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Foundation for Polish Science co-organizes Copernicus Festival

04.05.2016
"The third edition of the Copernicus Festival will be held on 17?22 May 2016 in Kraków - devoted this year to the phenomenon of beauty. The subject of reflections during this year?s festival will be the beauty of the universe and nature, beauty in science, art and literature, beauty as a criterion...

Second call for applications in TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes

04.05.2016
"As of today, leading researchers from all over the world may apply for grants to conduct innovative research under the TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes that the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is implementing with funding from the Smart Development Operational Programme (PO IR). Funding is made...

START 2016 stipends awarded

28.04.2016
"For the 24th time, the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has awarded START stipends to the most talented young scientists throughout Poland. This year stipends will go to 121 young researchers. The amount of each annual stipend is PLN 28,000, and the total amount earmarked by the Foundation for...

New calls for applications in the TEAM and TEAM-TECH programmes ? briefing

26.04.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is pleased to invite you to a briefing on the TEAM* and TEAM-TECH* programmes, which are intended for scientists from Poland and other countries who hold at least a doctoral degree and plan to carry out R&D projects that fall within the scope of the...

FNP Beneficiary Among Winners of FameLab Poland 2016 Competition

21.04.2016
"The winners of this year?s FameLab popularization competition for scientists, of which the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is a partner, have been announced. Among them is Paweł Jarosław Mazurkiewicz (a winner of the FNP?s eNgage competition), whose fascinating story about ants won him the...

Nomination deadline for ?Innovators Under 35? competition extended

31.03.2016
"We kindly inform that deadline for submitting nominations for prestigious competition Innovators Under 35 got extended until 26 April 2016. The Foundation for Polish Science is one of the partners of the competition. The competition is organized by MIT Technology Review, the oldest tech...

FNP laureate wins prestigious ERC Advanced Grant

30.03.2016
"Prof. Grzegorz Pietrzyński has received an ERC Advanced Grant worth nearly EUR 2.4 million for implementation of the project ?A sub-percent distance scale from binaries and Cepheids.? This is the next stage of research seeking to determine the famous Hubble Constant, which defines the rate of...

FNP winner honoured in L?Oréal-UNESCO international competition

29.03.2016
"Dr Bernadeta Szewczyk, a neurobiologist from the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, was recognized in the L?Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science competition in the category of International Rising Talents. Dr Bernadeta Szewczyk, a winner in the START and POMOST/BRIDGE...

Registration has begun for the Polish Scientific Networks conference

25.03.2016
"An international conference entitled ?Polish Scientific Networks: Science and Business? will be held on 30 June - 2 July 2016 at the EIT+ Wrocław Research Centre. The conference is jointly organized by the Club of Foundation for Polish Science Scholars, the Academy of Young Researchers of the...

Copernicus Award 2016 announced

24.03.2016
"Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska of the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw and Prof. Peter Rehling of the University Medical Centre in Göttingen have been named the winners of the 6th edition of the Nicolaus Copernicus Polish-German Research Award, given jointly by the...

FNP laureates named to the FameLab finals on 16 April 2016

24.03.2016
"The finals of the 5th edition of the FameLab Poland science communications competition, organized by the British Council and the Copernicus Science Centre, will be held on 16 April 2016 at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. The 10 charismatic scientists who qualified for the finals include...

FNP?s TEAM POIG and WELCOME programmes highly rated by international experts

22.03.2016
"Experts evaluated the quality and usefulness of the research conducted in the TEAM POIG and WELCOME programmes of the Foundation for Polish Science. They found that most of the projects they examined met very high global scientific standards. An international group of experts assessed the TEAM...

Laureates of A. von Humboldt Honorary Scholarship

18.03.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Sciences has selected the beneficiaries of the Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to outstanding active German scholars with the highest qualifications and a significant contribution to global research, as recognition...

FNP winners to meet Nobel laureates in Lindau

04.03.2016
"Four of last year?s winners in the START programme of the Foundation for Polish Science - talented young physicists - will meet in Lindau, Germany, this year with Nobel Prize winners and several hundred other young researchers from around the world. The main topic of the event this year will be...

Cambridge Polish Studies: An investment in Poland?s image abroad

19.02.2016
"Cambridge Polish Studies, established in 2014 through the efforts of groups including the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), is one of the few autonomous centres in the world offering the possibility to learn about Poland. Although the programme has achieved success within less than two years...

FNP partners with the prestigious ?Innovators Under 35? competition

17.02.2016
"The Foundation for Polish Science has become a partner of the 2nd Polish edition of the prestigious competition ?Innovators Under 35.? The competition is organized by MIT Technology Review, the oldest tech magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The competition recognizes...

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