SONATINA call for research projects
2025
The National Science Centre (NCN) is launching the SONATINA 9 call for research projects. The objective of the call is to support the career development of early-stage researchers by creating opportunities for full-time employment and research in Poland and enabling them to gain knowledge and experience during fellowships in first-rate foreign research institutions.
The call is addressed at individuals who have been granted their PhD degree in the proposal submission year or within 3 years prior to the proposal submission year (1 January 2022 - 31 December 2024) or will be granted their PhD by 30 June 2025. The 3-year period may be extended by the career breaks laid down in the Resolution.
Employment under a full-time employment contract must be planned for the principal investigator in the host institution for the project other than the one from which the principal investigator has earned a PhD degree. The principal investigator must complete a foreign fellowship of 3 to 6 months in a foreign research institution.
The Council of the National Science Centre has allocated PLN 40,000,000 for research projects to be carried out under SONATINA 9.
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the OSF submission system available at: https://osf.opi.org.pl pursuant to the proposal submission procedure.
The call for proposals in the OSF submission system closes on 17 March 2025, 4 p.m. CET.
As of the calls launched on 15 December 2023, project literature DOES NOT count towards the page limit in the short and full project descriptions.
Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the NCN Council has decided that proposals submitted 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 results of the call will be published in September 2025.
Significant modifications:
- Monograph publication costs are not eligible if claimed as direct costs.
- Project literature does not count towards the page limit (i.e. 5 pages for short project descriptions and 15 pages for full project descriptions). Only project literature is not included in the page limit.
- A new list of review panels within Life Sciences area is in place.
- Proposals will be evaluated in three categories:
- A: Project assessment (70%) (scientific quality, feasibility, potential impact)
- B: Qualifications and achievements of the principal investigator (25%)
- C: Planned international fellowship (5%)
