A Polish research team is among the winners of a call organized by CHIST-Era European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies. The scientists will receive more than 1.1 million zlotys in funding for their international project, entitled Interventions against Polarisation in Society for TRUSTworthy Social Media: from Diagnosis to Therapy, headed and coordinated by Dr hab. Katarzyna Budzyńska from the Warsaw University of Technology.
The CHIST-ERA CALL 2021 covered the following research areas:
- Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems for ICT (NOEMS);
- Foundations for Misbehaviour Detection and Mitigation Strategies in Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM).
All the international research projects funded under the scheme are scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of 2022.
The purpose of CHIST-ERA is to support research in Information and Communication Science and Technologies (ICST). Thus far, the network has launched 12 international calls for proposals bringing together teams from different member countries. The National Science Centre joined the consortium in 2013.
A new call, CHIST-ERA ORD, is currently taking in proposals for international research projects related to open and re-usable research data and software (CHIST-ERA Call Open & Re-usable Research Data & Software). Funding is available to international consortia composed of at least three research teams from a minimum of three different countries. The principal investigator in the Polish team must hold a PhD degree. The deadline is 14 December. More details can be found in the official call announcement.
In November, CHIST-ERA is planning to announce yet another call, CHIST-ERA Call 2022, devoted to the following issues:
- Security and Privacy in Decentralised and Distributed Systems (SPiDDS);
- Machine Learning-based Communication Systems, towards Wireless AI (WAI).