The first results of the eighth round of MINIATURA are now in! 40 researchers from all over Poland will get a total of more than PLN 1.7 million in funding for research activities such as preliminary and pilot studies, library and archive research, research fellowships, research visits and consultations.
First MINIATURA 8 ranking list
In the eighth round of MINIATURA, experts selected 12 applicants who will go on to work on research tasks in the field of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Their subjects include human relationships, especially those within the closest family, and parental care. Dr Albert Pielak from the Warsaw University of Technology, for instance, will carry out library and archive research focusing on parental responsibility in a comparative legal perspective.
14 winners in the Physical Sciences and Engineering panel will receive funding for projects that touch on issues such as current environmental and agricultural challenges. Dr Ewa Grabska-Szwagrzyk from the Jagiellonian University will join a consultation trip focused on identifying primeval forests and old tree stands using teledetection data.
In Life Sciences, 14 projects were recommended for funding. Their themes largely revolve around issues of health and disease. In her preliminary research, Dr Patrycja Mołek-Dziadosz from the John Paul II Hospital in Kraków, for instance, will assess the relationship between the degree of plasma protein carbonylation and fibrin clot phenotype in patients with atrial fibrillation.
All winning projects can be found on ranking lists:
MINIATURA 8 ranking lists
MINATURA 8 ranking list no.1 (.pdf)
Funding per panel:
- Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences – PLN 397,276
- Physical Sciences and Engineering – PLN 641,561
- Life Sciences – PLN 665,827
The total budget of projects on the first ranking list comes up to PLN 1,704,664.
About MINIATURA
The objective of the MINIATURA call is to finance research activities carried out in preparation for future research projects that will be submitted to NCN calls for proposals, as well as other domestic and international calls. Researchers can apply for funding from PLN 5,000 to PLN 50,000 for a research activity planned over a period of up to 12 months.
The total budget of this year’s call is PLN 20 million. Funds available for research activities are divided proportionally between the months during which proposals are accepted. A project can be recommended for funding only as long as there is sufficient resources available for any given month.
Proposals are being accepted until 31 July 2024.
The call, which funds preliminary or pilot studies, library and archive research, research fellowships, research visits or consultations, is open to PhD holders who earned their degree no earlier than 1 January 2012 and have never served as principal investigators in a project funded by the National Science Centre. They must demonstrate that tier scientific achievements include at least one paper published or at least one artistic achievement or achievement in research in art. They must not be winning applicants of an ETIUDA call for doctoral fellowships or other call for fellowship s funded by the NCN and must not be applicants, principal investigators or fellowship candidates in proposals submitted to or recommended for funding under other NCN calls.
Decisions
Funding decisions, both positive and negative, for proposals submitted under MINIATURA 8 in February, were sent out on 20 May 2024.
Justifications are available in the OSF submission system, where you can also check the status of your proposal.
Let us remind you that decisions are delivered electronically to the ESP ePUAP address indicated in the proposal. If you have not received a decision, please make sure that the address listed in the proposal is correct. If it is not, contact the officer in charge of the proposal named in the OSF submission system.