Two research components of Dr Olga Lenczewska and Dr Mariusz Kornatowski will be funded thanks to collaboration between the National Science Centre and the National Agency of Academic Exchange under the NAWA Polish Returns Programme.
Dr Olga Lenczewska will research the Enlightenment-era pedagogical reforms and arguments against the gendered conception of human progress in Poland and Germany. Lenczewska’s research component has received funding of nearly PLN 49,000 and will be developed at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. PLN 200,000 will go to Dr Przemysław Kornatowski for his project on safe and low noise drones for urban applications.
The purpose of the “NAWA Polish Returns 2022” program is to enable outstanding Polish researchers working abroad to return to Poland and conduct their research at Polish host institutions.
Proposals submitted to the NAWA can include a basic research component, which is funded by the National Science Centre. In this particular call, the NAWA peer review team selected 9 projects which meet this criterion. Before they can start working on their projects, the scientists first need to submit a funding application to the NCN. The application will only undergo a formal eligibility check.
The NCN accepts applications on a rolling basis from the moment NAWA decides to grant funding under the “Polish Returns NAWA 2022” scheme until the last proposal with the research component is submitted.
The NCN Council has set aside a total budget of 3 million zlotys for “Polish Returns NAWA 2022”. Ranking List No 5 is the final list of research components recommended for funding under the call.