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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...

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...

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