Announcing institution:

Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Subject of the competition:

This is to inform you that the National Science Centre (NCN) has announced the MINIATURA 7 call for research activities for the purposes of future research projects to be submitted to NCN calls for proposals as well as other national and international calls.

The call for proposals is open by 31 July 2023, 16:00.

The call for proposals may be suspended if the total amount of requested funds exceeds twice the value of funds allocated by the NCN Council for the research activities to be carried out under the call.

The NCN emphasises that funds for research activities carried out under the MINIATURA 7 call are divided proportionally to the number of months of the call for proposals.  Funding is awarded under the call in so far as (inter alia) the proposal is within the pool of funds available for a given month.

In the previous MINIATURA call for proposals, a large number of proposals was submitted in the last month; thus, the NCN recommends to apply in the other months of the call.

Terms of the call:

1. Funds can be applied for by a person:

• who have been conferred their PhD degree after 1 January 2011. This period may be extended by the time of long-term (in excess of 90 days) documented sick leave or rehabilitation leave granted on account of being unfit to work; In addition, this period may be extended by the number of months of child care leave granted pursuant to the Labour Code and in the case of women, by 18 months for every child born or adopted, whichever manner of accounting for career breaks is preferable; In the case of multiple PhD holders, the reference date is the date of award of the first PhD;
• whose scientific achievements include at least one paper published or at least one artistic achievement or achievement in research in art for research activity in the arts;
• who have been employed by the applicant pursuant to an employment contract on the proposal submission date;
• who have not acted as the principal investigator in any of the projects funded by the NCN;
• who are not winning applicants of an ETIUDA call for doctoral scholarships or  a call for fellowships  (including FUGA and UWERTURA) funded by the NCN;

• who are not an applicants, principal investigators or fellowship candidates under proposals submitted or recommended for funding under another NCN call;

2. Research activities may be planned for a period of up to 12 months.

3. Research activities that may be funded under the MINIATURA call are preliminary/pilot studies, library and archive searches, fellowships, research visits and/ or consultations. 

4. The call does not provide for remuneration or scholarships, with the exception of remuneration of collective contractors who are not employees of the entity in which the activity is carried out.

5. Under the call, it is also not possible to purchase, manufacture or upgrade research equipment, devices and software.

6. PLEASE NOTE: The NCN Council has decided that as a consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, no collaboration with Russian entities is allowed under proposals submitted to NCN calls. If any such collaboration is planned, a proposal will be rejected as ineligible.

Information on drawing up proposals

• Proposals may be submitted in Polish or in English.
• The proposals which comprise basic research or applied research, in any of the  academic disciplines defined in the NCN panels, may be submitted under the call.
  Only one proposal may be submitted in the MINIATURA 7 call, by a person who carries out a research activity.
• One may carry out a research activity funded in any edition of the MINIATURA call only once.
• Funds of 5,000 PLN to 50,000 PLN can be applied for under the call.
• The maximum amount of indirect costs is 10% of the direct costs.
• The project’s budget should account for the amount of VAT (VAT is an eligible cost). Please state gross amounts in the cost estimate.

Proposal submission procedure:

The MINIATURA 7 call admits only proposals submitted in electronic form. 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) 

JU internal regulations:​

Pursuant to the Ordinance No. 129 of JU Rector of 10 November 2022 on: The procedure for drawing up and implementing projects funded from external sources at Jagiellonian University and hiring and rewarding personnel of the project, persons interested in entering the call are asked to deliver to the RSC at least 10 days before the date of submitting the proposal:

• a proposal draft, Polish electronic version sent as a pdf file to the address of the call assistant at the RSC for the purposes of review and verification of formal eligibility,

Once the proposal has been verified by the RSC and the work on it has been finished, please deliver to the address of the call assistant at the RSC:

• a 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: Full name of the project principal investigator, document’s date (Kowalski_Jan_MINIATURA7_10-05 -2023), signed with a qualified electronic signature by the head of JU organisational unit acting as a host entity (that is Dean, Director/Head of other organisational unit).
• a research project entry form filled out in the electronic system JU Project Zone

Out of concern for the quality of the submitted projects, especially in terms of meeting formal requirements, you are encouraged you to deliver the documents to the RSC well ahead of the above mentioned deadlines.