Dr hab. Grigor Sargsyan from the Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences is the winner of the Weave-UNISONO call. He will receive nearly 975 thousand zlotys for a research project carried out jointly with Austrian researchers.
Dr hab. Grigor Sargsyan together with Dr hab. Eskew Monroe from the University of Vienna will carry out a research project “Generic large cardinals and determinacy”. The researchers aim to describe the connections between the set theory where generic cardinals are analysed and the study of the models of the Axiom of Determinacy (AD stating that certain infinitive games are determined). The researchers also intend to develop dense ideals by forcing (a technique for proving consistency and independence results), with the assumption that large cardinals exist. To achieve their goals, they will use classical methods that will be extended and generalised, as well as novel methods.
The proposal has been evaluated by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in its capacity of the Lead Agency. The National Science Centre has approved the results of the evaluation within the framework of collaboration under the Weave programme.
Weave-UNISONO and the Lead Agency Procedure
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 a 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 read the call text and submit their funding proposals.