Priority Research Areas
Areas were created on the basis of disciplines based on the best publication indicators, with the highest categories obtained in the evaluation process.
1. Functional materials
Leading discipline: chemical sciences
Thematic scope: a wide range of modern chemistry and physics
The research is fundamental, but its results provide a basis for the design of new materials, including the design, theoretical calculations and synthesis of biologically active compounds: drugs, peptides, amino sugars and their derivatives; research on the role of metal ions in biological systems and interactions of metal ions with humic substances and others.
2. Handling of large data – from algorithmic and logical aspects to “data science” and artificial intelligence
Leading discipline: IT
Thematic scope: computer science, mathematics
Algorithms with logical basis of IT; data science and artificial intelligence, deep learning; fundamental IT research related to data handling.
3. Health – from gene analysis to drug design
Leading discipline: medical sciences, biomedical engineering, life sciences
Thematic scope: biotechnology, biology, chemistry
Molecular basis of diseases, new therapeutic strategies (therapies used in the treatment of cancer, diabetes, rare genetic diseases, infectious and immunological diseases), new drugs and mechanisms of drugs as well as drug carriers, new directions in medical diagnostics.
4. Man between nature and culture
Leading discipline: biological sciences, medical sciences, psychology
Thematic scope: physical anthropology, biology, psychology, broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences
Search for biological conditions of human activity, including in the sphere of creation and emotional relations; interplay between nature and culture in man – at different levels and from different disciplinary perspectives, from cells to societies and from biology to psychology.
5. Human – city and environment
Leading discipline: socioeconomic geography and spatial management, Earth and environment sciences, sociological sciences
Thematic scope: Earth and environment sciences, sociology, “urban studies”, migration studies
The main research areas are social change in the context of environmental and climate change and the resulting threats and challenges: quality of life and its improvement, smart cities, migration, environmental pollution and its sustainable use; the research area addresses very topical, priority scientific problems of an interdisciplinary nature, the solution of which requires cooperation of scientists with Earth and environmental sciences and social scientists.
6. Multiculturalism – cooperation and its structures
Leading discipline: archaeology, history, cultural sciences, legal sciences
Thematic scope: a wide range of humanities and social sciences
Multidisciplinary research on multicultural societies, with a diverse chronological and geographical range, analyses models of their functioning not only in national contexts; analysis of mechanisms of cooperation, coexistence and conflicts in historical and contemporary multi-ethnic communities.