Sixty-nine researchers joined the ranks of the winners of the tenth edition of NCN’s small grant initiative. Their research will include studies on novel drug delivery systems for antifungal therapy, the architectural accessibility of historic buildings for people with special needs, and the mechanical properties of aluminium alloys. The current results apply to proposals submitted in April.

Natalia Matiaszczyk, a PhD student at the University of Lodz and an OPUS 30 grant recipient, studies how cities engage in memory politics – through monuments, museums and relations with local authorities abroad. We talk to her about how cities tell their own versions of history in our #rozmowaNCN series.

The National Science Centre plans to launch new calls in cooperation with the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), which will give Polish researchers the opportunity to obtain funding for bilateral projects carried out jointly with partners from Spain.

Is your project interdisciplinary? What do the application limits imply? What are the funding rules? You can find the answers to these and many other questions in our Q&A section for the GRIEG BIS and C&C Kick-off calls.

Polish researchers might soon be able to cooperate with research teams from Spain and have their cooperation funded. The National Science Centre has started preparations for new calls for proposals in collaboration with Agencia Estatal de Investigación.

Karolina Safarzyńska, the next researcher in the series, investigates why efforts to bring emissions down are failing despite ever tighter climate policies – and looks for the answer in the way people influence each other.

We are pleased to announce the results of OPUS 30+LAP/Weave for projects carried out in bilateral or trilateral collaboration with research teams from Austria and Czechia. The total budget for the Polish part is over PLN 43.6 million.

Another 78 researchers have joined the group of MINIATURA 10 grantees, who will carry out preliminary studies, conduct library and archive searches, or go on research visits. We present the results for proposals submitted in March.