The Center was awarded a new 300,000 EUR grant to run a research project: „Scientific Excellence: Competition, Measurability, Internationalization” (EXCELLENCE). It is funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

A total of 80 million PLN (18 million EUR) will be awarded to national research teams in 2016-2020 on a highly competitive basis in a new „Dialog” (Dialogue) national research scheme.

Its Principal Investigator is Professor Marek Kwiek and it will employ five collaborators: Dr. hab. Dominik Antonowicz, Dr. hab. Emanuel Kulczycki, Dr. hab. Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Dr. Krystian Szadkowski and Dr. Wojciech Roszka.