IDUB UŁ – nowy konkurs IGB oraz III edycja grantów dla młodych badaczy – rozstrzygnięte

Winners of the first edition of the Interdisciplinary Research Grants and the third edition of the Grants for Young Researchers as part of the Excellence Initiative – Research University (IDUB) Competition have been selected. 25 grants have been awarded.

Interdisciplinary Research Grants – results of the 1st edition of the competition

Interdisciplinary Research Grants is a new basic research competition that is addressed to all researchers. The main objective of the competition is the cooperation of scientists from the University of Lodz who specialise in different fields and scientific disciplines. There are 4 winning projects in the category of Social sciences, 2 in Humanities and 5 in the Natural sciences.

Humanities:

Philosophers ask about street art. Philosophical and legal foundations of an interdisciplinary discussion about the concept and values of art in public space

The linguistic image of woman in Old English prose

Social sciences:

Changes in the accessibility and load on the road network in the urban transport system as a result of a flash flood - on the example of Łódź

Attached to or through green spaces? Connecting green spaces and place attachment to better understand human–nature relationships

The conditioning of landscape perception with rooting in space: The use of Virtual Reality (VR) tools in landscape visual attractiveness study

Commitment and exhaustion as (un)expected effects of an academic teacher's emotional labor

Natural sciences:  

Development of approximate optimal control method for constructing machine learning technics to determine factors which influence advance in osteoporosis and risk of fractures

Stable chiral radicals on metallic surfaces: synthesis, imaging, and chemical identification with single molecule resolution

Low-molecular weight tubulin polimerisation inhibitors – a chance for the organometallic final nail in the coffin of cancer?

Liposomes decorated in situ with AuNPs for targeted anticancer therapy

Mechanism of action and potential use of new organometallic derivatives of fluoroquinolones against bacterial biofilm and bacteria with slowed metabolism

Grants for Young Researchers – results of the 3rd edition of the competition

Grants for Young Researchers is a competition for research projects conducted by young scientists who want to implement their research ideas in any scientific discipline. The programme is devoted to basic and applied research and supporting mobility of young scientists. The aim of the competition is to activate the community of young scientists and to support their development. There are 7 winning projects in the discipline of Natural sciences, one project in Humanities and 6 young researchers will be able to implement their research in the discipline of Social sciences.

Humanities:

Cognitive and non-cognitive humanities and the axiological nature of acts of understanding

Social sciences:

Towards the EU-Australia and the EU-New Zealand Free Trade Agreements: The Assessment of Labour Provisions

Parental technoference and inter- and intrapersonal context of motherhood

Inequalities of Income and Wealth in Europe and North America

Childhood in refuge. Experience of forced migration from the perspectives of children and their grown-up caretakers

Democracy in Central American region: the present state and its perspectives – case study of Costa Rica

The responsibility of a state under the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948 – an attempt at a new interpretation of the treaty in the light of Raphael Lemkin’s concept in the context of historical Soviet and contemporary Russian crimes in Ukraine

Natural sciences: 

Smartphone based Nanoimmunochips for Non-Invasive Detection of Cancer Biomarkers

Comparative and integrative approach to assess the osmoregulation of two Ponto-Caspian invasive species focusing on two transmembrane proteins.

Achievement sets of series in R2

Biodiversity of Springs from DNA Barcoding Perspective: Reference Library for Future Monitoring Schemes (BioSprings)

Noncooperative game between COVID-19 transmission, vaccinations and budget

Biological activity of condensed pyrazoline derivatives with chromanone or flavanone: evaluation of molecular anticancer mechanisms

What are the reasons for morphological and sedimentological diversity of eskers? Research illustrated with the examples of Poland and Finland

Source: Science Centre, University of Lodz
Edit: Promotion Centre, University of Lodz