European Research Council Grants
Among projects financed as part of the European or international programmes, particularly interesting are prestigious grants of the European Research Council: Starting Grants, Advanced Grants, Consolidator Grants, Proof of Concept Grants as well as Synergy Grants. The subsidy is awarded as part of the IDEAS programme, supporting the most innovative ventures in all fields of the science.
Since 2007, the European Research Council has awarded grants thirty-three times to researchers from the University of Warsaw and one time to the scientist who decided to pursue their grant at the UW.
Prof. Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Faculty of Culture and Arts
2023 – Advanced Grant, 2.5 mln euro, project: Scholars, Animals, Images, Geographies, and the Arts: De-exoticizing Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period
Prof. Emanuel Gull, Department of Physics, University of Michigan / Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
2023 – Advanced Grant, almost 3.5 mln euro, project: Predictive algorithms for simulating quantum materials
Prof. Ewa Szczurek, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2023 – Consolidator Grant, almost 2 mln euro, project: Deep optimised generation of antimicrobial peptides
Prof. Szymon Toruńczyk, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2023 – Consolidator Grant, 1.94 mln euro, project: Limits of structural tractability
Prof. Paweł Caputa, Faculty of Physics
2023 – Consolidator Grant, over 1.8 mln euro, project: Quantum complexity from quantum field theories to quantum gravity
Prof. Magdalena Wojcieszak, Centre of Migration Research
2023 – Consolidator Grant, almost 2 mln euro, project: Incentivizing citizen exposure to quality news online: framework and tools
Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak, Faculty of „Artes Liberales”
2023 – Proof of Concept Grant, 150,000 euro, project: The Modern Argonauts: A Multicultural Educational Programme Preparing Young People for Contemporary Challenges through an Innovative Use of Classical Mythology
2015 – Consolidator Grant, 1.5 mln euro, project: Our Mythical Childhood… The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges
Dr Agnieszka Brylak, Faculty of Modern Languages
2023 – Starting Grant, 1.5 mln euro, project: The concept of teotl: a complex approach to the principal religious category of pre-Hispanic Central Mexico
Assoc. Prof. Piotr Skowron, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2023 – Starting Grant, 1.5 mln euro, project: Proportional algorithms for democratic decision (PRO-DEMOCRATIC)
Assoc. Prof. Artur Obłuski, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology
2022 – Consolidator Grant, 2 mln euro, project: Afropolis Tungul: Urban biography of a cosmopolitan African capital
2017– Starting Grant, project: UMMA – Urban Metamorphosis of the community of a Medieval African capital city
Prof. Marta Bucholc, Faculty of Sociology
2021 – Consolidator Grant, 2 mln euro, project: Using human rights to change abortion law: involvement patterns and argumentative architectures in the global figuration of human rights
Assoc. Prof. Piotr Garbacz, Faculty of Chemistry
2021 – Starting Grant, 1.5 mln euro, project: Chirality-sensitive Nuclear Magnetoelectric Resonance (NMER)
Prof. Michał Tomza, Faculty of Physics
2021 – Starting Grant, nearly 1.5 mln euro, project: Ultracold polyatomic molecules for controlled chemistry and precision physics (QuantMol)
Dr Dorota Skowron, Astronomical Observatory
2021 – Starting Grant, over 1.38 mln euro, project: A MISTery of Long Secondary Periods in Pulsating Red Giants – Traces of Exoplanets? (LSP-MIST)
Dr Paweł Nowakowski, Faculty of History
2021 – Starting Grant, ca. 1.5 mln euro, project: Masters of the stone: The stonecutters’ workshops and the rise of the late antique epigraphical cultures (third–fifth century AD) (STONE-MASTERS)
Prof. Justyna Olko, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”
2020 – Consolidator Grant, ca. 2 million euro, project: Multilingual worlds – neglected histories. Uncovering their emergence, continuity and loss in past and present societies (MULTILING-HIST)
2012 – Starting Grant, 1.32 mln euro, project: Europe and America in contact: a multidisciplinary study of cross-cultural transfer in the New World across time
Dr. Michał Pilipczuk, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2020 – Starting Grant, 1.4 mln euro, project: Decomposition methods for discrete problems
Dr. Wojciech Czerwiński, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2020 – Starting Grant, 1.34 mln euro, project: Challenging Problems in Infinite-State Systems
Prof. Stefan Dziembowski, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2007 – Starting Grant, 0.87 mln euro, project: Cryptography on non-trusted machines
2020 – Advanced Grant, 2.4 mln euro, project: Smart-Contract Protocols: Theory for Applications
Prof. Anna Matysiak, Faculty of Economic Sciences
2019 – Consolidator Grant, 1.99 mln euro, project: Globalization- and Technology-Driven Labour Market Change and Fertility
Prof. Piotr Sankowski, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2010 – Starting Grant, 1 mln euro, project: Practical Approximation Algorithms
2015 – Proof of Concept, 150 000 euro, project: Practical Approximation Algorithms
2017 – Consolidator Grant, 1.5 mln euro, project: Towards Unification of Algorithmic Tools”, in short, TUgbOAT
Prof. Marcin Pilipczuk, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2016 – Starting Grant, 1.2 mln euro, project: Cuts and decompositions: algorithms and combinatorial properties
Prof. Marek Cygan, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2015 – Starting Grant, 1.4 mln euro, project: Technology transfer between modern algorithmic paradigms
Prof. Piotr Sułkowski, Faculty of Physics
2013 – Starting Grant, 1.35 mln euro, project: Quantum fields and knot homologies
Prof. Natalia Letki, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology
2009 – Starting Grant, 1.73 mln euro, project: Public goods through private eyes. Exploring citizens’ attitudes to public goods and the state in Central Eastern Europe
Prof. Mikołaj Bojańczyk, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2009 – Starting Grant, 0.8 mln euro, project: Expressive power of tree logics
2015 – Consolidator Grant, 1.7 mln europroject: A unified theory of finite-state recognisability
Prof. Andrzej Udalski, Faculty of Physics – Astronomical Observatory
2009 – Advanced Grant, 2.5 mln euro, project: Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment: New Frontiers in Observational Astronomy
The University of Warsaw participated also in 2 projects financed by the ERC as an institutional partner:
- 2008 – Host Institution: Polish Academy of Sciences Advanced Grant 2.44 mln euro, project: Functionalisation of diluted magnetic semiconductors; Scientist in charge at the University of Warsaw: Prof. Jacek Majewski (Faculty of Physics), UW budget 0.34 mln euro;
- 2013 – Host Institution: University of Oxford, Advanced Grant 2.5 mln euro, project: The Cult of Saints: a christendom-wide study of its origin, spread and development; Scientist in charge at the University of Warsaw: Dr. Robert Wiśniewski (Faculty of History), UW budget 0.35 mln euro.