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Gala finals of Innovators Under 35 Poland competition

14.06.2016
"The second edition of the Innovators Under 35 Poland competition will be decided soon! The names of the 10 winners will be announced at the gala finals celebration on 28 June 2016 in Warsaw. Two of the 10 finalists will receive the additional titles of Innovator of the Year and Social...

The COPERNICUS Prize 2016 Awarded

07.06.2016
"The COPERNICUS Polish-German Scientific Award ceremony was held on Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at the Palace on the Isle in Warsaw?s Royal Łazienki Park. In the 6th edition, the award was presented by the president of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Prof. Peter Strohschneider, and the president of...

New Foundation Council Appointed

07.06.2016
"Due to the expiration of the four-year term in office of the FNP Council, spanning 2012-2016, a new Council was appointed last week, on 2 June. The official presentation of appointments, which took place at the Foundation?s headquarters, was attended by Prof. Leszek Sirko, PhD habil.,...

Sabbatical Fellowships 2015 Awarded

03.06.2016
"The Foundation has chosen the winners of the fourth competition for sabbatical fellowships that are offered to beneficiaries of the MISTRZ/MASTER programme. The fellowships are granted to scientists for a period of sabbatical leave to be spent conducting research at a leading international...

Polityka History Prize for two-time winner of FNP START programme

13.05.2016
"We are pleased to report that Jan Olaszek, a two-time winner of FNP?s START programme, has received the Polityka History Prize for his book Rewolucja powielaczy. Niezależny ruch wydawniczy w Polsce 1976?1989 (Mimeograph Revolution: The Independent Printing Movement in Poland 1976?1989). The book...

Dr Dmitri Levitin wins Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship

04.05.2016
"The winner of the first Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship, awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science, is Dr Dmitri Levitin from the University of Oxford, a researcher in the fields of intellectual history and the history of philosophy. Dr Dmitri Levitin is a graduate of the University of...

Foundation for Polish Science co-organizes Copernicus Festival

04.05.2016
"The third edition of the Copernicus Festival will be held on 17?22 May 2016 in Kraków - devoted this year to the phenomenon of beauty. The subject of reflections during this year?s festival will be the beauty of the universe and nature, beauty in science, art and literature, beauty as a criterion...

Second call for applications in TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes

04.05.2016
"As of today, leading researchers from all over the world may apply for grants to conduct innovative research under the TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes that the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is implementing with funding from the Smart Development Operational Programme (PO IR). Funding is made...

START 2016 stipends awarded

28.04.2016
"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...

New calls for applications in the TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes ? briefing

26.04.2016
"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...

FNP Beneficiary Among Winners of FameLab Poland 2016 Competition

21.04.2016
"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...

Nomination deadline for ?Innovators Under 35? competition extended

31.03.2016
"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...

FNP laureate wins prestigious ERC Advanced Grant

30.03.2016
"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...

FNP winner honoured in L?Oréal-UNESCO international competition

29.03.2016
"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...

Registration has begun for the Polish Scientific Networks conference

25.03.2016
"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...

Copernicus Award 2016 announced

24.03.2016
"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...

FNP laureates named to the FameLab finals on 16 April 2016

24.03.2016
"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...

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