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September 2022

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OPUS 24 / OPUS LAP

Date: 15.09.2022 - 15.12.2022
OPUS 24 / OPUS LAP

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:

Pursuant to the Ordinance no 56 of JU Rector of 11 July 2016 on: The procedure for drawing up and implementing projects funded from external sources at Jagiellonian University persons interested in entering the call (not applicable with JUMC) are asked to deliver to the RSC:
  • 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:

Provisions included in the template agreement (drawn up by the NCN) must not be modified nor appended with additional regulations between the entities.
 
PLEASE NOTE: Supporting the signed agreement (drawn up by the NCN) in the ZSUN/OSF system is a condition of blocking the proposal for edition and generating the required confirmation. The document in the PDF format should be supported, signed with a qualified electronic signature. Alternatively, a scan of the document with a handwritten signature may be supported.
 
After the funding will have been obtained, in order to regulate cooperation between partners within a group of entities, it will be necessary to conclude an additional agreement (an extended version of the cooperation agreement of a group of entities for the implementation of the submitted research project) as per the template set out in Annex 2 to this Communication.
 
  • 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).
Out of concern for the quality of the submitted projects, especially in terms of meeting formal requirements, you are encouraged to deliver the documents to the RSC well ahead of the above mentioned deadlines.
 
Please consider the above mentioned deadlines as final.
 
Please bear in mind that sending the proposal in the system cannot be reversed and prevents later modifications. The proposal should be sent in using the ZSUN/OSF system, supported with a signed version of the document Confirmation proposal submission by a representative of the entity and  Confirmation of proposal submission by the principal investigator.
 
The above mentioned documents, signed by JU authorities, shall be delivered by the call assistants at the RSC to the email addresses you have specified.
 
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