Three more scientists returning to Poland under the programme of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) will have their basic research funded by the National Science Centre. We have published the fourth ranking list of research components under Polish Returns NAWA 2023.

Dr Marek Jan Szczepańczyk from the University of Warsaw will explore gravitational-wave astrophysics, Dr Aleksandra Borek from the SWPS University will examine influences on antibiotic use and strategies to prevent antimicrobial resistance in Poland from behavioural, social and public health perspective, while Dr inż. Agnieszka Chmielewska-Wysocka from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw will study in situ alloying and in situ heat treatment of Ni-Ti-X alloys using Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB). They will receive nearly 600,000 zlotys for their research from the National Science Centre.

Ranking List

Polish Returns NAWA 2023 provides an opportunity for Polish researchers working abroad to continue their research in Polish research centres. 

A continuous call for proposals for research components is open from the date the funding decision is issued by the NAWA under its Polish Returns NAWA 2023 until the last proposal is submitted to the NCN that contains a research component and has been recommended for funding by the NAWA under the programme. Proposals submitted to the NCN are subject to an eligibility check only.

Research components can be carried out by returning scientists or project teams if the latter is covered by a proposal submitted to the Polish Returns NAWA 2023 call.

The NCN Council has allocated 2 million zlotys for research components under the Polish Returns NAWA 2023 call.

Polish researchers among the winners of the international call for research projects launched by the Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for Social Sciences and Humanities.

The Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities was formed at the initiative of humanities and social science research funders. It currently operates as a cooperation network for research teams from North America, South America and Europe, supporting research activities with funds from the participating countries.

The call for proposals on Democracy, Governance and Trust (FGT) was launched in June 2023 and was open to international consortia comprising at least three research teams from at least three participating countries, representing both sides of the Atlantic.

18 out of 101 international proposals that met the formal requirements of the call were recommended for funding. 5 of the winning projects involve participation of Polish research teams. They will be supported with over 3.53 million zlotys from the National Science Centre

The winning projects:

1. Participation in the City: How Urban Participatory Innovations are Reshaping Democracy, Governance and Trust (PAR-CITY)

The project aims to explore the importance of cities in responding to global challenges of democracy, governance and trust. Researchers will explore various urban participatory innovations, such as new forms of dissent and protest and the role of digital media, tools and technologies in democracy. They will focus on seven major cities, i.e. Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Lyon, New York, Sao Paolo, Toronto and Warsaw. Dr hab. Agnieszka Kampka from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences will manage the Polish research team as the PI.

2. Democracy in exile (DemEx): comparative study of Russian migrant community after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

The Polish research team headed by Dr Zuzanna Brunarska from the University of Warsaw will focus on defining the political impact of new émigré communities from Russia on host countries and their potential to affect political change in their country of origin. Research will be conducted in collaboration with research teams from Canada and United States of America.

3. The Potential of Digital: Optimising Trustworthy Digital Contact

The research team of Dr hab. Damian Guzek from the University of Silesia in Katowice, in collaboration with researchers from France, Canada and United Kingdom will study ways of rebuilding social ties and relationships to create a democratic state based on citizens’ trust in public actors. Scholars will consider whether and under what conditions digital communication can strengthen or erode trust.

4. Investigating the relationship between science diplomacy and global DGT: the role of inclusive metascience observatories

Dr hab. Emanuel Kulczycki from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań will head the Polish research team to examine the role of science diplomacy as a strategic instrument to address threats to democracy, governance, and trust (DGT). His research will be conducted in collaboration with researchers from Brazil, France, Canada, South Africa, United States of America, United Kingdom and Netherlands.

5. Governance of policy failure risks in the design and implementation of MOIP. Experience of the Global North.

The Polish research team headed by Dr Seweryn Krupnik from the Jagiellonian University will study Mission Oriented Innovation Policies (MOIP) to address contemporary challenges transcending the borders, such as conflicts, climate change, social inequities. Scholars will focus on understanding policy failure risks in the design and implementation of MOIP and identifying suitable risk governance approaches to address them. The project will be carried out in collaboration with researchers from Canda and United Kingdom.

Dr hab. Julia Pawłowska from the University of Warsaw, together with Austrian researchers, will soon start working on a project funded under the Weave-UNISONO call. The Polish component of the project has a budget of more than 1.7 million zlotys.

Entitled Mofale: Mortierellaceae Functional Diversity in Alpine Ecosystems, the project will be run by a Polish team led by Dr hab. Julia Pawłowska from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Warsaw in partnership with Austrian researchers headed by Prof. Ursula Peintner from the Department of Microbiology of the University of Innsbruck. Their goal is to find, isolate and describe currently unknown Mortierellaceae and to prepare a functional characterisation of this important fungal group in threatened alpine habitats using culture-dependent and independent approaches.

Their research represents an innovative and promising approach that is likely to give us a better insight into the role of fungi in alpine ecosystems.

The proposal has been evaluated by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in its capacity of the Lead Agency. The National Science Centre has approved the results of the evaluation within the framework of collaboration under the Weave programme.

Weave-UNISONO and the Lead Agency Procedure

The Weave-UNISONO call is the result of multilateral cooperation between research-funding agencies that make up the Science Europe association. It aims to simplify submission and selection procedures for research proposals that bring together researchers from two or three different European countries in any academic discipline.

The selection process is based on the Lead Agency Procedure (LAP), under which only one partner institution is responsible for a merit-based evaluation and the others simply accept the result.

Under Weave, partner research teams apply in parallel to the lead agency and their relevant domestic institutions. Their joint proposal must include coherent research plans and clearly spell out the added value of international cooperation.

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

On 11 and 12 September, the 2nd Internationalisation Congress will be held in Warsaw to debate the international research collaboration. The event is organised by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange and the National Science Centre. Registration is now open.

Education was the main topic of the 1st Internationalisation Congress held last spring in Gdańsk. At the upcoming event, Polish and foreign experts will discuss internationalisation of science to shape the national strategy for the internationalisation of Polish higher education and science.

Participants of the Warsaw Conference will discuss the extent to which internationalisation should be included in the national development strategy, Polish researchers’ participation in the EU framework programs, etc. In view of Poland’s participation in the EU framework programmes over the past 25 years and the upcoming 10th EU Council Meeting, they will assess the impact of international on the development of research and research institutions. The European strategies for retaining talent in research, innovation and business will also be addressed. Polish researchers who have have conducted successful work abroad will share their stories focusing on the impact of international mobility on the development of their research careers.

The 2nd Internationalisation Conference is organised by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange and the National Science Centre, in partnership with the University of Warsaw.

The National Science Centre will host the following panels: “Effective promotion of international research collaboration” and “Polish researchers in a dynamic international environment”.

If you wish to take part in the Conference, register now! The event programme and registration form are available on the website of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange.

Thanks to NCN funding, 35 early-stage researchers will soon be able to embark on their projects, using a total of 31.3 million zlotys worth of grants to fund their research, find employment at Polish research institutions and complete foreign research fellowships.

SONATINA is a call in which early-stage researchers vie for funding for basic research projects and applied research projects. Its eighth round was open to PIs who earned their PhD degree between 1 January 2021 and 30 June 2024.

An important goal of SONATINA grants is to fund the full-time employment of early-stage researchers at Polish research institutions. There is only one condition: they cannot be employed at the same institution where they earned their PhD degree. All winners must also complete a mandatory fellowship of 3 to 6 months abroad. The project budget may also include resources for, e.g. additional remuneration for investigators, materials and equipment, business trips, visits and consultations.

SONATINA 8 attracted 236 proposals with a total budget of nearly 197 million zlotys. Following a full evaluation procedure by expert teams, funding was awarded to 35 projects worth 31.3 million zlotys in total, for a final success rate of 15%.

Successful SONATINA projects

In Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, a total of 9 million zlotys in funding was awarded to 12 researchers. One of the winners is Dr Maria Zimmermann from the University of Warsaw, whose project proposes to explore human brain plasticity. Specifically, Zimmermann will look into the impact of language exposure and sensory experiences on brain organisation in people deaf from birth. Her research will rely on two complementary approaches: firstly, while their brains are scanned with fMRI, subjects will be exposed to naturalistic stimuli (such as watching a silent movie) and asked to perform various tasks that will allow specific functions in their brains to be mapped. These fMRI data will then be supplemented by an analysis of the deaf subjects’ individual life experiences. At the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Dr Joanna Tomczyk will focus on the mental health of breast cancer patients. Breast cancer carries an increased risk of depression and anxiety disorders. Being able to notice and appreciate the small things in life is recognized as an effective tool to help tackle the hardships of life. Dr Tomczyk will investigate the effects of mindful gratitude training in which the exercises are tailored to each individual research subject, as opposed to using one exercise repeatedly over a longer period.

The winners of SONATINA 8 also include nine researchers working in Life Sciences, who will conduct projects worth more than 10.3 million zlotys in total. Thanks to her grant, Dr inż. Katarzyna Gembara from the Voivodeship Specialist Hospital in Wrocław will analyse the gut microbiome and the urinary tract microbiome in patients who have undergone bladder removal surgery as part of cancer treatment. Following the procedure, the urinary tract is typically reconstructed to allow the elimination of urine from the body. To this end, surgeons often use a segment of the patient’s intestines; originating in another part of the body, however, this tissue causes a radical change in the microbiome of the urinary tract. As a result, more than half of all patients face a variety of post-surgical complications. Dr Gembara’s project aims to elucidate the gut-bladder axis and understand how the intestinal phageome transitions into the urinary tract phageome, as well as how it impacts the bacterial part of the microbiome and the clinical outcomes of patient treatment. Another winner, Dr Tomasz Diserens, will conduct his SONATINA 8 project at the Institute of Mammalian Biology, PAS, in Białowieża. Beavers and wolves are two species that are crucial for biodiversity protection. Dr Diserens will try to determine how wolf risk and human activity shape the behaviour of beavers and their impact on woody tree communities. The results will enable a more informed management of wolf and beaver populations, as well as riparian landscapes, which is especially important in the context of the ongoing recolonisation of these species in previously human-dominated areas throughout Europe.

In Physical Sciences and Engineering, SONATINA grants were awarded to 14 research projects with a total budget of nearly 12 million zlotys. Dr Michael Lintner from the Institute of Geological Sciences, PAS, will look into the still unknown relationships between marine proxies and environmental pollution, focusing on the impact of antibiotics on foraminifera. Foraminifera are single-cell organisms (protists) that can be found in all marine habitats from shallow water to the deep sea. For scientists, they serve as important proxies for the monitoring of environmental changes. In his project, Dr Lintner will analyse how foraminifera are affected by the main types of antibiotics used in mass marine and land animal farming, which will allow him to draw up a list of the least harmful substances. Dr inż. Natalia Majewska, who works at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, will conduct research into materials that contain transition metal ions, which are characterised by efficient luminescence and serve as crucial emitters of near-infrared (NIR) light, imperceptible to the human eye. The luminescence can persist for hours after excitation, which means the materials are crucially useful for marking and imaging substances introduced into living organisms; they can also be used as components of LED light sources for food analysis or in optical thermometry, a non-invasive method for determining internal body temperature. Dr inż. Majewska will test how the optical and structural features of luminescent materials change in high hydrostatic pressure conditions.

SONATINA 8 – ranking lists

SONATINA 8 - ranking list in PDF

Proposal assessment under SONATINA

SONATINA proposals undergo a two-stage merit-based evaluation by NCN expert teams. At stage 1, each proposal is evaluated by at least two team members, based, among other things, on the short project description. The team agrees on a score for each proposal and then decides whether to pass it on to stage 2 or reject it. At stage 2, the proposal is evaluated by at least two external reviewers, based on the full project description; the PI of the project is also invited to the NCN headquarters for an interview. The final scores, as well as the ranking list of proposals recommended for funding, are decided by the entire expert team.

Under SONATINA, proposals are evaluated by three panel teams composed of experts in a given area: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (HS); Physical Sciences and Engineering (ST); and Life Sciences (NZ). Experts are appointed by the NCN Council from among outstanding Polish and international scientists with at least a PhD degree.

In this episode of our podcast, NCN Coordinators Dr Anna Wieczorek and Dr Magdalena Wyszkowska-Kolatko discuss the role of coordinators, expert panels and workshops for applicants.

Our first podcast was recorded at the beginning of last year. Twelve podcasts have been released so far. The most popular episode featured Dr inż. Ewelina Szymańska-Skolimowska and Dr inż. Tomasz Szumełda, NCN coordinators and Prof. Jacek Młynarski, expert participating in the evaluation of proposals.

In the current episode, we continue to talk on the evaluation of proposals. Our guests today include Dr Anna Wieczorek, coordinator for Physical Sciences and Engineering, Dr Magdalena Wyszkowska-Kolatko, coordinator for Life Sciences and your host, Anna Korzekwa-Józefowicz. At the beginning, our guests talk about coordinators, experts and reviewers evaluating NCN proposals in general and discuss the evaluation procedure. They focus attention on how important it is for the applicants to know the procedure. “If you understand what happens to your proposal once it has been submitted to the NCN, you will be able to move from a great idea to an equally great project. You should put yourself in the shoes of the experts reviewing your proposal before you start working on it and draft your project description in such a way as to make it easier for them to understand your project and make them interested enough to ensure they are willing to invest public money in your project,” says Magdalena Wyszkowska-Kolatko.

Anna Wieczorek adds that it is extremely important to employ the best experts for the evaluation of proposals and eliminate any conflict of interest. In 2023, proposals were evaluated by nearly 10.5 thousand experts and reviewers. Over 90 percent of them were affiliated with foreign research institutions. “Sometimes we face very niche topics and projects involving many researchers. Finding and selecting the right person without any conflict of interest is a challenge but we can overcome it having the whole world accessible,” she explains. 

Much of the discussion focuses on the final stage of evaluation, i.e. expert team meetings. The coordinators are asked about the number of experts participating in panel work, number of evaluated proposals, explained how they reach a consensus and compile ranking lists. Our guests also discuss the workshops for applicants, including mock panels during which researchers could assume the role of experts evaluating proposals.

The recording is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcast and on our You Tube channel. 

Related information:

If you wish to find out more on the number of researchers applying for NCN grants, number of NCN call winners and experts and reviewers, please go to the Facts and Figures tab.

Expert team members evaluating proposals under NCN calls in 2023.

NCN Podcast 2, 2023. Evaluation of Proposals

64 researchers will carry out preliminary/ pilot studies, library and archive searchers, fellowships, research visits and/ or consultations owing to MINIATURA 8 funding. The third list of awarded research activities under proposals submitted in April is now available.

The experts evaluating proposals under MINIATURA selected 21 winning researchers who will conduct research activities in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Most of them will tackle cultural production and legal issues. Dr Agnieszka Kramkowska-Dąbrowska from the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences will perform a fellowship to study television plays and scripts of television plays in the United Kingdom. Owing to MINIATURA 8 funding, Dr Marcin Kryński from the University of Bialystok will conduct a library and archive search to compare legal measures to address illegal shadow banking activities under Polish and Austrian law.

The focus of research activities conducted by 23 winning applicants in Physical Sciences and Engineering will include synthetical chemistry and materials science, production and processing engineering and earth sciences. During her fellowship at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Dr inż. Marta Włodarczyk-Sielicka from the Maritime University of Szczecin will revolve around the use of artificial intelligence methods during the processing of spatial data from hydrographic systems. Dr inż. Marek Mysior from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology will participate in a consultation visit and library and archive search to analyse the efficiency of Large Language Models (LLM) used to identify technical contradictions.

Research activities conducted by 20 winning researchers in Life Sciences will focus on human health, biology of tissues, organs and organisms as well as environmental processes. Dr Ewa Bulczak from the Poznań University of Life Sciences will conduct a pilot study of caffeine consumption and subjective reaction to caffeine consumption in adolescents. During his research visit, Dr Arkadiusz Czerwonka from the Medical University of Lublin will develop methods to control Notch signalling using an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) in a cell aging model.

Research activities recommended for funding under MINIATURA 8 Ranking List No 3 

MINIATURA 8 Ranking List No 3 in PDF format

Funding per research groups:

• Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: 636,124 zlotys
• Technical Sciences and Engineering: 921,327 zlotys
• Life Sciences: 924,581 zlotys 

Total funding: 2,482,032 zlotys.

MINIATURA 8

MINIATURA aims to support research activities for the purposes of future research projects the funding for which may be requested under NCN calls or other national or international calls. Under MINIATURA 8, 5,000 – 50,000 zlotys is up for grabs for research activities performed over a period of up to 12 months. 

The total budget for this call edition is 20 million zlotys divided in proportion to the number of months of the call for proposal. Proposals can only be eligible for funding if they fit into the pool of available funds for the month. 

This is the last moment to submit proposals. The call closes on 31 July 2024, 4 p.m. 

Funding of preliminary/ pilot studies, library and archive searchers, fellowships, research visits and/ or consultations may be requested by researchers who have been conferred their PhD degree after 1 January 2012 and have never been principal investigators in NCN-funded projects. Their scientific achievements must include at least one paper published or at least one artistic achievement or achievement in research in art. They must not be the winning applicants of an ETIUDA call for doctoral scholarships or a call for NCN-funded fellowships, or applicants, principal investigators or fellowship candidates under proposals submitted to or recommended for funding under any other NCN call.

Service of Decisions

On 24 July 2024, positive and negative decisions for proposals submitted to MINIATURA in April 2024 were served on the applicants. Grounds for the decisions are available in the OSF submission system where the status of proposals can also be checked.

Decisions are served on the applicants in an electronic format to their Electronic Delivery Box (ESP (ePUAP)) address specified in the proposal. If you have not received the decision, make sure that your ESP (ePUAP) address is correct and if it is not, contact the NCN Program Officer named in the OSF submission system.

Owing to funding from the Weave-UNISONO grant, Dr hab. Dorota Michułka from the University of Wrocław will pursue a project in collaboration with German researchers. Polish research team will receive funding of over 422 thousand zlotys.

“(Self-)Positioning in transnational spaces – Children's narrations and narrations about children living transnationally” is the title of a project that will be carried out by a research team under the leadership of Dr hab. Dorota Michułka from the Institute of Polish Philology at the University of Wrocław. The German part of the project will be coordinated by Alexandra König and Jessica Schwittek from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Transnational families are families in which members live separated from each other due to migration but maintain close ties with their relatives in the country of origin. The project aims at studying the experience of children aged 12-14 years who grow up in families struggling with migration and their (self-) positioning. The problem will be tackled from sociological and literary perspectives. As part of the project, an international conference will be organised, and teaching aids will be prepared on the basis of the project results. Research will focus on Poland and Germany.

The proposal was evaluated by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the evaluation results were accepted by the National Science Centre under the Weave collaboration.

Weave-UNISONO Ranking Lists

Weave-UNISONO and Lead Agency Procedure

The Weave-UNISONO call builds on multilateral cooperation between the research funding agencies associated in Science Europe and aims at simplifying the submission and selection procedures for research proposals that bring to together researchers from two or three European countries in any discipline of science. 

The selection process is based on the Lead Agency Procedure (LAP) under which only one partner institution is responsible for a merit-based evaluation, the results of which are then approved by the other partners. 

Under Weave, partner research teams apply in parallel to the Lead Agency and to their respective institutions. Their joint proposals must include coherent research programmes and clearly spell out the added value of international collaboration. 

Under Weave-UNISONO, proposals are accepted on a rolling basis. Polish teams wishing to partner up with colleagues from Austria, Czechia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium (Flanders) are welcome to read the call text and submit their funding proposals.

The NCN Council has appealed to the Minister of Science for an increase in NCN funding by 300 million zlotys from 2025 onwards. “The Polish scientific community needs stable support to nurture their talents and develop ambitious research projects,” the NCN Council members wrote in their resolution. The increased funding would trigger, e.g., a higher success rate in NCN calls and discussions on how to make the salaries and scholarships for researchers more realistic.

In their appeal to the Minister of Science Dariusz Wieczorek, the Council members point out that the NCN is crucial for the development of science in Poland, while the increased funding would be an investment in the future that could be beneficial for the society at large and could contribute to Poland’s technological, economic and social development.

Between 2018 and 2023, the NCN budget was virtually frozen, with its grant-in-aid for research funding increasing by merely several percent, from 1.226 billion zlotys to 1.392 billion zlotys. This made the NCN unable to fund some very good projects. In 2023, only 11 percent of researchers applying to the NCN had their projects funded.

The situation improved earlier this year, with the Minister of Science deciding to increase the NCN budget by 200 million zlotys. This allowed us to fund 584 highly evaluated projects on our waiting lists. “Additional funds ware used as well as possible to fund the most valuable research projects in various scientific disciplines and research fields,” wrote the NCN Council members in their resolution. Funding was awarded to 322 projects on the waiting lists under OPUS 25, PRELUDIUM 22, MAESTRO 15 and SONATA BIS 13 and 262 projects under OPUS 26+LAP/Weave and SONATA 19.

The Council members emphasised that from 2025 onwards, the NCN budget should include the current increase in the grant-in-aid by 200 million zlotys and be additionally higher by 300 million zlotys. The Council members further held that this would allow us to fund more projects and resume discussions about the limited number of grants, how to make the salaries and scholarships more realistic, indirect costs, etc.

“If the funding of National Science Centre was increased, Polish researchers would be more competitive internationally and have better working environment which could result in an outflow of talented researchers from and inflow of outstanding researchers to Poland,” wrote the Council members.

The Council resolution was adopted on 5 July and send to the Ministry of Science.

Full text of the appeal

On 16 September 2024, we will launch the OPUS 28+LAP/Weave call for research projects, including projects within the framework of LAP cooperation under the Weave programme.

LAP cooperation under the OPUS 28 call under the Weave programme

As of 2024, the National Science Centre has cooperated with the following partner institutions under the Weave programme:

• Austrian Science Fund (FWF) from Austria,
• Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) from the Czech Republic,
• Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) from Slovenia,
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) from Switzerland,
• German Research Foundation (DFG) from Germany,
• Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) from Luxembourg,
• Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) from Belgium - Flanders.

The NCN as the lead agency under OPUS 28+LAP/Weave will perform the merit-based evaluation of OPUS LAP proposals for bilateral or trilateral research projects carried out under the Weave programme by research teams from Poland, as well as the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium Flanders.

If a research project is recommended for funding, the NCN will provide funds for the Polish teams, while the foreign teams will be funded by their respective partner institutions (FWF, GAČR, ARRS, DFG, SNSF, FNR, FWO).

OPUS LAP proposals under the OPUS 28+LAP/Weave call are eligible as long as they:

• are drafted by the Polish research teams in cooperation with foreign teams under the Weave programme pursuant to the OPUS 28+LAP/Weave call text, which will be published on the NCN website on 16 September 2024;
• concern any academic discipline covered by the NCN review panels;
• involve basic research that has not been funded by the NCN or from other sources;
• are based on an equal and complementary contribution by all research teams applying for parallel funding of their research projects to their respective research-funding institutions under the Weave programme. The contribution of each research team involved in the project must be significant and is required and their respective tasks should complement one another to create a coherent joint research project. If the Expert Team finds that an OPUS LAP proposal does mot meet the foregoing criteria, it will not be eligible for funding.

Polish research teams must submit their OPUS LAP proposals to the NCN via the OSF submission system available at: https://osf.opi.org.pl, between 16 September and 16 December 2024, 4 p.m.

Foreign research teams involved in the project must submit their funding proposals to their respective research-funding institution under the Weave programme together with the required documents by the required date and in accordance with the terms and conditions.

If, under the Weave programme, a partner institution requires applicants to submit a copy of their OPUS LAP proposals, a complete English language version of the OPUS LAP proposal in PDF format must be generated in the OSF submission system and sent to the foreign research team.

PLEASE NOTE: OPUS LAP proposals submitted to the NCN must be consistent with the proposals submitted to the partner institutions.

NCN Contact Persons:

General inquiries

Magdalena Dobrzańska-Bzowska

Magdalena Nowak, PHD

Scientific Coordinator:

Oskar Wolski, PHD