The National Science Centre invites researchers to submit proposals under POLONEZ 2 funding opportunity addressed to incoming researchers who would like to carry out basic research in host institutions in Poland.
POLONEZ 2 timeframe:
Call announcement: 15 March 2016
Deadline: 15 June 2016
Call results: November 2016
The submission system will open on the 8th of April 2016 at the latest.
Contact:
Agata Mendrek
tel: +48 12 341 9139
Beata Krasnopolska
tel: +48 12 341 9091
We would like to invite all researchers to submit proposals under M-ERA.NET call, which will be opened in March 2016. The call will include the following thematic areas:
Call pre-announcement: http://www.m-era.net/joint-call-2016.
Contact:
dr Weronika Bieniasz, tel: +48 12 341 9156
dr Malwina Gębalska, tel: +48 12 341 9017
National Science Centre together with JPI-EC-AMR invites all researchers to submit proposals under JPI-EC-AMR call for proposals on the topic of:
To unravel the dynamics of transmission and selection of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at the genetic, bacterial, animal, human, societal, and environmental levels, in order to design and evaluate preventive and intervening measures for controlling resistance.
Funding is available for transnational consortia that involve a minimum of three and maximum of six eligible partners, and a maximum of two partners funded by the same organisation in one project.
Countries participating in the call: Belgium, Denmark, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK.
Call documents:
Proposals must be submitted via: Proposal Submission Tool and Pre–Proposal Template
The timetable for applications is:
Budget of the Polish part of the research project should be calculated according to NCN eligible costs (p. 5-12). On the full proposal stage Polish applicants will be obliged to complete the budget table.
Please see also NCN Eligibility Requirements: http://www.jpiamr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Specific-Requirements_JPI-EC-AMR.FINAL_.pdf (p. 5).
For more information please see: http://www.jpiamr.eu/activities/jpiamr-3rd-joint-call-jpi-ec-amr-era-net-cofund-call-on-transmission-dynamics/.
Contact:
dr Jerzy Frączek, tel: +48 12 341 9165
dr Malwina Gębalska, tel: +48 12 341 9017
The National Science Centre has published the results of the MAESTRO 7, HARMONIA 7 and SONATA BIS 5 calls. The list of winners names 157 researchers from all over Poland.Out of 760 proposals submitted to the three calls, 20 per cent have been awarded funding. Thus the average success rate, i.e. the number of research projects approved for funding as measured against the total number of entries, has risen by 7 per cent in comparison to the previous editions of the calls.
“The percentage increase of success rate in the recently concluded calls is the first visible effect of boosting the NCN 2016 budget by more than € 26 M. Almost the entire sum will be geared toward direct financing of Polish researchers' projects. Moreover, we have decided to return to the upper limit of 30 per cent in overheads for the projects' host institutions. Such proportions of funding costs better secure the resources necessary for proper implementation of the projects; they should also come as incentive for research institutions to employ grant-winning researchers”, said Prof. Zbigniew Błocki, director of the National Science Centre.
In the MAESTRO 7 call the applicants were advanced researchers. As declared in the programme's agenda, they will conduct pioneering research significant to the advancement of science which surpasses the state of the art and results in important discoveries. The list of winners has named 14 projects whose principal investigators will carry out research worth € 9 M. The top funding of nearly € 1 M in the MAESTRO 7 call has been awarded to the project “Cross-talk between the transport of mitochondrial proteins and cellular protein homeostasis,” led by professor Agnieszka Chacińska from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw. The other projects include the subjects of metabolism of the orchis in its natural environment, the relations of uncertainty and quantum entanglement, the causes of variability in hot stars, and the monastic communities in the East Mediterranean in the 4th through 8th century A.D. The success rate was 4 per cent higher than in MAESTRO 6, and amounted to nearly 13 per cent.
HARMONIA 7 is a funding opportunity for projects carried out as international cooperation where there is no foreign contribution in funding. Polish scholars apply for the financing of research conducted in cooperation with partners from foreign research institutions, under joint programmes or initiatives of several countries, or using large-scale international research infrastructure. Resources exceeding € 8 M will be distributed among 52 projects. Those approved for funding include a study of drug transporters and their regulation in pathological liver conditions, a study of genetic and epigenetic variability in natural populations of grass, a project on the impact of global warming and eutrophication on the emission of methane and its significance to the food web of a lake, and research into dark matter and black holes by the Gaia space mission. The winner of the largest funding (nearly € 360 K) is the project led by Prof. Marek Pfützner (University of Warsaw), titled “Nuclear studies with radioactive beams at the CERN-ISOLDE laboratory.” The success rate in HARMONIA 7 has exceeded 21 per cent, which means that this edition has seen 6 per cent more grantees than the previous one.
The SONATA BIS 5 funding programme is dedicated to research projects giving rise to new research teams, led by scholars with at least a doctoral degree awarded between 2 and 12 years of applying. 91 projects worth over € 29 M have been approved for funding. The one with the largest budget is the study led by Dr Zofia Wodniecka-Chlipalska (Jagiellonian University), whose team will investigate the impact of short-term and long-term language experience on language regulation and cognitive functions in bilinguals. The research will cost nearly € 600,000. Other awardees will do research into such topics as the role of women in pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru, the ethics of biomedical experiments on children, the functions and mechanisms of acoustic and visual coordination in animals' signalling, and designing new protein structures with strictly defined properties using parametric models. The success rate in SONATA BIS 5 has been 22 per cent, which is 8 points higher than in SONATA BIS 4.
National Science Centre together with the NORFACE network is pleased to announce a new call for project proposals on the topic of Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course: structures and processes (DIAL). Each project must be composed of at least three research teams consisting of eligible researchers based at host institutions in three or more different NORFACE countries participating in the call.
The timetable for applications is:
Countries participating in the call: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Call documents:
Budget of the Polish part of the research project should be calculated according to NCN eligible costs (p. 5-12). On the full proposal stage Polish applicants will be obliged to complete the budget table.
Please see also NCN Eligibility Requirements (p. 16).
For more information please see NORFACE DIAL call.
Contact:
We would like to invite researchers to submit proposals under ERA-NET Smart Urban Futures call for proposals. The call targets research in the following topics:
Funding is available for international research projects that involve at least three researchers from three different eligible countries.
Funding: 23,5 M EUR, including support from Horizon 2020
Participating countries:
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom.
Partner search forms facilitate the composition of consortia. The forms are used to look for a project partner or a project to join. Click here for the ENSUF partner search page. The ERA-NET Smart Urban Futures LinkedIn group is an effective and dynamic channel to find partners for submitting proposals.
Call documentation:
Detailed information
The timetable for applications is:
Polish applicants should also submit a short application via OSF system (UNISONO application) by 20th September 2016.
Budget of the Polish part of the research project in the OSF system should be given in PLN. The Euro exchange rate should be calculated according to the NCN Council’s Resolutions no 45/2015 (1 EUR= 4,0198 PLN).
Contact:
dr Kinga Sekerdej, kinga.sekerdej@ncn.gov.pl, tel: 0048 12 341 9172
Joanna Komperda, joanna.komperda@ncn.gov.pl, tel: 0048 12 341 9138
For more information please see: http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/ensuf-call/
Please note that the ERA-NET Smart Urban Futures consortium has postponed the launch of the call, which will be opened on the 16th of December 2015.
On the 20th of November 2015 the NCN Director prof. Zbigniew Błocki was elected a member of the Science Europe Governing Board. This body consists of members who jointly make, guide and monitor the strategic direction of the Organisation.Science Europe (SE) is an association of European Research Funding Organisations and Research Performing Organisations, based in Brussels. The National Science Centre joined SE in May 2012.
Science Europe promotes the collective interests of the Research Funding and Research Performing Organisations of Europe. It supports its Member Organisations in their efforts to foster European research. It will strengthen the European Research Area (ERA) through its direct engagement with key partners. In doing so it will be informed by direct representation of all scientific communities in its reflections on policies, priorities and strategies.
For more information please see: http://www.scienceeurope.org/.
We are pleased to inform that dr hab. Wojciech Sowa, NCN coordinator in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, has been elected HERA Network Chair. HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) is a partnership between 24 Humanities Research Councils across Europe and the European Commission, with the objective of firmly establishing the humanities in the European Research Area and in the European Commission Framework Programmes. The NCN joined the HERA consortium in 2011.The Chair plays a facilitating and representational role in relation to the activities of the HERA Network Board. She or he leads on HERA strategy, facilitates agreement on positions, policies and strategies for HERA, and represents these on behalf of the Network to the research community, stakeholders, policy-makers and the wider public.
For more information about HERA please see: http://heranet.info/.
We would like to invite researchers to submit proposals under ERA-NET Smart Urban Futures call for proposals. The call, which will be opened on the 15th of December 2015, targets research in the following topics:
Funding is available for international research projects that involve at least three researchers from three different eligible countries.
The deadline for submission is scheduled for mid-March 2016.
For more information please see: ENSUF Info Flyer
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