In the first episode of the second series of our podcast, we will discuss scientific cooperation with, inter alia, Switzerland. Our guests today are Barbara Świątkowska and Justyna Woźniakowska who are in charge of our international programmes.
MAPS is an initiative launched by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) to support multilateral research projects of Swiss researchers, carried out in collaboration with research teams from Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary and Romania. We discuss the terms that must be met by Polish researchers who would like to join the programme and suggest how to search for project partners. Barbara Świątkowska from the EEA and Norway Grants Team, who handles similar funding mechanisms as well as MAPS, explains what to look out for when preparing proposals submitted to the SNSF and talks about the project review. She reiterates the fact that the programme is also available to researchers who have already reached the limit of proposals submitted to the NCN, as MAPS is not subject to the limits imposed by the NCN Council.
My guests acknowledge that interest in the MAPS call is very high. “It honestly surprises me how many people ask about the call, while the Weave programme, where cooperation with Switzerland was also possible, attracted much less attention,” says Justyna Woźniakowska, Head of our International Cooperation Department. Weave was launched in 2021 to promote bilateral or trilateral cooperation of researchers from Poland, Austria, Czechia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium (Flanders) and Luxembourg. Justyna Woźniakowska explains the programme principles and encourages Polish researchers to join it.
The podcast is hosted by Anna Korzekwa-Józefowicz.
The recording is now available on Spotify and Apple Podcast.
In our podcasts last year, we discussed, inter alia, men and women in science, early-stage researchers in NCN calls and evaluation of proposals.