Partner centers of Emerging Fields teams (Emerging Fields)

Name of an Emerging Field	Head	Partner center
Ecology and biodiversity	Prof. Krzysztof Szpila	Ulm University, Germany University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage	Prof. Elżbieta Basiul	Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques, France Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara, Romania
Centre for Global & Multi-level Governance	Dr hab. Agnieszka Szpak, NCU prof.	Uniwersytet UArctic, Rovaniemi, Finland University of Hull, Hull, Great Britain George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Culture, Development & Wellbeing	Bibianna Bałaj, PhD	RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP), Tokyo (Japan) The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK); Department of Psychology (China) The City University of New York (CUNY); College of Staten Island; Department of Philosophy (USA) “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca; Department of Psychology; Developmental Psychology Lab; Research in Individual Differences and Legal Psychology (RIDDLE) Lab (Romania)
Microbiology, Soil science, Food quality and Agricultural genetics (OBSIDIAN)	Prof. Katarzyna Hrynkiewicz	Plant-microbial interactions in agriculture and ecosystem management University of Rostock, Germany Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Germany Aarhus University, Denmark Plants for better future – biofuels, food security and food safety Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Austria University of Perugia, Italy Wenzhou-Kean University, China University of Warwick, Great Britain Addis Ababa University, Etiopia University of Florence, Italy University of Goettingen, Germany Michigan State University, USA Current status and future developments in food sciences University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Czech Republic INRAE – Centre Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur UMR SQPOV 228, France University of Burgundy Franche-Comte in Dijon, France Agricultural and urban soils – towards to sustainable use and management University of Seoul, South Korea University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakesh, Maroko University of Debrecen, Hungary University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia University of Sfax, Tunisia

Emerging Fields running from 01.2020-12.2022

Name of an Emerging Field	Head	Partner center
Polymer sciences and multifunctional nanomaterials	Prof. Wojciech Kujawski	Universita do Genova, Italy Institute on Membrane Technology National Research Council, Italy
Automation and control systems	Assist. Prof. Tomasz Tarczewski, prof. NCU	Universität Rostock, Germany Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany University of Belgrade, Belgrade
Soil sciences, microbiology and agriculture genetics	Prof. Katarzyna Hrynkiewicz	University of Rostock, Germany University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Global environmental changes	Prof. Wojciech Wysota	St. Petersburg State University, Russia Tomsk State University, Russia
Metabolic civilization diseases	Prof. Jacek Kubica	Medical University of Vienna, Austria National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Great Britain
Ecology and biodiversity	Prof. Krzysztof Szpila	Ulm University, Germany University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage	Prof. Elżbieta Basiul	Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques, France Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara, Romania
Logic and philosophy of science	Assist. Prof. Tomasz Jarmużek, NCU prof.	University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Brazil University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Old and New Institutions in the Modern World – Changes and Challenges in a Multidisciplinary Perspective	Assist. Prof. Arkadiusz Karwacki, NCU prof.	Universität Regensburg, Germany Leuphana University w Luneburgu, Germany
Perception, Cognition and Language	Bibianna Bałaj, PhD	Universität Regensburg, Germany The Education University of Hong Kong, China
Multifactorial Molecular-Behavioral Cancer Profiling Team	Assist. Prof. Wojciech Jóźwicki, NCU prof.	University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Eurecat Technology Center of Catalonia 2, Spain
New insight into chronic diseases	Prof. Justyna Rogalska	Universität Münster, Münster, Germany University Hospital i Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic