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"We are pleased to announce that the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has signed an agreement with the intermediary institution?the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR)?for implementation of the grant project International Research Agendas, as part of Measure 4.3 of the Smart...

"An international group of researchers with major involvement of FNP's beneficiaries - astronomers from the Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory based large-scale sky survey OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) led by Prof. Andrzej Udalski - announced a discovery in the center...

"Researchers from Toruń, Poland, and Cleveland, Ohio, led by FNP Prize laureates Prof. Maciej Wojtkowski and Prof. Krzysztof Palczewski, have developed a revolutionary system for imaging of the retina of a living animal, where one of the optical elements used is the lens of the eye that is being...

"The Foundation for Polish Science has for the 24th time granted its FNP Prizes, considered to be Poland?s most important scientific awards. The winners are three leading Polish researchers: Prof. Stanisław Penczek, Prof. Kazimierz Rzążewski and Prof. Jerzy Jedlicki. The FNP Prizes are awarded...

"Please join us at the conference "On Mentoring and Coaching in Science", organised jointly by the Foundation for Polish Science and SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. The conference will take place on 5 November 2015 from 9.15 am to 5.45 pm at SWPS, ul. Chodakowska 19/31,...

"The Foundation for Polish Science is pleased to invite scientists from Poland and abroad to an information meeting on the International Research Agendas project (MAB), to take place on 29 October at the University of Warsaw Library at ul. Dobra 56/66. The International Research Agendas project...

"We are proud to report that in October, winners of FNP programmes went on to receive numerous other prestigious awards for distinguished scientific achievements. Here are a few of them. Polityka weekly has named five winners of the Polityka Science Awards. In the 15th edition of the awards,...

"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 11 January 2016. A fellowship of up to ? 5,500 per month may be awarded...

"The Foundation for Polish Science together with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are launching the competition for their award promoting Polish-American scientific cooperation. The Polish-American Scientific Award will be granted to two researchers, one from Poland...

"Seven distinguished scholars from the humanities and social sciences won professorial grants in the 18th edition of the MASTER/MISTRZ programme of the Foundation for Polish Science. They received a total of over PLN 2 million from the Foundation to pursue their research projects. The purpose...

"We invite young scholars to file applications for the 2016 edition of the START programme. The START stipend is a distinction for the most talented young researchers, awarded in recognition of their achievements so far. In the competition for START stipends, the primary criteria are the...

"The Innovative Europe conference organised by the founders of the Coalition for Polish Innovations will be held on 27?28 October 2015 in Gdańsk. The conference will include debates about the future of innovation and a summary of the first six months of work by the coalition. The Foundation for...

"We are pleased to inform you that the 15 finalists of Polityka weekly?s 15th Science Awards, announced on 9 September 2015 in the weekly, include seven beneficiaries of the Foundation for Polish Science?s programmes. In the humanities, the list of finalists includes: Jan Jakub Kwapisz, PhD...

"Young Polish researchers working abroad have only until 11 September 2015 to register for the conference ?Science: Polish Perspectives,? which will be held on 30?31 October 2015 in Cambridge. The guests at the conference will include the FNP Prize winner Prof. Mariusz Jaskólski. The event is...

"The Foundation for Polish Science invites representatives of scientific institutions in Germany and the United Kingdom for information days on the International Research Agendas project. The meetings are to take place in September in Berlin and Cambridge. The purpose of the International...

"The Foundation for Polish Science is getting ready to implement the "International Research Agendas" project co-financed within the 4th axis of the Smart Growth Operational Programme (SG OP), Measure 4.3. The purpose of the project under the SG OP is to create world-class specialised scientific...

"We invite our readers to review the Annual Report of the Foundation for Polish Science, which includes financial statements as well as a presentation of the Foundation?s statutory activity and initiatives undertaken in 2014. The report answers such questions as: ? What programmes, domestic...

"Mitochondrion is a cellular compartment commonly known as ?the power plant? of cells. To fulfill its various functions, these organelles need more than one thousand cellular proteins. Yet, the majority of mitochondrial proteins are synthesized outside mitochondria in the cytosol and thus must be...

"As of the 24th edition of the Foundation for Polish Science?s START programme, stipends for selected beneficiaries from the fields of theoretical physics, mathematics and astronomy will be raised thanks to money from the newly established Professor Adam Sobiczewski Fund. The fund was set up in...

"The Foundation for Polish Science has announced the results of the 4th and final edition of the IMPULS competition, organized as part of the SKILLS project.* Thanks to funding totalling PLN 880,000, the nine winners of the final competition will be able to realize innovative projects and research...