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The Competition for the Polish-American Scientific Award begins

"The Foundation for Polish Science together with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are launching the competition for their award promoting Polish-American scientific cooperation. The Polish-American Scientific Award will be granted to two researchers, one from Poland...

Winners named in FNP?s 18th MASTER/MISTRZ programme

"Seven distinguished scholars from the humanities and social sciences won professorial grants in the 18th edition of the MASTER/MISTRZ programme of the Foundation for Polish Science. They received a total of over PLN 2 million from the Foundation to pursue their research projects. The purpose...

Applications now accepted for the START programme

"We invite young scholars to file applications for the 2016 edition of the START programme. The START stipend is a distinction for the most talented young researchers, awarded in recognition of their achievements so far. In the competition for START stipends, the primary criteria are the...

Innovative Europe conference in October

"The Innovative Europe conference organised by the founders of the Coalition for Polish Innovations will be held on 27?28 October 2015 in Gdańsk. The conference will include debates about the future of innovation and a summary of the first six months of work by the coalition. The Foundation for...

FNP Beneficiaries Among Finalists of POLITYKA Science Awards

"We are pleased to inform you that the 15 finalists of Polityka weekly?s 15th Science Awards, announced on 9 September 2015 in the weekly, include seven beneficiaries of the Foundation for Polish Science?s programmes. In the humanities, the list of finalists includes: Jan Jakub Kwapisz, PhD...

2014 Annual Report of the Foundation for Polish Science

"We invite our readers to review the Annual Report of the Foundation for Polish Science, which includes financial statements as well as a presentation of the Foundation?s statutory activity and initiatives undertaken in 2014. The report answers such questions as: ? What programmes, domestic...

Unfolded protein response activated by mistargeting of mitochondrial proteins

"Mitochondrion is a cellular compartment commonly known as ?the power plant? of cells. To fulfill its various functions, these organelles need more than one thousand cellular proteins. Yet, the majority of mitochondrial proteins are synthesized outside mitochondria in the cytosol and thus must be...

Winners announced in the last edition of the IMPULS competition

"The Foundation for Polish Science has announced the results of the 4th and final edition of the IMPULS competition, organized as part of the SKILLS project.* Thanks to funding totalling PLN 880,000, the nine winners of the final competition will be able to realize innovative projects and research...

Top science popularizers honoured in the last INTER competition

"The grand finale of the 5th and final edition of the INTER science popularization competition, organized by the Foundation for Polish Science as part of the SKILLS project,* was held on 27 June 2015 at the Industrial Design Institute in Warsaw. Each of the ten finalists had five minutes to...

Destination Poland - live streaming

"We cordially invite to the live streaming of the event for foreign researchers Destination Poland - Scientific and Business Opportunities for Foreign Researchers. The meeting will start tomorrow, 17th of June, at 11.30. Live streaming will be made available on the FNP's Youtube channel. The...

The COPERNICUS Award - new deadline for hardcopy submission

"We kindly inform you that, due to strikes in German postal service, the deadline for the hardcopy of the nomination in the Polish ? German Scientific Award Copernicus programme is prolonged until 30 June 2015. The electronic version must be submitted until 15 June and the hardcopy of the document...

DESTINATION POLAND: conference for foreign researchers

"The Foundation for Polish Science invites foreign researchers to a conference entitled ?Destination Poland: Scientific and Business Opportunities for Foreign Researchers? which will be held on 17 June 2015 at the foundation?s headquarters. The purpose of the event is to encourage foreign...

The COPERNICUS Award 2016: two weeks left to nominate

"15 June 2015 is the deadline to submit applications in the sixth Polish-German COPERNICUS Award. Self-nominations shall be considered. The purpose of the award is to give a distinction to the researchers most active in Polish-German scientific cooperation who have made exceptional achievements...

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