Researchers from Poland and the Czech Republic will carry out joint research projects within the framework of NCN’s collaboration with the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR). Researchers will be awarded nearly 5 million zlotys for their research. Four projects will be performed in Physical Sciences and Engineering, and one in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Prof. Dr hab. inż. Janusz Datta from the Gdańsk University of Technology has been awarded funding for his project “Sustainable polyurethanes: from cradle to grave with the help of enzymes”. Dr Martin Halecký from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague and Dr Hynek Benes from the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences will be the principal investigators. The project will receive funding of over 1 million zlotys.
Quantum geometric representation theory and noncommutative fibrations will be studied by Prof. Tomasz Brzeziński from the University of Białystok and Dr Réamonn Ó Buachalla from the Charles University in Prague. The Polish part of the project will have a budget of nearly 920 thousand zlotys.
Prof. Marek Sikorski will work on the project “Photoredox catalysis with organic anions – perspective area for flavin derivatives”, together with Prof. Radek Cibulka from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague as the principal investigator on the Czech part. The Polish part of the project will have a budget of over 1.4 million zlotys.
Nearly 840 thousand zlotys was awarded to the project on graded differential geometry with applications which, on the Polish part, will be managed by Prof. Dr hab. Janusz Grabowski from the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He will pursue research in collaboration Dr Oleksii Kotov from the University of Hradec Králové and Dr Jan Vysoky from the Czech Technical University in Prague.
In Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, funding of over 550 thousand zlotys will go to Dr hab. Stanisław Pijaj from the Jagiellonian University for his project “Civil society and the birth of elections: the voting culture of the 1848 Revolution on the example of the Bohemian lands, Galicia, and Bukovina” which will be performed together with Dr Luboš Velek from the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Republic.
Recommended projects have been evaluated by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) as the Lead Agency. The National Science Centre approved the results of evaluation under the Weave collaboration and decided to fund projects recommended by the GACR.
Weave-UNISONO
The Weave-UNISONO call is the result of multilateral cooperation between research-funding agencies associated in Science Europe and aims at simplifying the submission and selection procedures for research proposals that bring together researchers from two or three different European countries in any discipline of science.
The selection process is based on the Lead Agency Procedure (LAP), under which only one partner institution is responsible for merit-based review 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 programmes 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.