Representatives of Karazin University Among the Winners of the EURIZON Fellowship Programme for Ukraine Competition

On May 3rd, the website of the European project EURIZON announced the completion of the third (final) round of proposal evaluation for the EURIZON Fellowship Programme for Ukraine. As a result, an additional 34 teams of researchers in Ukraine were selected to receive individual funding for a period of up to 12 months.

Among the winners of the competition there are six teams from Karazin University, which is the best result among universities in Ukraine:

1. Heat transport and Interfacial energy dissipation in nanostructures (School of Computer Sciences and Energy Sciences);
2. Enhanced chiral sensing with plasmonic hyperbolic metasurfaces (School of Radiophysics, Biomedical Electronics, and Computer Systems);
3. Creation of ceramic coatings for surface modification of structural materials by the cathode-type vacuum-arc discharge, which generates highly ionized plasma flows (School of Physics and Technology);
4. Reptile and amphibian genomics to unravel evolution and biodiversity (School of Biology);
5. Between two poles: Phylogeny and phylogeography of selected species of marine and freshwater leeches (Hirudinea) (School of Biology);
6. Biomolecular interactions of amyloids: modulating effects of polyphenols (School of Physics and Technology).

Two representatives of Karazin University were invited to serve on the Scientific Review Panel: Olha Polotska, Executive Director of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine, and Professor Ihor Hirka from the School of Physics and Technology.

Overall, 730 proposals were accepted for the competition in six categories:

1. Infrastructure of databases and numerical calculations;
2. Energy;
3. Environment;
4. Health and nutrition;
5. Physics and engineering;
6. Socio-cultural studies.

The organizers received over fifteen hundred reviews. Taking into account the previous two selection rounds, the competition jury selected 65 proposals for funding, involving 324 researchers and engineers working in Ukraine. The funding for these 65 projects amounts to four and a half million euros. Projects with durations ranging from six to twelve months will be implemented by the end of April 2025, starting from February 2024.

Congratulations to the competition winners!