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New FNP programmes: Info Day

"The Foundation for Polish Science cordially invites interested persons to attend an informational meeting about new support programmes for researchers and firms which the Foundation will pursue using funds from the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014?2020 (Measure 4.4, Increasing human...

Applications open for MIT Enterprise Forum Poland competition

"MIT Enterprise Forum Poland invites young researchers and tech startups to participate in its technology accelerator startup competition. Applications for the program will be accepted until 23 January 2016. The purpose of the program is to support startups and young researchers on the path...

Christmas greetings

"Warmest wishes for the Holiday Season and a prosperous New Year. All the team at Foundation for Polish Science

FNP winners honoured for commercialization of research results

"We are pleased to report that winners of several of the Foundation?s competitions, including Dr Michał Bieniek, Prof. Piotr Garstecki and others, have been named ?Very Important Polish Innovators? in recognition of their success at commercialization of research results. Among the group of 11...

2015 Foundation for Polish Science Prizes Awarded

"The awards ceremony for the Foundation for Polish Science Prizes was held on 2 December 2015 at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. Prizes were awarded to Prof. Jerzy Jedlicki from the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, winner of the Prize in the humanities and social...

Changes in the ?Ideas for Poland? programme

"We hereby announce that in connection with launch of the ?Premia na Horyzoncie? programme planned by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Foundation will no longer consider applications for the ?Ideas for Poland? programme filed by winners of competitions for ERC Starting Grants...

Invitation to seminar on intersectoral mobility of researchers

"We cordially invite you to participate in a seminar entitled ?Intersectoral mobility of researchers,? organized by the Foundation as part of the SKILLS* project. The event will be held on Friday, 20 November 2015, from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm at the FNP headquarters, ul. Krasickiego 20/22,...

FNP launches International Research Agendas programme

"We are pleased to announce that the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has signed an agreement with the intermediary institution?the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR)?for implementation of the grant project International Research Agendas, as part of Measure 4.3 of the Smart...

First Generation of Stars in the Center of the Milky Way

"An international group of researchers with major involvement of FNP's beneficiaries - astronomers from the Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory based large-scale sky survey OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) led by Prof. Andrzej Udalski - announced a discovery in the center...

Breakthrough in retina imaging

"Researchers from Toruń, Poland, and Cleveland, Ohio, led by FNP Prize laureates Prof. Maciej Wojtkowski and Prof. Krzysztof Palczewski, have developed a revolutionary system for imaging of the retina of a living animal, where one of the optical elements used is the lens of the eye that is being...

FNP Prize 2015 Recipients Chosen

"The Foundation for Polish Science has for the 24th time granted its FNP Prizes, considered to be Poland?s most important scientific awards. The winners are three leading Polish researchers: Prof. Stanisław Penczek, Prof. Kazimierz Rzążewski and Prof. Jerzy Jedlicki. The FNP Prizes are awarded...

"On Mentoring and Coaching in Science" Conference

"Please join us at the conference "On Mentoring and Coaching in Science", organised jointly by the Foundation for Polish Science and SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. The conference will take place on 5 November 2015 from 9.15 am to 5.45 pm at SWPS, ul. Chodakowska 19/31,...

Continued success for FNP winners

"We are proud to report that in October, winners of FNP programmes went on to receive numerous other prestigious awards for distinguished scientific achievements. Here are a few of them. Polityka weekly has named five winners of the Polityka Science Awards. In the 15th edition of the awards,...

Sabbatical Fellowships for MASTER/MISTRZ winners?applications open

"Winners of the MASTER/MISTRZ programme who have completed implementation of their project can now apply for a sabbatical fellowship for a stay at a selected foreign institution. Applications will be accepted from now until 11 January 2016. A fellowship of up to ? 5,500 per month may be awarded...

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