MINIATURA call for proposals
The Director of the National Science Centre (NCN) has announced the MINIATURA 9 call for proposals for research activities that may be carried out in the form of preliminary studies, library and archive searches or research visits. Research activities may be carried out in one or more forms, as long as it is well-justified. The main purpose of the call is to fund research activities for the purposes of future research projects submitted to NCN calls and/or other national and international calls for research projects. Funds of PLN 5,000 to PLN 50,000 can be requested under the call, to finance a research activity carried out over a period of up to 12 months. Funds may be requested by institutions employing researchers:
- whose scientific achievements include at least one paper published or at least one artistic achievement or achievement in research in art;
- who were awarded their PhD degree after 1 January 2013. This period may be extended pursuant to § 1 (1) (a) of the Regulations. In the case of multiple PhD holders, the reference date is the date of award of the first PhD.
Proposals may cover NCN MENTORING, whereby NCN mentors provide their guidance on drafting funding proposals submitted to NCN calls.
The NCN Council has allocated PLN 20,000,000 for research activities carried out under the MINIATURA 9 call for proposals.
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the OSF submission system available at https://osf.opi.org.pl/en/ pursuant to the proposal submission procedure laid down in the Guidelines to complete proposals submitted to MINIATURA 9 in the OSF submission system.
The call for proposals will be open between 3 February 2025 and 31 July 2025, 16:00 CEST.
The call for proposals may be suspended if the total costs covered by the proposals exceed twice the amount of funding allocated by the NCN Council for research activities under this edition of the MINIATURA call.
Funds for research activities carried out under the MINIATURA 9 call are divided in proportion to the number of months of the call for proposals specified in the call text. Funding may be awarded if (inter alia) the proposal is within the pool of funds available for a given month.
Many proposals submitted to MINIATURA in the last months of the call were refused funding due to the lack of sufficient resources. Please remember that you can also apply in the other months of the call.
Please read the call documents included in this call text.
Please read the MAJOR CHANGES to find out about any modifications to the call documents as compared to the previous edition of the call.
The NCN Council has decided that as a consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, proposals submitted to the NCN must not provide for any collaboration with Russian entities. If any such collaboration is planned, a proposal will be rejected as ineligible.
