A team of scientists led by astronomer, Prof. Grzegorz Pietrzyński, has won the most prestigious grant awarded by the European Research Council – ERC Synergy – worth almost EUR 14 mln. It is one of the largest research grants in the world and the first of this kind awarded to Polish researchers.The team of prof. Grzegorz Pietrzyński from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences is the first in Poland to receive the prestigious ERC Synergy grant.