CHIST-ERA invites researchers interested in the field of Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies to the CHIST-ERA Conference 2022, which will take place on May 24-26, 2022 in Edinburgh (UK).

In preparation for the Call 2022 of CHIST-ERA, to be open in the fall of 2022, the research funding organisations of CHIST-ERA invite interested scientists at the CHIST-ERA Conference 2022 to participate in the definition of the two topics of the call:

• Security and Privacy and Decentralised and Distributed Systems (SPiDDS);
• Machine Learning-based Communication Systems, towards Wireless AI (WAI).

Participation in the conference is free, however travel and accommodation costs have to be covered by the participant. Online participation will also be provided.

Please find more details on the CHIST-ERA website: https://www.chistera.eu/conference-2022-programme

Three Polish-Austrian projects and one Polish-Swiss project have just joined the ranks of Weave-UNISONO call winners. The NCN will allocate 5.8 million zlotys to fund these research ventures carried out by Polish teams in cooperation with foreign partners.

All three successful Polish-Austrian projects explore issues in the field of physical sciences and engineering. A team of scientists from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University, headed by Dr hab. Marcin Kozik will study constraint satisfaction problems; researchers from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, led by Dr hab. Iwona Stachlewska, will focus on synergetic aerosol remote sensing, while their colleagues from the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology, under Dr inż Agnieszka Krawczyńska, will turn their attention to the tuning of nanomaterials by high-pressure annealing. The NCN allocated a budget of more than 4.15 million zlotys to fund their cooperation with Austrian partners from Vienna and Innsbruck. All joint Polish-Austrian projects were evaluated by the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) in its capacity as the lead agency in the programme.

The list of winners of the Weave-UNISONO call also includes a team from the Mirosław Mossakowski Institute of Experimental Medicine, PAS, headed by Dr hab. Joanna Sypecka, which will study the role of autophagy in oligodendrocytes in perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic brain damage. The project will be carried out in tandem with a Swiss team based at the University of Lausanne; the Polish team was awarded a budget of nearly 1.68 million zlotys from the NCN. In accordance with the LAP procedure, the Polish-Swiss proposal was evaluated by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

RANKING LISTS

Weave-UNISONO is a call organised within the framework of a multilateral cooperation between research-funding institutions that make up the Science Europe association. It was announced in order to simplify submission and selection procedures for proposals in all disciplines of science, which bring together researchers from two or three different European countries.

The selection process is based on the Lead Agency Procedure (LAP), under which only one partner institution is responsible for the merit-based review of submitted proposals; the other partners accept its results in accordance with a previously signed agreement.

Under Weave, cooperating research teams submit their research proposals in parallel: to the lead agency and to the relevant domestic institutions that participate in the programme. Their joint proposal must include a coherent research plan that clearly spells out the added value of international cooperation.

Until now, 13 Polish research teams, involved in projects conducted in cooperation with Austria, Czech Republic and Switzerland, have made it to the list of Weave-UNISONO winners.

The Weave-UNISONO call accepts proposals on a rolling basis. Polish teams wishing to partner up with colleagues from Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium-Flanders are encouraged to carefully read the call announcement and submit their proposal. Call announcement.

 

Please note that under the Weave-UNISONO call, if a joint proposal is submitted to GAČR as the lead agency by 7 April 2022, an NCN proposal must be submitted electronically via the OSF submission system as soon as possible following the submission of the joint proposal to GAČR, by 14 April 2022, 23:59 p.m. at the latest.

If a joint proposal is submitted to FNR as the lead agency by 21 April 2022, an NCN proposal must be submitted electronically via the OSF submission system as soon as possible following the submission of the joint proposal to FNR, by 28 April 2022, 23:59 p.m. at the latest.

PLEASE NOTE: Once the work on the NCN proposal has started in the OSF submission system, the Polish research team has 45 calendar days to complete the proposal and submit it to the NCN. After that, the proposal can no longer be edited, in which case a Polish research team that has not sent its proposal to the NCN must prepare a new proposal and complete it in the OSF submission system.

28 березня 2022 року

Анонс програми

ПРОДОВЖЕНННЯ ДОСЛІДЖЕНЬ В ПОЛЬЩІ ДЛЯ ДОСЛІДНИКІВ З УКРАЇНИ 

Національний науковий центр оголошує програму, орієнтовану на науковців з України, які внаслідок агресії Росії проти України знайшли притулок або знайдуть притулок у Польщі. Метою програми є підтримка науковців шляхом створення для них можливостей працевлаштування в польських наукових установах та продовження ними досліджень.

Дослідник, який приєднується до програми, повинен відповідати таким вимогам:

• має принаймні ступінь кандидата наук або еквівалентну кваліфікацію (в українській системі Candidate of Science);
• до початку війни працював у науковому підрозділі в Україні;
• внаслідок війни залишив Україну 24 лютого (або пізніше) або має намір залишити Україну.

Працевлаштування наукового співробітника має бути заплановано на 12 місяців на підставі трудового договору на повну зайнятість із винагородою на загальну суму 100 тис. злотих. (включає витрати на оплату праці, включаючи внески на соціальне та медичне страхування, а також інші елементи винагороди, що фінансується даним суб’єктом). Крім того, ви можете запланувати фінансові ресурси для наукового дослідження на суму не більше 30 тис. злотих.

У заяві, окрім вченого, який планує працевлаштуватись, слід також вказати наукового керівника, який працює у заявника і проводить дослідження в тій самій або суміжній галузі, яку представляє дослідник. Науковий керівник дослідника не може бути бенефіціаром коштів, що фінансуються за програмою.

Бюджет програми: 6 млн. злотих

Заявка подається тільки в електронній формі через ePUAP на адресу електронної скриньки ННЦ: /ncn/SkrytkaESP згідно з процедурою подання заявок.

Кінцевий термін подання заявки: 28 березня – 26 квітня 2022 року (до кінця дня)

Результати: рішення про присудження коштів буде прийнято протягом 1 місяця з дня подання заяви до ННЦ. У обґрунтованих випадках термін буде продовжено до 3 місяців.

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28 March 2022

Call Text

FOR RESEARCHERS FROM UKRAINE ALLOWING THEM
TO CONTINUE RESEARCH IN POLAND

The National Science Centre is launching a scheme addressed at researchers from Ukraine who took or will take refuge in Poland after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The purpose of the scheme is to support researchers by creating employment opportunities at the Polish research institutions and allowing them to continue research.

Researchers who meet all of the following conditions are eligible to participate in the scheme:

• hold at least a PhD degree or equivalent degree (in Ukraine: Candidate of Science);
• worked at a Ukrainian research institute before the war and
• left Ukraine on 24 February 2022 or after or is intending to leave Ukraine.

Researchers should be employed full time, pursuant to an employment contract, for a period of 12 months, with total remuneration of 100,000 PLN (including non-payroll labour costs, such as social and health insurance premiums, as well as other remuneration components paid by the institution). Additional funds of up to 30,000 PLN may be awarded for research work.

Apart from the researcher to be employed, proposals must include the name of the mentor employed by the applicant and conducting research in the same or related research field as the researcher in question. The mentor must not be the beneficiary of the funds awarded under the scheme. 

Scheme budget: 6,000,000 PLN

Proposals must be submitted electronically via ePUAP to the address of NCN’s electronic delivery box (/ncn/SkrytkaESP) pursuant to the proposal submission procedure.

Call for proposals: The call for proposals will start on 28 March 2022.

Call closed on 26 April 2022

Results: The funding decision will be taken within 1 month of the proposal submission date. In well-justified cases, this period may be extended to 3 months. 

Due to significant differences and simplified call procedure as compared to NCN’s regular calls, please read the call documents and information below carefully.

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Who may submit proposals?

Terms and conditions to be met by employed researchers

Are there any restrictions on submitting proposals?

Is the subject-matter of proposal pre-determined?

How long can a researcher be employed for?

How can the project budget be planned?

Is application for state aid allowed under the scheme?

How to prepare proposals and what should they contain?

How are proposals evaluated?

What is reviewed in the evaluation of proposals?

When and how are the call results announced?

Where can additional information be found?

8. edition of NCN Days will be held on 11 and 12 May in Białystok.

The NCN Days is a cyclical event, taking place each time in a different part of Poland. Its aim is to present the NCN’s offer to researchers working in academic and research institutions all over the country and to encourage them to participate in calls organised by the National Science Centre. This year’s event will be co-organised by research institutions from the Podlasie region – the University of Białystok, the Białystok University of Technology, the Medical University of Białystok and the Mammal Biology Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża. The event programme includes a meeting of the NCN Directorate and Council with the region’s research community and a discussion on the NCN grant offer.

Rynek Kościuszki w Białymstoku, fot. Uniwersytet w Białymstoku “I would like our activities and effectiveness in obtaining grants from the NCN to increase, therefore, I am glad that the NCN Days will be held in Białystok”, says Prof. Izabela Święcicka, Vice-Chancellor for Science and International Cooperation at the University of Białystok. The vice-chancellor points out that NCN grants “are a very important source of funding for Polish science”. “For many young researchers, this is an opportunity for the first serious research of their careers. The more experienced ones can, thanks to these grants, take on new challenges and build teams, including international ones”, she adds.

During the NCN Days there will be presentations of grant winners, information meetings about national and international NCN calls, open science and NCN policy in this area, and research data management. Some of the activities will be very practical. There will be five workshops for applicants and administrative staff of universities and research institutes. “During the training, we will explain how the NCN proposal evaluation process works, how to submit projects to achieve success and what to do to settle the grant”, says Dr Marcin Liana, Deputy Director of the National Science Centre.

A detailed programme of the NCN Days will be published in early April. Meetings will be held at the universities co-organising the event. Some of the meetings will be open to the public and for some pre-registration will be opened.

The NCN Days has been held since 2013. Previous editions were held in Katowice, Lublin, Olsztyn and Gdansk, among others, and the last one was held in 2019 in Łódź. The meeting in Białystok was originally scheduled to take place in 2020, but was cancelled due to the pandemic.

The National Science Centre is launching a special scheme to allow researchers from Ukraine to continue their research at the Polish research centres.

A special scheme has been launched by the NCN addressed at the Ukrainian researchers as well as other researchers, regardless of their nationality, who took or will take refuge in Poland after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The initiative is aimed at approximately fifty people. The National Science Centre will provide funds to cover their research work and remuneration at the Polish academic and research institutions for a period of one year.

The scheme is open to researchers who are at least PhD holders (in Ukraine: Candidate of Science) and worked at the Ukrainian universities and/or other research institutions before the war broke out. The scheme will cover both basic and applied research. 

The proposal submission and evaluation procedure is simplified and very fast. Proposals may be submitted by universities and other research institutions. Proposals must contain an application drafted by the institution and CV of the candidate. They will be evaluated by the scientific coordinators of the NCN and the final decision will be taken by the NCN Director. The formalities related to the settlement of the funds will also be simplified. 

The participating research institutions are required to provide mentors-experts in the same or related discipline to the visiting researchers.

The call for proposals starts on 28 March. Proposals must be provided via ePUAP.

Call closed on 26 April 2022

The total budget of the scheme is 6 mln PLN. The initiative is carried out at the request of the Ministry of Education and Science.

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Національний науковий центр розпочинає прийом заявок за спеціальною програмою для дослідників з України. Науковці, що тікають від війни, зможуть продовжити роботу в польських центрах.

Спеціальна програма Національного наукового центру орієнтована на українців та всіх інших науковців незалежно від громадянства, які знайшли або знайдуть притулок у Польщі після збройного нападу Росії на Україну. Скористатися ініціативою зможуть близько півсотні науковців. Національний науковий центр профінансує їхнє річне перебування у польських академічних та наукових закладах – надасть кошти на оплату праці та проведення досліджень.

Програма відкрита для людей, які мають принаймні ступінь кандидата наук і які до початку війни працювали в українських вишах та інших наукових центрах. Програма охоплює фундаментальні та прикладні дослідження.

Процедура подання та оцінки заявок на конкурс максимально проста та швидка. Право подавати заявки мають вищі навчальні та інші наукові заклади. Заявки мають містити звернення, підготовлене закладом, та резюме кандидата. Їх оцінюватимуть координатори дисциплін ННЦ, а остаточне рішення прийматиме директор Центру. Крім того, формальності, пов’язані зі звітуванням щодо перерахованих коштів, будуть зведені до мінімуму.

Наукові заклади, що беруть участь у програмі, зобов'язані забезпечити прийнятим дослідникам опікунів, які є спеціалістами у тій самій або суміжній науковій дисципліні.

Бюджет спеціальної програми складає 6 млн злотих.

Кінцевий термін подання заявки: 28 березня – 26 квітня 2022 року (до кінця дня)

Спеціальна програма ННЦ реалізується на замовлення Міністерства освіти і науки Польщі.

Decisions for the POLONEZ BIS 1 proposals that have not been qualified for the second stage of evaluation were sent out on 28 March 2022.

Please note that decisions of the Director of the National Science Centre are served in the form of an electronic document sent to the e-mail address provided by the applicant in the proposal or their Electronic Correspondence Register (ESP ePUAP) address if it was specified.

Information was sent from the address: ncn.wnioski@ncn.gov.pl. and contains a link to download the decision of the Director of the National Science Centre.

The correspondence was generated automatically – please do not reply to the message you received. If you have any problems with access to the document, please contact the POLONEZ BIS Team polonez@ncn.gov.pl.

The status of your proposal is also displayed in the OSF system.

Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, collaboration with the Russian research institutes under NCN-funded research projects must be suspended until further notice.

At present, proposals involving collaboration with a Russian research institute must not be submitted to the NCN.

Evaluated proposals involving collaboration with a Russian research institute will be reviewed. If a positive funding decision is issued and the purpose of the project requires international collaboration, the principal investigator must replace the Russian research institute with an institute from another country.

Any collaboration with the Russian research institutes under ongoing projects must be suspended. Conferences, workshops, research visits in the Russian research institutes as well as any visits by researches from Russia based on cooperation between Polish and Russian research institutions must be cancelled.

Should you have any questions or queries, please contact your mentor or us at informacja@ncn.gov.pl

Please note that under the Weave-UNISONO call, if a joint proposal is submitted to FWO and SNSF as the lead agency by 1 April 2022, an NCN proposal must be submitted electronically via the OSF submission system as soon as possible following the submission of the joint proposal to the FWO or the SNSF, by 8 April 2022 at the latest.

PLEASE NOTE: Once the work on the NCN proposal has started in the OSF submission system, the Polish research team has 45 calendar days to complete the proposal and submit it to the NCN. After that, the proposal can no longer be edited, in which case a Polish research team that has not sent its proposal to the NCN must prepare a new proposal and complete it in the OSF submission system.

Two webinars will be held under POLONEZ BIS 2 launched on 15 March 2022 during which the terms of the call and participation procedures will be explained. 

There will be a chance to find out what institutions are eligible to host researchers under the scheme, who the eligible applicants are and whether the NCN may assist in finding institutions to perform the projects. 

POLONEZ BIS 2 is co-funded by the European Commission and the NCN under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND for foreign researchers intending to develop their research career at the Polish research institutions. 

Funding may be requested by any researcher, regardless of their nationality or research subject or discipline.

The webinar for institutions intending to host researchers under POLONEZ BIS will be held on 29 March 2022, at 10 p.m. (CEST) in Polish on the Clickmeeting platform.

Institutions may register here.

The webinar for applicants intending to participate in POLONEZ BIS 2 will be held on 5 April 2022, at 2 p.m. (CEST) in English on the Clickmeeting platform.

Applicants may register here.

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