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"Nauka dla innowacji" ("Science for Innovation") ? a series of podcasts with the winners of the International Research Agendas programme

21.02.2023

"Join us for a series of podcasts entitled "Nauka dla innowacji" ("Science for Innovation") featuring outstanding Polish scientists, winners of the International Research Agendas programme run by the Foundation for Polish Science and financed by European funds from the Smart Growth Operational...

FNP signs "Agreement on reforming research assessment"

14.02.2023

"FNP has joined the European Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) and has become one of the signatories of ?The Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment?. The coalition was launched in September 2022 with the aim of working together to improve research assessment...

FNP Funds New Polish-Ukrainian Scientific Projects

02.02.2023

"The Foundation for Polish Science has settled its second competition for the best Polish-Ukrainian research projects. As part of the FOR UKRAINE programme initiated in March 2022 aimed at supporting scientists from Ukraine cooperating with scientists from Poland, the FNP has selected three more...

Papers by winners of FNP programmes in Science Advances

31.01.2023

"Researchers of the Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, and the Max Planck Research Group of the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, carried out a joint research project aimed at understanding photosynthetic processes...

Groundbreaking research by a laureate of the Foundation for Polish Science in the pages of "Nucleic Acids Research"

17.01.2023

"Researchers at the Jagiellonian University's Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB/UJ) have extended our knowledge of the protein structure of the Elongator complex with their latest work. The groundbreaking research was carried out by the Max Planck Research Group led by dr hab. Sebastian...

Polish scientists, laureates of FNP programmes, develop new method of writing holographic 3D images

30.12.2022

"A new method of writing holographic 3D images has been developed jointly by scientists from the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Bialystok. Their paper was published in Nature Communications. The method uses an opto-magnetic medium with a...

Laureates of A. von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Fellowship

22.12.2022

"The Foundation for Polish Sciences has selected the beneficiaries of the Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Fellowship. This scholarship is awarded to outstanding active German scholars in order to permit them to conduct scientific research at a selected institution in Poland. In...

Christmas greetings from Foundation for Polish Science

22.12.2022

"With Christmas greetings and best wishes for the New Year Foundation for Polish Science *** We support scientists from Ukraine. Join us.

Research services for business - invitation to webinar

19.12.2022

"We are happy to invite you to the webinar "Research Services for Business. Presentation session of the results of selected TEAM-TECH Core Facility projects". The webinar will take place on Monday 19 December 2022 at 12.00 pm. The following speakers will talk about their research, co-funded by...

How do European Funds support research and innovation? A series of online webinars on the latest developments from Polish laboratories

15.12.2022

"We would like to invite you to a series of online webinars "How European Funds Support Research and Innovation" organised by the Foundation for Polish Science. During the meetings, prominent scientists will present the latest research results in the field of green energy, medical diagnostics and...

Results of the latest research by Polish scientists on COVID-19 ? an invitation to a webinar

15.12.2022

"Polish researchers are the authors of cutting-edge research that has had a significant impact on developing tools to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. With the support of European Funds, scientists have developed several solutions that are important not only for limiting the spread of SARS-CoV-2 but...

FNP has become a member of the European Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment

12.12.2022

"FNP has joined the European Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), which was launched in September 2022 with the aim of working together to improve research assessment practices. The Coalition follows ?The Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment? which is being signed by...

31st FNP Prize: Award Ceremony Report

08.12.2022

"On December 7 at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, we held the award ceremony for the FNP Prize, considered the most important scientific award in Poland. The winners of this prestigious award this year included Professors Marcin Nowotny, Bartosz Grzybowski, and Adam Łajtar. A video recording of the...

"Science in times of transition" ? publication announcement

07.12.2022

"The publication "Science in times of transition. How EU-funded research is helping to protect us from global threats and take advantage of historic opportunites" will be launched soon. The publication will present scientific achievements supported by EU funds under the Intelligent Development...

Polish-French Science Award Presented

05.12.2022

"Professors Pierre Kervella of the Paris Observatory and Grzegorz Pietrzyński of the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw have received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie Polish-French Science Award from the Foundation for Polish Science and...

The 2022 FNP Prize Ceremony Broadcast

25.11.2022

"We kindly invite you to the broadcast of the 2022 FNP Prize ceremony, considered the most important scientific award in Poland. The ceremony will happen on December 7, 2022, from 4 to 6 p.m., and it will be broadcast on the FNP channel on YouTube. We will award the FNP Prize to the...

EMBO Programmes across Europe

09.11.2022

"Until the end of 2024, life scientists in or going to Poland can apply for the following EMBO Programmes. POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS Supporting internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers in Europe and around the world EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral...

The 2022 FNP Prizes Awarded

03.11.2022

"For the thirty-first time, the Foundation for Polish Science awarded its Prizes, which enjoy the reputation of the most important scientific distinction in Poland. The laureates are three outstanding scientists: Professors Marcin Nowotny, Bartosz Grzybowski, and Adam Łajtar. The FNP Prize...

The third Polish-German Science Meeting - great importance of German-Polish cooperation in science and research

28.10.2022

"DFG and partner organisations FNP and NCN organise third Polish-German Science Meeting in Berlin on the 27-28 of October. The current global political crises and their impact on science and research in Germany and Poland, as well as possible coping strategies, were the central topics at the...

Long COVID affects millions of people. Polish researchers on the trail of dangerous post-COVID syndrome

27.10.2022

"Scientists are getting closer to explaining the mystery of the so-called long COVID. The syndrome of prolonged symptoms, affecting people who have undergone infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, can concern up to almost half of all infected people. However, there is still no answer to the question...

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