A research team from Poland in tandem with Slovenian partners will perform international research on luminescent materials under the Weave Programme. The budget of the Polish part of the project is over PLN 1.5 mln.
A team headed by Dr Karolina Elżbieciak-Piecki from the Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences has been granted funding for its project “Novel materials based on lignin from biomass with enhanced luminescent activity”. Their research will focus on luminophores, i.e., a synthetic fluorescent substance. Luminophores are present in our daily live, for example in the lighting industry, image intensifiers, luminous paint, and X-ray machines. Their application is cost-efficient and environment friendly, therefore researchers have worked on new methods of their application and production for many years. The goal of the team headed by Dr Karolina Elżbieciak-Piecki is to develop a method for producing high-intensity carbon luminescent dots from lignin that will enable the development of efficient and low-cost luminophores with controlled emission properties. Research will be conducted in tandem with the Slovenian research team headed by Dr Jelena Papan Djaniš from the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.
The project was recommended for funding following a merit-based evaluation by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARIS) in its capacity of the Lead Agency under the Weave Programme. The National Science Centre, a partner under the Weave Programme, has accepted the results of the evaluation and decided to award funding to the Polish research teams.
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.