	44.2	36–65	0
FI	2	2	0	40.5	29–52	0
FE	3	2	2	46.7	37–57	0
FEA	1	1	0	63.0	63	0
MU	42	25	8	48.9	36–65	1

  

Tab. 1c – Number of full professorship and associate professorship appointments at MU

	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Full Prof.	25	19	19	16	18	13	18	11	30
Assoc.Prof.	53	74	52	55	62	57	69	46	42

Tab. 1 d  – Average number of teachers between 1 Jan. 2000 and 31 Dec. 2000

Faculty	Full professors	Associate professors	Senior assistants  II	Senior assistants  I	Assistants	Lecturers	Foreign lecturers	Research workers.	Total
FM	38,90	76,40	132,48	51,09	6,95	2,60	0,00	1,25	309,67
FA	27,45	33,30	50,55	39,74	8,50	3,00	7,00	2,00	171,54
FL	4,00	27,20	30,25	6,00	4,00	0,00	0,00	0,00	71,45
SchSS	3,00	11,35	9,50	9,33	3,00	1,00	0,00	0,00	37,18
FS	34,35	74,85	85,30	3,00	0,00	3,00	0,00	4,00	204,50
FI	5,58	11,50	9,90	3,75	2,90	0,75	0,00	15,34	49,72
FE	11,60	52,60	58,55	82,03	1,75	5,14	5,75	0,00	217,42
FEA	7,15	17,30	9,73	20,55	4,95	0,00	0,00	0,55	60,23
Other MU instit.'s	0,00	2,00	7,50	17.00	5,00	42,50	2,00	0,00	76,00
MU	132,03	306,50	393,76	232,49	37,05	57,99	14,75	23,14	1 197,7

The overall full-to-associate professors ratio at MU is good. Problems remain in the Assistants category with its relatively large number of senior assistants without Ph.D. (senior assistants I), and partly also in the associate professors category, which also includes those appointed without having submitted the thesis.

 

Tab. 1e – Average age of full professors

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
FM	62	62	62	61	60	59
FA	64	64	65	65	64	65
FL	60	61	61	60	54	56
SchSS				61	62	63
FS	61	61	61	60	69	58
FI	60	61	62	63	63	63
FE	65	64	64	65	65	65
FEA	65	64	65	66	66	66
RO	0	0	0	0	0	0
MU	62	63	63	62	61	61

 

Tab. 1f – Average age of associate professors

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
FM	54	55	54	53	53	53
FA	54	54	52	53	52	51
FL	47	47	48	48	49	50
SchSS				46	46	48
FS	51	52	53	53	53	52
FI	49	50	50	49	49	49
FE	55	55	55	56	56	57
FEA	54	55	54	55	56	57
RO	50	51	52	53	54	55
MU	53	53	53	53	53	53

Tab. 1 g – Average age of senior assistants

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
FM	42	43	43	43	42	41
FA	42	41	41	41	40	41
FL	36	36	37	37	37	39
SchSS				38	36	35
FS	42	43	43	42	40	41
FI	37	37	38	39	38	39
FE	43	43	43	44	44	44
FEA	44	42	43	42	44	39
RO	43	44	45	45	41	49
MU	42	42	42	42	41	41

DoCtoral studies

Tab. 2a – Number of students in doctoral study programmes at 31 October 2000

	CR			International students			Total			No. of grad.'s
	full-time	combined	total	full-time	combined	total	full-time	combined	total
FM	60	280	340	12	6	18	72	286	358	19
FA	113	392	505	5	21	26	118	413	531	17
FL	2	72	74	1	0	1	3	72	75	11
SchSS	58	59	117	3	3	6	61	62	123	8
FS	266	204	470	13 (3)	2	15 (3)	279 (3)	206	485(3)	51
FI	59	12	71	2 (1)	2 (1)	4 (2)	61 (1)	14 (1)	75(2)	1
FE	46	70	116	1 (1)	1 (1)	2 (2)	47 (1)	71 (1)	11(2)	14
FEA	34	50	84	5	7	12	39	57	96	7
Total	638	1 138	1 777	42 (5)	42 (2)	84 (7)	680 (5)	1 181 (2)	1 861 (7)	128

 ( ) – number of students paying tuition fees

  

Tab. 2b – Number of doctoral study programme graduates

	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	784	902	1 050	1 110	1 296	1 378	1 561	1 861
Graduates	2	31	51	84	84	108	106	128
Full time (%)	19	18	18	26	31	36	35	37

These figures are very much like 1999 statistics. It means that the overall number of students in the doctoral study programmes has been growing but the relative number of graduates has levelled out and is fairly low.

 

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

The thematic focus of research and development at MU as described in its 1999 Annual Report has remained practically unchanged. The same is also true about international cooperation in research and development. For new developments, visit www pages of individual faculties.

Tab. 3a – Research and development projects at MU in 2000

•  CR – Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

• LN – Research Centres

• MSM – Research focus

• VS – Enhancement to research at schools of higher education

• LB – Development of information infrastructure – MoEYS of the CR

• LI – Information sources for research and development – MoEYS

• RS, LS – Research for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS)

• IGA – Internal Grant Agency of the Ministry of Health

• AV CR – Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the CR

• ME – KONTAKT

• LA – INGO

• OC  – COST

 Tab. 3b – Applied projects dealt with at MU in 2000

	HEDF	Teach. prog.	MoH	Others	No. of foreign	Total	000's CZK (foreign)	000's CZK (total)
FM	10	0	6	0	0	16	0	2 395
FA	3	1	0	0	8	12	2 414	3 098
FL	0	0	0	0	1	1	59	59
SchSS	5	0	0	0	1	6	494	1 234
FS	34	2	0	0	1	37	266	7 570
FI	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1 650
FE	6	27	0	0	3	36	508	9 854
FEA	1	0	0	0	2	3	154	224
ICS	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2 000
CFE	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	656
DFL	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	393
MU	62	32	6	0	15	116	3 895	29 133

 

 Tab. 3c – Total numbers of R&D projects and applied projects at MU in 2000 

	R&D	Applied	Total	000's CZK (R&D)	000's CZK (applied)	000's CZK  (total)
FM	35	16	53	31 791	2 395	34 186
FA	23	12	35	12 184	3 098	15 282
FL	4	1	4	411	59	470
SchSS	18	6	24	12 834	1 234	14 068
FS	130	37	167	117 942	7 570	125 512
FI	21	1	22	15 076	1 650	16 726
FE	8	36	44	1 812	9 854	11 666
FEA	6	3	9	2 168	224	2 392
ICS	4	1	5	3 445	2 000	5 445
CFE	0	2	2	0	656	656
RO	2	0	3	386	0	386
DFL	0	1	1	0	393	393
MU	251	116	369	198 049	29 133	227 182

  

Tab. 3d – R&D projects and applied projects between 1992 and 2000

	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number	16	164	196	254	302	300	353	336	369
000,000's CZK	6,4	36,7	65,8	90,3	135,5	98,6	149,2	153,2	227,2

 

                 The total volume of funds has much increased compared with 1999, which reflected better opportunities and the launch of new R&D programmes. The rate of growth is, however, still less than satisfactory, and it probably does not utilize fully the MU potential. The weak point is the low success rate in the area of foreign projects.

An examination of results brought to an end the five- or four-year projects from the Enhancement to research at schools of higher education programme.

• VS 96084 –  “Joint laboratory for applied physics of plasma and plasma chemistry”  (Janča)

• VS 96095 –  “Biomolecule structure and dynamics laboratory” (Koča)

• VS 96096 – “Laboratory of plant molecular physiology” (Brzobohatý)

• VS 96097 –  “Molecular pathophysiology of some civilisation mutagenic-based diseases ” (Vácha)

• VS 96102 – “Laboratory of thin layers and nano structures” (Humlíček)

• VS 97020 – “Laboratory of plasma sources for chemical analysis” (Otruba)

• VS 97027 – “Laboratory for researches into children and young people” (Smékal)

• VS 97028 – “Laboratory of natural language processing” (Pala)

• VS 97031 – “ Use of image analysis in the study of the mechanisms of the onset, diagnostics and prevention of serious human diseases (Kozubek)

• VS 97032 – “Analysis of biologically important molecular complexes” (Fajkus)

The examination of the results showed that all the project achieved the objectives, i.e. the building of independent research departments, and met the requirements of the Czech MoEYS for a transition to research centres. The continuation of activities of all of the departments in the future is thus secured.

Masaryk university had 2 research centres approved, namely the “Biomolecule structure and dynamics laboratory“ (Prof. J. Koča, FS) and the “Centre of research into personality formation in ethnic and social contexts” (Prof. V. Smékal, SchSS). MU also participates in the work of the "Centre for work with patristic, medieval and renaissance texts" (Prof. J. Nechutová, FA) at Palacký University in Olomouc.

 Tab. 3e – Number of R&D projects and funds per teacher from individual faculties

Faculty	Teachers      (total)	Projects	Projects per teacher	Total funds      (000's CZK)	000's CZK per teacher
FM	309,67	35	0,12	31 791	103
FA	171,54	23	0,14	12 184	71
FL	71,45	4	0,06	411	6
SchSS	37,18	18	0,49	12 834	345
FS	204,50	130	0,64	117 942	577
FI	49,72	21	0,43	15 076	303
FE	217,42	8	0,04	1 812	8
FEA	60,23	6	0,10	2 168	36
Other MU institutions	76,00	6	0,08	3 831	50
MU	1 197,71	251	0,21	198 049	1499

  

Tab. 3f – Number of applied projects and funds per teacher from individual faculties 

Faculty	Teachers  (total)	Projects (total)	Projects per teacher	Total funds   (000's CZK)	000's CZK per teacher
FM	309,67	16	0,06	2 395	8
FA	171,54	12	0,07	3 098	18
FL	71,45	1	0,02	59	1
SchSS	37,18	6	0,17	1 234	33
FS	204,5	37	0,19	7 570	37
FI	49,72	1	0,03	1 650	33
FE	217,42	36	0,17	9 854	45
FEA	60,23	3	0,05	224	4
Other MU institutions	76,00	4	0,06	3 049	40
MU	1197,71	116	0,10	29 133	24

 

Tab. 3g – Number of all projects and funds per teacher from individual faculties 

Faculty	Teachers (total)	Projects (total)	Projects per teacher	Total funds in 000's CZK	000's CZK per teacher
FM	309,67	53	0,18	34 186	110
FA	171,54	35	0,21	15 282	89
FL	71,45	4	0,06	470	7
SchSS	37,18	24	0,65	14 068	378
FS	204,50	167	0,82	125 512	614
FI	49,72	22	0,45	16 726	336
FE	217,42	44	0,21	11 666	54
FEA	60,23	9	0,15	2 392	40
Other MU institutions	76,00	11	0,15	6 880	91
MU	1 197,71	369	0,31	227 182	1719

Tabs 3 e, f and g give an opportunity to compare R&D funds per teacher received by individual faculties.

Although faculty characteristics vary widely, the differences in grant volumes are even more dramatic. The FS, SchSS and FI are way above the average. The FM unfortunately cannot claim grants whose recipients are teaching hospitals (22,503,000 CZK). The division of data into tables 3e, f and g was necessary because grants are classified differently in applications for institutional subsidies for general research from the MoEYS.

Publication activities

Tab. 4 – Publication activities in 2000 

Faculty	Monographs		Papers in proceedings		Articles in journals		Other texts		Textbooks	Popular texts	Patents
	CR	abroad.	CR	abroad.	CR	abroad.	CR	abroad.
FM	51	5	503	192	638	182	92	20	69	115	1
FA	62	12	175	97	141	17	311	18	20	134	0
FL	14	1	63	20	145	18	15	4	17	58	0
SchSS	13	1	31	6	26	2	90	13	5	105	0
FS	22	18	210	198	147	275	88	89	26	41	3
FI	2	1	41	60	18	19	27	3	6	33	0
FE	24	5	198	53	57	11	267	14	47	184	0
FEA	13	5	113	31	50	11	57	1	27	19	0
MU	201	48	1 134	657	1 222	535	856	162	217	689	4

In spite of the differences in the totals of individual categories compared with 1999, the volume of publication activities may be characterized as stabilized. Summed up in the table are figures from widely different disciplines, and no qualitative parameters are considered.

The data are based on the citation frequency of works by individual authors, results of defence procedures of individual projects and documents of full- and associate-professorship appointment procedures.

The data do not cover the area of artistic achievements. Those can be obtained from faculty sources.

recognition by the academic community

 Tab. 5 – Recognition by the academic community in 2000 

Fac.	Membership in committees of grant agencies		Membership in committees of learned societies		Organization of international conferences		Editors of memorial volumes		Editors of trade journals		Invitations to lecture		Invitations for study stays		Chairing     international conferences		Expert opinions		Prizes, honorary awards
	CR	abroad	CR	abroad	CR	abroad	CR	abroad	CR	abroad	CR	abroad	CR	abroad	CR	abroad	CR	abroad	CR	abroad
FM	26	0	156	23	50	15	30	2	102	25	473	101	13	37	123	72	290	22	44	10
FA	28	0	103	18	9	8	54	4	57	5	110	90	2	45	7	5	81	14	7	3
FL	3	0	14	2	4	1	14	1	6	2	89	25	0	14	4	0	94	5	1	0
SchSS	17	3	11	1	2	2	12	0	8	0	22	24	0	4	1	0	8	0	0	0
FS	35	2	68	21	30	18	29	3	48	18	84	107	4	71	6	18	64	24	6	5
FI	2	2	7	6	7	9	1	2	6	3	19	62	0	5	0	2	13	24	12	1
FE	22	0	51	5	10	6	33	7	12	2	247	117	6	55	5	3	15	2	3	0
FEA	4	0	56	5	5	3	8	0	7	2	13	13	1	5	7	1	86	0	0	0
MU	137	7	466	81	117	62	181	19	246	57	1 057	539	26	236	153	101	651	91	73	19

PRIZES AND MEDALS