A Distance Determination to the Small Magellanic Cloud with an Accuracy of Better than Two Percent Based on Late-type Eclipsing Binary Stars

European Research Council (ERC) 695099 National Science Centre, Poland UMO-2017/26/A/ST9/00446 UMO-2018/31/G/ST9/03050 Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland IdP II 2015 0002 64 DIR/WK/2018/09 Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT) CONICYT PIA/BASAL AFB-170002 Millenium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS) of the Iniciativa Cientifica Milenio del Ministerio de Economia, Fomento y Turismo de Chile IC120009 Polish National Science Centre 2016/21/N/ST9/03310 German Research Foundation (DFG) EXC-2094-390783311 National Science Center, Poland, Sonata BIS project 2018/30/E/ST9/00598 NTT telescopes in La Silla 074.D-0318 074.D-0505 082.D-0499 083.D-0549 084.D-0591 086.D-0078 091,D-0469(A) 0100.D-0339(A) 098.D-0263(A,B) 097.D-0400(A) 0102.D-0469(B) 0102.D-0590(B)