“The NCN budget needs to be raised to a level where we can guarantee a success rate of 25% in our calls. This would definitely improve the odds for smaller research centres”, Zbigniew Błocki tells PAP.

The QuantERA network that supports research in QT has published a series of interviews with researchers heading international research consortia.

Dr inż. arch. Karolina Zielińska-Dąbkowska from the Gdańsk University of Technology is the first and corresponding author of an article about the impact of light pollution on public health, just published in a special issue of “Science” on 15 June. The article was written as part of a project funded under the MINIATURA 4 call.

“The budget of the NCN should be doubled to approximately 3 billion PLN. This would allow us to fund 25-30% of the proposals we receive, ensuring an optimal success rate as compared to other countries”, Professor Zbigniew Błocki tells Wyborcza.biz

69 researchers from all over Poland will each complete a single research task thanks to 2.5 million PLN in research funding from the NCN. Check out the second ranking list of the MINIATURA 7 call.

We would like to thank all the guests who participated in the second POLONEZ BIS Kick-off meeting on 19-20 June. We were delighted to meet in person with the Fellows and Mentors whose research projects started this spring or will take off in July 2023.

We have the great pleasure to announce the first round of results in the OPUS 24+LAP/Weave call for proposals submitted in cooperation with Luxembourg partners. Successful Polish teams will work on 2022 Ukrainian war testimonials and new diagnostic techniques and treatments for cardiovascular disease.

“Fewer grant awards and non-competitive salaries may cause the most talented researchers to move out of Poland or leave the research sector entirely”. The President of the NCN Council and the NCN Director sound the alarm in a letter to the Minister of Science and Higher Education.

The new episode of the NCN podcast is devoted to a joint initiative of the NCN and the Max Planck Society. Our host talks to Dr Aleksandra Pękowska, Dr Grzegorz Sumara and Agatha Iwanek from the M. Nencki Institute, PAS, and Dr Małgorzata Jacobs-Kozyra, coordinator of the Dioscuri programme.

Proposals are now being accepted under “Democracy, Governance and Trust”, a call for international projects organised by the NCN in cooperation with the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities (T-AP).