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FNP laureate wins ERC Starting Grant for fighting cancer

26.08.2016
"Magdalena Król, an associate professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), an FNP laureate, has won a prestigious ERC grant in the fight against cancer. Prof. Magdalena Król, two-time winner in the FNP START programme and a winner in the FNP...

Success of FNP laureate in research on soft-tissue cancer in children

24.08.2016
"Polish researchers?including Dr Maciej Cieśla, two-time awardee of an FNP VENTURES grant?have described a mechanisms leading to development of the most common soft tissue malignancy in children?rhabdomyosarcoma. Findings of their study just published in the Cancer Research suggest that it may be...

HOMING laureate wins prestigious ERC grant

24.08.2016
"We are happy to report that Dr Marcin Pilipczuk of the Institute of Informatics at the University of Warsaw, a winner in FNP?s first HOMING programme, has received a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. The grant awarded to Dr Pilipczuk is for over EUR 1.2...

Note! Updated list of National Smart Specialisations

22.08.2016
"Please be informed that an updated list of the National Smart Specialisations came into effect in July 2016. Scientists who submit their applications in the second competition under the FIRST TEAM, HOMING and POWROTY programmes announced on 12. August this year are kindly requested to read...

Star Caught Exploding out of Hibernation - new discovery of Polish astronomers

18.08.2016
"Astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw have discovered an extremely interesting nova. The results of the study have been published in the latest issue of the prestigious scientific journal NATURE. The co-authors of the publication include many laureates of FNP...

Results of the first competition in the FIRST TEAM programme

22.07.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has decided the first competition in the FIRST TEAM programme, which is aimed at funding the first research teams led by PhDs at an early stage of their scientific career pursuing research of groundbreaking scientific or commercial importance. Thanks to...

First competition in TEAM programme decided

14.07.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has announced the results of the first competition in the TEAM programme, which is aimed at funding teams of researchers led by distinguished scientists from all over the world pursuing groundbreaking scientific research. There were 68 projects submitted...

Winners of first TEAM-TECH competition announced

12.07.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has announced the results of the first competition in the TEAM-TECH programme, in which grants are awarded to research teams to conduct R&D work on development of technologies or products based on scientific discoveries. There were 38 projects...

First competition decided in International Research Agendas programme

28.06.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science has decided the first open competition in the International Research Agendas programme. The winning project was submitted by Prof. Tomasz Dietl and Prof. Tomasz Wojtowicz from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. They will receive...

The Foundation for Polish Science is 25 years old

20.06.2016
"Over 10,000 individual stipends, grants and prizes, over 300 research teams hiring young researchers, and more than PLN 928 million invested in Polish science and scientists: these are the totals achieved in the first 25 years by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), the largest...

NOTICE! New deadline for filing applications in TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes

14.06.2016
"We hereby announce that the deadline for filing applications for competitions in the TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes has been extended to Friday, 24 June 2016, at 4:00 pm. After completion of the application form according to the competition documentation and adding all the required enclosures in...

Gala finals of Innovators Under 35 Poland competition

14.06.2016
"The second edition of the Innovators Under 35 Poland competition will be decided soon! The names of the 10 winners will be announced at the gala finals celebration on 28 June 2016 in Warsaw. Two of the 10 finalists will receive the additional titles of Innovator of the Year and Social...

The COPERNICUS Prize 2016 Awarded

07.06.2016
"The COPERNICUS Polish-German Scientific Award ceremony was held on Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at the Palace on the Isle in Warsaw?s Royal Łazienki Park. In the 6th edition, the award was presented by the president of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Prof. Peter Strohschneider, and the president of...

New Foundation Council Appointed

07.06.2016
"Due to the expiration of the four-year term in office of the FNP Council, spanning 2012-2016, a new Council was appointed last week, on 2 June. The official presentation of appointments, which took place at the Foundation?s headquarters, was attended by Prof. Leszek Sirko, PhD habil.,...

Sabbatical Fellowships 2015 Awarded

03.06.2016
"The Foundation has chosen the winners of the fourth competition for sabbatical fellowships that are offered to beneficiaries of the MISTRZ/MASTER programme. The fellowships are granted to scientists for a period of sabbatical leave to be spent conducting research at a leading international...

Polityka History Prize for two-time winner of FNP START programme

13.05.2016
"We are pleased to report that Jan Olaszek, a two-time winner of FNP?s START programme, has received the Polityka History Prize for his book Rewolucja powielaczy. Niezależny ruch wydawniczy w Polsce 1976?1989 (Mimeograph Revolution: The Independent Printing Movement in Poland 1976?1989). The book...

Dr Dmitri Levitin wins Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship

04.05.2016
"The winner of the first Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship, awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science, is Dr Dmitri Levitin from the University of Oxford, a researcher in the fields of intellectual history and the history of philosophy. Dr Dmitri Levitin is a graduate of the University of...

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