We are pleased to announce the results of OPUS 30+LAP/Weave for projects carried out in bilateral or trilateral collaboration with research teams from Austria and Czechia. The total budget for the Polish part is over PLN 43.6 million.
Under OPUS, funding is available to all researchers, regardless of their academic degree or title, experience or age. Grants must be designated for domestic basic research projects or basic research projects carried out in international collaboration.
The autumn edition of OPUS calls follows the Lead Agency Procedure (LAP), whereby researchers working in Poland may seek funding for bilateral or trilateral research projects involving research teams from Austria, Czechia, Slovenia, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg or Belgium-Flanders. The LAP is an efficient international proposal evaluation procedure agreed upon by the research-funding agencies from the above-mentioned countries, including the National Science Centre. It relies on mutual trust to the quality of review and selection processes. Projects are evaluated once, in one country and by one agency only, while the other agencies approve the results of evaluation and award funding thereunder to their respective research teams involved in the international LAP projects. OPUS LAP proposals should provide for a balanced and complementary contribution of the participating research teams from two or three countries to the proposed research.
OPUS and OPUS LAP in numbers
A record number of proposals has been submitted to OPUS 30. Researchers working at the Polish research institutions have submitted 2,359 proposals for a total of over PLN 4 billion, including 267 LAP proposals for a total of over PLN 451 million. The first batch of results was published in June, when funding was awarded to 279 OPUS projects with a value of nearly PLN 571 million. Today, the number of winning projects is increased by another 26, including:
- 19 bilateral projects carried out by Polish and Czech research teams with a budget of PLN 30,441,129 for the Polish research teams,
- 6 trilateral research projects carried out by Polish and Austrian research teams with a budget of PLN 11,425,482 for the Polish research teams,
- 1 trilateral project carried out by Polish, Czech and Austrian research teams with a budget of PLN 1,762,229 for the Polish research teams.
The winning projects are managed by principal investigators from nine Polish cities, working in twenty different research centres. Six projects awarded in Humanities, Social Sciences and Art Sciences address, inter alia, cross-border communication, memoryscape of borderlands, urban life and business relations. In Social Sciences and Engineering, funding was awarded to nine projects covering fluid dynamics, distribution of tropospheric water vapour, and photophysics of xanthene dyes. Eleven grants will go to Life Sciences for projects carried out in collaboration with research teams from Austria and Czechia, focusing on photosynthesis and tick-borne pathogens, as well as ethical and legal concerns when sharing biospecimen.
The topics of recommended OPUS LAP projects carried out in collaboration with researchers from Austria and Czechia, as well as their abstracts for the general public, are available on the ranking lists:
OPUS 30+LAP/Weave ranking lists
OPUS 30+LAP/Weave ranking list for bilateral Polish-Czech research projects (.pdf)
OPUS 30+LAP/Weave ranking list for bilateral Polish-Austrian research projects (.pdf)
OPUS 30+LAP/Weave ranking list for trilateral Polish-Czech-Austrian research projects (.pdf)
Next results to be published soon
The winning applicants of OPUS 30+LAP/Weave will continue to grow. Approval is still pending for projects involving teams from Slovenia, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium-Flanders, in addition to Poland. The results will be published as soon as they are approved, and the final results of OPUS 30 will be available in autumn.