Pre-announcement of the long-awaited fifth call for two interdisciplinary Dioscuri Centres of Scientific Excellence for outstanding researchers from around the world up to 15 years after their PhD.

As of the March calls, the proposal form will include a new section on retracted articles. This will provide expert-reviewers with a more comprehensive overview of the publication track record of grant applicants.

Owing to Weave-UNISONO funding, researchers from the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology together with their German partners will study proteins driving prostate cancer progression.

Dr Aneta Pazik Aybar, Poland’s representative in the EOSC Association and head of NCN’s Open Science Team has been appointed Co-Chair of the EOSC Steering Board.

The fourth edition of the EEA and Norway Grants has been officially initiated. The National Science Centre will once again act as the operator of the “Basic Research” programme. In this edition, we will place emphasis on the interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity of funded projects, the valorisation of knowledge, and the real impact of research on social and environmental policy.

One year after Poland joined the activities of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation, cooperation between EOSC nodes has entered a new stage of development. The national node has signed a MoU that formalises Poland’s participation in building the European Open Science ecosystem.

Prof. Grzegorz Pietrzyński from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and NCN grantee, has been awarded funding for his project “Toward Autonomous Observatories” under the ERC Proof of Concept 2025 call. 

“The NCN is the best thing that has happened to the scientific community in free Poland,” says Prof. Jacek Jemielity. Stories of researchers implementing NCN-funded projects clearly illustrate how funding decisions translate into specific research projects and their real-world impact.