Dr. Michał R. Szymański has won a prestigious European Research Council grant. He will receive EUR 1.5 million to study how the molecular mechanics responsible for exchanging mutated DNA fragments in mitochondria work. The grant by the European Research Council (ERC) was awarded as part of the ERC Starting Grant competition. The project entitled Dissecting the [...]
Three Polish projects, each for ca. €15 million, have been granted for funding by the European Commission in the last call of Teaming Phase 2 action within Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation area within the Horizon 2020 framework programme. The projects aim at developing a long-term research and innovation excellence by creating or upgrading the [...]
The Silesian University of Technology is just beginnig to carry out BIOTRAFO project funded under Horizon 2020 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE). "Raising knowledge and developing technology for the design and deployment of high-performance power transformers immersed in biodegradable fluids - BIOTRAFO” project will analyze the effect of temperature on [...]
Scientists from the Institute of the Optoelectronics of the Military University of Technology take part in project PROTECT (Pervasive and UseR Focused BiomeTrics BordEr ProjeCT), Horizon 2020. The main coordinator from the MUT is Marcin Kowalski, DSc, Eng., from the Institute of the Optoelectronics. PROTECT is 3-year EC H2020 project funded under the Secure Societies [...]
Polish institutions - Foundation for the Development of the University of Gdansk (FRUG) and WWF Poland - takes part in an EU-funded project which is arousing young people's interest in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by involving them in research on marine mammals. The project's aims to ensure that Europe has sufficient [...]
Branbox is an acronym of the project which received over 2,2 million euro in Horizon 2020 programme - EIC SME Instrument - Phase 2. The project is curried out by Biotrem company. The plastic’s invasion on our planet have become our every day’s life. The amount of plastics is immense and starts to play a [...]
The AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków is among beneficiaries of the EIC Pilot. Univeristy is a partner in a project NanoCrystals in Fibre Lasers (NCLas). The European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot will support 38 innovative projects to develop new ideas towards radically new future technologies. In total, the projects will receive €124 [...]
Cyberus Labs introduces ELIoT Pro (Easy & Lightweight IoT Protector) – a game-changing end-to-end cybersecurity solution dedicated to all IoT networks and devices and funded under SME Instrument in Horizon 2020 programme. ELIoT Pro is an extension of the existing Cyberus Labs’ user authentication system CYBERUS KEY that is the fundamental element for Human to [...]
Wealth-generating, flat-pack solar houses and a profit-sharing scheme that incentivises retrofitting are bringing sustainable living to people who would otherwise not be able to afford it. ‘One of the biggest problems that we see right now is (the creation of) a big gap between the lower and the middle classes. Everyone is talking about this [...]
Studies on the complex mechanisms of brain plasticity and on electromagnetic radiation will be conducted in two new research centres that will be established using the funds granted under the International Research Agendas Programme (IRAP) competition, run by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP). Both centres will be opened in Warsaw – one at the [...]
