Free-living honeybee colonies in Europe, solar farms, urban transformation labs, marginal saltlands and healing forests will be at the centre of interest for five Polish research teams that have just won funding under BiodivNBS, a call for proposals organised by the BIODIVERSA+ European Biodiversity Partnership. Their total budget is more than PLN 5.8 million.

Four researchers received the 2024 Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science. The prize is given for outstanding research achievements and discoveries. This year’s winners are also the winning applicants of NCN calls.

Seven hundred and nineteen researchers received grants for research projects in the OPUS 27 and PRELUDIUM 23 calls, with a total value of almost 665 million zlotys. In OPUS alone, a record was set – we awarded funding of 600 million zlotys. The highest budget in OPUS history.

Please join a meeting with Marcin Magierowski to be held on 4 December at 6 pm. The NCN Award winner will deliver a lecture in a series organised by the National Science Centre and the Copernicus Center.

The European Research Council has published a list of 328 recipients of the Consolidator Grant 2024, including Prof. Małgorzata Kot, archaeologist from the University of Warsaw and former winner of NCN grants.  

In this episode, we are joined by an NCN Council member, Prof. Krzysztof Fic, who is a researcher working at the Poznań University of Technology. An expert in energy storage and conversion, he tells us about his research and explains why we really need to invest in fundamental science.

PM Donald Tusk announced earlier today that the National Science Centre will receive an additional 500 million zlotys in bonds. The announcement was made during an awards ceremony for the winners of the Prime Minister’s Awards for research achievements.

Scientists analysed hundreds of pieces of fossilised digestive material to reconstruct the diet of the dinosaurs. Their findings, based on research funded in part by the #NCN, were published by “Nature” on 27 November.

On 27 November, join us for a meeting with Błażej Skrzypulec, a philosopher from the Jagiellonian University and winner of the 2024 NCN Award for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, who will give a talk in a series organised by the NCN and the Copernicus Center.

339 researchers are joining the ranks of MINIATURA 8 grant holders. They will receive a total of more than 13.7 million zlotys in funding for their research tasks. Here are the results for the July batch of proposals and a final round-up of this year’s edition of the call.