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"The Foundation for Polish Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world?s largest multidisciplinary scientific society, have launched the third edition of the Poland?U.S. Science (PLUS) Award. The deadline to submit nominations is December 31, 2017. The...

"With the announcement of the International Research Agendas competition ? module for applicants intending to implement their projects outside the Mazowieckie Province (IRA PWM), the Foundation invites anyone interested in submitting an application under the terms of this competition to a workshop...

"Today, 15 September, the Foundation for Polish Science announced an International Research Agendas (IRA) competition for beneficiaries of the Teaming programme. The deadline for submitting the first and second parts of the application expires on 23 October. Only applicants* who intend to...

"We invite young researchers to file applications in the START programme (2018 competition). A START stipend is an honour for the most talented young researchers in recognition of their achievements to date. In the competition for stipends, the primary criteria are the quality and originality...

"The Copernicus Award is a joint initiative of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP, Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej) 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...

"Dr Artur Obłuski is the first archaeologist in Poland to receive a prestigious ERC Starting Grant, worth nearly EUR 1.5 million. Dr Obłuski works at the research station of the University of Warsaw?s Kazimierz Michałowski Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology in Cairo. With the ERC grant, he...

"Demystifying proteins and improving the efficacy of brain tumour diagnostics and treatment are going to be in the focus of the first winners of the TEAM-TECH Core Facility programme. Prof. dr hab. Michał Dadlez from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences...

"The Copernicus Award, endowed with 200.000 Euros, is conferred every two years by the DFG and the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) for outstanding achievements in German-Polish scientific cooperation. The call for the Copernicus Award 2018 will be published on 1 September 2017. Nominations can...

"Today, the Foundation for Polish Science is launching five new competitions, with a total of PLN 67 million offered to scientists for research and development projects. The deadline for submitting applications is 2 October 2017. Grants for conducting research in Poland are being made available...

"Please be advised that on 21 August 2017 the Foundation will announce a call for applications in an additional competition held under the International Research Agendas (IRA) programme implemented by FNP as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme. The deadline for submission of the first...

"See the dates of calls for applications under FNP programmes co-financed within the framework of the Smart Growth Operational Programme The nearest application rounds for the FIRST TEAM, HOMING, POWROTY, TEAM-TECH Core Facility and TEAM-TECH Core Facility Plus programmes will be open from 1...

"The Foundation for Polish Science has announced the winners of the third competitions held under the HOMING and POWROTY/REINTEGRATION programmes. A total of almost PLN 11.7 million will be awarded to fifteen young researchers to conduct innovative R&D projects in Poland. Under the HOMING...

"We present the FNP Annual Report which outlines the Foundation?s work in 2016. Similarly to previous years, it contains an account of our statutory activity in 2016 together with financial statements and an auditor?s opinion as well as a supplement presenting selected beneficiaries of FNP...

"For a long time scientists have predicted the existence of Earth-mass free-floating planets, ejected from their parent planetary systems and gravitationally unbound to any star. Polish astronomers working at the OGLE survey at the Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory for the first time...

"The Foundation for Polish Science kindly invites for information meeting ?Grant opportunities for startups within the Smart Growth Operational Programme? . The meeting will take place on Friday, August 25th 2017 in the Foundation office, Krasickiego str. 20/22, Warsaw. The invitation is...

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has selected the winners of the third FIRST TEAM competition aimed at supporting young PhD holders in setting up their first research teams. Thirteen young scientists have been awarded grants totalling PLN 25.6 million. The FIRST TEAM programme supports...

"The Polish studies centre at the University of Cambridge, launched in 2014 thanks to the initiative and financial support of the Foundation for Polish Science, has received an endowment from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education ensuring its continued operation. An agreement on the...

"The Foundation for Polish Science announces the second competition in the Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship programme for outstanding philosophers and intellectual historians. The aim of the fellowship is to recognize scholars who early in their career can demonstrate outstanding...

"Winners of Foundation for Polish Science programmes from the Wrocław University of Technology, in cooperation with American researchers, have developed a new method for parallel imaging of the activity of enzymes. The results of the research have just been published in the prestigious Journal of...

"A work co-authored by Wojciech Fendler from the Medical University of Łódź, a winner in FIRST TEAM and many other FNP programmes, is published in the latest issue of Nature Communications. The article, ?Compensatory Metabolic Networks in Pancreatic Cancers Upon Perturbation of Glutamine...