Provision of the Dean No. D127

on doctoral student income

Article I
General Provisions

This provision of the Dean of the Faculty of Science (hereinafter referred to as FSc) has been updated in response to the upcoming amendment to Act No. 111/1998 Coll. on Higher Education, and its purpose is to prepare the environment of the FSc for the future legal obligation of providing guaranteed doctoral study income.

According to this provision, students who are undertaking their first study in one of the doctoral study programmes at FSc are entitled to a doctoral study income, if they are studying within the standard study period in full-time form.

Article II
Amount of Support

Effective from the winter admission procedure term to doctoral study programmes (DSP), held in January 2025 and onwards, newly admitted students are required to receive financial support (in addition to the regular doctoral scholarship) for the entire standard period of study. The amount of financial support is determined for different sources of funding as follows:

   1) at least a 50% employment contract with a minimum gross salary base of CZK 34,000, provided from any grant title (especially GAČR) for the duration of the project or usually for at least two consecutive years

or

   2) when the support is not provided from a grant title, the doctoral student is supported by a stipend amounting to at least CZK 14,000 or by at least a 50% employment contract with a minimum base of CZK 34,000 gross salary, funded by the department's resources, or by the budget of institutions with extended accreditation of a specific DSP.

The decision on the form of support is within the authority of the heads of departments or directors of institutions with extended accreditation of a specific DSP, with consideration of the current situation of individual students and their mandatory participation in health insurance, as outlined in Annex 1 of this provision.

Financial support is guaranteed for the entire duration of the standard study period by the signatures of the department head, or the director of the institution with extended accreditation of a specific DSP, and the grant principal investigator or grant proposal author on the admission protocol, particularly the Planned dissertation project form.

Article III
Other Provisions

This provision replaces the version dated April 26, 2024.
This document comes into effect on the day of issuance.

In České Budějovice

prof. RNDr. František Vácha, Ph.D.
Dean of the Faculty of Science USB

Annex 1

Information on compulsory participation of doctoral students in health insurance*:

1. student (citizen of the Czech Republic) – health insurance is covered by the state during the standard period of full-time form of the first doctoral study

Exceptions are cases where the student is over 26 years old and is also employed (regardless of the extent of employment) or is self-employed.

Student from the EU countries – up to 26 years of age, they are insured in the country where the family's primary earner is a resident, i.e. most often where the parents live. In the Czech Republic, their EU health insurance card is valid for necessary health care. Over 26 years old, they must arrange commercial insurance in the Czech Republic

Exceptions are cases where the student has permanent residence in the Czech Republic, or is employed or self-employed.

2. student from non-EU countries (i.e. third countries) - must always arrange commercial insurance in the Czech Republic.

Exceptions are cases where the student has permanent residence in the Czech Republic, or is employed or self-employed.

In case the student is employed at USB, the payment of health insurance to the relevant health insurance company is handled by the USB payroll office.

* This information may change with changes in Czech legislation.