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Call for Applications for the 2024 START Competition

20.09.2023

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) announces a call for applications for the START competition, in which young researchers can win a scholarship for outstanding scientific achievements. Recruitment will be conducted until November 3, 2023. The FNP START scholarship is a prestigious award...

Writing successful grant proposals in an international context – workshop for PhD students

12.09.2023

"The Foundation for Polish Science with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) jointly organize a workshop for PhD students on writing successful grant proposals in an international context. There are still a few places available – we cordially invite to participate. Registration is open till...

Call for FENG experts (4th round)

24.08.2023

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the European Funds for Smart Economy (FENG) Programme 2021-2027 of which it fulfils the role of the Intermediate Body. Specialists from scientific and business circles are invited to apply as expert...

3rd FOR UKRAINE Programme Competition Decided: We Know the Winners

31.07.2023

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) announced the winners of the third FOR UKRAINE programme competition for representatives of the social sciences and humanities. The three winning pairs of scientists from Ukraine and Poland will receive support in the amount of PLN 268,800 for each pair...

Foundation?s Annual Report

20.07.2023

"We present the FNP Annual Report, which outlines our activities in 2022. As in previous years, the document reports on our statutory activities in 2022, providing a summary financial statement and an auditor?s report, along with a supplement that presents some of the FNP?s initiatives and the...

Call for Nominations for the 10th Copernicus Award

17.05.2023

"The Copernicus Award is a joint initiative of the Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej (FNP, Foundation for Polish Science) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). The award is conferred every two years to two researchers, one in Germany and one in Poland, for...

START 2023 Results Announced

15.05.2023

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) announced the results of the START 2023 competition. One hundred outstanding young scientists will receive prestigious stipends. This year the stipends were awarded for the 31st time. The FNP START programme is the oldest stipend programme in Poland for...

FNP announces support for innovative projects

26.04.2023

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has announced the launch of new support programmes for researchers, which will be financed by the European Funds for the Smart Economy 2021-2027 (FENG) programme. The aim of the projects will be to develop scientific research with high innovative and social...

"Science in times of transition" - the latest FNP publication now available

24.04.2023

"We are delighted to present to you the publication entitled "Science in times of transition. How EU-funded research is helping to protect us from global threats and take advantage of historic opportunities". The material contains information on the scientific achievements of more than 30...

Funding for Research ? Innovative Approaches to Assessment and Selection: Workshop Report

21.03.2023

"Lottery, artificial intelligence, or contextual mechanism? Innovative approaches for the selection of grant applications by science funding foundations were the main theme of the international Philea Research Forum workshop held at the headquarters of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) on...

Third FNP Competition for Polish-Ukrainian Scientific Projects

24.02.2023

"The Foundation for Polish Science continues its efforts to support the Ukrainian scientific community by organizing the third competition in the FOR UKRAINE programme. Thanks to this initiative, scientists from Ukraine can establish cooperation with Polish researchers to undertake joint...

"Nauka dla innowacji" ("Science for Innovation") ? a series of podcasts with the winners of the International Research Agendas programme

21.02.2023

"Join us for a series of podcasts entitled "Nauka dla innowacji" ("Science for Innovation") featuring outstanding Polish scientists, winners of the International Research Agendas programme run by the Foundation for Polish Science and financed by European funds from the Smart Growth Operational...

FNP signs "Agreement on reforming research assessment"

14.02.2023

"FNP has joined the European Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) and has become one of the signatories of ?The Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment?. The coalition was launched in September 2022 with the aim of working together to improve research assessment...

FNP Funds New Polish-Ukrainian Scientific Projects

02.02.2023

"The Foundation for Polish Science has settled its second competition for the best Polish-Ukrainian research projects. As part of the FOR UKRAINE programme initiated in March 2022 aimed at supporting scientists from Ukraine cooperating with scientists from Poland, the FNP has selected three more...

Papers by winners of FNP programmes in Science Advances

31.01.2023

"Researchers of the Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, and the Max Planck Research Group of the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, carried out a joint research project aimed at understanding photosynthetic processes...

Groundbreaking research by a laureate of the Foundation for Polish Science in the pages of "Nucleic Acids Research"

17.01.2023

"Researchers at the Jagiellonian University's Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB/UJ) have extended our knowledge of the protein structure of the Elongator complex with their latest work. The groundbreaking research was carried out by the Max Planck Research Group led by dr hab. Sebastian...

Polish scientists, laureates of FNP programmes, develop new method of writing holographic 3D images

30.12.2022

"A new method of writing holographic 3D images has been developed jointly by scientists from the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Bialystok. Their paper was published in Nature Communications. The method uses an opto-magnetic medium with a...

Laureates of A. von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Fellowship

22.12.2022

"The Foundation for Polish Sciences has selected the beneficiaries of the Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Fellowship. This scholarship is awarded to outstanding active German scholars in order to permit them to conduct scientific research at a selected institution in Poland. In...

Christmas greetings from Foundation for Polish Science