TOP200 Weigl Research Components

Funding proposals for Research Components (hereinafter: “Proposal” or “Proposals”) can be submitted by the following entities identified in Article 7 (1) (1), Article 7 (1) (2) and Article 7 (1) (4) – (7) of the Act on Higher Education and Science of 20 July 2018 (consolidated text in Journal of Laws 2025, item 1571, as amended) for which funding does not constitute state aid:

1. universities,
2. federations of science and HE entities,
3. research institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences, operating pursuant to the Act on the Polish Academy of Sciences of 30 April 2010 (consolidated text in Journal of Laws 2020, item 1796),
4. research institutes operating pursuant to the Act on Research Institutes of 30 April 2010 (consolidated text in Journal of Laws 2022, item 498),
5. international research institutes established pursuant to separate Acts, operating in the Republic of Poland,
6. the Łukasiewicz Centre operating pursuant to the Act on the Łukasiewicz Research Network of 21 February 2019 (consolidated text in Journal of Laws 2020, item 2098),
7. institutes operating within the Łukasiewicz Research Network, and
8. Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Research components can only be carried out by the principal investigators in the TOP200 Weigl call who have been awarded funds for research projects containing such components by NAWA. A project team may also be involved in a project if it has been covered by a proposal submitted to NAWA.

A Research Component covered by a proposal submitted to NAWA and rejected by its Evaluation Team will not be recommended for NCN funding and must not be submitted to the Call even if a part of the project funded by the NAWA has been awarded funding under the Programme.

The following restrictions apply:

• Proposals must only be submitted by institutions awarded funding under the TOP200 Weigl Programme for their research projects containing a Research Component;
• Proposals must not be submitted if a Research Component covered by a project submitted to NAWA has not been recommended for funding by the NAWA Evaluation Team, even if a part of the project funded by NAWA has been recommended by the Evaluation Team.

The Call is open to basic research proposals in any of 26 NCN panels within three major areas: Humanities, Social Sciences and Art Sciences (HS), Physical Sciences and Engineering (ST) and Life Sciences (NZ).

The topic of a Research Component submitted to the Call must be the same as the Research Component covered by the proposal funded under the TOP200 Weigl Programme.

Research components will be carried out over the first 18 months of performance of the projects funded under the TOP200 Weigl Programme.

A Research Component start date must be the same as the start date of the project funded under the TOP200 Weigl Programme. If the date on which a Research Component funding decision issued by the NCN Director becomes final is later than the project start date, the Research Component start date is the date the funding decision of the NCN Director becomes final.

In the Planowane koszty [Planned Costs] tab in the OSF submission system, enter the budget of the Research Component only which must be the same as the costs covered by the project funded under the TOP200 Weigl Programme.

The budget must be in line with the recommendations of the Evaluation Team reviewing proposals submitted to the TOP200 Weigl Programme. Proposals disregarding such recommendations will be rejected on the grounds that they do not meet the eligibility criteria.

For more information on the budget, please refer to the “Costs in Research Components funded by the National Science Centre”.

The funding requested for a Research Component must not exceed PLN 400,000 for the entire Research Component performance period.

Proposals in the call must not include application for state aid. For more information, please go to the State Aid section.

1. Proposals are subject to an eligibility check only.
2. An eligibility check is performed by the coordinators.
3. Only proposals approved as eligible by the coordinators can be recommended for funding.
4. Applicants whose proposals do not meet the eligibility criteria can submit another proposal incorporating the instructions received from the NCN.

Proposals are only subject to an eligibility check comprising:

1. verification of a proposal for completeness,
2. verification of proposal’s compliance with the Call Text;
3. verification of whether information provided in the proposal submitted to the NCN complies with information provided in the proposal submitted to the NAWA under its TOP200 Weigl Programme; and
4. verification of whether the forecasted costs are eligible pursuant to the Costs in Research Components funded by the National Science Centre.

The budget of a Research Component submitted to the NCN must incorporate the instructions of the Evaluation Team reviewing proposals submitted to the TOP200 Weigl Programme.

A Research Component covered by a proposal submitted to NAWA and rejected by its Evaluation Team will not be recommended for NCN funding and must not be submitted to the Call even if a part of the project funded by NAWA has been awarded funding under the Programme.

The Call results will be communicated to the applicants in the form of a decision of the NCN Director and published on the NCN website.

More information

Should you have any more questions or queries, please contact us by e-mail at: informacja@ncn.gov.pl

If you are intending to submit a proposal to our Call for Research Components:

1. read all documents included in the Call Text, in particular:
   1. Terms and Regulations of the Call for Research Components covered by projects funded under the TOP200 Weigl Programme;
   2. Proposal form template;
   3. Costs in Research Components funded by the National Science Centre
   4. Proposal submission procedure;
2. acquire the required information from the applicant to complete the proposal and find out about the internal procedures that may affect the proposal and performance of the Research Component;
3. draft and prepare:

• proposal title equivalent to the title of the Project funded under the TOP200 Weigl Programme;
• Research Component start date equivalent to the start date of the Project funded under the TOP200 Weigl Programme;
• full proposal submitted to the NAWA under the TOP200 Weigl Programme in PDF format;
• forecasted costs of the Research Component prepared in compliance with the Costs in Research Components funded by the National Science Centre;
• general budget;
• information on the data management plan concerning data generated or used in the course of performance of the Research Component, as required by the proposal;
• information on the ethical aspects, including any consents, opinions, permits and/or approvals necessary to perform the Research Component in accordance with generally applicable laws and best practices adopted for a specific academic discipline, as required by the proposal;
• in the case of a Research Component which includes clinical trials with a medicinal product or a medical device, a detailed justification of the non-commercial nature of the trials;
• in the case of a Research Component to be performed in a host institution that does not receive any institutional core funding for research activities, information on research carried out over the last 2 years, together with a list of publications and information on research equipment and other instruments/facilities crucial to research; and
• applicant’s declaration, as required by the proposal.

A proposal submitted to the OSF submission system must include the proposal (in PDF format) funded under the TOP200 Weigl Programme. Information in the proposal form submitted to the OSF submission system must comply with information in the proposal submitted to the NAWA and incorporate the instructions (if any) of the Evaluation Team reviewing the budget of proposals submitted to the Call.

Before the proposal is submitted to the NCN:

1. check if information in the proposal and annexes thereto are correct. The verification of the proposal for completeness in the OSF submission system by pressing the Sprawdź kompletność [Check completeness] button does not guarantee that information has been entered correctly and that the required annexes have been attached;
2. disable the final version of the proposal;
3. download the final version of the proposal, have it signed by the authorised representative of the applicant and submit the proposal with a signature to the OSF submission system; and
4. submit the proposal to the NCN via the OSF submission system.

The proposal must be submitted to NCN electronically via the OSF submission system using the Wyślij do NCN [Send to NCN] button.

Proposals must be signed with a qualified electronic signature in the PAdES format.

Once the proposal has been submitted to the NCN:

1. an eligibility check will be performed;
2. if a proposal does not meet the eligibility criteria, the applicant will be requested to amend it appropriately and re-submit it to the NCN for another eligibility check;
3. following the eligibility check, a Research Component funding decision will be issued by the NCN Director; and
4. if the date on which the Research Component funding decision by the NCN Director becomes final is later than the project start date, the date the decision becomes final will be the Research Component start date.

No agreement is concluded under the Call. Research Components are funded and performed pursuant to the General Terms of the Funding Agreement for a Research Component covered by the project funded under the TOP200 Weigl Programme. The Applicants are required to read the General Terms of the Funding Agreement. By submitting a proposal, the applicants accept the Agreement. In the event of a breach of the Call procedure or other formal infringements, the applicant may appeal against the decision of the NCN Director with the Committee of Appeals of the NCN Council within 14 days of the effective service of the decision.