Goals

The award is intended to highlight the benefits flowing from Polish–French scientific cooperation. It is granted to two cooperating scientists from Poland and France in recognition of their joint research accomplishments contributing to the strengthening of scientific cooperation between the two countries.

Addressees

The most active participants in Polish–French scientific cooperation demonstrating distinguished research accomplishments resulting from that cooperation.

The competition is open to nominations covering the entire spectrum of scientific research.

Offer

The award is granted every two years on the basis of an open competition to a team of two researchers.

The laureates receive EUR 15,000 each, including an individual prize of EUR 5,000 and a grant of EUR 10,000 for continued scientific cooperation.

Procedure

The award is based on nominations. All active members of the Polish and French scientific community holding a doctoral degree can nominate a pair of candidates.  Self-nominations shall be considered.

The nomination must designate two scientists of any nationality, holding a doctoral degree, one working in Poland and one working in France.

The nomination should include:

• Acknowledgement of the joint scientific achievement(s) made by the two candidates thanks to Polish–French scientific cooperation as well as their future research projects (maximum 6 000 characters)
• List of up to 10 publications concerning the joint scientific achievement(s) indicated in the nomination
• Curricula vitae of both candidates
• One third party letter of support for the nominated pair of candidates; in case of self-nomination, two letters of support are required.

Nominations shall be submitted in English in electronic version via the FNP online database https://wnioski.fnp.org.pl.

The laureates of the award are selected by a Polish–French Jury appointed jointly by the Foundation for Polish Science and the French Académie des sciences.

CALL CLOSING DATE

The Polish-French Science Award is awarded through a competition every two years. The next round of the competition will be announced in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Contact

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  Joanna Jachimczuk-Lora

  Programme Officer

  +48 22 311 84 30, mobile: +48 604 129 878 jachimczuk@fnp.org.pl
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Additional info

The first Polish-French Scientific Award was granted in 2019. The award ceremony took place on February 28th, 2020 in Warsaw. Exceptionally two pairs of laureates were selected. The first competition was realised with the financial support of the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI).

Laureates

• [ Laureates 2022: Prof. Grzegorz Pietrzyński and Prof. Pierre Kervella ]
• [ Laureates 2019: dr hab. Marcin Szwed and prof. Laurent Cohen ]
• [ Laureates 2019: prof. Jakub Zakrzewski and dr hab. Dominique Delande ]