…two continents, spending a large part of the year in Chile. See the film about Professor Andrzej Udalski, the recipient of the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant.   European Research Council was established by the European Commission. It is the first pan-European agency providing funding for frontier research, in other words: pioneering projects leading to fundamental discoveries and breakthrough results. ERC Advanced Grant is available to…

…rstudent contest. It’s a competition for the best international students in Poland in 2014. The competition is aimed at the international students at the Polish higher education institutions on the bachelor, master and doctoral level. Both foreign nationals and students with dual citizenship are eligible. Candidates should prove they are active in such fields as culture, social life, ecology or sports.   The Interstudent Competition…

…pired”, “the classes are lively and enthralling”.   His project “Sosna – Expressive Power of Tree Logics”, which ended this year, is an attempt to build logical languages understandable for a computer which would allow for discerning natural properties. The research team, funded by the ERC grant, proved theorems related to the application of logic in computer science. Professor Bojańczyk admits that they managed to prove only the easy ones….

…tre”).   Professor Besançon for many years was engaged in Polish struggle for independence and democracy. He appealed many times to the broad public in the West for respecting of human rights and sovereignty of our country. In 2007, in the light of his enormous contribution and engagement in the affairs of Poland, he received the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland….

…tizens’ Attitudes to Public Goods and the State in Central Eastern Europe” Project started in 2009 and is about to end. Funding awarded by the ERC – 1.73 million euro – was used by the team to carry out a comparative public opinion survey in 14 post-communist countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine). Nearly 21 thousand respondents were intervi…

…end of October 2015. Practically all the basic scientific objectives of the project have been achieved. Of course, we are still working on selected aspects of the project, for example on the practical part, which envisages creating a library of approximation algorithms – says prof. Piotr Sankowski.   In 2015 professor Sankowski received an ERC grant in the competition – the Proof of Concept – for the commercialization of research results. &n…

…teaching – transferring their knowledge to students, developing their interests, inspiring others to take up independent studies.   Special focus should be directed on the laureates of the European Research Council competitions. The funds from ERC are available to scientists from all around Europe, so Polish scientists compete on equal grounds against their peers from all other countries of the continent. So far, Poland won 14 ERC grants, o…

…smus Mundus Action 2. The University of Warsaw has received funds for its project SIGMA Agile for cooperation with the Western Balkans, as 1 out of 31 successful projects per 159 submitted project proposals. The project was submitted by the International Relations Office at the University of Warsaw.   Budget of the project is 2 999 275 EUR.   The second Polish higher education institution which received a grant in this competition is…

…ntries such as United States, China, India, Serbia, Ukraine, Mexico and Nepal will present their papers during the conference. The event is organized with Polish Association of International Studies and Polish European Community Studies Association. PZU Foundation is the strategic partner of the conference.   The conference “The World’s Perception of the European Union” will take place on 23 October (Thursday) from 9.30 am till 6.30 pm at th…

…ing questions: To what extent have the CEE countries been affected by the global economic crisis and how are the countries trying to recover from it? What are the patterns of integration and cooperation in the CEE cross-border areas? What are the visions and scenarios for development in the Central and Eastern Europe?   Conference “One region, many stories – Transformation Experience and Development Perspectives of the Central…