Over PLN 1.1 million for research conducted by Polish research teams with foreign partners. Two trilateral projects with Weave-UNISONO grants.
Dr hab. Anna Moszyńska from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń will analyse and evaluate the legal exchange between Germany, Austria and Poland. Her project entitled ‘Legal Exchange in CEE: The Example of GmbH’ will be performed owing to collaboration between Austrian, German and Polish researchers with expertise in history, law and economy. The Austrian research team from the University of Vienna will be headed by Dr Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz, while Prof. Dr Martin Löhnig will head the German research team from the University of Regensburg. The proposal was evaluated by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the evaluation results were approved by the National Science Centre and the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the Weave Programme. The Polish project budget is over PLN 650,000.
The legal exchange covers legal transfer as well as the migration of thoughts and ideas, which can take place at local, regional, national and global levels. The ideal example to capture this phenomenon as an example for legal exchange as such between these three states located in CEE is the institution of limited liability company (GmbH). The project covers three periods: 1897–1918 (legal exchange between Germany and Austria), 1918–1939 (legal exchange between Germany/Austria and Poland and development in the interwar period) and 1989–2024 (Poland's reorientation and the question of re-transfer). This will allow to indicate the background for the legal exchange process and the powers driving this phenomenon, to evaluate the material results of the legal transfer incorporated in the adopted legal acts, to show the further development and economic impact. This innovative project reaches beyond the domestic perspective and conventional framework of legal research and takes into account economic, social, cultural and interpersonal conditions.
Potential of Quantum Dots
The other awarded project will be performed by Dr hab. inż. Krzysztof Henryk Gawarecki and his team of researchers from Poland, Germany and Switzerland, who will study the key properties of strain-free GaAs quantum dots (QDs) and their application in quantum technology. The researchers will join forces to verify the potential of GaAs and provide a comprehensive experimental and theoretical description of their charge and spin properties. Research will help understand how the key physical properties of the GaAs QDs are determined by their shape, size, composition and environment. Scientists will then try to design strain-free QDs which will play an important role in quantum technology, specifically quantum communication and photonic quantum information processing.
The project ‘GaAs Quantum Dots: from Form to Function’ will be carried out by the German research team headed by Prof. Arne Ludwig from the Ruhr University Bochum. The Swiss team involved in the project will he beaded by Richard Warburton from the University of Basel. The Polish research team will be awarded over PLN 450 thousand for the project to be carried out over the next three years. Proposals were reviewed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as the Lead Agency and the evaluation results were approved the National Science Centre and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under the Lead Agency Procedure.
Weave-UNISONO and Lead Agency Procedure
The Weave-UNISONO call builds on the multilateral international cooperation between the research funding agencies associated in Science Europe and aims at simplifying the submission and selection procedures in all academic disciplines, involving researchers from two or three European countries.
The selection process is based on the Lead Agency Procedure (LAP), under which only one partner institution performs a merit-based evaluation and the others simply accept the result.
Under Weave, partner research teams apply in parallel to the lead agency and their respective domestic institutions participating in the call. Their joint proposal must include coherent research plans 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, Czechia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium-Flanders are encouraged to read the call text and submit their proposals.