SONATA 13/SONATA BIS 7/MAESTRO 9/HARMONIA 9 calls for proposals

National Science Agency (NCN) invites all interested to submit their proposals to next editions of the SONATA 13, SONATA BIS 7, MAESTRO 9 and HARMONIA 9 calls for proposals. Deadline for all submssions is September 15, 2017.

Each prospective Projedct Leader in the SONATA, SONATA BIS and MAESTRO calls will be interviewed in Polish or in English. All members of the Team of Experts in the MAESTRO call will be some scientists from abroad.

The SONATA 13 call is targeted at PhDs who have been holding their degree for at least 2 years but not more than 7 years prior to the application year. Call's budget is 70 million PLN. The programme is to support innovative research conducted with the use of some modern instrumentatuin and some original methodology. Prospective Project Leader must attach to the application a copy of at least one his/her publication.

The SONATA BIS 7 call is targeted at PhDs who have been holding their degree for at least 5 years but not more than 12 years prior to the application year. It is expected the programme will help to create some new research teams. Each prospective Project Leader will be asked to provide in his/her application a justification for such a team and must attach to the application a copy of at least three his/her publications.

The MAESTRO 9 call is targeted at experienced scientists wishing to run some pioneering research projects expanding the current science limits. Call's budget is 40 million PLN. Prospective Project Leader must have published at least five papers in world-class scientific journals within the last 10 years (copies of three of them must be attached to the application), have led in the past at least two research projects within some national or international programmes, and have demonstrated other academic acticvity. Some evaluation criteria have been specified more precisely in the current edition of the call (member of expert panels evaluatiing applications submitted to some international calls for proposals, high citation index, an application submitted within the last 10 years to European Research Council that won funding or at least was qualified to the second stage of the selection procedure). A short project description in English must be attached to all appliactions since each application will be evaluated by an international expert panel already within  the first stage of the selection procedure .

The HARMONIA 9 programme is to support researtch projects accomplished within framewok of some international collaboration not funded from abroad, including projects run by Polish scientists within scientific collaborations working at international large research facilities. Call's budget is 40 million PLN. Both the Polish Project Leader and the leading partner from abroad must have published at least three ascientific papres, copies of at least three papres of each Leader must be attached to the application. A short project description must be in Polish.

See https://www.ncn.gov.pl/konkursy/2017-06-14-maestro9-harmonia9-sonata13-sonata-bis7

More information for applicants from NCBJ:
NCBJ International Scientific Cooperation Office (phone 22 273 15 87)
- Justyna Szadkowska (justyna.szadkowska@ncbj.gov.pl)
- Małgorzata Kot (malgorzata.kot@ncbj.gobv.pl)