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"For the 24th time, the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has awarded START stipends to the most talented young scientists throughout Poland. This year stipends will go to 121 young researchers. The amount of each annual stipend is PLN 28,000, and the total amount earmarked by the Foundation for...

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is pleased to invite you to a briefing on the TEAM* and TEAM-TECH* programmes, which are intended for scientists from Poland and other countries who hold at least a doctoral degree and plan to carry out R&D projects that fall within the scope of the...

"The winners of this year?s FameLab popularization competition for scientists, of which the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is a partner, have been announced. Among them is Paweł Jarosław Mazurkiewicz (a winner of the FNP?s eNgage competition), whose fascinating story about ants won him the...

"We kindly inform that deadline for submitting nominations for prestigious competition Innovators Under 35 got extended until 26 April 2016. The Foundation for Polish Science is one of the partners of the competition. The competition is organized by MIT Technology Review, the oldest tech...

"Prof. Grzegorz Pietrzyński has received an ERC Advanced Grant worth nearly EUR 2.4 million for implementation of the project ?A sub-percent distance scale from binaries and Cepheids.? This is the next stage of research seeking to determine the famous Hubble Constant, which defines the rate of...

"A team of Polish scientists, including winners of Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) programmes, have discovered a method for more effective diagnosis of patients with thyroid cancer at the most risk of aggressive spread of the disease. The results of the research were published in March 2016...

"Paweł Gancarczyk, a professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has won the prestigious Prix des Muses award for his book Muzyka wobec rewolucji druku. Przemiany w kulturze muzycznej XVI wieku (Music and the Printing Revolution: Transformations in the Musical Culture of...

"Dr Bernadeta Szewczyk, a neurobiologist from the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, was recognized in the L?Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science competition in the category of International Rising Talents. Dr Bernadeta Szewczyk, a winner in the START and POMOST/BRIDGE...

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"An international conference entitled ?Polish Scientific Networks: Science and Business? will be held on 30 June - 2 July 2016 at the EIT+ Wrocław Research Centre. The conference is jointly organized by the Club of Foundation for Polish Science Scholars, the Academy of Young Researchers of the...

"Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska of the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw and Prof. Peter Rehling of the University Medical Centre in Göttingen have been named the winners of the 6th edition of the Nicolaus Copernicus Polish-German Research Award, given jointly by the...

"The finals of the 5th edition of the FameLab Poland science communications competition, organized by the British Council and the Copernicus Science Centre, will be held on 16 April 2016 at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. The 10 charismatic scientists who qualified for the finals include...

"Experts evaluated the quality and usefulness of the research conducted in the TEAM POIG and WELCOME programmes of the Foundation for Polish Science. They found that most of the projects they examined met very high global scientific standards. An international group of experts assessed the TEAM...

"The Foundation for Polish Sciences has selected the beneficiaries of the Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to outstanding active German scholars with the highest qualifications and a significant contribution to global research, as recognition...

"Four of last year?s winners in the START programme of the Foundation for Polish Science - talented young physicists - will meet in Lindau, Germany, this year with Nobel Prize winners and several hundred other young researchers from around the world. The main topic of the event this year will be...

"Over PLN 4 million awaits PhDs who want to return to conducting research after a break connected with work in another sector or parenting. On 1 March 2016, the Foundation for Polish Science is launching the first competition in the POWROTY/REINTEGRATION programme, financed from the Smart Growth...

"Cambridge Polish Studies, established in 2014 through the efforts of groups including the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), is one of the few autonomous centres in the world offering the possibility to learn about Poland. Although the programme has achieved success within less than two years...

"The Foundation for Polish Science has become a partner of the 2nd Polish edition of the prestigious competition ?Innovators Under 35.? The competition is organized by MIT Technology Review, the oldest tech magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The competition recognizes...

"We kindly announce that the provision in the competition documentation for the TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes concerning purchase of low-cost R&D apparatus has been amended. In the competition documents for the TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes...

"As of today, 15 February, applications are being accepted in the FIRST TEAM and HOMING programmes for young scientists that the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is implementing with funding from the Smart Growth Operational Programme (PO IR). The application deadline is 24 March 2016. The...