Five projects with the participation of Polish research teams have been awarded in the international competition devoted to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social life, organized by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities (T-AP).

T-AP is a collaborative network for North, South American and European humanities and social science research funding institutions funded by national member agencies.

The jury qualified for funding 19 out of 315 international applications submitted in the competition. The awarded applications include 5 projects from Poland, from three universities: the University of Warsaw (UW), the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the University of Wrocław (UWr), which received funding from the National Science Center in the amount of over PLN 2.85 million.

The Polish team led by Dr Beata Klimkiewicz from the Jagiellonian University, in cooperation with partners from Brazil, the USA and Great Britain, will implement a project on political communication and public health.

Dr Mateusz Karolak from the University of Wrocław, together with his team, will study the phenomena of social resilience and resistance in the world after the pandemic. The research will be carried out with partners from Brazil, Croatia, Finland, Canada, Colombia, Germany, the USA and Great Britain.

The research of another Polish team, led by Dr Piotr Modzelewski from the University of Warsaw, will focus on two areas: reducing inequalities and their negative effects on more vulnerable social groups, and supporting democratic governance and participation in social life. The project will be implemented with partners from Canada, the USA and Great Britain.

Scientists led by Sławomir Mandes from the University of Warsaw will check how different religions contribute to building more resilient, inclusive and sustainable societies, as well as the changing role of majority and minority religions in the “global north”: in Canada, Germany, Ireland / Northern Ireland and Poland in connection with increased interest in spirituality during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will be implemented with partners from Canada, Germany and Great Britain.

The team of Prof. Krystyna Slana from the Jagiellonian University, in cooperation with partners from Brazil, Germany and Great Britain, will investigate how immigrant women faced difficulties, as well as their resistance strategies and ways of finding new solutions to the pandemic.

Adrian Andrzejewski