What is the secret behind the evolutionary explosion in the cognitive and computational capacity of the human brain? Astrocytes may hold the key to this fascinating riddle. Apart from their nutritive function, astrocytes also play a central role in the… read more
Today, 12 national research funding organisations, with the support of Science Europe, launch Weave, a cross-European initiative to fund and support excellent international research projects. It is the first… czytaj dalej
The results of the POLS call, co-funded from the Norway Grants, are now in. Foreign researchers will receive more than 30.5 million PLN in funding for research projects to be carried out in Polish… czytaj dalej
We have just announced the second edition of the SHENG call for Polish-Chinese research projects and the fifth SONATINA call for research projects carried out by… czytaj dalej
As of today, the composition of the NCN Council has changed. Twelve professors have been newly appointed as members and will sit on the Council from 15 December 2020 until 14 December 2024. They include eight new… czytaj dalej
We are pleased to inform you that the CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe) consortium will soon announce a call for international research projects: Transformations: social and cultural dynamics in the digital age. The… czytaj dalej
We are pleased to inform you that a new CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe) programme supporting research in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences will be launched at the beginning of 2021. It will be implemented by 27… czytaj dalej
We are pleased to announce that a member of the NCN Council, Dr hab. Justyna Olko from the Faculty of Artes Liberales of Warsaw University, has just won a prestigious Consolidator Grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC). The researcher was… czytaj dalej
The EU Joint Programme - Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) will shortly launch a new multinational call for proposals for "Linking pre-diagnosis disturbances of physiological systems to Neurodegenerative Diseases“.
The call for proposals is… czytaj dalej
120 researchers from all over the world will relocate to Poland under a continuation of the POLONEZ programme. The National Science Centre will launch three consecutive calls in 2021 and 2022.
Successful candidates will move to Poland for 24 months to… czytaj dalej
We are pleased to announce that four projects involving Polish research teams have been awarded funding in the call launched by the CHIST-ERA network - European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences &… czytaj dalej
For almost ten years of NCN’s operation, the members of the NCN Council appointed to support high-quality research in Poland and create transparent standards for research funding have taken good care to make sure that funding decisions are taken primarily… czytaj dalej