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Another round of FNP competitions is under way

01.08.2017
"Today, the Foundation for Polish Science is launching five new competitions, with a total of PLN 67 million offered to scientists for research and development projects. The deadline for submitting applications is 2 October 2017. Grants for conducting research in Poland are being made available...

Dates of calls for applications in the Smart Growth Operational Programme

27.07.2017
"See the dates of calls for applications under FNP programmes co-financed within the framework of the Smart Growth Operational Programme The nearest application rounds for the FIRST TEAM, HOMING, POWROTY, TEAM-TECH Core Facility and TEAM-TECH Core Facility Plus programmes will be open from 1...

The Foundation?s Annual Report

25.07.2017
"We present the FNP Annual Report which outlines the Foundation?s work in 2016. Similarly to previous years, it contains an account of our statutory activity in 2016 together with financial statements and an auditor?s opinion as well as a supplement presenting selected beneficiaries of FNP...

Free-floating planets in the Milky Way

24.07.2017
"For a long time scientists have predicted the existence of Earth-mass free-floating planets, ejected from their parent planetary systems and gravitationally unbound to any star. Polish astronomers working at the OGLE survey at the Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory for the first time...

Winners of the third FIRST TEAM competition announced

21.07.2017
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has selected the winners of the third FIRST TEAM competition aimed at supporting young PhD holders in setting up their first research teams. Thirteen young scientists have been awarded grants totalling PLN 25.6 million. The FIRST TEAM programme supports...

Agreement signed for development of Cambridge Polish Studies

18.07.2017
"The Polish studies centre at the University of Cambridge, launched in 2014 thanks to the initiative and financial support of the Foundation for Polish Science, has received an endowment from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education ensuring its continued operation. An agreement on the...

Second competition for the Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship begins

17.07.2017
"The Foundation for Polish Science announces the second competition in the Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship programme for outstanding philosophers and intellectual historians. The aim of the fellowship is to recognize scholars who early in their career can demonstrate outstanding...

FNP laureates publish in prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society

11.07.2017
"Winners of Foundation for Polish Science programmes from the Wrocław University of Technology, in cooperation with American researchers, have developed a new method for parallel imaging of the activity of enzymes. The results of the research have just been published in the prestigious Journal of...

New chemotherapy strategy for treating pancreatic cancer

07.07.2017
"A work co-authored by Wojciech Fendler from the Medical University of Łódź, a winner in FIRST TEAM and many other FNP programmes, is published in the latest issue of Nature Communications. The article, ?Compensatory Metabolic Networks in Pancreatic Cancers Upon Perturbation of Glutamine...

BLAPs - a new class of pulsating stars

27.06.2017
"Thanks to regular brightness measurements of over a billion stars of our Galaxy, astronomers working at The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) at Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland, have discovered an unknown class of pulsating variable stars. Follow-up observations...

Winners of TEAM, TEAM-TECH and TEAM-TECH Core Facility competitions announced

14.06.2017
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has selected the winners of third TEAM and TEAM-TECH competitions and the second TEAM-TECH Core Facility competition. Twenty-one scientists will receive over PLN 72 million for innovative research financed by the FNP from the Smart Growth Operational...

Winners of TEAM, TEAM-TECH and TEAM-TECH Core Facility competitions announced

14.06.2017
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has selected the winners of third TEAM and TEAM-TECH competitions and the second TEAM-TECH Core Facility competition. Twenty-one scientists will receive over PLN 72 million for innovative research financed by the FNP from the Smart Growth Operational...

Where to Look for New Treatments for Alcoholism? A new study of FNP laureates

05.06.2017
"A new study in Biological Psychiatry may pave the way for treating alcohol addiction by reducing motivation to drink, rather than by altering the effects of alcohol itself. Led by Drs. Katarzyna Radwańska (a.o. KOLUMB and POMOST laureate) and Leszek Kaczmarek (a.o. the FNP Prize, MISTRZ/MASTER,...

100 of the most talented young Polish scientists awarded

30.05.2017
"Nearly PLN 3 million was awarded to 100 of the most talented young Polish scientists, winners of the 25th START competition of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP). They received their award certificates on Saturday, 27 May 2017, at a ceremony at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The special...

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