The superior idea of the NANOPLANT project is to build up the interdisciplinary research competence, scientific excellence, international visibility, intensity of collaborations and academia- industry partnerships at Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IPG PAS) by promoting a new cutting edge research area and creating the Department of Plant Nanotechnology. This project will enable us to attract top-class experts needed for the implementation of the new area of research and step up the scientific excellence. Special attention will be paid to foster structural changes at the Institute and a synergy between the new and existing departments and research teams will be established to maximise the effect of the ERA Chair culture on the IPG PAS. Objectives of the project will be realized through a coherent set of support actions namely, recruitment of the ERA Chair holder and team, intra institutional and international collaborations, networking, knowledge transfer through workshops, seminars and lectures, participation in conferences, exchange of know-how and experience, study visits to transfer best practices, secondments to private sectors as well as wide promotion of the project and various outreach activities.

At the micro scale, interactions among particles create fascinating correlations that cannot be explained by any means known to classical physics. This phenomenon, called quantum non-locality, not only proves that the quantum and classical theories differ at the level of elementary particles, but also has a great potential for future quantum technologies. In fact, non-locality lies at the heart of the device-independent quantum information processing, a new paradigm for information processing aiming at designing protocols which do not rely on any assumptions on the devices used, thus closing the mismatch between theory and its implementation. The interest in quantum non-locality has therefore increased dramatically in recent years. However, the efforts have been focused mostly on the bipartite quantum systems, leaving the multipartite case largely unexplored. The overall objective of this fellowship is to significantly advance our understanding of this phenomenon in multipartite quantum states. First, we will thoroughly study the relation between multipartite entanglement and non-locality with the aim of identifying entangled states which are useful for device-independent quantum information. Second, we will focus on non-locality in many-body quantum physics, a subject that has barely been explored. In particular, we will ask what non-locality can tell us about physical properties of many-body quantum systems. In the last part we will aim at characterization of the set of quantum correlations and propose novel and stronger information principles fully describing quantum non-local correlations. The action will involve theoretical research at the frontiers of quantum theory, quantum information, entanglement theory and many-body systems, but also knowledge of the state-of-the-art experimental technology will be necessary. It thus requires strong collaboration between many theoreticians, also from the European institutions, as well as interaction with experimentalists.

MisBav intends to offer new insight into the connections and networks that made up medieval Western Europe, deploying a neglected source, the missal. Missals were found in every city, monastery and parish, because they were needed to celebrate the Mass, a ritual which played a crucial role in the relationships that made up medieval society. Each mass has a distinctive subject, which can vary hugely, and new masses were continually composed in the Middle Ages, to respond to historical events, but also to celebrate and solidify bonds. These new masses represent an entirely neglected creative output of the period. The manuscripts of missals themselves were also constantly updated and exchanged. This is not therefore the sterile tradition that it might appear, but rather a vibrant product of collaboration across cultural and political boundaries. But these sources remain largely inaccessible, and are rarely used outside of disciplinary siloes. This project will bring these sources to innovative use, deploying them to demonstrate relations of medieval institutions with each other. The specific subject is the missals made in Bavaria, a cultural crossroads of medieval Europe. Strongly culturally linked to Italy from its time as an independent state, Bavaria was brought into the Carolingian Empire and became a key participant of cultural and religious movements that spanned into France. It was also the source for the Christianisation of the kingdoms of Central and Eastern Europe. All of these left indelible marks on Bavaria's missals. The project thus aims to reconstruct the specific traits of missals made in Bavaria between 900 and 1200, and use these to track and demonstrate the cultural and intellectual exchanges that made this area part of a broader medieval Europe. It will develop new digital tools to enable research into missals more broadly. It will show how missals are a crucial witness to the dynamism and connectedness of medieval culture.