Czech Phycological Society

Basic information

• Amount of the scholarship: 10 000 CZK

• Periodicity: once a year

• Date of submission: 30 April of the calendar year

• Start of the trip must take place in the same calendar year

• Number of scholarships: 1

Rules for awarding

• The scholarship is not intended to cover the full cost of the internship, but to supplement other resources available to the applicant. The applicant must provide evidence of the means of financing the internship.

• CPS will not support students who have travel fully covered by, for example, other grant projects. Typically, support is given to, e.g., Erasmus students as the programme usually does not cover the full costs of the trip.

• There is no minimum duration of the stay abroad.

• The applicant must be a member of CPS with paid membership fees.

• Slovakia does not count as a foreign destination.

• Foreign students must not travel to their country of origin.

• The applicant must be a full-time student of a master's or doctoral programme at a university in the Czech Republic. The student must be in the standard period of study or a maximum of one extra year.

• All research activities are supported, including both laboratory internships and field sampling.

Structure of the project proposal

• Title
• Identification of the applicant
• Date of expected stay abroad
• Recommendation of the supervisor
• Host institution or field sampling area
• Content and objectives of the fellowship
• Benefits of the fellowship for the applicant
• Expected outcomes
• Length: maximum 2 A4 pages, font size 11, line spacing 1

Evaluation process and review period

• Proposals will be submitted via email to the Chairman of the CPS Petr Dvořák (p.dvorak@upol.cz)
• The proposal must include the signature of the student and his/her supervisor.
• Proposals will be reviewed by the CPS board members within one month after the date of submission.
• If the student is supervised by a board member, one independent expert will be invited.
• The Committee reserves the right not to award any scholarship if all proposals fail to meet the formal requirements or are not of appropriate quality.
• Once the decision has been made, the successful applicant will be notified by email and the scholarship will be transferred to his/her account.
• If the fellowship does not take place, the money will be returned to CPS.

After the end of the internship

• A final report will be submitted no later than one month after the end of the internship
• It will include the fulfilment of the objectives, the duration of the internship and its results
• Length: 1 A4 page
• The report must include the signature of the scholarship holder
• The report will be delivered to the email of the Chairman of the CPS Petr Dvořák p.dvorak@upol.cz

RNDr. Oldřich Lhotský, 1927-2021

Graduated in plant physiology at Charles University in Prague and worked on desmids. He had to interrupt his scientific career in the 1950s for political reasons and worked in the sanitary service and even as a forest worker. After the situation became more relaxed, he joined the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Třeboň and became involved in nature conservation. However, he is most famous for his 40 years as executive editor of Algological Studies (since 1968), which opened the first and for many years the only opportunity for Czech phycologists to publish in English. The publishing house sent him to international phycological conferences where he presented the journal. He used every such opportunity to travel to explore the area and capture local nature on photographs, which he showed at the working conferences of the phycological section of the Czech Botanical Society. He was a gourmet and loved to taste local specialities. He had a specific mischievous humour, loved Šumava and Třeboň region, led countless excursions to their wetlands, gave lectures for the general public, collected phycological bibliography and in the times when there was no internet, he could find any publication.