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Cooperation Pays Off: Advanced Functional Materials Discovery by FNP Winner

06.11.2020

"Prof. Tomasz Klimczuk from the Gdańsk University of Technology, winner of programs by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), together with researchers from Poland and the USA, discovered two new inorganic compounds which ? despite their low-dimensional and non-centrosymmetric structure ?...

Call for FNP experts ? the 28th round

05.11.2020

" The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...

2020 Foundation for Polish Science Prizes awarded

04.11.2020

"For the 29th time, the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has awarded the Foundation for Polish Science Prizes, which enjoy the reputation of the most important scientific honours in Poland. The laureates are four distinguished scholars: Prof. Jacek Radwan, Prof. Ewa Górecka, Prof. Krzysztof M....

FNP Winners Among Discoverers of the Smallest Rogue Planet

29.10.2020

"Our galaxy may contain billions of rogue planets, unconnected to any stars. An international team of scientists, led by Polish astronomers, announced the discovery of the smallest rogue planet of the Earth type. The research team includes many laureates of Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)...

START 2021 Competition: Application Deadline Extension

22.10.2020

"We kindly inform you that due to the development of the Covid-19 pandemic, the deadline for applications in the START program (edition 2021) is postponed from November 2 to December 18, 2020. The date of announcing winners of the competition will most likely also be postponed. We will inform...

Laureaci FNP publikują w Science Advances

19.10.2020

"Another success of scientists from the Wrocław University of Technology - winners of the FNP programmes. Their research results on one of the SARS-CoV-2 enzymes? structures have just been published in the Science Advances journal. The primary author of the research paper is Wioletta Rut Ph.D.,...

The groundbreaking research results of an FNP laureate are published in Nature

16.10.2020

"In the recently published article in Nature, the teams of Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski and prof. Jacek Młynarski from the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a winner of the TEAM programme run by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), in cooperation with the team of...

COPERNICUS award delivered

16.10.2020

"On Monday, October 12 this year, at 4 p.m., the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) and the German scientific organization Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) jointly awarded the COPERNICUS 2020 Polish-German Scientific Award. The modest meeting was organized online, in place of a stationary...

Capture the heat, capture the sound

12.10.2020

"Dr hab. Bartłomiej Graczykowski, the laureate of the HOMING and FIRST TEAM programmes of the Foundation for Polish Science, constructs nanostructures in which sound and heat flow in a strictly controlled manner. These structures potentially have many different practical applications, for example,...

The COPERNICUS Award Ceremony Has Been Canceled

06.10.2020

"Due to the worsening epidemic, the COPERNICUS Award Ceremony, which was to take place on Monday, October 12, 2020, has been canceled. The laureates of the 8th edition of the Polish-German Scientific Award COPERNICUS are prof. Sebastian Faust of the Technical University of Darmstadt and prof....

Microscopy beyond the resolution limit

06.10.2020

"The Polish-Israeli team led by Radek Łapkiewicz from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, winner of the FIRST TEAM programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, has made another significant achievement. In the pages of the Optica journal, the scientists presented a new method of...

New Members of the FNP?s Council

28.09.2020

"On September 25, the first meeting of the FNP Council for the 2020?2024 term was held at the Foundation for Polish Science headquarters. The term began on September 1, 2020, after the end of the last Council?s term of office after the 2016?2020 term. The meeting of the new Council was preceded by...

FNP laureates publish in JACS

28.09.2020

"Laureates of FNP programmes from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST), in partnership with American researchers, have developed a new method to simultaneously scan the activity of proteolytic enzymes in cells. Their research results have been published in the prestigious...

Call for Applications for the START 2021 Competition

23.09.2020

"From September 23 to November 2, 2020, young scientists can apply for a scholarship in the START 2021 competition. The START scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is a prestigious distinction for the most talented young researchers, awarded in recognition of their scientific...

Scientist from the IRAP Centre of Excellence - the first Pole to win the prestigious ICO Prize

17.09.2020

"Prof. Wojciech Wasilewski from the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies, IRAP Centre of Excellence operating within CeNT UW (Centre of New Technologies - University of Warsaw) is the first Pole who has received the prestigious ICO Prize. The prize is granted in recognition of outstanding...

How COVID-19 pandemic is affecting immigrants and ethnic minorities

17.09.2020

"The health and economic crisis associated with the recent COVID-19 pandemic is elevating the levels of stress, anxiety and depression. While nearly everyone is exposed to these negative emotional effects of the pandemic, ethnic minorities and immigrants seem to be the most vulnerable. These...

A living molecular fossil

15.09.2020

"An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Research Group at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB) deciphered the molecular mechanism of a sulfur carrier system that stands at the root of all eukaryotic Ubiquitin-conjugation systems. For this project, the team headed by...

Warsaw's scientiscts make NMR measurements much faster

11.09.2020

"Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) can now be used for more than just medical examination. As a measurement technology which offers extremely accurate insights into the structure of molecules and biochemical processes, NMR can support the development of new drugs and help optimise many industrial...

Call for FNP experts ? the 27th round

03.09.2020