Announcing Institution: 

National Science Centre

Purpose of the call:

POLONEZ BIS 1 call for 24-month research projects carried out by incoming researchers. The purpose of the call is to help researchers develop their professional careers by supporting their international mobility and to fund ambitious research projects at the best Polish research institutions. The call is addressed to researchers who hold a PhD degree or have at least 4 years of full-time equivalent research experience and who have not lived, studied or been employed in Poland for an uninterrupted period of over 12 months within 3 years prior to the call launch.

The fellowship budget may cover remuneration of the principal investigator and research team members, including scholarships for students and PhD students, as well as project-related costs, i.e. research equipment and small instruments, materials, outsourced services, business trips, open access to publications, etc.

NCN has allocated PLN 48 M (over € 11 M) for research projects funded under the POLONEZ BIS 1 call.

Call essentials:

• eligible proposals will be for research receiving no funding (now or in the past) from the NCN or other sources;
• the proposal should envisage only basic research and may be carried out in any research discipline listed in the NCN panels;
• the maximum project duration is 24 months;
• as the date of project commencement the applicant may quote: 1 September , 1 October or 1 November 2022.

Form of submitting proposals:
The POLONEZ BIS 1 call admits only of proposals submitted in electronic form. The proposal alongside the required annexes shall be submitted in electronic form by the principal investigator in Format (Zintegrowany System Usług dla Nauki/Obsługa Strumieni Finansowania) system, accessed through the website: osf.opi.org.pl

Internal regulations:
Pursuant to the Order no 56 of JU Rector 11 July 2016 on: the procedure for drawing up and implementing projects funded from
external sources at Jagiellonian University, please deliver to the call assistant at the CAWP:

• by 30 November 2021:
  • a draft proposal in the form of a PDF file generated by the ZSUN/OSF system;
  • a research project entry form and VAT eligibility form filled out in the JU Project Zone system. It is obligatory to name an academic supervisor in the research project entry form, responsible to offer assistance in subject-specific matters during project implementation; JU Project Zone system available at: https://strefaprojektow.uj.edu.pl/.
  • Host Institution Capacity Form (attached as Annex 2 to the Resolution of the NCN Council) in a PDF file, signed with a qualified electronic signature by the JU organisational entity head (dean – for faculties, or director / head of other organisational entity);
• by 08 December 2021 (3:30 p.m. GMT+1):
  • ​final version of the proposal in the form of a pdf file generated by the ZSUN/OSF system: select option ‘Print PDF’ named in accordance with the template: Surname and given name of the principal investigator, name of the programme, date of the document (Kowalski_Jan_POLONEZ_BIS 1 01_12_2021), signed with a qualified electronic signature by the head of the JU organisational entity, i.e. the dean or director/head of other organisational entity) acting as the project’s host entity;
  • a document generated by the ZSUN/OSF: “Confirmation of proposal submission by the principal investigator/authorised representative”;
  • a signed scan of the document generated by the ZSUN/OSF: ‘Confirmation of submitting the proposal by the principal investigator’ or a document signed with a qualified electronic signature.

Out of concern for the quality of the submitted projects, especially in terms of meeting formal requirements, you are encouraged you to deliver the documents to the CAWP well ahead of the above mentioned deadlines.
Please consider the above mentioned deadlines as final.
Please bear in mind that sending the proposal in the system cannot be reversed and prevents later modifications. In view of the above, the proposal should be sent in using the ZSUN/OSF system, supported with a signed version of the document “Confirmation proposal submission by a representative of the entity” and “Confirmation of proposal submission by the principal investigator”.
The above mentioned documents, signed by JU authorities, shall be delivered by a call assistant at the CAWP to the email addresses you have specified.

Whereas regarding the drawing up of a Data Management Plan in research projects, please contact:

• Mr Leszek Szafrański, phone 12 663 35 89, l.szafranski@uj.edu.pl
• Ms Katarzyna Szczepaniec, phone 12 663 34 42, k.szczepaniec@uj.edu.pl
• Ms Małgorzata Galik, 12 663 35 89, malgorzata.galik@uj.edu.pl

A link to a YouTube on-line course on completing the Data Management Plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSlRR8VSm40

Deadline and form for submission: 

15 December 2021

Form of application submission:

The application with the required attachments is submitted electronically by the Principal Investigator in the ZSUN/OSF system (Integrated System of Services for Science/Service for Funding Streams) available at: osf.opi.org.pl

More information:

Vice-Rector's communication

NCN