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START 2019 laureates announced

09.05.2019
"The Foundation for Polish Science has for the 27th time awarded START stipends for the most talented young scientists from all over Poland. This year stipends will be received by 100 young researchers. The amount of each one-year stipend is PLN 28,000, and the total amount earmarked by the...

Competition launched for COPERNICUS Polish-German Research Award 2020

09.05.2019
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) invite nominations for the 8th competition for the COPERNICUS Award for distinguished Polish and German researchers. The aim of the award is to recognize distinguished scientists from Poland and Germany who have...

Polish researchers improve nanodiamond technologies

29.04.2019
" Four Polish research establishments join forces to work together on improving nanodiamond technologies used in, for instance, advanced medical diagnostics, electronics and optics. The Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw is acting as the Consortium Leader while the research is being...

Call for FNP experts ? round 15

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

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

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

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...

Artificial Intelligence getting smarter thanks to Polish scientists

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

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...

Call for FNP experts ? round 14

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

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...

Hearts from a 3D printer help treat patients: Dr Mateusz Hołda

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

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

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...

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