Autumn Launch of OPUS 30+LAP/Weave

15 September 2025, the OPUS 30+LAP/Weave call for research projects will be launched. The autumn edition of the OPUS call will include proposals for research projects carried out in international collaboration pursuant to the Lead Agency Procedure (LAP) under the Weave programme. 

OPUS 30 LAP collaboration under the Weave programme

In 2025, the National Science Centre has cooperated with:

• the Austrian Science Fund (FWF),
• the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR ),
• the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS),
• the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF),
• the German Research Foundation  (DFG),
• the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), and
• the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) from Belgium-Flanders.

The NCN as the lead agency under OPUS 30 will perform a merit-based evaluation of OPUS LAP funding proposals for research projects carried out in bilateral or trilateral cooperation by research teams from Poland, Austria, Czechia, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, Luxembourg or Belgium-Flanders under the Weave programme. If a project is recommended for funding, the NCN will finance Polish research teams, while foreign research teams will be funded by foreign partners.

Proposal Development

The OPUS 30 call is open to OPUS LAP proposals:

• drafted by Polish research teams in collaboration with foreign research teams pursuant to the OPUS 30 Call Text published on the NCN page on 15 September 2025,
• in any academic discipline covered by NCN panels,
• for basic research projects that have not been funded by the NCN or from other sources,
• involving scientific collaboration based on balanced and complementary contribution of all research teams that seek parallel funding of the projects from their respective research-funding agencies under the Weave programme, which means that the contribution of each team involved in the project is significant and necessary, and their respective tasks complement one another to create a coherent joint research project. OPUS LAP proposals that do not meet that requirement must not be recommended for funding.

Polish research teams submit their OPUS LAP proposals via the OSF submission system. The submission deadline is 15 December 2025, 2 pm. Foreign research teams involved in a project within the framework of Weave cooperation must also submit a funding proposal, including a set of required documents, to its respective research-funding agency, by the date and according to the terms specified thereby. If a partner institution requires applicants to submit a copy of the OPUS LAP proposals to its respective submission system, a complete English language version of the OPUS LAP proposal in PDF format must be generated following submission of the OPUS LAP proposal to the OSF submission system, and sent to the foreign research team. OPUS LAP proposals submitted to the NCN and partner institutions must be identical.