The National Science Centre (NCN), in cooperation with the JPND network (EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research) has launched the call “Health and social care research with a focus on the moderate and late stages of neurodegenerative diseases,” which is open to Polish researchers who may apply for funding of their international research projects to better understand the factors that contribute to the quality of life of patients and their families and to develop more adequate concepts of easily accessible support for people with neurodegenerative diseases at moderate, advanced and end of life stages.
Proposals submitted to JPND Call 2025 must focus on at least one of the following neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, Parkinson’s disease and PD‐related disorders, prion diseases, motor neuron diseases, Huntington’s disease, spinocerebellar ataxia, and spinal muscular atrophy. The subjects of the call are described in the call text.
Funding proposals may be submitted by international consortia composed of 3 – 7 research teams from at least 3 countries participating in the call. Countries participating in the call: Belgium, Czechia, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg, Germany, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, Hungary and Italy.
Polish research teams may participate in the call as long as they apply for funding of their basic research projects. Principal investigators of the Polish research teams must be at least PhD holders and projects must be planned for a period of 24 or 36 months. The budget may include funds for salaries of the research team members (including post-docs), salaries and scholarships for students and PhD students, purchase or manufacturing of research equipment and other costs crucial to the research project.
The application procedure consists of two stages. In the first stage, a pre-proposal must be drafted in English by the Polish research team in cooperation with their foreign partners and submitted to the electronic submission system of the JPND network by 4 March 2025 (12 noon CET). In the second stage, a full proposal must be drafted by 24 June 2025 (12 noon CEST). The Polish applicants are also required to draft NCN proposals and submit them to the NCN by 1 July 2025. Only joint proposals are subject to a merit-based evaluation in performed by an international research team.
The results of JPND Call 2025 will be published in October 2025.