Fifteen research teams with the participation of Polish researches have been awarded funding for research projects in material science and material engineering under a call launched by the M-ERA.NET network.
Grants were available to international research consortia comprising at least three research teams from at least three countries participating in the call, i.e. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Spain, Israel, Canada, South Korea, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Germany, Poland, South Africa, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Taiwan, Turkey, Hungary and Italy.
382 pre-proposals were submitted to the call, followed by 101 full proposals. Funding was awarded to 31 projects involving 156 research teams.
A total of 15 research projects involving Polish researchers received funding, of which seven (for a total of 2.5 million EUR) will be funded by the National Science Centre and eight by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR).
Out of seven projects funded by the NCN, four will be coordinated by the Polish research teams and three will be carried out with the participation of Polish research teams:
- HerAqua: Innovative nano-carbon based electrochemical monitoring of female hormones. PI in the Polish research team and project coordinator: Dr hab. inż. Katarzyna Siuzdak, Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, PAS
- RESH: Renewable Energy via Sustainable Hydrogen. PI in the Polish research team: Prof. dr hab. Wojciech Macyk, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- BIONAFE: Bio-derived nanocarbon-based functional materials for next generation electroceutical devices. PI in the Polish research team and project coordinator: Dr hab. inż. Katarzyna Krukiewicz, Silesian University of Technology
- GREEN-MEM: Green materials for sustainable magneto-electronics memories: Dr inż. Anna Mandziak, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- SMARTPIEZO: Smart Piezoelectric Bio-based Osteochondral Construct as a Model for Drug Testing and Implantation into Joint Defects. PI and project coordinator: Dr hab. inż. Dorota Kołbuk-Konieczny, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS
- PECZIB: Photo-electrochemical Hydrogen Generation Integrated with Photo-chargeable Zinc Ion Battery, PI in the Polish research team: Dr Mykola Pavlenko, Adama Mickiewicz University in Poznań
- AH-Nano-Cat: Advanced Hybrid Nanomaterials for Efficient Photo(electro)catalytic Water Purification and Hydrogen Production. PI in the Polish research team and project coordinator: Dr Marta Mazurkiewicz-Pawlicka, Warsaw University of Technology