On the 21^st of November, the director of the National Science Centre, Professor Andrzej Jajszczyk, attended the Science Europe General Assembly in Brussels. Science Europe comprises research funding agencies and research institutions from all over the continent. It works toward consolidation of European research space by means of fostering intensive cooperation between member organisations.  »

Nearly PLN 340 million will be granted to researchers who successfully applied for the National Science Centre’s three recently concluded funding opportunities. In the fifth call for proposals of the OPUS, PRELUDIUM and SONATA funding schemes, more than a thousand research projects in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Life Sciences will receive NCN funding.  »

Two or more European cultures meet whenever a king or prince takes a bride from another country. She often speaks a different language to that of her new court, professes a different version of Christianity, and has been brought up in a different court culture. In order to investigate the role of foreign consorts as agents, instruments or catalysts of cultural transfer, a team of scholars from the UK, Germany, Poland and Sweden will work on a number of transnational case studies, covering the period 1500 to 1800.  »