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Foundation for Polish Science positively evaluated by experts from the European Commission
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19.04.2019
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In March 2019 experts from the European Commission conducted an audit of the correctness of FNP?s implementation of the European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The evaluation was positive and the Foundation?s distinction of HR Excellence...
Call for FNP experts ? round 15
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18.04.2019
"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...
Laureate of FNP programmes involved in groundbreaking astrophysics project
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18.04.2019
"Dr Maciej Wielgus, a laureate of FNP?s VENTURES and START programmes, is a member of the team of astronomers who presented the first photo of a black hole. The photo was taken through eight telescopes forming a ?virtual telescope? as large as the Earth.
The photo was presented at six press...
Joining forces to diagnose leukaemia faster and better
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17.04.2019
"Polish researchers are proposing an innovative leukaemia diagnostic method to foster relapse prevention. To proceed with developing a specialised diagnostic device, they have just been granted a funding of PLN 26 million as part of the TEAM-NET programme run by the Foundation for Polish...
TEAM-NET ? competition results update
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16.04.2019
"We are pleased to announce that the number of projects to be co-funded has increased due to a change in allocation for the TEAM-NET 1/4.4/2018 competition.
Applications for the TEAM-NET competition could be submitted by research establishments for the establishing of cooperation networks to...
Researchers from three academic centres determined to cure congenital immune deficiencies
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08.04.2019
"Researchers from three academic centres, supervised by Prof. Wojciech Młynarski from the Medical University of Lodz, want to develop an innovative cellular therapy to cure congenital immune deficiencies. The research project has received co-funding from the Foundation for Polish Science as part...
Artificial Intelligence getting smarter thanks to Polish scientists
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02.04.2019
"The development of innovative artificial neural networks is the objective of a research project supervised by Prof. Jacek Tabor from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków which has just received funding as part of the TEAM-NET competition organised by the Foundation for Polish...
TEAM-NET competition results
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19.03.2019
"The Foundation for Polish Science announced the results of the first TEAM-NET competition. Five projects received grants with a total value of over PLN 105 m.
Research units which took part in the TEAM-NET competition could receive grants for developing a network of collaborating research...
Publication in PNAS by the team of Prof. Jacek Radwan, laureate of FNP programmes
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18.03.2019
" The results of research by the team of Prof. Jacek Radwan from the Faculty of Biology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, a laureate of FNP?s MISTRZ/MASTER and International PhD Projects programmes, have been published in the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Call for FNP experts ? round 14
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14.03.2019
"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...
Unraveling the molecular mysteries of neurodegenerative diseases
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05.03.2019
"An International team of researchers - including winners of Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) programmes -based at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB) from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, has cracked the atomic structure of an important cellular ?bodyguard?. The Elp3...
You can?t see it but you detect it: START laureate explores unconscious facial recognition
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25.02.2019
"Every waking moment a huge quantity of different stimuli reach our senses: sounds, smells, objects within our field of vision. But our capacity for attention is limited, so we consciously process only a small portion of them. What happens to stimuli that reach our senses but don?t gain access to...
Hearts from a 3D printer help treat patients: Dr Mateusz Hołda
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22.02.2019
"Half of us have a secret pouch in their heart that may lead to strokes. How and why does this pouch develop? How can it be detected? This was described by Dr Mateusz Hołda and his team, called ?HEART,? one of the top three teams in the world comprehensively studying cardiac anatomy.
In 2017,...
Call for FNP experts ? round 13
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14.02.2019
"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...
START laureate on Forbes list
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13.02.2019
"Dr Mateusz Hołda, 2017 START programme laureate, cofounder and director of the HEART research team at the Jagiellonian University Medical College, is one of the Europeans under age 30, leaders in their fields, included in the ?30 under 30? list published by the American magazine...
TEAM laureate?s group discovers new possibilities for photomagnetic 3D recording
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07.02.2019
"The results of research by an international team of physicists led by Dr Andrzej Stupakiewicz, a professor in the Department of Physics of Magnetism, Faculty of Physics, University of Białystok, and laureate of the TEAM programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, have been published in the...
Poles have solved a research problem of carbon nanomaterials, says Dr Dawid Janas, START programme laureate
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04.02.2019
"Poles have solved a research problem of carbon materials in laboratories all over the world by resorting to a method from over 150 years ago. The concept was described in Scientific Reports. Dr Dawid Janas, a laureate of the 2017 START programme and chemist at the Silesian University of...
Call for FNP experts ? the twelfth round
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30.01.2019
"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...
Winners announced for the Poland-wide IRAP competition
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28.01.2019
"The Foundation for Polish Science has announced the winners of the latest edition of the Poland-wide competition as part of the International Research Agendas (IRAP) programme.
Out of 16 applications one project has been selected as the winner of the 10/2018 competition. Professor Maciej...