We have published the second ranking list under the call for proposals for funding of Research Components in projects funded under the “NAWA Chair Programme (1st edition)” launched by the NAWA. Only one project was found eligible and recommended for funding.

See the Ranking List

The “NAWA Chair Programme (1st edition)” was launched by the NAWA on 1 June 2020. he objective of the NAWA Chair programme is to support outstanding scientific and research as well as teaching activity of Polish scientific entities by inviting world-class foreign scientists to participate in those activities. The first edition of the call was addressed at researchers who carry out research in the areas of humanities as well as social and theological sciences. Proposals could have covered basic Research Components funded by the NCN. 

The NAWA evaluation team has selected five projects containing a Research Component. Before starting the projects, the researchers whose projects contained a Research Component must submit a proposal for NCN funding of such Components under the call. Their proposals will be subject to an NCN eligibility check only. The eligibility check will be carried out on a continuous basis until the last proposal containing a Research Component funded under the “NAWA Chair Programme (1st edition)”, is submitted to the NCN.

List 2 of NCN-funded Research Components in projects funded under the “NAWA Chair Programme (1st edition)” launched by the NAWA.

We would like to invite applicants interested in the CHANSE Call Transformations: Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age, to participate in the live webinar. During the webinar, we will bring closer all the detailed information about the call including research theme, eligibility requirements, application and evaluation procedure, and Q&A session.

• Date: 15.03.2021 (Monday)
• Start: 10:00 CET
• Registration has been closed. The webinar will be live-streamed at: https://www.facebook.com/EUCHANSE. 

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M-ERA.NET 3 will launch the co-funded Call 2021 in mid-March, addressing materials research and innovation for low carbon energy technologies, in addition to supporting materials research for future batteries technology in line with the European Green Deal.

45 national and regional funding organisations will participate with an indicative total call budget of around 57 Million € including EC top-up funding.

Details on topics, participating countries/regions and call procedures will be published soon.

More information can be found at the programme website.

Contact:

• Klaudyna Śpiewak-Wojtyła – klaudyna.spiewak@ncn.gov.pl
• Anna Kotarba – anna.kotarba@ncn.gov.pl

We are pleased to announce that five projects involving Polish researchers have been awarded funding in the M-ERA.NET2 call for proposals. Within the call applicants have submitted 236 proposals. Over EUR 32,3 million have been granted to 42 research projects.

Complete list of the M-ERA.NET 2 Call 2020 projects recommended for funding

Polish projects awarded within the call:

MOGLiS: MOF@rGO-based cathodes for Li-S Batteries. Polish Principal Investigator: prof. dr hab. inż. Marek Łukasz Marcinek (Project Leader), Warsaw University of Technology. The project will involve research teams from Norway.

TAGGED: Research, development and characterization of a tunable Graphene light emitting hybrid MOEMS Device. Polish Principal Investigator: dr hab. inż. Anna Kozłowska, The Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics. The project will involve research teams from Czech Republic and Germany.

LaSensA: 2D regular nanostructures for lasing and sensing applications. Polish Principal Investigator: prof. dr hab. Stefan Jurga, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The project will involve research teams from Germany, Japan, Lithuania.

NanoBainControl: Accelerated nano-bainitic transformation in low-alloy steels processed by incremental forging. Polish Principal Investigator: dr hab. inż. Magdalena Barbara Jabłońska, The Silesian University of Technology. The project will involve research teams from Germany and Poland (AGH University of Science and Technology).

DePriSS: Development of “3D print-thermal spray” systems for applications with dynamic and impact loading. Polish Principal Investigator: dr hab. inż. Adam Jan Niesłony, Opole University of Technology. The project will involve research teams from Czech Republic and Germany.

Congratulations to all the laureates!

A new website, newsletter and a publication summarising the results of previous calls. The POLONEZ BIS programme, which gives foreign researchers arriving in Poland the promise of an attractive salary as well as an opportunity to conduct their own research project and advance their career, is on its way.

Co-funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant, the POLONEZ BIS programme is addressed to applicants from abroad. In three successive calls, the first scheduled in half a year’s time, the National Science Centre will select 120 outstanding researchers, who will then move to Poland for 24 months to carry out their basic research. The programme is open to applicants who hold a PhD degree or have 4 years of research experience, and who have lived and worked outside Poland for at least 2 years within the last 3 years prior to the call launch. For detailed information about the programme, as well as regular updates, please visit its new website.

What projects will be eligible for funding? What benefits can host institutions expect? We encourage you to read „The POLONEZ experience – why it matters”, which showcases 24 out of 109 research projects funded under previous POLONEZ calls. In their own articles, Fellows present their research and their personal experience of living and working in Poland. The publication also features interviews with research partners, as well as statistics that describe various aspects of the projects.

POLONEZ BIS once again offers very attractive financial terms. Besides a gross monthly salary of 4,465 euro, researchers will receive up to 100,000 euro to cover the direct costs of their research projects. The choice of subject and discipline is up to the applicants, who will submit their proposals in tandem with their host institutions in Poland, i.e. their future employers. Fellowships can be hosted by research centres, universities, research libraries, museums, non-governmental organisations, hospitals and businesses, as well as any other institution registered in Poland. Importantly, the profile of the host institution should reflect the nature of the research project.

The research component will be supplemented by secondments at non-academic institutions and an attractive training programme, supported by partner organisations: the Careers Research and Advisory Centre will conduct workshops, the Startup HUB Poland Foundation will help to establish contacts with the world of business, the Women Scientists – Polish Women Scientists Network will promote project results, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computer Modelling at the University of Warsaw will offer advice on the practical implementation of the policy of open access to research publications and data.

The first POLONEZ BIS call will be launched on 15 September 2021; the second and the third calls will follow in March and September 2022. To keep updated, visit the official website of the programme, subscribe to our newsletter, or follow us in social media.

We have the pleasure of presenting the ranking list for the call for research components in projects funded under the “Polish Returns 2020 Programme – COVID 19 edition”, launched by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). In this edition of the call, the NAWA review team selected only one project with the research component. The proposal submitted to the NCN was underwent only an eligibility check.

The research component to be funded is part of a project entitled “Functional properties of viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, the main target of COVID-19 therapy”, carried out by Dr Tomasz Turowski from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The research results will provide new and valuable information on COVID-19 and its possible treatment.

The objective of the “Polish Returns” programme is to enable outstanding Polish researchers working abroad to return to Poland and take up employment at Polish research centres. Last year, in response to the global pandemic, the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange announced a special edition of the programme in order to expand our knowledge of and solve major problems related to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its consequences. Within the framework of the cooperation between the NAWA and the NCN, the costs of basic research within the research component, in the form of a starting grant, are covered by the National Science Centre.

Up to three centres of scientific excellence in Poland will be funded. With five Dioscuri Centres already established at Polish Host Institutions, the Max Planck Society and the Polish National Science Centre are looking for the next Centre leaders in their fourth call for Dioscuri Centres in Poland.

Applications for a Dioscuri Centre may be submitted until June 15^th, 2021. 

Going beyond the scope of a project grant, a Dioscuri Centre is built around a distinguished researcher position. It is awarded to excellent scientists capable of establishing and leading an outstanding, highly visible research group. The research group will be funded with 300,000 euros annually for initially five years. It will be set up at a Polish university or a research institute capable of supporting the Centre with appropriate infrastructure, scientific equipment, supplementary funds, and a long-term perspective for its leader. The work at the Centre will be accompanied by a Partner from Germany and supported further by an international Scientific Advisory Board.

The Dioscuri Programme aims to strengthen and expand scientific excellence in Central and Eastern Europe and is being implemented in Poland as a first step. The funding for the DCs is shared equally between the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Polish Ministry of Education and Science.

The detailed call and further information about the Dioscuri Programme are available here.

To provide a comprehensive overview of the Dioscuri Programme funding and support potential applicants in preparing their application, we will offer webinars during the call period. The first webinar is scheduled for: Tuesday, 23.03.2021, 14:00-15:30 CET.

More dates will follow as needed. To register for one of our webinars, please send an e-mail to dioscuri@gv.mpg.de

We are pleased to announce that the QuantERA II consortium coordinated by the National Science Centre has been allocated 15 million EUR from the EU Framework Programme “Horizon2020". QuantERA II (continuation of QuantERA) is currently the largest European network composed of 38 organisations from 30 countries. Its main aim is to fund QT research and innovation through the QuantERA Call 2021 for international research projects to be launched in March 2021.

The total budget of the call is 40 million EUR, with 25 million EUR contributed by the partner institutions and supported by 15 million EUR from the European Commission.

Information on the call

Call subject 

• Quantum Phenomena and Resources
• Applied Quantum Science

Research team

The call will be open to consortia composed of at least three research groups from at least three countries participating in the QuantERA Call 2021.

Project duration 

24 or 36 months

Call timeline

• Official announcement of the call and launch of the online submission system: March 2021
• Submission deadline for pre-proposals: 13 May 2021
• Information on proposals recommended for the second stage of the call: July 2021
• Submission deadline for full proposals: 15 September 2021
• Call announcement: December 2021
• Project funding start date: beginning of 2022

Countries participating in the call

More information on the call can be found here and on https://quantera.eu/.

Contact

• Call Secretariat Leader:

French National Research Agency (ANR)

Sergueï Fedortchenko, Ph.D.

Serguei.Fedortchenko@anr.fr

• Coordinator:

National Science Centre (NCN)

Programme Office

quantera@ncn.gov.pl

We have just announced the results of the 12^th MAESTRO and the 10^th SONATA BIS calls. The grants will allow successful researchers to carry out pioneering basic research and establish new research teams.

Ranking lists

The calls attracted 495 proposals, amounting to a total of 1 billion PLN, 86 of which were recommended for funding by the NCN experts, giving a success rate of more than 17%. The total funds awarded in the two calls equalled as much as 215,523,213 PLN.

MAESTRO is a call open to advanced researchers who wish to conduct pioneering basic research leading to scientific discovery. The grant may go toward the costs of research team salaries, including scholarships for graduate and doctoral students, purchasing or building research equipment, as well as other necessary project expenses. To qualify as a principal investigator in a MAESTRO project, applicants need to have published in reputable scientific journals, carried out other call-funded research projects, and taken an active part in the life of the scientific community. Projects can take 36, 48 or 60 months to complete. In the 12^th edition of the call, NCN experts decided to award a total of 37 million PLN to 10 out of 68 submitted proposals.

The objective of the SONATA BIS call is to support the establishment of new research teams to conduct basic research. Their members, apart from the principal investigator, must not hold a scientific title or any equivalent qualifications. The principal investigator is expected to have earned his/her doctoral degree 5 to 12 years prior to the submission of the proposal. Projects can take 36, 48 or 60 months to complete. In the 10^th round of SONATA BIS, a total of 179 million PLN will go to 76 out of 427 submitted projects.

Under the two calls, the field of arts, humanities, and social sciences attracted a total of 105 proposals altogether, 15 of which will receive nearly 34 million PLN in funding. 139 proposals were submitted in life sciences, out of which experts selected 27, worth a total of 79 million PLN. In physical sciences and engineering, a total of more than 102 million PLN will go to 44 out of the 251 submitted proposals.

We also wish to announce that the decision letters for proposals accepted and rejected under SONATA BIS 10 and MAESTRO 12 will be sent out today. Let us remind you that the decisions of the NCN Director are delivered to applicants in electronic form to the electronic address indicated in the proposal.

• If the applicant is an entity mentioned in art. 27.(1)-(7) and (9) of the Act on the National Science Centre, the decision shall be delivered only to the Electronic Inbox (ESP ePUAP) address indicated in the proposal
• If the applicant is a natural person and lists the ePUAP address in the proposal, the decision shall be delivered to that address. If the applicant is a natural person and does not list an ePUAP address, an electronic address from which the decision can be downloaded shall be sent to the e-mail address indicated in the proposal.

The funding decisions of the Director of the National Science Centre are also submitted to the principal investigator and, if the applicant is a natural person, to the entity indicated as the host institution in the proposal.

Should you not receive the decision, please verify that the address (ESP, ePUAP, e-mail) you provided is correct. If not, please contact the person in charge of the proposal, as listed in the ZSUN/OSF system.

The Journal Checker Widget is now available on the webpage of cOAlition S. It enables researchers to search for journals in which they can publish in compliance with the NCN‘s Open Access Policy. To find out more, go to https://journalcheckertool.org/widget.