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Christmas greetings

22.12.2015
"Warmest wishes for the Holiday Season and a prosperous New Year. All the team at Foundation for Polish Science

FNP winners honoured for commercialization of research results

11.12.2015
"We are pleased to report that winners of several of the Foundation?s competitions, including Dr Michał Bieniek, Prof. Piotr Garstecki and others, have been named ?Very Important Polish Innovators? in recognition of their success at commercialization of research results. Among the group of 11...

2015 Foundation for Polish Science Prizes Awarded

03.12.2015
"The awards ceremony for the Foundation for Polish Science Prizes was held on 2 December 2015 at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. Prizes were awarded to Prof. Jerzy Jedlicki from the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, winner of the Prize in the humanities and social...

Changes in the ?Ideas for Poland? programme

26.11.2015
"We hereby announce that in connection with launch of the ?Premia na Horyzoncie? programme planned by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Foundation will no longer consider applications for the ?Ideas for Poland? programme filed by winners of competitions for ERC Starting Grants...

Invitation to seminar on intersectoral mobility of researchers

13.11.2015
"We cordially invite you to participate in a seminar entitled ?Intersectoral mobility of researchers,? organized by the Foundation as part of the SKILLS* project. The event will be held on Friday, 20 November 2015, from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm at the FNP headquarters, ul. Krasickiego 20/22,...

FNP launches International Research Agendas programme

13.11.2015
"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...

First Generation of Stars in the Center of the Milky Way

12.11.2015
"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...

Breakthrough in retina imaging

04.11.2015
"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...

FNP Prize 2015 Recipients Chosen

30.10.2015
"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...

"On Mentoring and Coaching in Science" Conference

22.10.2015
"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,...

Continued success for FNP winners

21.10.2015
"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,...

Sabbatical Fellowships for MASTER/MISTRZ winners?applications open

19.10.2015
"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 Competition for the Polish-American Scientific Award begins

01.10.2015
"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...

Winners named in FNP?s 18th MASTER/MISTRZ programme

25.09.2015
"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...

Applications now accepted for the START programme

18.09.2015
"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...

Innovative Europe conference in October

17.09.2015
"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...

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