OPUS Grants for Research Institutions in Poland

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The National Science Centre (the “NCN”) has launched the OPUS 26 LAP/Weave call for research projects. The call is open to proposals for research projects carried out in international bilateral or trilateral cooperation under the Weave Programme as well as projects carried out with the use of large international research equipment by the Polish research teams. The call is addressed at researchers at all stages of their academic careers, who are planning:

  • research projects without the participation of foreign partners (OPUS proposals),

EXAMPLEA research project carried out by a research team affiliated with a Polish institution.

  • research projects implemented by Polish research teams with the use of large international research equipment (OPUS proposals),

EXAMPLEA research project carried out by a research team affiliated with a Polish institution, using data from the Gaia space mission launched by the European Space Agency in 2013.

  • research projects with the participation of foreign partners that do not apply for funding for that purpose under the Weave programme (however, foreign teams may apply for funding under other research-funding programmes that are not co-launched by the NCN pursuant to the LAP under the Weave programme) (OPUS proposals),

EXAMPLE: A research project carried out by a research team affiliated with a Polish institution (applying for NCN funding of the Polish part of the research project), in partnership with Spanish partners that seek independent funding for the Spanish part of the project from other sources.

  • research projects in additional partnership with foreign partners that do not apply for funding for that purpose under the Weave programme and with additional use of large research equipment (OPUS proposals),

EXAMPLE: A research project carried out by a research team affiliated with a Polish institution (applying for NCN funding for the Polish part of the research project), using data from the Gaia space mission launched by the European Space Agency in 2013, in partnership with Spanish partners that seek independent funding for the Spanish part of the project from other sources.

  • research projects within the framework of LAP cooperation under the Weave programme, i.e., in cooperation with foreign research teams from the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg or Belgium-Flanders that seek parallel funding of the projects from their respective research-funding agencies under the Weave programme, i.e., to FWF, GAČR, ARIS, DFG, SNSF, FNR and FWO (OPUS LAP proposals),

EXAMPLE: A research project carried out by a research team affiliated with a Polish university (applying for NCN funding of the Polish part of the project) in partnership with a German research team that seek funding from the DFG within the framework of the Weave programme.

  • research projects within the framework of LAP cooperation under the Weave Programme, in partnership with foreign partners that do not seek funding for that purpose under the Weave Programme or with the additional use of large research equipment  (OPUS LAP proposals).

EXAMPLE: A research project carried out by a research team affiliated with a Polish institution (applying for NCN funding of the Polish part of the project) in partnership with a German research team applying for DFG funding within the framework of the Weave programme and in partnership with Spanish partners that seek independent funding for the Spanish part of the project from other sources.

PLEASE NOTE: International cooperation is not obligatory under the OPUS 26 call and proposals submitted in partnership with foreign partners will not be given preferential treatment over proposals submitted without such partnerships.

PLEASE NOTE: In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the NCN Council has decided that proposals submitted in response to NCN calls must not provide for any collaboration between Polish and Russian entities. Proposals providing for such collaboration will be rejected as ineligible.

The call budget amounts to 300,000,000 PLN.

Proposals must be submitted electronically via the OSF submission system available at https://osf.opi.org.pl, in compliance with the proposal submission procedure.

Submission deadline for proposals in the OSF submission system: 15 December 2023, 4 p.m..

PLEASE NOTE: OPUS LAP proposals drafted by a Polish research team in partnership with foreign research teams must be submitted to the NCN via the OSF submission system by 15 December 2023, at 4 p.m.. Each foreign research team involved in a project must also submit a funding proposal, including a set of required documents, to its respective research-funding agency, by the date and in accordance with the terms and conditions specified thereby.

Proposals are submitted as follows:

  • research teams from Austria: to the FWF;
  • research teams the Czech Republic: to the GAČR;
  • research teams from Slovenia: to the ARIS;
  • research teams from Germany: to the DFG;
  • research teams from Switzerland: to the SNSF;
  • research teams from Luxembourg: to the FNR; and
  • research teams from Belgium-Flanders: to the FWO.
Institution
Date de candidature
Durée
12, 24, 36 ou 48 mois
Discipline
Humanités
Sciences sociales
Sciences participatives
Autres