Funding institution:

National Science Centre

Purpose of the call:

International Weave-UNISONO competition for bilateral or trilateral research projects for teams from Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany and Poland within the multilateral programme Weave, in which NCN does not act as the lead agency.

A research team from Poland, planning scientific cooperation with at least one of the countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany within the framework of the Weave program has two possibilities to submit a national application to NCN:

• in the current competition Weave-UNISONO - for national applications. (submitted to NCN), for which joint applications will be submitted and evaluated at one of the foreign partner institutions as the lead agency. NCN does not act as a lead agency then;
  in the OPUS competition, announced regularly in September (the nearest competition: OPUS 22, announced in September 2021) - in the case of national applications for funding of research projects implemented within the LAP cooperation, evaluated by NCN as the lead agency.

In the Weave-UNISONO competition, the role of lead agency can be played by one of the partner institutions:

• Austria (FWF),
• Belgium/Flanders (FWO)
• GAČR (Czech Republic),
• ARRS (Slovenia)
• FNR (Luxembourg)
• DFG (Germany),
• SNSF (Switzerland).

The variants of trilateral cooperation allowed in 2022 are included in Table 1, in the Guidelines for Polish Research Teams.

Call Terms and Conditions:

Projects in the Weave-UNISONO competition may include fundamental research in all scientific disciplines. Partner research teams apply in parallel to their respective institutions participating in the WEAVE program for funding to carry out a joint research project. The joint project must be based on close cooperation and must be carried out jointly by the Polish research team and by the partner research teams, each of which indicates a project leader in the application. The joint project must contain coherent research programs clearly demonstrating the added value of international cooperation. Each partner is expected to make a significant contribution to the project, including involvement in organizational responsibilities.

How to Apply:

Joint proposals are submitted by foreign partner teams to the appropriate lead agency, in accordance with that agency's guidelines.

National applications should be submitted to NCN only in electronic form via ZSUN/OSF system, as soon as possible after submission of the joint application to the lead agency, not later than 7 calendar days. The national application must be accompanied by a joint application - in a form identical to that submitted to the lead agency.

Application procedure - internal guidelines of the Jagiellonian University:

THE FOLLOWING RULES AND DEADLINES APPLY TO UJ INDIVIDUALS AND UNITS (NOT APPLICABLE TO COLLEGIUM MEDICUM)

To be submitted electronically to the competition supervisor at CWN

Within 10 days prior to submitting the application to ZSUN/OSF:

A draft version of the application, as a PDF file generated from the system ("print PDF") - for formal and accounting verification;
Project registration form completed in the electronic system UJ Project Zone (https://strefaprojektow.uj.edu.pl).

Within 5 days before closing of the competition, after blocking the application to NCN:

The final version of the application - signed with an electronic signature by the Head of the Unit where the project will be implemented;
A document generated from ZSUN/OSF system: "Confirmation of submission of the application by the person representing the entity", 
Document generated from ZSUN/OSF system: "Confirmation of Application Submission by the Project Manager", signed by the Project Manager with an electronic signature or a scan of a manually signed document.

More information:

NCN

Call documentation.