The research project executed by Dr. Tomala  from Austrian Exellence Centre for Tribology - AC^₂T Research GmbH, is carried out at the Tribology Department of the Institute for Sustainable Technologies – National Research Institute in Radom in the frame of POLONEZ 1 program, under the registration number 2015/19/P/ST8/02597. Scientific partner is Prof. Remigiusz Michalczewski. The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 665778.

 POLONEZ is a funding programme coordinated by the National Science Centre and co-funded from the EU H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions addressed to incoming researchers who perform proposed research in host institutions in Poland. The POLONEZ is supporting internationalisation of research in Poland targeting researchers working in the broad field of basic research, regardless of their nationality. The fellows are offered a grant to cover the costs of research and given an opportunity to participate in a variety of training programmes provided by the NCN.