The NCN is considering launching a mentoring initiative for participants of the MINIATURA call for proposals. Researchers willing to mentor their colleagues are strongly encouraged to complete our questionnaire. This will help us to establish how many researchers are interested in the initiative.
Mentoring will be available under MINIATURA from 2025 to ensures mentoring support in the development of future research projects submitted to NCN calls. The National Science Centre will compile a list of mentors including principal investigators of projects submitted to the NCN calls, such as MAESTRO, OPUS, SONATA BIS, SONATA, as well as winning applicants of ERC calls.
The questionnaire with the link to a questionnaire for potential mentors, has been sent to the e-mail addresses of the winning applicants of our calls who have been entered into our database. We have received response from over 1600 people, of which over 1430 expressed their intention of becoming a mentor and nearly 140 are still considering that possibility.
In the next few days, researchers interested in becoming a mentor who have not yet participated in our questionnaire may still do so.
An active participation of more experienced researchers in the initiative may provide valuable assistance to researchers intending to apply for NCN funding of their own research projects.
Mentoring programme and link to the questionnaire
Participates of the questionnaire are not automatically enrolled in the mentor database. Enrolment is voluntary.