Dr hab. Piotr Micek, Prof. UJ from the JU Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science will carry out an international trilateral research project thanks to funding from the Weave-UNISONO call. Scientists from Kraków, Brussels and Karlsruhe will be pursuing a research project focusing on planar graphs.
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.
The project supervised by Dr hab. Piotr Micek, Prof. UJ from the JU Institute of Analytical Computer Science and his team concerns graph theory, a research field which is the mathematics of networks. Researchers will study planar graphs: graphs that can be drawn in the plane without edge crossings. They will develop their theorem from 2019, the so-called ‘product structure theorem’, building a theory around it and looking for new applications. Research will be carried out in collaboration with Prof. Gwenaël Joret from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Prof. Torsten Ueckerd from the German Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. The Polish research team has been awarded over 900,000 zlotys.
The other tripartite project will be conducted by researchers from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the Belgian Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Both proposals were evaluated by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in its capacity as the lead agency under the Lead Agency Procedure, and the results were approved by the NCN and the Walloon agency, F.R.S.-FNRS (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS).
Source: National Science Centre
