Dr hab. Paulina Pospieszna from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Dr hab. Piotr Micek from the Jagiellonian University will work on a trilateral international research projects thanks to a Weave-UNISONO grant.
Researchers from Poland, Belgium-Wallonia and Germany will work on a project entitled Integrating Public Deliberation for Impact: Learning from the European Wave of Citizens’ Assemblies. They will look into the function of citizens’ assemblies, or processes where a group of citizens is selected by lottery to deliberate on different political issues and work out recommendations for decision-making at local and national levels. The team aims to investigate how such panels may influence institutions and political processes, with a special focus on how they are designed and integrated with the political system. During the project, several dozen citizens’ panels will be compared. The project will be conducted by Dr hab. Paulina Pospieszna from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, in cooperation with Prof. Jean Benoit Pilet from the Belgian Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Prof. Brigitte Geißel and Dr. Rikki Dean from the Goethe University Frankfurt. The Polish team will get more than 1.1 million zlotys for its part of the three-year project.
The other tripartite project recommended for funding concerns graph theory, a research field which is the mathematics of networks. The project will be carried out by a research team headed by Dr hab. Piotr Micek from the Jagiellonian University. Researchers will study planar graphs, the 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 thousand zlotys.
The proposal 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).
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.
Updated on 22 December 2023