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Dr Caterina Tarlazzi wins the Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship

13.07.2018

"Dr Caterina Tarlazzi, from the University of Geneva, has won the second competition for the Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science. The objective of the fellowship is to recognise scholars with exceptional achievements in the field of the history of...

Competition results under the TEAM, TEAM-TECH and TEAM-TECH Core Facility programmes announced

11.07.2018

"We know the names of the grant winners of the most recent competitions organised by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) within the TEAM, TEAM-TECH and TEAM-TECH Core Facility programmes. Nearly PLN 59 million from the Smart Growth Operational Programme funds have been allocated to support the...

Foundation?s Annual Report 2017

10.07.2018

"We present the FNP Annual Report on our operations in 2017. As in prior years, it contains a report on our statutory activity in 2017 along with the financial statement and auditor?s report. The supplement explores certain FNP initiatives, as well as selected research projects and business...

Update of the Cost Eligibility Guide in IRA Programme from 25.06.2018 r.

25.06.2018

"On June 25th, the Foundation for Polish Science has published updated version of the Cost Eligibility Guide in IRA Programme. We invite you to get familiar with the english version of the Guide, which you may find below. Please also see information about the list of introduced changes. /Cost...

International Research Agendas Programme: call for applications

18.06.2018

"29 June 2018 is the deadline for outstanding scientists from Poland or abroad to submit their applications in the last open nationwide competition within the International Research Agendas (IRAP) programme (competition No 10/2018). The International Research Agendas programme has been...

Young scientists need support to start: Fundraising campaign launched

18.06.2018

"Under the motto ?Support the most talented young scientists,? the Foundation for Polish Science has launched a campaign to raise funds for its stipend holders?laureates of the Foundation?s START programme. START, Poland?s largest stipend programme for young scientists, has been carried out by...

Copernicus Award 2018 announced

15.06.2018

"Prof. Dr. Stefan Anker from the Charité ? Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Prof. Piotr Ponikowski from Wrocław Medical University have been chosen to receive the 2018 Copernicus Award from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej...

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT POLISH HONORARY RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP: call for application

14.06.2018

"We are pleased to inform you that registration of applications in this year?s edition of the Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship programme has begun. We encourage Polish researchers to register their candidates ? German scientists who want to conduct research at a Polish research unit of their...

A launch event for the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies, a new International Research Agenda unit

14.06.2018

"The Foundation for Polish Science is happy to inform you that an event celebrating the official launch of a new research unit created within the FNP?s International Research Agendas programme will take place on 21 June. The Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies, led by Professor Konrad...

New principles related to project implementation under SGOP, Measure 4.4. An informational meeting for the laureates of the Foundation for Polish Science

13.06.2018

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) kindly invites the actual grantees of the Smart Growth Operational Programme Measure 4.4 to an information meeting on the new principles related to project implementation. In connection with assuming the role of the Implementing Authority for the Smart...

Reopening of a call for applications for introducing changes in projects implemented as part of Measure 4.4 of the 2014-2020 Smart Growth Operational Programme

30.05.2018

"We are pleased to announce that the call for applications for introducing changes to projects implemented as part of TEAM and TEAM-TECH (together with Core Facility and Core Facility Plus modules), as well as FIRST TEAM, HOMING and POWROTY programmes will be reopened on 6 June 2018. Changes to...

International Research Agendas programme ? training workshop for applicants

22.05.2018

"The Foundation for Polish Science cordially invites you to take part in a training workshop , regarding the practical dimension of the application process for FNP?s International Research Agenda Programme (IRAP). The main aim of the IRAP is to enable the creation of highly specialised and...

The last open nationwide IRAP competition has opened

14.05.2018

"Starting today, applications can be filed in the last open nationwide competition within the International Research Agendas (IRAP) programme. The deadline for the first part of the application in competition No 10/2018 is 29 June, 2018. The International Research Agendas programme has been...

New centres of excellence in Łódź and Otwock

10.05.2018

"We are happy to announce that the 2017 IRAP PLUS competition will result in the creation of new centres of excellence in Łódź and Otwock. Professor Klaus Müllen, head of the newly created International Centre for Research on Innovative Biobased Materials (ICRI-BioM), and Professor Piotr Paneth,...

START 2018 Stipends Awarded

09.05.2018

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has granted START stipends for the 26th time to the most talented young scientists from all over Poland. This year the money will go to 100 young researchers. The annual stipend amount per person is PLN 28,000. START is Poland?s biggest stipend programme...

The Foundation for Polish Science has signed the Future Partnership Project Statement

08.05.2018

"The Foundation for Polish Science is one of the signatories of the Future Partnership Project - an international statement regarding the scientific collaboration between the UK and countries of continental Europe, which has been initiated by the UK?s Royal Academy and Wellcome Trust. The...

FNP Prize Recipient Publishes Paper in Nature Communications

07.05.2018

"A paper by Professor Daniel T. Gryko, a recipient of the FNP Prize (2017) and beneficiary of the Foundation for Polish Science?s TEAM and MISTRZ programmes, entitled ?On-surface synthesis of a nitrogen-embedded buckybowl with inverse Stone-Thrower-Wales topology?, has been published in the...

International Research Agendas ? information meeting

27.04.2018

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) kindly invites all interested researchers to an information meeting on general rules of the International Research Agendas programme (IRAP). The International Research Agendas programme is being implemented since November 2015 within of the Smart...

New member of the Foundation Council

09.04.2018

" At a session on 28 March 2018, the Foundation Council appointed Prof. Tomasz Guzik, a distinguished specialist in internal medicine and allergology, winner of the Foundation for Polish Science Prize in 2010 in the natural and medical sciences, to serve as a member of the Foundation...

Sabbatical Fellowships for MASTER/MISTRZ winners - applications open

03.04.2018

"Winners of the MASTER/MISTRZ programme who have completed implementation of their project can now apply for a sabbatical fellowship for a stay at a selected foreign institution. Applications will be accepted from now until 7 June 2018. A fellowship of up to ? 5,500 per month may be awarded for...

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