Results of the second competition for mini-grants

08 01 2021

Category: II.1.1, Results

Four inter-university research teams have received co-financing as part of the second competition for mini-grants, funded by IDUB. The teams will carry out projects associated which are thematically related to the four flagship areas of the 4EU+ Alliance.

Similarly to the first, pilot competition, mini-grants could be obtained by research teams comprised of members from the University of Warsaw as well as representatives of at least two other universities belonging to the 4EU+ Alliance.

The objective of the mini-grant programme is to strengthen cooperation between the University of Warsaw and the other members of the 4EU+ Alliance, through shared research projects. The anticipated result of each project that is carried out with a mini-grant is the development of research objectives for a project proposal that may then be submitted in a competition for grants which are financed or co-financed from external sources (domestic or foreign, including EU funds), in order to enable the continuation and development of research cooperation.

The funds which are granted through mini-grants (up to 10,000 euro) will be used for preliminary research or pilot studies, research queries, academic consultation (including project consultation), research infrastructure, or language services.

List of selected applications (in alphabetical order, by project title):

• “Caregiver-child interactions and social-cognitive processing in typical and atypical development”, carried out by UW in cooperation Universities in Heidelberg and Copenhagen, University of Milan, and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as an external partner as part of Flagship 1, “Health and demographic change in an urban environment”; Project Manager: dr Agnieszka Pluta, Faculty of Psychology, UW.
• “Motherhood Studies Network”, carried out by UW with researchers from Charles University in Prague, and the University of Copenhagen as part of Flagship 2, “Europe in a changing world: Understanding and engaging societies, economies, cultures and languages”; Project Manager: dr hab. Justyna Wierzchowska, Faculty of Modern Languages, UW.
• “Social vulnerability to natural hazards and disaster risk reduction in Europe”, carried out by UW with researchers from Charles University in Prague, the University of Heidelberg, and the University of Milan (4EU+ Alliance members), with the University of Milano-Bicocca as an external partner, as part of Flagship 2, “Europe in a changing world: Understanding and engaging societies, economies, cultures and languages”; Project Manager: dr Dorota Rucińska, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, UW.
• “Transnational legal communication on Covid-19: from institutional to popular discourse”, carried out by UW with researchers from Charles University in Prague, and the University of Milan as part of Flagship 2, “Europe in a changing world: Understanding and engaging societies, economies, cultures and languages”; Project Manager: dr hab. Joanna Osiejewicz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics, UW.