Weave-UNISONO grant will feed into two research projects performed by researchers from Poland and Switzerland. They will analyse discussions on generative AI on social media platforms and conduct research leading to more personalised radiotherapy method of cancer treatment.
Dr hab. Marcin Koszowy from the Warsaw University of Technology, together with Swiss researchers from the Universita della Svizzera italiana, will conduct the project: “Reasons of the others: concession and counterargument in polylogues”. The researchers will investigate patterns of concession and counterargument (CO(u)N patterns) in discussions of Generative AI and LLMs on social media platforms.
Dr hab. Antoni Ruciński from the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, alongside the Swiss researchers from the University of Zurich, will conduct research leading to more effective and personalised proton radiotherapy method of cancer treatments. The researchers will seek to apply a new approach to incorporate nanoscale calculations into the treatment planning process and validate them experimentally. This approach will allow for more precise predictions of how radiation affects cancer and normal tissue cells during radiotherapy, thus improving treatment planning methods and allowing for a highly precise delivery of radiation.
Proposals submitted to Weave-UNISONO were evaluated by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the evaluation results were approved by the National Science Centre under the Weave collaboration.
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Weave-UNISONO is launched under the Weave Programme within the framework of multilateral cooperation between research funding agencies associated in Science Europe. The programme aims to simplify the submission and selection procedure of research proposals in all academic disciplines, involving researchers from two or three European countries.
The selection process relies on the Lead Agency Procedure (LAP) according to which a full merit-based evaluation is performed by one partner institution, whilst the other partners approve its results.
Under the Weave programme, partner research teams submit their funding proposals to the lead agency as well as their respective research-funding agencies. Joint proposals must include a coherent research programme and identify the added value of international cooperation.
Weave-UNISONO is carried out on an ongoing basis. Research teams intending to cooperate with partners from Austria, Czechia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium-Flanders are encouraged to read the call text and submit their funding proposals