1. are doctoral students or academic teachers – and hold no doctoral degree or have held doctoral degree for up to 7 years (this period does not include maternity leave, adoption leave, paternity leave, parental leave or child-care leave, periods of receiving sick pay or rehabilitation benefit on account of incapacity to work (this period is counted from the date of taking the degree of doctor),
2. are authors of publications in renowned journals or have patents or implementations to their name,
3. have not participated in the programme LIDER in the role of principal investigator,
4. have Polish citizenship or a Polish residence permit or are EU citizens who stay in the Republic of Poland for more than 3 months and their stays are registered.

• Proposals submitted in the call may address subjects in all research domains: natural sciences, engineering and technology, medical and health sciences, agricultural sciences, social sciences and humanities.
• The minimum and maximum period of project implementation are 12 months and 36 months respectively.
• Maximum funding per project is PLN 1.8 million.
• Indirect costs constitute 25% of funding and apply to categories “Salaries” and “Other direct costs”.
• The cost of purchase or construction of equipment/appliances used for research purposes will be considered eligible as long as the asset is essential to proper performance of the project and is used directly in its implementation, and as long as the following conditions are met: 
  • value of the equipment, IT infrastructure or other equipment does not exceed PLN 500,000, 
  • the entity has no equipment/fixed asset that could replace it,
  • the procurement procedure is conducted in a manner ensuring fair competition, equal treatment of contractors, openness, transparency of the procedure and selection of contractors, as well as efficiency understood as purposeful and economical spending in accordance with the procedure indicated by the NCBiR. 
• Basic data of the entity (JU) required for the completion of the proposal is available on the website of the RSC

• The proposal alongside annexes as required shall be sent in electronically by the Principal Investigator in the project by means of the system LSI 2.0Logowanie (ncbr.gov.pl)  The link to the system will be activated on 17 February 2023. 
• The proposals should be supported with annexes in the form of a scan of the document with a handwritten signature or a document signed with a qualified electronic signature. The terms of completing and submitting the proposal have been specified in detail in the document Guidelines for proposal submission in the LSI system.

• by 19 April 2023: 
  • The Research Project Entry Form and the VAT Eligibility Form filled out in the electronic system JU Project Zone 
  • a draft version of the proposal (electronic version of the proposal in the form of a pdf file sent to the address of the call assistant at the RSC),
  by 27 April 2022: the final version of the proposal, i.e. a full version of the proposal (electronic version, sent in as a pdf file to the address of the call assistant at the RSC, signed with a qualified electronic signature or in the form of a signed scan) – signatures required: The Principal Investigator and the head of the JU organisational unit (i.e. Dean or Director/Head of other organisational entity) acting as the project’s host institution.