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Overview of Basic Research

in Poland

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Tadeusz Kulik

Warsaw University of Technology

Swiss-Polish Sci-Tech Days, Warsaw, 14th January 2010

Research landscape

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Structural Funds 2007 – 2013

Research and Development

�OP Innovative Economy 2.6 billion €

�OP Human Capital 1.0 billion €

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�OP Human Capital 1.0 billion €

�OP Infrastructure & Environment 0.6 billion €

�Regional Programs 4.0 billion €

Σ ≈ 8.2 billion €

Statistics: Polish institutions in 7 FP

20%

25%

30%

per entity

per project

309

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Success rate in 7FPper institution and per project with a Polish institution

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0%

5%

10%

15%

per entity 12,0% 17,2% 14,0% 13,7% 23,7% 15,5%

per project 13,9% 16,5% 14,6% 15,4% 25,1% 16,6%

Energy Environment Health ICT NMP Average

241

309

393816

2046

168

248336

637 1601

Statistics: financing of Polish research in 7 FP

20,000

25,000

30,000 NOE

CSA

CP

In total per instrument:

CP – 61.0, CSA – 4.3, NoE – 1.5;

TOTAL – 66,8 million euro

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0,000

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000 CP

NOE 1,483

CSA 0,243 0,809 0,558 1,994 0,649

CP 6,102 6,315 10,127 23,133 15,405

Energy Environment Health ICT NMP

CP – collaborative project, CSA – coordination and support action, NoE – network of excellence

Number of papers

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InCitesTM

THOMSON REUTERS

Citations of papers

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Papers’ impactrelative to World

Impact = No. of Citations per Paper

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Impact Relative to Territory (Country)

Impact Relative to Field= Impact for Territory / Impact for the World

= Impact for Territory / Impact for the World

Energy

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Energy: % Articles in Country or Field

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Energy: papers’ relative impacts

Impact of ENERGY papers in Country

Impact of ALL papers in Country

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Impact of ENERGY papers in Country

Impact of ENERGY papers in the World

Coal (hard and lignite) = basis for Polish energy sector

Natural gas

Others

5,49%

2008: structure of fossil fuels consumption in Poland

2008: structure of power sector by fuels

Industrial power stations; 5.5%

Hydropower; 1.7%Biomass co-firing;

1.0%

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Natural gas

13,36%

Hard coal

48,32%

Lignite

12,15%

Oil

20,68%

Hard coal; 57.0%

Natural gas; 2.8%

Lignite; 32.0%

o Gasification (on surface and underground) of coal and lignite

o Separation and storage of CO2

1. Clean coal technologies

Main areas of research and development

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o Separation and storage of CO2

o Reduction of NOx emission, e.g. catalytic removal of NOx

o Oxy-fuel combustion, e.g. pressure oxy-combustion of coal.

2.Efficiency of energy production andreduction of emissions

o Polygeneration of power and fuels

o Combined Heat and Power (CHP) stations


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o Combined Heat and Power (CHP) stations

o Supercritical coal boilers

o High Temperature Air Combustion (HTAC)

o Co-firing of coal and biomass

33. Nuclear . Nuclear –– coal synergycoal synergy

o Application of high temperature heat from nuclear reactors in:

• clean coal technologies

• industrial processes HTR, Helium cooledreactor, T=900 °C


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4. Renewable energy sources and alternativetechnologies

o Biomass production and conversion

o Geothermal energy


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o Geothermal energy

o Liquid bio-fuels

o Hydrogen economy: cheap production of hydrogen + + hydrogen storage + fuel cells: PEMFC, SOFC, DCFC

Environment

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Environment: % Articles in Country or Field

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Environment: papers’ relative impacts

Impact of ENVIRON. papers in Country


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Impact of ENVIRON. papers in Country

Impact of ENVIRON. papers in the World

Universities with

the specialty

Protection of

Environment

•universities

•technical universities

•agricultural universities

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TOTAL: 23

Main subjects:

•life sciences,

•chemical science,

•geology,

•hydrology,

•meteorology,

•engineering

New trends in research and implementation, selected examples in areas:

•• Nature protectionNature protection– CORINE Biotopes project

• an inventory of major nature sites, creation of database of 956 nature sites covering ~20% of area of the country, used for example in the NATURA 2000 network.

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for example in the NATURA 2000 network.

– Establishment of 124 Special Protection Areas (SPA)

under the Birds Directive.

– Nomination of 193 different biogeographical regions

(habitats) requiring protection

• Sites of Community Importance (SCI) and rare species of plants and animals covering ~4% of area of the country.

Special Protection Areas in Poland (Habitats and Birds Directives)

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Special Protection Areas

(Habitats Directive)

Special Protection Areas

(Birds Directive)


•• Protection of airProtection of air– Warsaw University of Technology

• Particulate matter (PM) concentration forecasting model on various scales,

• PM emission modelling

• Regional climate modelling

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• Regional climate modelling

• Indoor air and pollution circulation in buildings

– Systems Research Institute, PAS (Warsaw)

• Modelling of health effects of air pollution

– Institute of Environmental Engineering, PAS (Zabrze)

• air quality monitoring

• air quality forecast (neural networks)

• health effects of air pollution


•• Protection of watersProtection of waters– Development of the list of bioindicators (reference

species)

• phytoplankton and macrophytes to determine the ecological state of surface waters (University of Warmia and Mazury

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state of surface waters (University of Warmia and Mazury and others).

– Integrated system of management and protection of

groundwater resources

– Genotoxicity assessment of pollutants in drinking

water

– Biomonitoring of water in Water Treatment Plants and

water distribution systems


•• Protection of soil Protection of soil -- reclamation of degraded reclamation of degraded soils soils – Research and implementation on a small or middle scale

close to the steel plants, mines and close to the dumping

grounds

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– Use of brown coal as a sorbent of pollutants

• Warsaw University of Technology

– Soil remediation from the hydrocarbons (petroleum

derivatives) by means of physical, chemical and

microbiological methods (petrol stations, airports,

refineries and petrochemical industry)


• Wrocław University of Technology

Number of dumping grounds in voivodships

8

39 17

6

6 27

23

12

In total: 222

dumping grounds:

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31

9

422

16

11

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In most cases, the

soils near the

dumping grounds

were recultivated!


•• InformationInformation--oriented basic research oriented basic research – Monitoring systems

– GIS (Geographic Information System) supported modelling of environment

– Databases and processing of environmental data

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– Databases and processing of environmental data


– Development of information systems for Regional Water Monitoring Authorities acc. to the Water Framework Directive

• University of Warsaw

– development of GIS techniques in flood protection

• Forest Research Institute (Warsaw)

– development of GIS techniques in forestry

Health

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Health: % Articles in Country or Field

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Health: papers’ impact

Impact of HEALTH papers in Country


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Impact Relative to Field

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Impact of HEALTH papers in Country

Impact of HEALTH papers in the World

Research projects in medicine (examples)

• Innovative methods of using stem cells in medicine

• Design of molecular tests supporting detection of early

lung cancer

• Studies on molecular basis and an attempt of genetic

classification in patients with signs of spastic

paraplegia

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paraplegia

• Depression - mechanisms – therapy

• Organization of the National Centre for Diagnosis and

Treatment of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia

• Studies on health condition of senescent human

population in Poland


• Organization of the Integrated Centre for Cardio-

vascular Medicine

• Biotechnologies and advanced medical technologies

• Centre for Biotechnology of Therapeutic Products. Set

of innovative biopharmaceutical products for therapy

and prophylaxis in humans and animals

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and prophylaxis in humans and animals

• Quantum semiconductor nanostructures applicable in

biology and medicine – Development and marketing of

new generation molecular diagnosis equipment based

on new Polish semi-conductor instruments

• Construction of a national network of telemedical

centres for prevention and treatment of circulatory

pathology


• Diagnostic ultrasound instruments: new methods for examination and imaging of tissue structure in human organs

• Role of transporters in multi-drug resistance (pharmacology and toxicology) – in vitro tests in pharmaceutical and clinical practice

• Innovative methods of „non fusion” and „fusion” type for relatively non-invasive surgical treatment of

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for relatively non-invasive surgical treatment of dysfunction in osteo-neuro-muscular system

• 3CLA – a biotechnological, targeted antineoplastic drug

• Telemedicine and modern techniques of imaging in medicine

• Advanced molecular diagnostic equipment: synthetic antibodies capable of recognizing specific protein markers of neoplastic processes

Information

and Communication

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and Communication

Technologies

ICT: % Articles in Country or Field

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ICT: papers’ impact

Impact of ICT papers in Country


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Impact of ICT papers in Country

Impact of ENVIRON. papers in the World

Academic centres in Poland

� Electronics (incl. nano, micro, opto)

� Telecommunication

� Computer Science

� Computer EngineeringWarszawa

(UW, PW, PJWSTK, IPI, IBS)Poznań(UAM)

Gdańsk(GUT

Białystok(PB, UB)

PUT

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(UW, PW, PJWSTK, IPI, IBS)

Lublin(UMCS)

Łódź(PŁ, UŁ)

Kielce(PŚw)

(UAM)

Wrocław(UWr, WrUT)

Gliwice,Katowice

(PŚl)Kraków(AGH,

UJ)

Rzeszów(PRz)

Technical universities: the main players

• Warsaw University of Technology (3 faculties)• Comp. Science, Comp. Engineering. Telecom, Electronics

• AGH University of Science and Technology (3 faculties)

• Comp. Science, Comp. Engineering. Telecom, Electronics

• Poznań University of Technology (2 faculties)

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• Poznań University of Technology (2 faculties)• Comp. Science, Comp. Engineering. Telecom, Electronics

• Wrocław University of Technology (2 faculties)• Comp. Science, Comp. Engineering. Telecom, Electronics

• Gdańsk University of Technology (1 faculty)• Comp. Science, Comp. Engineering. Telecom, Electronics

• Silesian University of Technology (1 faculty)

• Comp. Science, Comp. Engineering. Telecom, Electronics

„Free” universities the main players in Computer Sciences

• Warsaw University

• Poznań University

• Jagiellonian University

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• Wrocław University

• Gdańsk University

Research institutes of Polish Academy of Sciences

• Institute of Computer Sciences, Warsaw

• System Research Institute, Warsaw

• Institute of Fundamental Technological Research,

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• Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warsaw

• Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Gliwice

ICT research infrastructure in Poland

• 5 supercomputing centres in Warsaw, Kraków,

Poznań, Gdańsk, Wrocław

• GALERA cluster in Gdańsk launched in 2008

• computational power of 50 TFlops,

• currently: 16th HPC in the EU, 45th on top 500 list

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• currently: 16th HPC in the EU, 45th on top 500 list

• PIONIER scientific network covering the whole

country: over 5000 km optical fibres

• connection to GEANT2 (2x10 Gb/s)

• due to PIONIER network PL researchers

contributed to many EU projects e.g.: EGEE,

GridLab, PORTA OPTICA, CoreGRID, ViroLab,

CHEMOMENTUM, DRIVER II.

Topology of the PIONIER network

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Machine Learning

INPUT: objects & features & time

Representations

DataStructure

DataSimilarityPCA/ICA

DataProperties

TextMining

Timeanalysis

ExternalAnnotations

ExternalTools

…

SQL Training Database

Data streaming

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TimeSimilarity

Clusters,Thresholds

FeaturesSimilarity

SupportVector

Machine

NeuralNetworks

RandomForest

DecisionTrees

Meta-Learning

OUTPUT:

ModelFeaturesDecisions

Reliability Scores

Featuresdecompositionand clustering

Ensemble learning

Nanosciences,

Nanotechnologies,

Materials and new

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Materials and new

Production Technologies

Nanotechnology: % Articles in Country or Field

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Nanotechnology: papers’ impact

Impact of NANO papers in Country


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Impact of NANO papers in Country

Impact of NANO papers in the World

EU Structural Funds in Poland and development of nanotechnoloy

• Innovative Economy

Programme

– Priority Axis 1:

Research and

development of new Nanotechnology, as one of Nanotechnology, as one of

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development of new

technologies

– Priority Axis 2:

R&D Infrastructure

Nanotechnology, as one of

the New Technologies

Winning with a project

proposal in fierce

competition is a mark of

excellence

Nanotechnology, as one of

the New Technologies

Winning with a project

proposal in fierce

competition is a mark of

excellence

Examples of projects funded from EU cohesion funds

• Application of nanotechnology i new

materials. Wrocław Center for

Investigations „ EIT+” 23 mln EUR

• Quantum semiconductor nanostructures

for biology and medicine. Institute of

Physics Polish Academy of Sciences,

Warsaw, 18 mln EUR

• Functional nano and micro textile

materials. Textiles Institute, Łódź, 5.5

• New nanocrystalline metals for modern

economy. Warsaw University of

Technology – Faculty of Materials

Science 9 mln EUR

• Innovative technologies for

multifunctional materials and structures

for nanoelectronics, fotonics, spintronics

and sensors,. Institute of Electron

Technology, Warsaw, 4.5 mln EUR

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materials. Textiles Institute, Łódź, 5.5

mln EUR

• Composites and nanocomposites of

ceramics and metals for aviation and

motor industry. Institute of Technology

Fundamental Problems, Warsaw,

6 mln EUR

• Micro and nanosystems in chemistry

and medical diagnostics. Institute of

Electron Technology, Warsaw, 5 mln

EUR

Technology, Warsaw, 4.5 mln EUR

• Technology of ultrahard nanostructured

materials from iron alloys and their

applications in passive and active

armors. Institute of Iron Metalurgy.

Gliwice, 1.5 mln EUR

• New polymer nanocomposites with

enhanced performance in interaction

with microorganisms, Institute of

Industrial Chemistry, Warsaw, 1,2 mln

EUR

Main issues in nano-electronics world

• increasing frequency of devices’ operation – higher electronic circuits’ speed

• reducing power consumption

• further increasing of electronic circuits complexity– more complex tasks

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– more complex tasks

• integration of different types of devices in single micro-system – electronic, photonic, mechanical � MOEMS

• …

Goal: higher operation speeds

• reducing physical dimensions of the devices �nanodevices– reducing lateral dimensions (investigation requires extreme

lithography equipment currently not available in PL)

– reducing vertical dimensions

• increasing electrons (and holes) mobility – great variety of semiconductor materials studied (GaAs, InP,

GaN, AlN, BN, SiC, … etc)

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GaN, AlN, BN, SiC, … etc) – manipulating semiconductor materials’ nanoscale properties– strain incorporated in silicon nano-layers

• novel concepts of semiconductor devices– great variety of different concepts studied (e.g.: quantum devices,

single electron devices, resonant tunnelling devices)

• molecular and organic electronics– variety of different issues studied (e.g. charge transport properties,

fabrication of molecular layers and structures)

New Research Infrastructure

• CEZAMAT - Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies, Coordinated by Warsaw University of Technology, 360 mln PLN.

• CePT - Centre for pre-clinical investigations and technologies, Coordinated by Warsaw Medical University, 360 mln PLN.

• CENT – Centre of New Technologies Ochota, Coordinated by Warsaw University, 270 mln PLN

• Technological and Didactical Centre Technopolis, Wrocław University of Technology, 79 mln PLN.

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• Modernisation of the Faculty of Materials Engineering and Ceramics of Kraków Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, 32 mln PLN.

• Scientific and didactic centre of microelectronics and nanotechnology of Rzeszów University, 65 mln PLN.

• Nanotechnology Centre of Gdańsk University of Technology, 65 mln PLN

• Nano-Bio-Medical Centre, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 111 mln zł

• Centre for Mechatronics, biomechanics and nanoengieering, Poznań University of Technology, 43 mln PLN.

Conclusions

• Nanotechnology in Poland is dynamically developing as a bottom � up movement

• Cohesion funds play a very important role for nanotechnology development, especially infrastructure

• Most advanced are nanocomposites, nanomaterials, semiconductor nanostructures

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• Most advanced are nanocomposites, nanomaterials, semiconductor nanostructures

• Industry interest in nanotechnology is growing, mainly in nanomaterials

• The Swiss cohesion founds can be even more effective in boosting nanotechnology development for the society in both countries, basing on experiences gathered in the use of EU funds.

Thank you for your attention

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Tadeusz Kulik

Vice-Rector for Scientific Affairs

Warsaw University of Technology

[email protected]

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