The results of this year’s Weave-UNISONO are starting to come in and we already know the name of the first winner! A team of researchers headed by Prof. Dr hab. inż. Jerzy Pamin from the Krakow University of Technology will work on metals and their properties. With a budget of nearly PLN 681,000, the project will be carried out in cooperation with Prof. Dr inż. Andreas Menzel from TU Dortmund University.
Entitled Thermomechanical analysis of propagating instabilities in metals: from experiments to reliable numerical prediction, the project is aimed at developing a computational model for use in mechanical and civil engineering. The scientists expect that their research should contribute to a safer design for structures working under extreme loading and enable a resource-efficient design of structural components made of materials that exhibit propagating instabilities, especially metal alloys.
The proposal was evaluated at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in its capacity as the lead agency. More ranking lists will be published successively as results from other agencies start coming in.
Weave-UNISONO
The Weave-UNISONO call is the result of multilateral cooperation between research-funding agencies that make up the Science Europe association. It aims to simplify submission and selection procedures for research proposals that bring together researchers from two or three different European countries in any academic discipline.
The selection process is based on the Lead Agency Procedure (LAP), under which only one partner institution is responsible for merit-based evaluation and the others simply accept the result.
Under Weave, partner research teams apply in parallel to the lead agency and their relevant domestic institutions. Their joint proposal must include coherent research plans and clearly spell out the added value of international cooperation.
The Weave-UNISONO call accepts proposals on a rolling basis. Polish teams wishing to partner up with colleagues from Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium-Flanders are encouraged to carefully read the call text and submit their funding proposals.