CZARMA Board 

• Ida Součková Olšová, Chair
• Tomáš Mozga, Vice-chair
• Lenka Chvojková,
• Adéla Jiroudková,
• Jan Ostřížek,
• Hana Štěpánková,
• Petra Vaculíková.

Supervisory board:

• Aleš Vlk, Chair
• Michaela Ambrožová, 
• Eva Dvořáková, 
• Karolína Friessová,
• Veronika Palečková. 

Working groups chairs:

• Radka Preclíková (Professional development)
• Ladislav Čoček (Projects)
• Lenka Chvojková (Finance)
• Michal Hlavačka (Legal management)
• Lukáš Palko (Research politika)
• Tomáš Mozga (Human Resources)
• Blanka Collins (Mobility)
• Gabriela Langhammerová (Gender in research)
• Jiří Marek (Open Science)
• Dagmar Vokounová Franzeová (Science Communication)
• Zdenka Žampachová (Ethics)
• Ondřej Hradil (Research infrastructure)
• Michal Petr (Research evaluation)

Ida Součková Olšová has experience from various types of organizations - from state administration and local government, multinational companies to foreign universities to her current position at Masaryk University (MU). She has been involved in research projects and project support since 2012. Since this time the MU Rector's office managed to build a team of experienced experts on a wide range of research funding options. She is Chair of the Research Management Task Force within the Utrecht Network and is responsible for organizing REGON (Regional Grant Office Network) meetings from 2020.

Tomáš Mozga is a founding member of CZARMA. He studied molecular biology and genetics at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University in Brno. After spending five years in Uppsala, Sweden (2011-2016), he returned to the Czech Republic with the aim of developing the field of science project management and helping scientists prepare, submit and implement research projects. He has experience with ERC, EIC, EMBO, H2020, HE, MSCA, TAČR, GAČR, AVČR, MPO, MŠMT, OPVVV and scholarship projects. His hobby is mentoring active and creative students, leading courses in project management, professional development of scientific careers and international mobility, integration of expats and supporting the establishment of new research groups in the Czech Republic.

Lenka Chvojková is the National Contact Point (NCP) for financial issues of EU framework programs. She works in the TC Praha, where she is responsible for the coordination of activities in the field of financial, legal and administrative aspects of EU framework programs. She also worked for a year at the Czech Liaison Office for Research and Development in Brussels. She has been active in the field of project support since 2007. She was at the start of the working group of financial and project managers of universities and institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. She is the manager of a project focused on the cooperation of European National Contact Points and an expert of the EC Working Group for a model grant agreement.

Adéla Jiroudková works as the Head of the Department for Science and Research at Charles University (CUNI). Over the past 10 years, she has participated in various foreign workshops, continued her education and completed several internships at prestigious foreign universities. She considers her stay at KU Leuven (Netherlands) and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) as be essential. She is an active member in various university associations, in the past she was, for example, the vice-chair of the Research Support Officers Coimbra Group and was a member of the group that prepared a position paper for the European Commission on the new Horizon Europe framework program. At the CUNI, she was involved in the implementation of the HR Award and the Gender Equality Plan.

Jan Ostřížek has been involved in research and other projects, and in the project support since 2008. He currently works for the research center RECETOX of Masaryk University, where he deals mainly with the preparation of strategic, individual and infrastructure projects. He is the coordinator of the ERA Chair project, participates in the implementation of the Teaming project and in the preparation and implementation of the EIRENE Research Infrastructure. Currently, he serves as an evaluator of H2020/HEU projects and community projects. He also gained experience with community projects as a researcher during his doctoral studies. He also deals with the communication and evaluation of science and research.

Petra Vaculíková currently works as the head of the Project Support Center at the Faculty of Arts of the Palacký University in Olomouc, where she is responsible for the faculty's project strategy. She enjoys complex interdisciplinary projects in the humanities and social sciences. She has been involved in project management for 10 years, first in post-award positions as an administrator, later as a pre-award consultant for GAČR, TAČR, Norwegian Funds, etc., currently more as a research advisor in the pre-award phases of international projects with the label of excellence. She currently provides support to researchers mainly within Horizon projects (MSCA, ERC, Pillar II - especially cluster 2, widening calls). She has experience in the preparation and management of the Sinofon project (OPVVV, excellent research) and believes that cooperation and sharing are more than competition and competitiveness.

Aleš Vlk graduated in sociology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague and a in PhD programme in higher education policy at Twente Universiteit in the Netherlands. He has worked, among others, as a consultant at the Czechinvest Agency and at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS). Since 2008 he has worked mainly as a lecturer, facilitator and moderator at alevia. In 2016, he founded and until 2022 worked at the portal Vědavýzkum.cz, which provides information on research, development and innovation. Since September 2022, he has been Vice Dean for External Relations and Development at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of Charles University.

Eva Dvořáková has more than 10 years of experience in the field of project management: complex project support of research teams, search and monitoring of grant calls, preparation and submission of project proposals (experience with GAČR, TAČR, Ministry of Education and Culture - OP VK, OP VaVpI, OP VVV, Inter- Excellence, MPO - TIP, TRIO, OP PIK, Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, MoH of the Czech Republic, MoD of the Czech Republic, MK of the Czech Republic, H2020, MSCA, HORIZON EUROPE, INTERREG EUROPE, LIFE+, COSME, CORNET), administration, financial and personnel management of projects, contract negotiations, preparation of documents for public contracts. She works in Liberec at VÚTS, a.s.

Karolína Friessová is the manager of foreign projects at the VŠCHT Prague Project Center. She has been involved in project support since 2011. She has experience mainly with international programs (framework programs of the European Commission, Interreg CE, EEA and Norwegian funds), partially also with projects of national providers (GAČR, TAČR, MŠMT). For her work, she uses experience from her previous scientific career and two-year stay in Germany during her PhD. Currently, she is engaged in both the pre-award and post-award phase of projects. She is the PI of the project Office for the support of international projects and support for the integration of foreign researchers in the Czech Republic, expanded by the information platform for the support of innovations in the field of food (KOMPAS) awarded as part of the INTER-INFORM program of the MEYS.

Veronika Palečková currently holds the position of head of the Project Office of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where she participates in the preparation of national and international research projects. She has held various positions in the field of science and research support since 2002. As part of her work in the office of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and in the international cooperation department of the Office of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, she represented the Czech Republic in the steering committees of many international programs and groups. She thus had the opportunity to actively participate in project support at both sides - from providers and beneficiaries.