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Professor Pavel Jungwirth, founder of the Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship, passed away suddenly on Thursday, July 23, at the age of 60. He was instrumental in establishing the Fellowship, which helps early-career researchers pursue their research while caring for young children, and remained actively involved in its development throughout the years. Read more

Applications are now open for the 2027 Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship. The fellowship supports early-career researchers who are striving to combine excellent research with primary or equally shared care for a preschool-aged child. Applications may be submitted until September 15, 2026. Read more

IOCB Foundation – this is the new name of our foundation, which, together with its new logo, reflects a closer connection with IOCB Prague, where our founder, IOCB Tech, also has its roots. We are embarking on a new chapter in which we aim to become a leading philanthropic player in technology transfer in the Czech Republic. Read more

Linda Štucbartová has been appointed the new chair of our foundation’s board. She succeeds Barbara Eignerová, the foundation’s long-serving chair and a founding member of the board. A well-known entrepreneur and lecturer, joins the foundation in its fifth year of operation, at a time when it is undergoing a transformation aimed at expanding its resources to provide systematic support for the technology transfer ecosystem in the Czech Republic. Read more

Dr. Klára Kosová, this year’s recipient of the Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship explores how the values that hold democracy together are formed in people’s minds. “I don’t want to do science just for the sake of science. I want it to have a real impact – so that people can recognize authoritarian tendencies and say for themselves that this is not the path they want to take,” she says in the interview. Read more

According to statistics from the Donors Forum, which annually maps the development of philanthropy in the Czech Republic, we once again ranked among the most generous corporate foundations in 2024, placing 15th. Over the course of the year, we awarded 57 foundation grants and, for the first time, exceeded the threshold of CZK 20 million distributed. Read more

The IOCB Tech Foundation announced 15 new recipients of the Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship. The fellowship of CZK 150,000 will help them next year to balance parenting responsibilities with the start of their academic careers and to stay connected to the world of top-level science. Read more

At the end of July, the International Linguistics Olympiad took place in Taiwan – and with our support, a Czech team took part. Every member earned an individual award – one silver medal, two bronze medals, and an honorable mention – in a field of 228 participants from 43 countries. Read more

As of July, the IOCB Tech Foundation board has welcomed a new member, Prof. Martin Fusek from IOCB Prague and IOCB Tech. He takes over from Dr. Zuzana Kečkéšová, who stepped down at the end of June due to other work commitments. Read more