Applications for the Programme Managers? Academy (PMA) are being accepted until 24 September 2013. The aim of this programme, implemented as part of the SKILLS* project, is to improve grant and stipend programme management skills and develop closer cooperation between science managers in Poland.
We encourage employees from the research and development sector to apply, especially employees of National Center for Research and Development and also National Science Center and employees of other institutions working for the benefit of science, as set down in the Act on the Principles of Financing Science.
The Academy offers training courses, seminars, and workshops taught by leading experts from Poland and abroad as well as international study visits and traineeships at leading institutions that finance scientific research in other countries. Classes in the Academy programme are held in English.
The Academy programme covers:
- project assessment and selection systems,
- science and higher education as well as research policies in Poland and other countries,
- intellectual property, commercialization of research results, and technology transfer,
- grant programme management,
- monitoring and evaluation,
- ethics in science.
For more information, please visit the Programme Managers? Academy website.
*The SKILLS project is co-financed with European Union funding from the European Social Fund.