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Discoveries made by FNP programme winners, featured in Nature Communications

25.07.2019

"FNP programme winners, in cooperation with Dutch and Australian researchers, have discovered a new model of droplet formation in microfluidic channels. The article is the result of work under the FIRST TEAM grant programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, led by Dr hab. Piotr Korczyk of...

Maria Skłodowska and Pierre Curie ? French-Polish Scientific Award 2019: call for application

24.07.2019

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI), in collaboration with the French Academy of Sciences, are pleased to announce the awarding of a prize ? Skłodowska//Curie Award - as a constituent part of the French-Polish Year...

Cold hybrid ion-atom systems ? an article by an FNP programme winner gets published in Reviews of Modern Physics

23.07.2019

" An international group of researchers from Universities based in Warsaw, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Cologne, and Maryland, led by the START, HOMING and FIRST TEAM programme winner, Dr Michał Tomza of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, has published a review article...

Quantum interference in service of information technology - paper of our laureate in Science Advances

22.07.2019

"Dr hab. Magdalena Stobińska, FIRST TEAM and HOMING PLUS laureate and dr Adam Buraczewski from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the NIST agency, have shown that quantum interference enables processing of large sets of data faster and...

A tRNA modifier at work - paper of our laureate in Science Advances

15.07.2019

"All living cells employ ribosomes and transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules to decode mRNA sequences and translate the codon-triplet-encoded information into correctly assembled and functional proteins. Furthermore, it is crucial for the cells to produce these proteins at the right speed to avoid protein...

Prof. Marek Samoć wins 2019 SCF French-Polish Prize

11.07.2019

"We are pleased to report that one of the Foundation?s laureates, Prof. Marek Samoć, has been awarded the 2019 French?Polish Prize of the Société Chimique de France. The award was given in recognition of Prof. Samoć?s eminent works on the nonlinear optics properties of inorganic and...

Foundation?s Annual Report

10.07.2019

"We present the FNP Annual Report on our operations in 2018. As in prior years, it contains a report on our statutory activity in 2018 along with the financial statement and auditor?s report. The supplement explores certain FNP initiatives, as well as selected research projects and business...

Prof. Maciej W. Grabski Award delivered

04.07.2019

"For the second time, the Foundation for Polish Science has delivered the Prof. Maciej W. Grabski Award for activity furthering the understanding of science in society. The laureates this year are Prof. Fr. Michał Heller and Prof. Jan Madey. The awards were given out on 2 July 2019 at the...

Call for applications has been suspended

03.07.2019

"We would like to inform you that on 8 July 2019 the call for applications on changes in projects as part of TEAM, TEAM-TECH (including Core Facility and Core Facility Plus modules) and FIRST TEAM, HOMING, and POWROTY programmes will be suspended. The FIRST TEAM call for applications involving...

IRAP-laureate?s group with a publication in ?Molecular Cell?

01.07.2019

"Led by Professor Magda Konarska from the International Research Agenda ReMedy and University of Warsaw?s Centre of New Technologies, the research group described its research findings in the Molecular Cell journal. The researchers provided a discussion of the changes in the catalytic centre of a...

Call for FNP experts ? the 17th round

28.06.2019

"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...

Ashes almost like diamonds ? researchers are looking to refine ashes and put them to use in various sectors of the economy

27.06.2019

"Fly ashes are among the coal combustion products (CCPs) which are harmful to the environment. Researchers from three Polish universities are searching for innovative methods to process and safely use this type of waste. Their solutions are expected to contribute to a several-percent increase in...

Tech company founded by HOMING PLUS laureates

25.06.2019

"Prof. Tomasz Niedzielski and his team at the Department of Geoinformatics and Cartography at the University of Wrocław have developed a system for locating persons lost in open spaces. According to the team?s plans, in two years the system will be involved in saving lives during search...

Carotene sergeants and soldiers

07.06.2019

"Many compounds which are necessary to sustain life on Earth can exist in two forms. These are so-called enantiomers which, despite having the same chemical formula, are characterised by varied optical activity and, thereby, completely different biological effects. Nowadays, more and more...

Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Scholarship: call for application

06.06.2019

"We are pleased to inform you that registration of applications in this year?s edition of the Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship programme has begun. We encourage Polish researchers to register their candidates ? German scientists who want to conduct research at a Polish research unit of their...

Michał Parniak, ardent windsurfer

30.05.2019

"When he is practising his moves on a surfboard equipped with a sail, light to him is not a wave, only rays of sunshine heating up his skin. But in his everyday work, instead of catching rays on his wind board, Michał Parniak, who has won distinction for his scientific achievements in the 2019...

Agata Perlińska: A fruitful combination of biology and IT

28.05.2019

"There are antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing serious illnesses. To stay alive, many of these bacteria require proteins entangled in nodes or ?knots.? These knots, like a loop of line in mountain climbing, stabilize and reinforce the molecules. But Agata Perlińska, a laureate of the 2019 START...

2019 START stipends awarded

27.05.2019

"The award ceremony for this year?s laureates of the START programme was held on Saturday, 25 May 2019, at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. Stipends were awarded to the most talented young researchers from all over Poland who won this year?s competition in the START programme. ?Diamonds are...

Call for FNP experts ? the 16th round