IMPORTANT CHANGES ON COMPLETION OF FORMS IN R2R CALLS

1. Waiving of the necessity to fill in the achievements of the members of the platform and / or the research group, apart from the applicant
2. The achievements of other people who are part of the team (co-authors of the group / platform, both local and foreign) should be attached in a PDF file (people who have already entered the records leave them unchanged).

The criteria for assessing this common output of the entire planned team remain unchanged in both cases.

1. Name of the call: Research groups in the Heritage PRA (first edition)
2. Name of the PRA: Heritage PRA
3. Name of the action(s) under which the call is announced:

The Heritage PRA announces the Research groups in the Heritage PRA (second edition) call, funded under the action ‘R2R: research to research cooperation,’ for projects dealing with the areas defined in the Heritage PRA Strategy (available at: https://id.uj.edu.pl/heritage in the tab Strategy 2020-2025) and for the dissemination of their results.

The ‘R2R: research to research cooperation’ action serves the purpose of supporting international research groups with a view to result in:

• drafting a joint publication with a renowned international publisher (multiple-author monograph) or in an internationally recognised journal with the SCOPUS indexation (special issue)

or

• submitting an international research grant proposal.

4. Name(s) of the research domain(s), name(s) of the discipline(s) addressed by the call:

Submitted in the call may be research projects in the humanities and social sciences in the Heritage PRA.

5. Prospective entrants:

Funding proposals may be submitted by academic teachers and university research-assistance staff of the JU. The initiative of launching an international research group may be put forward by at least two persons conducting research activity, with the reservation that the Applicant representing the research group must be employed at the Jagiellonian University. The research group may use a proper name in concordance with the title of the implemented project.

6. Terms of entry in the call:

A research group carries out tasks in accordance with a research project submitted and approved in the call. The project’s objective is to enter into research collaboration resulting in:

• publication of a multiple-author monograph with an international publisher ranked at Level 2 in the inventory of the minister of science and higher education or with another publisher considered by the Committee to be significant for the advancement of the research discipline or a special issue in an international research journal;

or

• submitting an international research grant proposal.

The primary modes through which the research group work on the publication are:

• working meetings by the working group initiators and members,
• international conferences, workshops or seminars,
• short-term study visits to research centres abroad and presentation of research results,
• holding panels at international conferences,
• other actions aimed at project implementation.

The research group’s primary modes of action resulting in grant proposal submission are in particular:

• working meetings by the working group initiators and members,
• training courses related to the process of grant application,
• study visits to international research centres,
• other actions aimed at project implementation.

The research group shall include at least one person with affiliation at a foreign university or a foreign research centre.

The proposal shall be attached with statements in which the research group members agree to cooperate in the project.

The proposal shall be attached with a letter in confirmation of the intended cooperation with a research institution at home or abroad or a partner at home or abroad.

Members of the research group shall present their research achievement including:

• publications in SCOPUS-indexed journals and with renowned publishers of international impact;
• experience in international cooperation.

7. Objectives defined in the strategic programme EI.JU and the Heritage PRA Strategy for the ‘R2R: research to research cooperation’ call

The Heritage PRA research group formed under the ‘R2R: research to research cooperation’ programme should carry out the objectives of the EI.JU programme and the Heritage PRA Strategy:

• development of enduring and effective cooperation with international and Polish partners aimed at carrying out common research projects;
• increasing the impact of the Jagiellonian University on the advancement of science globally through supporting financially research activity aimed at increasing the number of papers published in journals indexed in international databases and monographs or chapters in monographs with renowned publishers of international impact;
• increasing the impact of the Jagiellonian University on the advancement of science globally through supporting financially research activity aimed at increasing the success rate in applying for external funding including international institutions;
• consolidating research collaboration with renowned foreign research institutions through increasing participation of JU scholars in international research cooperation and in the development of partnerships with foreign entities;
• raising the innovation and interdisciplinarity levels of the research with international standing;
• improving research and soft skills of the JU’s academic staff by supporting the advancement of researchers employed at the Jagiellonian University in their pursuit of scientific excellence;
• pursuing the mission of the Jagiellonian University and Polish science by supporting research on Poland as a platform for the cooperation of interdisciplinary research networks connecting researchers investigating societies, cultures, law and religions of the East-Central Europe in connection with global processes;
• increasing the social impact of the humanities and social sciences pursued at the Jagiellonian University: on the local, regional and global level.

8. The call’s financial envelope: PLN 1,400,000.
9. The maximum amount of funding per proposal: PLN 100,000 per annum.
10. Deadline and method of submitting applications: applications will be accepted until 30 June 2021 only online via the https://strefaid.uj.edu.pl system (use your university email credentials to log in).
11. Proposals shall be drawn up in English. In the case of projects submitted in the domain Interdisciplinary study of Poland in the local, regional and global perspective, where Polish is the language of communication, proposals may be drawn up in Polish.
12. Date and manner of announcing the results: The call results (ranking list of the projects recommended for funding) will be announced on the website of the Heritage PRA on 31 October 2021.
13. Timeframe for launching the research groups: 1 January 2021.
14. Projects longer than 12 months will be subject to interim evaluation.
15. The final report is made in the form of a technical and financial report on the implementation of the project, especially the achievement of the assumed result.

Call’s terms and conditions (in download files).

Dear Applicants,

In the part of the application in which you present the scientific achievements of the applicant and team members, please limit yourself to a maximum of five items in each category. The listed acquis should not be older than ten years.