SONATA BIS Call for Proposals for Research Projects in Poland

The National Science Centre (NCN) has launched the SONATA BIS 14 call for research projects aiming to create a new research team to conduct basic research. The call is addressed at researchers with a PhD degree conferred within 5 to 12 years prior to the proposal submission year.

Researchers may receive funds to cover remuneration for the research team members, including scholarships for students and PhD students, purchase or manufacturing of research equipment and for other costs crucial to the research project.

Please note: A person named as the principal investigator in a proposal submitted to the OPUS call for which the funding decision has not become final, must not be the principal investigator in a proposal submitted to the SONATA BIS call.

The call budget is 100,000,000 PLN.

Proposals must be submitted electronically via the OSF submission system available at https://osf.opi.org.pl pursuant to the proposal submission procedure explained in the Guidelines for applicants to complete SONATA BIS 14 proposals in the OSF submission system .

The proposal submission deadline in the OSF submission system is 17 September 2024, 4 p.m.

Please note: In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, pursuant to a Resolution adopted by the NCN, proposals submitted to the National Science Centre must not provide for any collaboration between Polish and Russian entities. Where any such collaboration is planned, the proposals shall be rejected as ineligible.

Please read the call documents included in this call text.