Professor Jan Sobczyk’s team awarded a Weave-UNISONO grant
One of the three projects to receive funding in the latest edition of the Weave-UNISONO call is „Przygotowanie generatorów Monte Carlo do przyszłych eksperymentów z oscylacjami neutrin: modelowanie oddziaływań w zakresie energii kilkuset MeV (ST 2)”. The project is led on behalf of the University of Wrocław by prof. dr hab. Jan Sobczyk from the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, and on behalf of Ghent University by prof. Natalie Jachowicz.
The funding awarded to the Polish partner amounts to PLN 625,860. Weave-UNISONO is a funding scheme for bilateral or trilateral research projects involving teams from Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg or Belgium (Flanders), and Poland.
Researchers from the University of Wrocław and Ghent University will address the mystery of the predominance of matter over antimatter in the Universe. At present, this phenomenon is investigated, among other approaches, through studies of neutrino oscillations conducted in numerous experiments. In Europe, a particularly important contribution is made by the ESSnuSB+ initiative, which aims to measure the matter–antimatter asymmetry with unprecedented precision at the second oscillation maximum, using intense neutrino beams from the European Spallation Source. A crucial prerequisite for such measurements is highly accurate modelling of neutrino–nucleus interactions in detectors, especially at low energies (200–300 MeV), where existing tools prove insufficient. The project aims to develop a new, precise model of these interactions by extending the capabilities of the NuWro simulator, based on microscopic theories developed in Ghent, thereby filling an existing gap and enabling breakthrough tests of the foundations of neutrino physics.
The Weave-UNISONO call is the result of multilateral cooperation between research funding organisations associated within Science Europe. It was launched to simplify procedures for the submission and evaluation of research proposals across all scientific disciplines involving researchers from two or three European countries.
The selection of funded projects follows the lead agency procedure, under which only one of the partner institutions is responsible for the full scientific evaluation of the proposal, while the remaining partners accept the outcome of this assessment. All three proposals funded in the current edition of the call were evaluated by FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders), and the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) accepted the results of this evaluation within the framework of cooperation under the Weave programme.
Under the Weave programme, partner research teams submit funding applications in parallel to the lead agency and to their respective national funding organisations participating in the programme. The joint project must include coherent research plans that clearly demonstrate the added value of international collaboration.
Source: NCN materials
Added by: E.K.
Date of publication: 16.12.2025
