Announcing Institution:
National Science Centre
CWN Project Advisor:
Faculty of Law and Administration, Faculty of Management and Social Communication and Extra-faculty entities
Mateusz Basarab,
phone: 12 663 38 64,
e‑mail: mateusz.basarab@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science:
Monika Pacholczyk,
phone: 12 663 30 09
e-mail: monika.pacholczyk@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Philosophy and Faculty of Polish Studies:
Jakub Górka,
phone: 12 663 30 11,
e-mail: jakub.gorka@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Biology and Faculty of International and Political Studies:
Agnieszka Gajda-Górecka,
phone: 12 663 30 25,
e-mail:agnieszka.gajda-gorecka@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Chemistry and Faculty of Geography and Geology:
Monika Mikołajczyk,
phone: 12 663 38 39,
e-mail: monika.wojtasinska@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Biochemystry, Biophysics and Biotechnology and Faculty of Philology:
Łukasz Kucharzyk,
phone: 12 663 38 49,
e-mail: lukasz.kucharzyk@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of History and Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences:
Joanna Łyczek,
phone: 12 663 38 92
e-mail: joanna.lyczek@uj.edu.pl
Description of the call:
The OPUS 24 call is addressed to all scientists, regardless of the stage of their scientific career, who plan to conduct research projects
- without participation of foreign partners;
- with the use of large international research facilities by Polish research teams;
- with the participation of foreign partners who do not apply for funding for this purpose under programs announced by partner institutions, organized in cooperation with NCN on the basis of lead agency procedure
- within the Weave programme (however foreign teams may apply for these funds within other research funding programmes that are not co-organised by NCN on the basis of lead agency procedure);
- as part of LAP cooperation within the Weave programme, i.e. in cooperation with foreign research teams that apply in parallel for funds for implementation of these research projects to their respective research funding institutions within the framework of the Weave programme;
- in LAP collaboration in the Weave Programme with the additional participation of foreign partners who do not apply for funding for this purpose in the Weave Programme or with the additional use of large research facilities.
Deadline and form for submission:
15 December 2022
Form of submitting proposals:
The proposal alongside the required annexes shall be submitted in electronic form by the principal investigator in the ZSUN/OSF (Zintegrowany System Usług dla Nauki/Obsługa Strumieni Finansowania) system, accessed through the website: osf.opi.org.pl
Internal regulations:
- by 21 November 2022 – in the event that the project is planned in collaboration with other entities:
- and JU acts as a leader in project:
- the cooperation agreement of a group of entities for the implementation of the submitted research project (drawn up by the NCN), to be downloaded from the ZSUN/OSF system (under tab ‘Host entities’) in the form of a PDF file,
- The declaration to the cooperation agreement for the submitted research project (as per the template attached as Annex 1 to this Communication)
- The Research Project Registration Form, filled out in the JU Project Zone system
- and in the event that JU acts as partner in the project:
- the cooperation agreement of a group of entities for the implementation of the submitted research project (drawn up by the NCN) in the form of a PDF file, sent by the project's leader,
- The declaration to the cooperation agreement for the submitted research project (as per the template attached as Annex 1 to this Communication)
- The Research Project Registration Form, filled out in the JU Project Zone system:
- by 28 November 2022, the draft version of the proposal in the form of a pdf file sent to the address of the call assistant at the RSC (the draft version means at least the need to complete at least the sections: Applicant, Principal Investigator, Investigators, Research plan, Cost estimate and its justification);
- by 8 December 2022 (3:30 p.m.):
- 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_Opus24_8-12-2022), 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 submitting the proposal by a representative of the entity,
- 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, and
- a research project registration form, filled out in the JU Project Zone system (not applicable to proposals for which the cooperation agreement of a group of entities for implementation of the submitted research project has been submitted alongside the registration form at the RSC).