Internal Competition – Publishing, app. deadline 11 Jan 2027
The Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA), Brno University of Technology (BUT), announces an internal competition aimed at supporting book publication. The competition is open to FFA BUT academic and research staff, students (enrolled in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes), FFA BUT alumni and external applicants with ties to FFA BUT.
Key Dates:
- Project submissions: 5 October 2026 – 11 January 2027 (online);
- Project evaluations: 12–29 January 2027;
- Announcement of results: by 31 January 2027;
- Financial closure: in the first half of November 2027 (for one-year projects) and 2028 (for two-year projects), with specific dates provided annually by the faculty’s Economics Office.
The competition aims to support the publication of printed and/or electronic works in the years 2027–2028.
The competition is open to academic and research staff, students enrolled in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes, FFA BUT alumni and external applicants with ties to FFA BUT. Applications will only be considered if the applicant has fulfilled all previous commitments related to their publishing activities. Priority will be given to (scholarly) publications for which FFA BUT acts as a publisher or co-publisher. Where a publication is supported for release in an FFA BUT series or co-edition, the principal investigator is obliged to follow Dean’s Guideline No. 4/2022 (Publishing Activities of the Faculty of Fine Arts BUT). The principal investigator shall be responsible for ensuring the academic quality of the manuscript, the high standard of the publication’s graphic design, the proper use of financial resources and full compliance with labour and copyright regulations. All members of staff and students of the Faculty are required to state their affiliation with FFA BUT in the publication. The deadline for documenting and reporting the supported publication in the BUT VaVIS system (research outputs) or in the Register of Artistic Outputs (RUV; artistic outputs) is the end of February 2028 for one-year projects and the end of February 2029 for two-year projects.
There is no upper funding limit for projects.
Priority will be given to original publication outputs:
- Peer-reviewed monographs (RIV-B);
- Artist’s books / art books;
- Textbooks for FFA BUT courses.
If submissions in these categories are insufficient, other types of publications, including catalogues and experimental works, will also be considered. Definitions of RIV result types under Methodology 25+ are available here (in Czech).
The Vice-Dean for Publication Activity is available for consultations regarding application submissions and project details.
Application Process and Evaluation Criteria:
- Applications must be submitted online at: https://forms.gle/u78KdDAK9jPunHgU8. Use your BUTlogin (in the format BUTlogin@vutbr.cz) and BUTpassword. If you encounter login issues, try opening the link in an anonymous browser window and sign in to the University cloud using the credentials above.
- Applications must include a description of the publication, the names of all contributors, a detailed project timeline, a cost calculation and information on the intended method of publication.
- Applications will be reviewed by the Faculty’s Editorial Board.
- The evaluation criteria include adherence to the competition conditions, the manuscript’s degree of completion (readiness for publication), the importance of the publication for the development of the Faculty’s creative (research and artistic) activity, its importance for the representation of the Faculty, its potential for evaluation in RIV and/or RUV, its contribution to the field of Humanities and the Arts (FORD 6), the appropriateness of costs, the quality of the applicant’s (or project team’s) previous results and their prior publishing experience.
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FFA Editorial Plan
| Author | doc. MgA. Filip Cenek |
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| Short URL | https://www.favu.vut.cz/en//f30380/d370232 |