The National Science Centre (NCN), in collaboration with the European Biodiversity Partnership (Biodiversa+), has launched a new call for international research projects on biodiversity and transformative change (BiodivTransform and Transformative Change).

“The draft (state) budget is clearly inconsistent with public statements that the NCN funding must be increased,” the NCN Council noted in its Resolution of 5 September. The Council members emphasize that consistent increase in NCN funding is indispensable to ensure stable development of research in Poland.

Dr Piotr Alexandrowicz, a legal historian at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and Dr Łukasz Bola from the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences have joined the ranks of ERC Starting Grant winners. They are also involved in NCN-funded projects.

The National Science Centre will support the Medical Research Agency (MRA) in their calls for basic research projects in medical and health sciences. An agreement to this effect was signed in Krakow, on 4 September 2024 by the directors of the two agencies.

Scientists from the Jagiellonian University have just won an IMPRESS-U research grant for a project looking into the properties of nuclear forces, which will be conducted in cooperation with researchers from the US and Ukraine. The budget for the Polish team is more than 800,000 zlotys.

This year’s Award will have new rules and a new venue. As always, it will be presented to the best early-stage researchers, whose names will be announced on 9 October.

95 researchers will have their research activities funded under MINIATURA 8. The fourth ranking list for proposals submitted in May is now available.

In the new episode of the NCN podcast, professors Artur Obłuski and Piotr Sankowski, who have won grants from the ERC and NCN, talk about their experiences in preparing research proposals and discuss the importance of perseverance in their quest for funding.

Polish researchers among the winners of the international call for research projects launched by the Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for Social Sciences and Humanities.