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Second competition for the Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship begins

17.07.2017
"The Foundation for Polish Science announces the second competition in the Leszek Kołakowski Honorary Fellowship programme for outstanding philosophers and intellectual historians. The aim of the fellowship is to recognize scholars who early in their career can demonstrate outstanding...

FNP laureates publish in prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society

11.07.2017
"Winners of Foundation for Polish Science programmes from the Wrocław University of Technology, in cooperation with American researchers, have developed a new method for parallel imaging of the activity of enzymes. The results of the research have just been published in the prestigious Journal of...

New chemotherapy strategy for treating pancreatic cancer

07.07.2017
"A work co-authored by Wojciech Fendler from the Medical University of Łódź, a winner in FIRST TEAM and many other FNP programmes, is published in the latest issue of Nature Communications. The article, ?Compensatory Metabolic Networks in Pancreatic Cancers Upon Perturbation of Glutamine...

BLAPs - a new class of pulsating stars

27.06.2017
"Thanks to regular brightness measurements of over a billion stars of our Galaxy, astronomers working at The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) at Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland, have discovered an unknown class of pulsating variable stars. Follow-up observations...

Winners of TEAM, TEAM-TECH and TEAM-TECH Core Facility competitions announced

14.06.2017
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has selected the winners of third TEAM and TEAM-TECH competitions and the second TEAM-TECH Core Facility competition. Twenty-one scientists will receive over PLN 72 million for innovative research financed by the FNP from the Smart Growth Operational...

Winners of TEAM, TEAM-TECH and TEAM-TECH Core Facility competitions announced

14.06.2017
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has selected the winners of third TEAM and TEAM-TECH competitions and the second TEAM-TECH Core Facility competition. Twenty-one scientists will receive over PLN 72 million for innovative research financed by the FNP from the Smart Growth Operational...

Where to Look for New Treatments for Alcoholism? A new study of FNP laureates

05.06.2017
"A new study in Biological Psychiatry may pave the way for treating alcohol addiction by reducing motivation to drink, rather than by altering the effects of alcohol itself. Led by Drs. Katarzyna Radwańska (a.o. KOLUMB and POMOST laureate) and Leszek Kaczmarek (a.o. the FNP Prize, MISTRZ/MASTER,...

100 of the most talented young Polish scientists awarded

30.05.2017
"Nearly PLN 3 million was awarded to 100 of the most talented young Polish scientists, winners of the 25th START competition of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP). They received their award certificates on Saturday, 27 May 2017, at a ceremony at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The special...

2017 START stipends awarded

12.05.2017
"For the 25th year, the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has awarded the START stipends to the most talented young scientists from all over Poland. This year 100 young researchers received START stipends. The annual stipend is worth PLN 28,000, and the total amount of START stipends awarded by...

Another round of FNP competitions is under way

20.04.2017
"Today, the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is opening successive competitions in its TEAM, TEAM-TECH and TEAM-TECH Core Facility programmes, as well as launching a new programme ? TEAM-TECH Core Facility PLUS. A total of PLN 95 million is being made available in all the competitions....

Sabbatical Fellowships for MASTER/MISTRZ winners?application deadline

14.04.2017
"Winners of the MASTER/MISTRZ programme who have completed implementation of their project can apply for a sabbatical fellowship for a stay at a selected foreign institution. Applications will be accepted until 25 April 2017. A fellowship of up to ? 5,500 per month may be awarded for a period...

Happy Easter!

12.04.2017
"We wish you a Happy Easter! The Foundation for Polish Science Team

START winners to meet Nobel laureates in Lindau

27.03.2017
"Four of last year?s winners in FNP?s START programme will meet in Lindau, Germany, with Nobel Prize winners and several hundred young scientists from all over the world. The theme of this year?s event will be chemistry. This year?s 67th running of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will be...

International Research Agendas ? webinar for applicants

24.03.2017
"The Foundation for Polish Science cordially invites you to take part in a webinar regarding the practical dimension of the application process for FNP?s International Research Agenda Programme (IRAP). The main aim of the IRAP is to enable the creation of highly specialised and independent...

Alexander von Humboldt fellows named

13.03.2017
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has named the winners of the 20th competition for the Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Fellowship. In the programme, two distinguished professors from Germany will carry out a six-month research visit to Poland. The laureates of the 20th...

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