Owing to funding from the Weave-UNISONO grant, Dr hab. Dorota Michułka from the University of Wrocław will pursue a project in collaboration with German researchers. Polish research team will receive funding of over 422 thousand zlotys.
“(Self-)Positioning in transnational spaces – Children's narrations and narrations about children living transnationally” is the title of a project that will be carried out by a research team under the leadership of Dr hab. Dorota Michułka from the Institute of Polish Philology at the University of Wrocław. The German part of the project will be coordinated by Alexandra König and Jessica Schwittek from the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Transnational families are families in which members live separated from each other due to migration but maintain close ties with their relatives in the country of origin. The project aims at studying the experience of children aged 12-14 years who grow up in families struggling with migration and their (self-) positioning. The problem will be tackled from sociological and literary perspectives. As part of the project, an international conference will be organised, and teaching aids will be prepared on the basis of the project results. Research will focus on Poland and Germany.
The proposal was evaluated by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the evaluation results were accepted by the National Science Centre under the Weave collaboration.
Weave-UNISONO and Lead Agency Procedure
The Weave-UNISONO call builds on multilateral cooperation between the research funding agencies associated in Science Europe and aims at simplifying the submission and selection procedures for research proposals that bring to together researchers from two or three 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 a merit-based evaluation, the results of which are then approved by the other partners.
Under Weave, partner research teams apply in parallel to the Lead Agency and to their respective institutions. Their joint proposals must include coherent research programmes and clearly spell out the added value of international collaboration.
Under Weave-UNISONO, proposals are accepted on a rolling basis. Polish teams wishing to partner up with colleagues from Austria, Czechia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium (Flanders) are welcome to read the call text and submit their funding proposals.