Join us for the first webinar this year on research data opening in academic disciplines. The first training will be dedicated to research data management in linguistics.

The training will be hosted by Dr Agnieszka Dziob-Zadworna and Dr Jan Wieczorek from the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology / CLARIN-PL.

It will be held on 5 May 2023, between 12:00 and 13:30, in Polish, on Clickmeeting.

During the webinar, participants will be lectured about research data management in linguistics and will acquire skills allowing them to develop and implement data management plans. The following issues will be discussed:

• Research data management significance for linguistics.
• Data characteristics in linguistics.
• FAIR principles.
• Research data opening principles.
• General information on data management plans.
• Description of data and available data acquisition or reuse.
• Data storage and back up.
• Legal requirements, codes of conduct.
• Data sharing and long-term storage.
• Data management-related tasks and resources.
• Implementation and reporting of data management plans.

The training is addressed at all those researching broadly understood linguistics, including researchers, PhD students as well as data stewards and administrative staff supporting researchers in data management-related issues in linguistics.

You can register until 4 May 2023 (subject to availability; a limit of 500 people applies) on the enrolment form. Your participation will be confirmed by e-mail. Please note that submission of an application does not confirm your participation. Participants will be admitted according to their profile and order of enrolment.

Consider your enrolment. If you decide not to take part in the webinar, let us know as soon as possible at: otwarta.nauka@ncn.gov.pl

 

We are pleased to inform that CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe) consortium in collaboration with HERA (The Humanities in the European Research Area) and NORFACE (The New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe) Networks pre-announce calls for international research projects in the following themes:

• Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities – organised jointly by CHANSE and HERA
• Enhancing well-being for the future – organised jointly by CHANSE and NORFACE

Information about the calls

Full calls topic description is available here:

Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities – theme description

Enhancing well-being for the future – theme description

Project team: Composed of at least four and maximum six Principal Investigators, i.e. partners, eligible to receive funding from the CHANSE and HERA/NORFACE funding organisations from four or more different countries participating in the call.

Project duration: 24-36 months

Cap on funding for one international project: 1 500 000 EUR (across all partners)

Indicative timeline

Official calls announcement and launch of the submission system: May 26th, 2023

Deadline for outline proposals: September 21st, 2023, 14.00 CET

Deadline for invited full proposals: March 26th 2024, 14.00 CET

Call results: October/November 2024

Earliest funded project start: End of 2024/Beginning of 2025

Countries participating in the calls

Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia*, Denmark*, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Enhancing well-being for the future: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia*, Estonia, Germany*, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

*The participation in the calls will be confirmed in the Call announcement on 26 May 2023. The participation of France will also be confirmed in the Call announcement.

PARTNER SEARCH TOOL

In order to facilitate the process of forming research consortia, we offer applicants a partner search tool available here. This tool can be used by projects looking for partners and partners looking for projects.

Zapowiedź tematów konkursów ma charakter informacyjny. Szczegółowe warunki zostaną określone w treści oficjalnych ogłoszeń.

Contact

Call Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities:  crisis@ncn.gov.pl

Call Enhancing well-being for the future:  wellbeing@ncn.gov.pl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHANSE Programme has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101004509.

We now know the winning project recommended for funding under the ARTIQ call of the National Science Centre and the National Centre for Research and Development. The Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (CE AI) will be created at the AGH University of Krakow and Ayan Seal, researcher from India will act as its leader. Since 2014, Ayan Seal has been an assistant professor at the Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing in Jabalpur. He will come to Krakow to research integration of application, learning, optimisation and interpretation to speed up commercialisation of intelligent new generation software systems.

CD AI leaders must be researchers who have earned their PhD within 8 years before the call start date and have international experience and achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, including accomplishments in commercialisation and business cooperation. Furthermore, they must have not lived, worked, studied or managed a grant in Poland within two years prior to the call end date. 

Artificial intelligence is considered one of the most important technologies of the future and actions in support of AI are one of European Union’s priorities. It is the objective of the National Science Centre and the National Centre for Research and Development to increase Poland’s potential in this area by creating the Excellence Centres in Artificial Intelligence in Poland. The National Science Centre will fund basic research covered by the winning project whilst the cost of applied research and formation of companies will be financed by the National Centre for Research and Development.

54% of funding awarded by the National Science Centre last year fostered the development of early-stage researchers. It was 3% more than in 2021 and 11% more than in 2016, when the measurements started.

In 2022, over PLN 875 million was awarded to early-stage researchers in national and international calls for proposals, for research projects, scholarships and post-doctoral fellowships. As of 2016, they have received funding of nearly PLN 10 billion (PLN 9.8 billion).

NCN funding allows early-stage researchers to carry out research projects, create their own research teams, benefit from scholarships at doctoral schools and employment at Polish research institutions as well as foreign fellowships at renowned research institutions, the latter due to collaboration between the NCN and the Polish Agency of Academic Exchange.

NCN support for early-stage researchers is discussed by our guests today: Prof. Joanna Golińska-Pilarek, NCN Council Member, Prof. Łukasz Okruszek from the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences and NCN grant winner as well as Anna Strzebońska and Renata Mazurkiewicz from our Analysis and Evaluation Team. They are addressing the terms of NCN calls, funding awarded to early-stage researchers in particular years, as well as possible modifications of the terms of NCN calls as a result the budget freeze and their implications for early-stage researchers’ careers.

“The NCN is currently the best option for research development. As a community, we honestly hope that the current trend will change” says Prof. Łukasz Okruszek in view of NCN budget cuts.

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Researchers, culture and business stakeholders, as well as research-funding organisations in Humanities and Social Sciences will meet in Tallinn, Estonia at a conference organised by the CHANSE network.

Participants of projects funded under the CHANSE call (Transformations - Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age), representatives of the European Commission and agencies co-forming the network, as well as science, culture and business stakeholders will participate in the conference held in Tallin, on 1-2 June 2023. The conference will be opened by keynote speeches from Prof. Marju Lauristin from the University of Tartu and Dr Taras Fedirko from the University of Glasgow.

The purpose of the conference is to create a unique platform for international research teams, winners of the CHANCE Transformations call, to exchange research experience. The participants will have a chance to participate in the panel discussions on AI, and the role of humanities in the digital age, as well as in a workshop on knowledge exchange between researchers and non-academic stakeholder, such as representatives of business, culture and non-governmental organisations.

To find out more, please go here.

Contact Person

monika.hunka@ncn.gov.pl; chanse@ncn.gov.pl

 

 

The call for proposals at the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) acting as lead agency ends on 20 April 2023, 14:00 (CET).

If a joint proposal is submitted to FNR as the lead agency, an NCN proposal must be submitted electronically via the OSF submission system as soon as possible following the submission of the joint proposal to FNR, i.e., by 27 April 2023, 23:59 at the latest.

Once the work on the NCN proposal has started in the OSF submission system, the Polish research team has 45 calendar days to complete the proposal and submit it to the NCN. After that, the proposal can no longer be edited, in which case a Polish research team that has not sent its proposal to the NCN must prepare a new proposal and complete it in the OSF submission system.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the winners of this year’s Advanced Grants. Two will go to researchers based in Poland: prof. Andrzej Dziembowski from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw and prof. Daniel Gryko from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

They are the first life scientist and chemist, respectively, in the history of Polish science to win an ERC Advanced Grant. Both are previous NCN call winners.

prof. Andrzej Dziembowski (source: MIBMiK), prof. Daniel Gryko (source: IChO PAN)

The winners

Prof. Andrzej Dziembowski works at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw and the Faculty of Biology at the University of Warsaw. The goal of his project is to uncover the mechanisms behind mRNA processing in human cells and the human body, which will help develop next-generation mRNA therapies. Entitled Principles of endogenous and therapeutic mRNA turnover in vivo (acronym: ViveRNA), the project will last 5 years and has a budget of nearly 2.5 million euro. More information can be found on the ERC website.

To date, prof. Dziembowski has completed as many as 5 research projects funded by the NCN under GRIEG, HARMONIA, OPUS, and two MAESTRO calls. He has also previously won a prestigious grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) to researchers embarking on promising research projects, as well as grants under the 6th and 7th EU Framework Program. In 2013, he received an NCN Award for outstanding young researchers. He is also a winner of two Prime Minister’s awards, an award of the Foundation for Polish Science, and the Knight’s Order of Polonia Restituta.

The other ERC Advanced Grant this year will go to prof. Daniel Gryko, Head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, PAS, winner of many prestigious awards, e.g. from the Foundation for Polish Science.

Professor Gryko is the first Polish chemist to win the ERC Advanced Grant and will work on a project entitled ARCHIMEDES “Approaching 20% emission efficiency in the NIR-II region with radical chromophores”. His objective is to obtain near-infrared fluorophores. With a total budget of 2.5 million euro, the grant will be carried out at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, PAS, in 2023-2028.

Prof. Gryko has already completed 4 NCN-funded projects under calls such as MAESTRO, OPUS and two HARMONIA calls.

ERC Advanced Grant

These prestigious ERC grants support groundbreaking, high-risk high-gain research in different disciplines. The only criterion of project assessment is scientific excellence. This year, the European Research Council looked at 1650 submitted proposals to select 218 projects, which will receive Advanced Grants to the total amount of 544 million euro.

Advanced Grants are targeted at experienced researchers with a considerable research record. Winners are typically active in research and can demonstrate significant achievements within the last decade. The ERC gives them complete research independence, which means that the grant is awarded to specific researchers, and, if need be, follows them if they need to move to another research institution.

Advanced Grants may be awarded up to € 2.5 million for a period of max. 5 years. However, an additional € 1 million can be made available if the researcher needs to move outside the EU, purchase costly equipment, or access special research infrastructure. Last year, ERC awarded Advanced Grants to prof. Andrzej Indrzejczak from the University of Łódź and prof. Wojciech Knap from the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Both are previous NCN grant holders.

Decisions for the POLONEZ BIS 3 proposals that have not been qualified for the second stage of evaluation were sent out on 29 March 2023.

Please note that decisions of the Director of the National Science Centre are served in the form of an electronic document sent to the e-mail address provided by the applicant in the proposal or their Electronic Correspondence Register (ESP ePUAP) address if it was specified.

Information was sent from the address: ncn.wnioski(at)ncn.gov.pl. and contains a link to download the decision of the Director of the National Science Centre.

The correspondence was generated automatically – please do not reply to the message you received. If you have any problems with access to the document, please contact the POLONEZ BIS Team polonez(at)ncn.gov.pl.

The status of your proposal is also displayed in the OSF system.

Celebrating the launch of three Dioscuri Centres of Scientific Excellence at the Jagiellonian University, an inauguration ceremony was held at the Collegium Novum on March 28. The three Polish-born scientists, previously working in Germany, Switzerland and the US, are returning to Poland thanks to support from the Polish-German funding in the frame of the Dioscuri Programme.

Led by two life scientists and a mathematician, the new groups join five already established Dioscuri Centres conducting cutting-edge basic research at various Warsaw-based institutes.

The newly-established Dioscuri Centres:

• Dioscuri Centre for Structural Dynamics and Receptors led by Dr Przemysław Nogły,
• Dioscuri Centre for Modelling of Posttranslational Modifications led by Dr Mateusz Sikora,
• Dioscuri Centre in Random Walks in Geometry and Topology led by Dr Mikołaj Frączyk.

“These are exactly the kind of talents and research topics that we had in mind when launching the program here in Krakow back in 2017. We need to foster healthy brain circulation between all European countries if we want to create an attractive, united and successful European Research Area,” says Martin Stratmann, President of the Max Planck Society and initiator of the Dioscuri Programme. In a similar vein, Zbigniew Błocki, Director of the National Science Centre, which manages the program together with the German research organization, points out: “Our goal is a more balanced distribution of scientific excellence throughout Europe. We are grateful that the Max Planck Society as one of Europe’s leading research organizations supports Polish science in unlocking its full scientific potential.”

Around 100 guests from different scientific institutions gathered in the historic aula of Poland’s oldest university to join the festivities, which also featured a scientific lecture by Max Planck researcher Brenda Schulman. "For many years, the Jagiellonian University has been systematically improving the quality of research, especially promoting its interdisciplinary dimension and developing international cooperation. Thanks to these efforts, the university is becoming increasingly recognized in the global scientific community – the Dioscuri Centres will certainly add to its prestige." says Vice-Rector Piotr Kuśtrowski. Highlighting not only the international, but also the bilateral significance of the program, German Ambassador Thomas Bagger adds: “With Dioscuri, Poland and Germany have created something unique to strengthen scientific excellence in Poland and to counteract the brain drain from Central Europe in a novel bilateral framework. This is of utmost importance since only with highly qualified scientists we will be able to solve the challenges of the future – be they climate change, energy transformation or global health.”

Launch of the Dioscuri Centres at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, photo: Adam Koprowski, UJ

Background: The Dioscuri Programme

The Dioscuri Programme, which was initiated by the Max Planck Society, is jointly managed with the National Science Centre Poland (NCN) and aims to establish internationally competitive research groups in Central and Eastern Europe. Together with the five Dioscuri Centres established already in Warsaw, three Dioscuri Centres in Krakow have now been established.

Each of the Dioscuri Centres is financed with up to 1.5 million euros for a period of five years. The costs are shared equally between the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Polish Ministry of Education and Science (MEiN), while the host institutions in Poland provide the necessary infrastructure. After its successful start in Poland, the program has recently been extended to the Czech Republic.

We are happy to present the first research component qualified for funding by the NCN in cooperation with the National Agency for Academic Exchange within the framework of the NAWA Chair programme. Prof. Dr Tomasz Taylor will study the celestial holography of fundamental interactions at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw. His project is scheduled to begin later this year.

The second edition of NAWA Chair was targeted at universities and research centres conducting research in life sciences, engineering, technology, medicine, health science and agriculture.

Within the framework of the programme, Polish universities will host three outstanding foreign researchers who will carry out research projects that address current civilizational challenges. Importantly, each project includes a research component funded by the National Science Centre. Visiting scholars will form project groups and actively apply for national and international grants.

• Ranking list

You can still apply for funding for research components that form part of projects funded by the NAWA under the NAWA Chair programme. Proposals may be submitted via the OSF system.