Three Grants Consolidator of the European Research Council (ERC) were awarded to Polish scientists of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the University of Warsaw (UW) and the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow.

Dr Piotr Faliszewski, AGH University of Science and Technology received nearly EUR 1.4 million for 5 years of research of the computational theory of social choice. Project results will be applied in fields needing a selection, ranging from the selection of finalists for a given competition, such as the selection of films nominated for an Oscar, to the selection of candidates for employment or deciding which projects will receive funding under citizens’ budgets.

Dr Justyna Olko, Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw will attempt to reconstruct, explain and better understand the cause-and-effect mechanisms and processes of the creation, continuity, reduction and loss (as well as a possible reappearance) of multilingualism in historical, geographical, social, political and cultural contexts. Her research received nearly EUR 2 million and it will be carried out in Central and Eastern Europe, Mexico, South Africa and one of the islands of the Vanuatu Archipelago in Melanesia.

Dr Sebastian Glatt, the Małopolska Center of Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University received EUR 2 million for a project aimed at “structurally characterizing key protein complexes responsible for RNA modifications, creating libraries of fully modified in vitro RNA, as well as understanding the role of single rRNA and tRNA modifications in the process. elongation of translation”.