The National Science Centre (NCN) hereby announces the SONATINA 6 call for research projects carried out by early career researchers. A total of 25 million PLN is up for grabs.
The main objective of the call is to support the career development of early career researchers by creating opportunities for full-time employment and research in Poland as well as enabling them to gain knowledge and experience during fellowships in first-rate foreign research institutions. Projects may cover both basic and applied research. Project work may be planned for a period of 2 or 3 years and fellowships may last anywhere between 3 to 6 months.
The call is open to researchers who were granted their PhD after 31 December 2018 or will be granted their PhD before the end of June 2022. Proposals may also be submitted by researchers who were granted their PhD before that date but enjoyed a career break, for example to have or adopt children.
Proposals may be submitted electronically, via the ZSUN/OSF submission system between 16 December 2021 and 15 March 2022 (4 p.m.). Proposals will be subject to an eligibility check and merit-based evaluation. The experts will evaluate, inter alia, the scientific quality and novelty of research to be performed, project’s impact on the advancement of the scientific discipline and compliance of the research with the research criteria. The results will be published in summer of 2022.