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"We speak with the President of the FNP Board, Prof. Maciej Żylicz, about the beginnings, current activities, successes, and the future of International Research Agendas (MAB) units, created through the FNP?s MAB program. Professor, what exactly are the MAB research units, and what is the role...

"FNP programme laureate Justyna Olko, PhD Hab.,  from the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw is one of the winners of the Falling Walls 2020 competition in the field of humanities and social sciences. The competition was held as part of the World Science Summit / Berlin Science...

"Ali Jawaid, M.D.-Ph.D, the leader of a research group at the BRAINCITY centre in Warsaw, is the co-author of a paper published in EMBO Journal which describes one of the mechanisms underlying metabolic memory specific to trauma. Based in Warsaw, BRAINCITY conducts research on brain...

"Dr hab. Wiktor Lewandowski and his team from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, together with an international team of specialists from Japan, Spain and the USA, have explored how to produce nanostructures using controlled crystallisation. Their experiments have provided insights...

"Prof. Tomasz Klimczuk from the Gdańsk University of Technology, winner of programs by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), together with researchers from Poland and the USA, discovered two new inorganic compounds which ? despite their low-dimensional and non-centrosymmetric structure ?...

" The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...

"For the 29th time, the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has awarded the Foundation for Polish Science Prizes, which enjoy the reputation of the most important scientific honours in Poland. The laureates are four distinguished scholars: Prof. Jacek Radwan, Prof. Ewa Górecka, Prof. Krzysztof M....

"Our galaxy may contain billions of rogue planets, unconnected to any stars. An international team of scientists, led by Polish astronomers, announced the discovery of the smallest rogue planet of the Earth type. The research team includes many laureates of Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)...

"We kindly inform you that due to the development of the Covid-19 pandemic, the deadline for applications in the START program (edition 2021) is postponed from November 2 to December 18, 2020. The date of announcing winners of the competition will most likely also be postponed. We will inform...

"Another success of scientists from the Wrocław University of Technology - winners of the FNP programmes. Their research results on one of the SARS-CoV-2 enzymes? structures have just been published in the Science Advances journal. The primary author of the research paper is Wioletta Rut Ph.D.,...

"In the recently published article in Nature, the teams of Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski and prof. Jacek Młynarski from the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a winner of the TEAM programme run by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), in cooperation with the team of...

"On Monday, October 12 this year, at 4 p.m., the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) and the German scientific organization Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) jointly awarded the COPERNICUS 2020 Polish-German Scientific Award. The modest meeting was organized online, in place of a stationary...

"Dr hab. Bartłomiej Graczykowski, the laureate of the HOMING and FIRST TEAM programmes of the Foundation for Polish Science, constructs nanostructures in which sound and heat flow in a strictly controlled manner. These structures potentially have many different practical applications, for example,...

"Due to the worsening epidemic, the COPERNICUS Award Ceremony, which was to take place on Monday, October 12, 2020, has been canceled. The laureates of the 8th edition of the Polish-German Scientific Award COPERNICUS are prof. Sebastian Faust of the Technical University of Darmstadt and prof....

"The Polish-Israeli team led by Radek Łapkiewicz from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, winner of the FIRST TEAM programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, has made another significant achievement. In the pages of the Optica journal, the scientists presented a new method of...

"On September 25, the first meeting of the FNP Council for the 2020?2024 term was held at the Foundation for Polish Science headquarters. The term began on September 1, 2020, after the end of the last Council?s term of office after the 2016?2020 term. The meeting of the new Council was preceded by...

"Laureates of FNP programmes from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST), in partnership with American researchers, have developed a new method to simultaneously scan the activity of proteolytic enzymes in cells. Their research results have been published in the prestigious...

"From September 23 to November 2, 2020, young scientists can apply for a scholarship in the START 2021 competition. The START scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is a prestigious distinction for the most talented young researchers, awarded in recognition of their scientific...

"Prof. Wojciech Wasilewski from the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies, IRAP Centre of Excellence operating within CeNT UW (Centre of New Technologies - University of Warsaw) is the first Pole who has received the prestigious ICO Prize. The prize is granted in recognition of outstanding...

"The health and economic crisis associated with the recent COVID-19 pandemic is elevating the levels of stress, anxiety and depression. While nearly everyone is exposed to these negative emotional effects of the pandemic, ethnic minorities and immigrants seem to be the most vulnerable. These...