Výzkumný ústav
pivovarský a sladařský (VÚPS)

PUBLIC RESEARCH

Veřejný výzkum VÚPS

In the Czech Republic, research, development, and innovation are financed from public sources, specifically from the state budget, through two main methods: institutional support and targeted funding.

The Research Institute of Brewing and Malting, a.s. uses two types of public support:

1. Institutional support 

– provided, among other things, for the long-term conceptual development of a research organization based on its evaluated results. Support is allocated in accordance with the applicable Methodology for Evaluating the Results of Research Organizations by the relevant provider.

2. Targeted funding

– focuses on supporting specific projects and grants that are announced in public project competitions. The competitions are sponsored by their providers:

The institute is listed among research organizations maintained by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The list includes research organizations that have demonstrated compliance with the defining characteristics of an organization for research and dissemination of knowledge as set out in European Union regulations (EU Commission Regulation No. 651/2014, Article 2, point 83), including verification of the data entered. At the same time, it reports sufficiently high-quality results of its scientific activities in the evaluation, VÚPS, a.s. is among the research organizations supported by the Ministry of Agriculture that are eligible for institutional support.

In accordance with the Ministry of Agriculture’s Research, Development and Innovation Concept, VÚPS, a.s. has developed a long-term concept for the development of a research organization (DKRVO), which represents the general framework for the activities of the research organization for the years 2018–2022. Its text can be found here. It also participates in public project competitions and, thanks to the quality of its projects, receives this form of support from various providers.

Projects at RIBM that were selected through public project competitions

GACR
  • Augmentation of the effect of the biocontrol agent Pythium oligandrum with cold plasma against fungal biofilms, 2025 – 2027 (25-16506S)
  • Augmentation of the effect of the biocontrol agent Pythium oligandrum with cold plasma against fungal biofilms, 2022 – 2024 (GA22-13745S)
  • Humulus Lupulus L. – source of substances with antimicrobial effect, 2014 – 2016 (GA14-10233S)
  • Anaerobic food spoiling bacteria and their biofilm forming potential,
    2012 – 2014 (GAP503/12/1424)
  • Study of the chemical changes of barley caryopses after an attack by pathogens to monitor and improve the quality of barley and its derived food produ, 2006 – 2008 (GA525/06/0663)
  • Research on nutritional quality of young parts of plants of agricultural crops to develop “green” food supplements and curative cosmetics., 2005 – 2007 (GA525/05/0781)

TACR

  • Reducing the environmental burden of malting houses by recycling process water, 2025-2026 (TQ15000020)
  • Biological protection of barley during malting, 2024-2028 (QL24010109)
  • Biorefining and circular economy for sustainability, 2023 – 2028 (TN02000044)
  • Prediction of sensory stability of beer by infrared spectroscopy and artificial intelligence, 2021 – 2024 (FW03010440)
  • Biotechnological centre for plant genotyping, 2018 – 2022 (TN01000062)
  • Spontaneous fermentation in wine production as a manageable technology, 2017 – 2020 (TH02030280)
  • Centre for Innovative Use and Strengthening of Competitiveness of Czech Brewery Raw Materials and Products, 2014 – 2019 (TE02000177)

  • Development of the equipment for physical treatment of seeds and malt using low-temperature plasma, 2014 – 2017 (TA04021252)

  • Research and development of sensor system for determination of diacetyl in beer, 2011 – 2013 (TA01011363)

MEYS
(The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports)

  • LO1312 Sensory Research Centre in Prague and Brewhouse for research and development – sustainability and development, 2014 – 2019
  • EE2.4.31.0026 Support of transfer of innovations in agriculture, food processing industry and bioenergy into use, 2012 – 2014
  • EE2.3.35.0013 Partnership for the R and D promotion in the area of agriculture, food industry and bioenergy, 2012 – 2014
  • ED3.2.00/12.0236 Special Library of Applied Research in Agriculture, 2013 – 2015
  • 2B08057 Development of modern methods to authenticity assessment of “Czech beer”, 2008 – 2011
  • 2B08049 Free and bound forms of fusarium mycotoxins in cereals and processed products; strategy of control and minimisation., 2008 – 2011
  • 2B08022 Improvement of the brewery microbiological control system focused on lowering the risk of contamination of alcohol-free, low-alcoholic and unpasteurized beers by strictly anaerobic bacteria of the genus Pectinatus,
    2008 – 2011
  • 2B06037 Development of new methods for characterization of nonfermentable extract that allow identification and evaluation of composition of dextrins typical for Czech beer, 2006 – 2010
  • 1M0570 Research Centre for Study of Extract Compounds of Barley and Hop, 2005 – 2011

MA
(Ministry of Agriculture)

  • QL24010109 Biological protection of barley during malting, 2024 – 2028
  • QK21010136 Application of new varieties and genotypes of drought-resistant hops to cultivation and brewing practice, 2021-2025
  • QK1910197 The strategy for minimizing the impact of drought on sustainable production and barley malting quality, 2019 – 2023
  • QJ1310091 Malting barley for the “Czech beer”, 2013 – 2017
  • QI91B227 Significance of hop beta acids for Czech beers, 2009 – 2013
  • QI111B053 New procedures in utilisation of agricultural products improving food quality, safety, competitiveness and consumer?s nutritional and health benefit, 2011 – 2014
  • QI101B090 New processes of production of functional cereal and dairy foods and functional beverages with content of bioactive ingredients from selected vegetable and animal agricultural commodities and with probiotics and procedures for their quality estimation., 2010 – 2014
  • QH91053 Improvement of barley grain quality using donors with differentiated content of natural compounds with ambivalent nutritional effects, 2009 – 2011
  • QH82277 Study of barley polyphenoloxidase diversity in relation to quality and production stability, 2008 – 2012
  • QH81056 Study of enzymatic activity for increasing biological potential of spring malting barley, 2008 – 2012
  • QG60130 Minor crops for specific food utilization, 2006 – 2009
  • QG50041 Quality and safety factors and their relationship with cereal quality parameters, 2005 – 2009
MIT (Ministry of Industry and Trade)
  • FV30332 The modular technological platform for process control of beer production, 2018 – 2021
  • FI-IM5/067 Research and development of technology susceptible to produce the beer for people with celiac disease (gluten free beer),
    2008 – 2010
  • 2A-2TP1/031 Research of technologies and preparation of an unique line for fermentation of historical strains of brewing yeasts for industrial purposes., 2007 – 2011

MC (Ministry of Culture)

  • DG18P02OVV067 Culinary Heritage of the Czech Lands: Memory, Presentation and Education, 2018-2022
  • DG16PO2R017 Viticulture and enology for maintaining and restoring cultural identity wine regions in Moravia, 2016 – 2020

OP Prague Competitiveness

MLSA (Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs)

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Výzkumný ústav pivovarský a sladařský, a.s.
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