Online lecture by Prof. Yonatan Gutman

Tue, 12/21/2021 - 12:07
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The National Science Centre and the Copernicus Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Jagiellonian University have organised a number of online lectures under the title „Science at the Centre” during which winners of 2020 and 2021 NCN Awards discussed their research work.

Prof. Yonatan Gutman, winner of the 2021 NCN Award in Physical Science and Engineering will discuss his work on 22 December 2021, at 6 p.m. His lecture is entitled “The reconstruction of a dynamical system based on observations: mathematical approach”.

Prof. Yonatan Gutman works at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Science. His area of expertise is the theory of dynamical systems, in particular topological and ergodic dynamics. He studied at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Stanford University and earned his PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, followed by a postdoctoral degree (habilitation) at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has also completed numerous postdoctoral fellowships, including at Cambridge and Oxford.

The lecture will be in English with Polish subtitles.

The lecture will be streamed online on the YouTube channel of the Copernicus Centre where other lectures are also available, i.e. 

In English with Polish subtitles:

  • Dr Sebastian Glatt (How our body translates mRNA into proteins?)  

In Polish:

  • Dr hab. Michał Tomza, Jak wystresować kota Schrödingera? [Training Schrödinger’s cat]
  • Prof. Wojciech Fendler, MikroRNA w radioterapii – nadzieje, rozczarowania, zastosowania [MicroRNA in radiotherapy: hopes, disappointments and application]
  • Prof. Jakub Growiec, 300 tysięcy lat wzrostu gospodarczego [300 thousand years of economic growth]
  • Dr Paweł Polkowski, Wyspa petroglifów: 10 lat badań w egipskiej oazie [Petroglyph Island: 10 years of research in the Egyptian oasis]

Polish-Austrian collaboration in Weave-UNISONO

Tue, 12/21/2021 - 11:36
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The results of the Weave-UNISONO call for research projects conducted by Polish and Austrian researchers are now published.

The National Science Centre supports international research collaboration which is why it is involved in the Weave-UNISONO call aimed to fund bilateral and trilateral research projects with Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany and soon with Luxembourg and Belgium-Flanders. As a result of NCN’s collaboration with the Austrian research-funding agency Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) that has acted as the lead agency, 2 research teams from Poland will soon be able to start their research do to funding of their research with the Austrian partners totalling over 1.34 million PLN.

Under Weave-UNISONO, Dr hab. Piotr Tadeusz Borodulin-Nadzieja from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Wrocław will collaborate with the Austrian research team for a period of 3 years. Over 388 thousand PLN was awarded to the project Analytic P-ideals, Banach spaces and measure algebras. Barnabas Artur Farkas from the Vienna University of Technology will be the principal investigator in the project.

Dr Piotr Jan Szewczak from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw will conduct research in set-theoretic aspects of topological selections. Dr Lyubomyr Zdomskyy from the Institute of Mathematics at the Vienna University will be the principal investigator of the foreign partner. Over 955 thousand PLN was awarded to the project.

The first results of the Weave-UNISONO call were published together with the Swiss National Science Foundation on 27 September 2021 and the next results were published on 14 December together with Grantová agentura České republiky (GAČR) from the Czech Republic.

Weave-UNISONO – forecasted proposal submission deadline for research projects carried out jointly with research teams from Slovenia

Fri, 12/17/2021 - 14:58
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NCN proposals must be submitted electronically via the ZSUN/OSF submission system as soon as possible following the submission of the joint proposal to the ARRS, within 7 calendar days at the latest.

Please read the important information on the dates and application procedure in the Weave-UNISONO call and the updated call documentation.

2022 NCN Call Timeline now available

Thu, 12/16/2021 - 14:27
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The table below presents a preliminary timeline for calls operated by the National Science Centre in the year 2022.

The call timeline does not include multilateral calls launched by the international networks of research funding agencies, including the NCN, which are announced and pre-announced on the NCN website all year round according to the decisions of the participating agencies.

2022 call timeline

TYPE OF CALL CALL ANNOUNCEMENT CALL DEADLINE CALL RESULTS
WEAVE-UNISONO continous call, in line with partner agencies call timelines depend on the time of publishing results by partner agencies

MINIATURA 6*

continuous call, open from 1 February to 31 July 2021

OPUS 23

PRELUDIUM 21

POLONEZ BIS 2

15 March 15 June December 2022

SONATA BIS 12

MAESTRO 14

15 June 15 September

March 2023

OPUS 24 + Weave

PRELUDIUM BIS 4

SONATA 18

POLONEZ BIS 3

15 September 15 December

OPUS 24+Weave, SONATA 18, POLONEZ BIS 3 – June 2023

Weave – depends on the time of accepting evaluation results by partner agencies, November 2023 at latest

PRELUDIUM BIS 4 – May 2023

SONATINA 7

SHENG 3

15 December 15 March 2023

SONATINA 7 – September 2023

SHENG 3 – November 2023

* calls schedule might be changed in the course of the year

 

Download the 2022 NCN Call Timeline

Five Polish research groups among the winners of the international JPI Urban Europe call

Thu, 12/16/2021 - 08:52
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The JPI Urban Europe network has awarded funding to 16 new research projects within the EN-UTC Urban Transformation Capacities Call 2021 covering the call topics on:

  • Urban circular economies;
  • Community-based developments and urban innovation ecosystems;
  • Robust and resilient urban infrastructure and built environment.

The total budget of awarded projects amounts to 16,8 M EUR, including 4,2 M EUR of European Union co-funding.

The following projects with Polish researchers were awarded within the EN-UTC Call 2021:

U-GARDEN: Promoting capacity building and knowledge for the extension of urban gardens in European cities. Polish Applicant: Group of entities - Warsaw University of Technology (Leader of the group of entities) in cooperation with the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Member of the group of entities). Polish Principal Investigator: dr hab. inż. Maciej Kazimierz Lasocki. The project will involve research teams from Spain, Romania, and Sweden.

CREST: Climate resilient coastal urban infrastructures through digital twinning. Polish Applicant: Group of entities - National Institute for Spatial Policy and Housing (Leader of the group of entities) in cooperation with the Kołobrzeg Commune (Member of the group of entities) and INnCREASE Sp. z o.o. (Ltd.) (Member of the group of entities). Polish Principal Investigator: dr hab. Bogna Gawrońska-Nowak. The project will involve research teams from France and Norway.

CONTRA: Conflict in Transformations. Polish Applicant: Group of entities - University of Warsaw (Leader of the group of entities) in cooperation with the Municipality of Gdynia (Member of the group of entities) and IDEA Institute Ltd. (Member of the group of entities). Polish Principal Investigator: dr Joanna Monika Krukowska. The project will involve research teams from Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway.

City&Co: Older Adults Co-Creating a Sustainable Age-friendly City. Polish Applicant: Group of entities - Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Leader of the group of entities) in cooperation with the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Member of the group of entities). Polish Principal Investigator: dr hab. Jolanta Małgorzata Perek - Białas. The project will involve research teams from  the Netherlands and Romania.

EmbedterLabs: Better Embedded Labs for More Synergistic Sustainable Urban Transformation Planning. Polish Applicant: Gdańsk University of Technology. Polish Principal Investigator: dr inż. Joanna Beata Bach - Głowińska. The project will involve research teams from the Netherlands and Sweden.

The aim of the JPI Urban Europe is to finance international, interdisciplinary research projects that respond to the challenges of modern cities and urban areas. The National Science Centre has been cooperating with the JPI Urban Europe network since 2015.  

The implementation of research projects funded within the EN-UTC Call 2021 will start in 2022. More information and the full list of projects recommended for funding can be found at JPI Urban Europe website.

“Nature” publishes an article by an NCN Award 2020 winner’s research team

Wed, 12/15/2021 - 17:47
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The experimental system, photo by Freiburg UniversityThe experimental system, photo by Freiburg University Scientists from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, headed by Dr hab. Michał Tomza, and an experimental team led by Professor Tobias Schaetz at the University of Freiburg, were the first to observe Feshbach resonances between a single ion and ultracold atoms. An article that presents their research results has just been published in “Nature” and even made it to the cover of the magazine.

Dr hab. Michał Tomza is a physicist and chemist specializing in the description of matter at ultralow temperatures, as well as the theory of interactions and collisions between ultracold atoms, ions and molecules. In 2020, he won the NCN Award in physical sciences and engineering for his theoretical description of such phenomena.

Funded under the NCN’s OPUS programme and entitled “Ultracold quantum mixtures of ions with atoms, molecules, and Rydberg atoms: novel hybrid systems and applications”, the research project published by “Nature” was carried out in 2017-2021 by a research team at the University of Warsaw, which also included Dariusz Wiater, a Phd candidate, Agata Wojciechowska, an MSc student, and Dr Krzysztof Jachymski, a member of the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in cooperation with researchers from the German research centre.

Laboratory at the Faculty of Physics, photo by M. Kaźmierczak/Warsaw UniversityLaboratory at the Faculty of Physics, photo by M. Kaźmierczak/Warsaw University

The microscale quantum world

The world around us has a quantum nature that we cannot see in our daily life. It does come to light, however, at very low temperatures, which allow phenomena such as superfluidity or superconductivity to manifest. A good example of quantum matter can be found in the form of ultracold atom gases cooled down to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. Under such conditions, interactions between atoms can be controlled by means of electromagnetic fields, using Feshbach resonances. Magnetic Feshbach resonances significantly increase the frequency of collisions when molecular energy states are adjusted to the energy of colliding atoms. The scientists from the University of Freiburg and the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw were able, for the first time, to observe and explain such resonances between a single ion and ultracold atoms.

 

In the experiment, resonances were observed as an increase in the probability of ion loss due to interaction with atom pairs for specific values of the magnetic field. The scientists were also able to demonstrate an increase in the frequency of two-body collisions in the proximity of the resonance, which allows the ion to be cooled down effectively. Through a theoretical analysis, they were also able to determine previously unknown interaction parameters and predict the position of the resonances that were not initially detected by the experiment.

Blazing the trail for next-generation experiments

Ultracold ion-atom systems have a variety of potential applications such as quantum computations and simulations, but they require temperatures much lower than those of neutral atomic gases. Several experimental groups have spent years working toward this success, with the computational support of, e.g. the Warsaw physicists. The results blaze the trail for next-generation experiments, as it will now be much easier to control the quantum state of the ion. A lower energy and a longer lifetime allow new phenomena to be investigated and generate new and interesting quantum matter states which, on the one hand, will help us better understand the quantum nature of our world and, on the other, serve as another element of newly emerging quantum technologies. Ion-atom Feshbach resonances can soon be expected to be observed for other element combinations as well. Research group of M. Tomza, photo by P. KulikResearch group of M. Tomza, photo by P. Kulik

Previously, in tandem with an experimental group headed by Professor Rene Gerritsma at the University of Amsterdam, Dr Tomza’s group successfully cooled down a single ion immersed in an ultracold atomic gas to the quantum regime of ion-atom collisions and observed shape resonances. The results of that cooperation were published by “Nature Physics” last year and formed part of the research record that earned Dr Tomza the NCN Award.

NCN grants and project descriptions.

Acceptance speech during the NCN Award ceremony on 6 October 2021.

The research team (University of Warsaw).

 

 

The sixth edition of the SONATINA call is now open

Wed, 12/15/2021 - 17:08
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The National Science Centre (NCN) hereby announces the SONATINA 6 call for research projects carried out by early career researchers. A total of 25 million PLN is up for grabs.

The main objective of the call is to support the career development of early career researchers by creating opportunities for full-time employment and research in Poland as well as enabling them to gain knowledge and experience during fellowships in first-rate foreign research institutions. Projects may cover both basic and applied research. Project work may be planned for a period of 2 or 3 years and fellowships may last anywhere between 3 to 6 months.

The call is open to researchers who were granted their PhD after 31 December 2018 or will be granted their PhD before the end of June 2022. Proposals may also be submitted by researchers who were granted their PhD before that date but enjoyed a career break, for example to have or adopt children.

SONATINA 6 CALL ANNOUNCEMENT

Proposals may be submitted electronically, via the ZSUN/OSF submission system between 16 December 2021 and 15 March 2022 (4 p.m.). Proposals will be subject to an eligibility check and merit-based evaluation. The experts will evaluate, inter alia, the scientific quality and novelty of research to be performed, project’s impact on the advancement of the scientific discipline and compliance of the research with the research criteria. The results will be published in summer of 2022. 

Success of Polish research teams in the QuantERA Call 2021

Wed, 12/15/2021 - 13:31
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Fifteen research teams from Poland were among the winners of the QuantERA Co-funded Call 2021 for international research projects in the field of quantum technologies.

Ten basic research projects will be funded by the National Science Centre (NCN) and five applied research projects will be funded by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR). The NCN has awarded funding for that purpose of over PLN 7.7 million.

The third QuantERA Call was launched in March 2021 by 36 European Research Funding Organisations and has attracted a lot of attention from scientists at large from its very beginning. 39 international research projects were recommended for funding. The total project value is EUR 43.5 million, of which EUR 12.3 million is co-financed by the European Union.

The following projects involving Polish researchers funded by the NCN have been awarded:

1. DISCODicke-enhanced single-emitter strong coupling at ambient conditions as a quantum resource

  • Polish Applicant: Wrocław University of Science and Technology
  • Polish Principal Investigator: Prof. dr hab. inż. Artur Piotr Podhorodecki
  • The project will involve research teams from Ireland and Germany

2. DQUANTDissipative Quantum Chaos Perspective on Near-Term Quantum Computing

  • Polish Applicant: Jagiellonian University
  • Polish Principal Investigator: Prof. dr hab. Karol Wojciech Życzkowski
  • The project will involve research teams from Portugal, Slovenia, Germany and Norway

3. DYNAMITENext Generation Quantum Symulators: From DYNAMIcal Gauge Fields to Lattice Gauge ThEory

  • Polish Applicant: Jagiellonian University
  • Polish Principal Investigator: Prof. dr hab. Jakub Maciej Zakrzewski
  • The project will involve research teams from Spain, Germany, Italy and Switzerland

4. ExTRaQTExperiment and Theory of Resources in Quantum Technologies

  • Polish Applicant: A group of entities, i.e. the University of Warsaw (Leader) in cooperation with the University of Gdańsk
  • Polish Principal Investigator: Dr Alexander Streltsov
  • The project will involve research teams from Germany and Spain

5. Mf-QDSMicrofluidics Quantum Diamond Sensor

  • Polish Applicant: Jagiellonian University
  • Polish Principal Investigator: Dr Adam Marek Wojciechowski
  • The project will involve research teams from Spain, Germany and Israel  

6. PhoMemtorPhotonic Quantum Memristor Networks

  • Polish Applicant: University of Warsaw
  • Polish Principal Investigator: Dr hab. Magdalena Stobińska
  • The project will involve research teams from Austria and Italy

7. SQUEISSqueezing-Enhanced Inertial Sensing

  • Polish Applicant: University of Warsaw
  • Polish Principal Investigator: Dr hab. Jan Aleksander Chwedeńczuk
  • The project will involve research teams from Italy, Germany and France  

8. STAQSShortcuts to Adiabaticity for Quantum Computation and Simulation

  • Polish Applicant: Jagiellonian University
  • Polish Principal Investigator: Prof. dr hab. Jacek Piotr Dziarmaga
  • The project will involve research teams from Austria, Luxembourg, Germany and Italy

9. TOBITSNon-Abelian anyons for topological qubits

  • Polish Applicant: University of Warsaw
  • Polish Principal Investigator: Prof. dr hab. Jakub Tworzydło
  • The project will involve research teams from Finland, Switzerland and France

10. VERIqTASVERIfication of quantum Technologies, Applications and Systems

  • Polish Applicant: Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Polish Principal Investigator: Dr hab. inż. Remigiusz Michał Augusiak
  • The project will involve research teams from Spain, France, Denmark, Austria and Belgium

For more information, including the full list of projects recommended for funding, please visit the quantera.eu website.

The QuantERA Programme is coordinated by the National Science Centre, Poland.

Contact: quantera@ncn.gov.pl   


Results of Weave-UNISONO call for Polish-Czech research projects

Tue, 12/14/2021 - 11:46
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The results of the Weave-UNISONO call for proposals submitted to Grantová Agentura České Republiky (GAČR) as the lead agency are now published. 10 research teams from Poland will soon be able to start their research projects. They will receive almost 10 million PLN from the National Science Centre for their research projects involving partners from the Czech Republic. The ranking lists of projects recommended for funding include five projects in Physical Sciences and Engineering, four in Life Sciences and one in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The research subjects include microbial food webs, algorithms to identify electrophysiological features of memory encoding and recall in human iEEG as well as fatigue performance of asphalt mixtures.

Full ranking lists

Simplified procedures

The Weave Programme aims at simplifying the submission and selection procedures in all academic disciplines involving researchers from two or three European countries. Winners are selected pursuant to the Lead Agency Procedure according to which only one partner institution is in charge of merit-based evaluation. 

 Under the Weave Programme, partner research teams apply for parallel funding of joint research projects to their respective institutions participating in the Weave Programme. Joint projects must include a coherent research program with the added value of the international cooperation clearly defined.

Research funding institutions from Luxembourg (Fonds National de la Recherche – FNR) and Belgium-Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen – FWO) will join the Programme in January 2022.

The ranking list of proposals recommended for funding by the GAČR is yet another list of proposals selected under the Weave-UNISONO call. The first ranking list was published in September 2021 and included project recommended for funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Weave-UNISONO call: important information for research teams from Poland

Mon, 12/13/2021 - 12:27
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A short reminder of how to prepare proposals in the Weave-UNISONO call for the Polish research teams. 

  1. The budget of the Polish part of the project in the joint proposal should be  calculated according to the following exchange rate:
    • In joint proposals, for which NCN proposals are processed in and submitted via the ZSUN/OSF submission system by 31 December 2021: 1 EUR= 4.4385 PLN;
    • In joint proposals, for which NCN proposals are processed in and submitted via the ZSUN/OSF submission system from 1 January 2022 onwards: 1 EUR= 4.5315 PLN;
  2. NCN proposals processed in the ZSUN/OSF submission system in 2021, to which the exchange rate of 1 EUR= 4.4385 PLN applies, must be completed in and submitted via the ZSUN/OSF submission system by 31 December 2021 at 23:59:59. Otherwise, the proposal can no longer be edited, in which case a Polish research team must prepare a new proposal and complete it in the ZSUN/OSF submission system, to which the exchange rate 1 EUR = 4.5315 PLN will apply. If a joint proposal has already been submitted to the lead agency, in which the budget of the Polish part of the project was calculated according to another exchange rate, information in the NCN proposal will be inconsistent with information in the joint proposal and may result in the proposal being rejected on the grounds that it does not meet the eligibility criteria.
  3. As of 1 January 2022, the updated Regulations on awarding funding for research tasks funded by the National Science Centre under international calls carried out as multilateral cooperation pursuant to the Lead Agency Procedure shall apply.
  4. Please consult the updated call documentation, including the guidelines for Polish research teams (update will be available soon).