The NCN Council has appealed to the Minister of Science for an increase in NCN funding by 300 million zlotys from 2025 onwards. “The Polish scientific community needs stable support to nurture their talents and develop ambitious research projects,” the NCN Council members wrote in their resolution.

Polish researchers will carry out 29 research projects in collaboration with researchers from Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Czechia and Switzerland owing to OPUS 26+LAP/Weave funding. Over 42.3 million zlotys will be awarded for their research.

The National Science Centre and the Medical Research Agency are intending to cooperate on calls of the MRA. On 4 July, representatives of the two agencies met in Krakow.

On 2 July, government leaders of Poland and Germany met in Warsaw to adopt a document in which they agreed to boost social and economic cooperation. A science section of the document refers to the Dioscuri centres, a joint initiative of the National Science Centre and the Max Planck Society, and NCN’s collaboration with the DFG.

53 researchers will perform their research activities with funding from the National Science Centre. The second ranking list of proposals submitted to MINIATURA 8 in March has been published.

Does Poland need a quantum computer? What are quantum technologies? How can researchers at Polish research centres contribute to quantum technologies? We are discussing these topics in our podcast today, featuring Sylwia Kostka and Konrad Banaszek.

Polish researchers involved in the OGLE project have summed up several years of their research into dark matter, in particular massive primordial black holes. Their research findings were published in Nature on 24 June. Their work was funded by the National Science Centre.

Over the past few months, the NCN Council has discussed many topics, e.g. NCN call portfolio, principal investigator’s grace period and mentoring programme. Prof. Alicja Kazek-Kęsik writes about the work of the Council.