The research project by Dr hab. Marcin Kozik, Prof. UJ from the JU Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science won the grant within the framework of Weave-Unisono competition. His team, together with scientists from Vienna University of Technology will investigate the constraint satisfaction problem. This has been the third grant as part of this competition awarded to Jagiellonian University researchers.
Weave-UNISONO is a result of multilateral cooperation of research funding institutions that form the Science Europe Association. It aims at simplifying the procedure of submitting and selecting projects in all disciplines involving researchers from two or three European countries. The international projects are evaluated in accordance with the Lead Agency Procedure, which assumes that the project proposals are fully evaluated by one selected partner institution, and the assessment is approved by other partners.
As part of the programme, the collaborative research teams simultaneously submit grant applications to the lead agency and selected institutions participating in the programme, relevant for the given project. The collaborative project must include coherent research plans, clearly showing the added value of international cooperation.
All Polish-Austrian projects approved for funding belong to the area of exact and technical sciences. Prof. Marcin Kozik’s team from the JU Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science will study the constraint satisfaction problem, the team from the University of Warsaw Faculty of Physics will work on synergetic remote detection of aerosols, whereas scientists from the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering of Warsaw University of Technology will focus on shaping nanomaterials by high-pressure annealing. Over 4.15 million zlotys was allocated by the National Science Centre for cooperation of the abovementioned teams with Austrian partners from Vienna and Innsbruck. The joint Polish-Austrian research projects were evaluated by the lead agency Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria).
The Weave-UNISONO competition ranking list, published on April 4, also includes the Mirosław Mossakowski Medical Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, which will carry out research into the role of autophagy in oligodendrocyte cells in perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. The research is conducted in collaboration with a Swiss team from the University of Lausanne.
Previously, 13 research projects in Poland have been awarded Weave-UNISONO grants, including 2 from the Jagiellonian University. Prof. Stefan Chłopicki’s team from the Jagiellonian Centre for Environmental Therapeutics is conducting studies into sepsis, whereas Prof. Andrzej Kotarba is running a project in the area of intelligent biomaterials research.
