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FNP grants for young doctors from Poland and abroad ? information meeting

09.09.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) invites young doctors from Poland and abroad who consider applying for the FIRST TEAM, HOMING and POWROTY/REINTEGRATION programmes to participate in an information meeting devoted to these programmes, scheduled to take place on 15 September in...

International Research Agendas ? on line transmission

07.09.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science would like to invite scientists to an on line transmission of an information meeting on the International Research Agendas programme, scheduled to take place on 8 September at 10.00 a.m. The International Research Agendas programme provides an opportunity to...

International Research Agendas ? information meeting

05.09.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) would like to invite scientists from Poland and abroad to an information meeting on the International Research Agendas programme, scheduled to take place on 8 September in the Foundation?s office in Warsaw. The programme provides an opportunity to...

FNP laureate wins ERC Starting Grant for research on emotions

02.09.2016
"Dr Ewelina Knapska from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, a laureate of FNP programmes, has won a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. With her grant she will study how the amygdale?the centre for emotions in the brain?controls socially transmitted...

Second call for applications in the International Research Agendas programme

01.09.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) announced today the second open competition in which scientists may apply for funding to conduct innovative research in research centres pursuing international research agendas. The funds offered under the second competition total PLN 140 million from the...

Conference "Science. Polish Perspectives? - register now

29.08.2016
"Young Polish researchers working abroad can register for the conference ?Science: Polish Perspectives? which will be held on 18?19 November 2016 at the Oxford University. The Polonium Foundation and the Oxford University Polish Society are the main organisers of the conference. The Foundation for...

FNP laureate wins ERC Starting Grant for fighting cancer

26.08.2016
"Magdalena Król, an associate professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), an FNP laureate, has won a prestigious ERC grant in the fight against cancer. Prof. Magdalena Król, two-time winner in the FNP START programme and a winner in the FNP...

Success of FNP laureate in research on soft-tissue cancer in children

24.08.2016
"Polish researchers?including Dr Maciej Cieśla, two-time awardee of an FNP VENTURES grant?have described a mechanisms leading to development of the most common soft tissue malignancy in children?rhabdomyosarcoma. Findings of their study just published in the Cancer Research suggest that it may be...

HOMING laureate wins prestigious ERC grant

24.08.2016
"We are happy to report that Dr Marcin Pilipczuk of the Institute of Informatics at the University of Warsaw, a winner in FNP?s first HOMING programme, has received a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. The grant awarded to Dr Pilipczuk is for over EUR 1.2...

Note! Updated list of National Smart Specialisations

22.08.2016
"Please be informed that an updated list of the National Smart Specialisations came into effect in July 2016. Scientists who submit their applications in the second competition under the FIRST TEAM, HOMING and POWROTY programmes announced on 12. August this year are kindly requested to read...

Star Caught Exploding out of Hibernation - new discovery of Polish astronomers

18.08.2016
"Astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw have discovered an extremely interesting nova. The results of the study have been published in the latest issue of the prestigious scientific journal NATURE. The co-authors of the publication include many laureates of FNP...

Results of the first competition in the FIRST TEAM programme

22.07.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has decided the first competition in the FIRST TEAM programme, which is aimed at funding the first research teams led by PhDs at an early stage of their scientific career pursuing research of groundbreaking scientific or commercial importance. Thanks to...

First competition in TEAM programme decided

14.07.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has announced the results of the first competition in the TEAM programme, which is aimed at funding teams of researchers led by distinguished scientists from all over the world pursuing groundbreaking scientific research. There were 68 projects submitted...

Winners of first TEAM-TECH competition announced

12.07.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has announced the results of the first competition in the TEAM-TECH programme, in which grants are awarded to research teams to conduct R&D work on development of technologies or products based on scientific discoveries. There were 38 projects...

First competition decided in International Research Agendas programme

28.06.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science has decided the first open competition in the International Research Agendas programme. The winning project was submitted by Prof. Tomasz Dietl and Prof. Tomasz Wojtowicz from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. They will receive...

The Foundation for Polish Science is 25 years old

20.06.2016
"Over 10,000 individual stipends, grants and prizes, over 300 research teams hiring young researchers, and more than PLN 928 million invested in Polish science and scientists: these are the totals achieved in the first 25 years by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), the largest...

NOTICE! New deadline for filing applications in TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes

14.06.2016
"We hereby announce that the deadline for filing applications for competitions in the TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes has been extended to Friday, 24 June 2016, at 4:00 pm. After completion of the application form according to the competition documentation and adding all the required enclosures in...

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