Researchers from various research centres, NCN Council members and other NCN representatives gathered in Kraków to discuss the need to support basic research, increase the NCN budget and work out solutions to allow the agency to better respond to the needs of the academic community. The meeting was held on 4 June.

Together with Austrian researchers, Dr hab. Robert Zajkowski from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin will carry out a research project under Weave-UNISONO. He will receive nearly PLN 500 thousand for his research.

Representatives of the National Science Centre and QuantERA network will participate in the Women in Tech Summit 2024 that will take place on 12 and 13 June in Warsaw.

Following high demand, the National Science Centre and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw decided to extend access to the research data management courses on the NAVOICA platform.

A funding boost in the NCN’s budget will enable 485 researchers to receive over PLN 693 million for their basic research under recently concluded OPUS 26 and SONATA 19. We will fund 237 projects that are included in the standard ranking lists and all 248 projects on the waiting lists compiled by the experts in the calls. 

The first results of the eighth round of MINIATURA are now in! 40 researchers from all over Poland will get a total of more than PLN 1.7 million in funding for research activities such as preliminary and pilot studies, library and archive research, research fellowships, research visits and consultations.

On 15-16 May 2024, Bydgoszcz hosted the 10th jubilee NCN Days, during which students, PhD candidates and scientists working at Polish institutions could learn how to acquire grants for their research and carry out NCN-funded projects.

On 21-26 May, the Copernicus Festival will be held in Krakow and online. This year, the festival will focus on “Machine”. The National Science Centre is a partner of the event, and our grant and award winners will participate in the festival discussions.

In the first episode of the second series of our podcast, we will discuss scientific cooperation with, inter alia, Switzerland.

Join us for our online courses on open science that will be held by our Open Science Team in 2024.