Mon, 10/27/2025 - 13:00

Twenty five international research projects involving researchers from Poland, Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and Czechia have been awarded funding under OPUS 28+LAP/Weave. Polish research teams will receive an overall of nearly PLN 42.9 million zloty from the National Science Centre.

The winning projects were funded owing to NCN’s collaboration with the European research-funding agencies under the Weave Programme, according to which international research projects involving researchers from two or three countries undergo a single evaluation procedure only once, in one country, performed by an agency selected by the consortium.

Each autumn, the National Science Centre acting as the lead agency, launches a call for proposals under its largest grant programme OPUS. When evaluating OPUS LAP proposals together with other OPUS proposals, the expert teams focus on the balanced and complementary contribution of all research teams in the project, academic and research career of principal investigators in foreign research teams and their experience in completing other research projects. The results are published as soon as they are approved by the partner agencies.

In June, the first ranking list for LAP proposals submitted to OPUS 28+LAP/Weave was published, for projects carried out by research teams from Poland and Luxembourg. In July, we published the results for projects carried out in bilateral cooperation with research teams from Austria, Belgium-Flanders, Czechia and Switzerland. Today, we have published the last results of the call, as approved by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS).

LAP Cooperation with Germany and Slovenia 

Polish research teams will carry out 18 bilateral projects in cooperation with researchers from Germany, with a budget of over PLN 30 million, 4 bilateral projects with researchers from Slovenia, with a budget of over PLN 7.8 million, and 3 trilateral projects with researchers from Austria and Slovenia, Germany and Switzerland, and researchers from Germany and Czechia, with an overall budget of nearly PLN 5 million.

Researchers specialising in Humanities, Social Sciences and Art Sciences, will pursue their projects concerning, inter alia, the reflection principles and their epistemic warrant, sustainable and optimised modular construction value chain, or asset pricing with graphical and alternative data. Researchers in Life Sciences will investigate, inter alia, the performance of coexisting native and non-native tree species, transient physiological biomarkers of progressive myopia, benefits of exposure reduction to coal combustion products and resulting improvements in air quality and respiratory and mental health. In terms of Physical Sciences and Engineering, international research teams will explore, among other things, the natural deep eutectic solvents (DES) for innovative biopolymer extraction and sustainable biomass valorisation, seek to understand the physical fundamentals of photon Bose-Einstein condensates in semiconductor optical microcavities, and analyse a design and customisation of borate bioactive glasses.

25 projects were funded in the last round of OPUS 28+LAP/Weave results, with an overall budget of PLN 42,893,334.

OPUS 28+LAP/Weave Statistics – Summary

The National Science Centre received 2,039 proposals with an overall value of over PLN 3.2 billion, including 1,823 domestic (NCN) proposals for a total of nearly PLN 3 billion and 216 LAP proposals for over PLN 320 million. Funding went to 234 domestic proposals with a value of PLN 448.1 million and 58 LAP proposals with a value of nearly PLN 106.5 million. 

Full OPUS 28+LAP/ Weave Ranking Lists

Service of Decisions

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