It is also worth mentioning the significant financial amount of success achieved in the MINIATURE grants. In the ranking the University of Lodz is on the 5th place with the funding amounting to PLN 720,730, ahead of, among others, University of Warsaw, which took the 7th place.
Below we present the list of the projects that have obtained funding as part of MNIAURA 5 with a breakdown into Faculties. The largest number of grants – 6, is being implemented at the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz.
Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, UL:
- "In vitro evaluation of the immunomodulatory properties of Salvia cadmica Boiss extracts against macrophages in the context of supporting eradication and Helicobacter pylori infection as a result of "immune training", project leader: dr Weronika Gonciarz,
- "Epigenetic background of the aging process among people with sudden cardiac death (SCD)", project leader: dr Paulina Pruszkowska-Przybylska,
- "Modulating the response of colorectal cancer cells to clinically approved anticancer agents with dual-specificity phosphatase of mitogen-activated kinases (DUSP6) inhibitor", project leader: dr Beata Marciniak,
- "Bioenergetics of endothelial cells in ketosis conditions - searching for the long-term effects of a ketogenic diet in the in vitro conditions", project leader: Anna Selmi
- "Non-obvious evolution - DNA as the key to understanding speciation of spiders", project leader: dr Łukasz Trębicki,
- "Prevalence of infections with selected pathogens transmitted by ticks (Ixodidae) and blood-sucking dipteran insect (Diptera) in great tits (Parus major) in an urbanization gradient", project leader: dr Jarosław Wawrzyniak.
Faculty of Economics and Sociology, UL:
- "Employer brand in the perspective of economically dependent self-employed and full-time employees", project leader: dr Agata Matuszewska-Kubicz,
- "Self-management teams in public administration - the turquoise challenge and the future", project leader: dr Justyna Trippner-Hrabi,
- "Children - the city - revitalization. Three methodological approches in social research with children in the area of the new sociology of childhood - a pilot study", project leader: dr Paulina Bunio-Mroczek,
- "Unsustainable dividend – conceptualization, measurement methods, research directions", project leader: dr Aleksandra Pieloch-Babiarz.
Faculty of Chemistry, UL:
- "Electrochemically assisted patterning at three-phase junctions", project leader: dr Karolina Sipa,
- "The effect of selected drugs on cyanobacteria and green algae", project leader: dr Barbara Krawczyk.
Faculty of Philology, UL:
- "Word and documentary in sound art", project leader: dr Natalia Kowalska-Elkader,
- "Authenticity as a basis of a new model of authority on YouTube. Consultations", project leader: dr Anna Barańska-Szmitko.
Faculty of Law and Administration, UL:
- "The impact of EU Regulation No 536/2014 on the system of ethical assessment of applications for the authorization of clinical trials of medicinal products - case of Poland", project leader: dr Agnieszka Rabiega-Przyłęcka,
- "Inheritance law of the Second republic of Poland in the jurisprudence of regional courts", project leader: dr hab. Dorota Wiśniewska.
Faculty of Educational Sciences, UL:
- "The process of (re)constructing the identity of parents of LGBT+ people", project leader: dr Katarzyna Gajek,
- "Parental technoference and shaping a supportive family environment by mothers - the self-determination theory perspective", project leader dr Paulina Szymańska.
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, UL:
- "Variations of curvature functionals defined for multiple distributions on a manifold", project leader: dr Tomasz Zawadzki.
Faculty of Geographical Sciences, UL:
- "Comparison of the possibilities of using classifiers based on convolutional neural networks for satellite images classification to obtain land use / cover - LULC data for the area of Poland", project leader: dr Marta Nalej.
Faculty of Philosophy and History, UL:
- "Saxon construction solutions from the first half of the 18th century and their reception in the architecture of Polish magnates' residences", project leader: dr Alina Barczyk.
Faculty of Management, UL:
- "Customer behaviour of children in the omnichannel environment - pilot research", project leader: dr Beata Gotwald.
Results of MINIATURA 5
On 30 November this year the National Science Centre published the last ranking list under MINIATURA 5. In the last call addressed to researchers who have not managed any NCN-funded research projects yet, 300 research activities were deemed eligible, with a total of almost 700.
Funding awarded under MINIATURA 5 could have been designated for preliminary/pilot studies, library and archive searches, fellowships, research visits and/ or consultations. Proposals were submitted on an on-going basis – from May until September. The ranking lists of eligible research activities were published by NCN once a month. Now, the ranking list of proposals submitted in September is available (in Polish).
A competition for a good start
One of the aims of MINIATURA is to expand the group of applicants winning in NCN competitions and to encourage researchers from the research institutions reluctant to apply for NCN funding to do so. Applications can be submitted by researchers who have not managed any NCN-funded projects yet and have not been successful in a call for doctoral scholarships or fellowships.
In the competition researchers could obtain funding amounting from PLN 5000 to PLN 50 for research activities lasting up to 12 months. The call was available to researchers who received their PhD degree after 1 January 2009 and whose scientific achievements included at least one paper published or at least one artistic achievements or one research-artistic achievement.
A few days ago we wrote about other grants awarded to the researchers from the University of Lodz by the National Science Centre: Scientists from the University of Lodz with OPUS 21 and PRELUDIUM 20 grants
We also encourage you to check information published in the UL Employee Knowledge Database, including news about calls for grant competitions, as well as the guide on projects implementation and management.
Source: NCN, Research Centre, UL;
Edit: Promotion Centre, UL