Since one of the winners of POLONEZ BIS 1 and three winners of POLONEZ BIS 3 decided not to pursue their projects in the end, we will be able to fund projects currently on the waiting list. A positive funding decision has just been issued for two more projects in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and one each in Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Life Sciences.read more

CHIST-ERA has just announced the results of its Open & Re-usable Research Data & Software (ORD) call. Out of the nine winning projects devoted to open science, five include Polish researchers.read more

Scientists from Warsaw and Kraków will work on two international research projects funded by the NCN in cooperation with the SNSF, with a total budget of more than PLN 4.2 million. read more

“It is with alarm that we are witnessing the public statements made by the Minister of Education and Science about the Ministry’s plans to change the status of the NCN or shut it down. We fear that such steps would have disastrous implications for Polish science”, write 61 winners of the L’Oreal-UNESCO Scholarship for Women and Science in an open letter to the President and the Prime Minister of Poland.read more

“If the minister gave us an extra 100 million tomorrow, we would give it all away in grants, because this is what we do: we support the best research projects”, says Prof. Z. Błocki in an interview published by “Gazeta Wyborcza”. read more

In the run-up to the upcoming parliamentary elections, the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) organises a series of online debates entitled “What has come to PASs in research policy?”. Professor Zbigniew Błocki will join a panel scheduled for 26 September. read more

Scientists from Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic will conduct a joint Life Sciences project in the framework of the Weave Program. The Polish team will receive nearly PLN 900,000 in funding. read more