Financing institution:

National Scinece Centre in cooperation with JPI Urban Europe

Subject of the competition:

This is to inform you that the National Science Centre (NCN) has announced a call for international research projects under the BTC ENUTC Call 2023; the call is open to proposals covering the following three subjects:

• Experimentation and co-creation for a beautiful and sustainable urban future
• Transformation to sustainable cities / urban transformation
• Designing Inclusive, Liveable and Green Neighbourhoods

• Research projects may be planned in the call for a period of 24 months.
• Both the minimum and maximum amount of funding are not specified (costs must be justified in relation to the subject and scope of research). 
• Funding proposals may be submitted by international consortia composed of at least two research teams from at least two countries participating in the call. The principal investigator of the Polish research team must hold at least a PhD degree. 
• Countries participating in the call:  Belgium, Bulgaria, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Sweden
• Requirements for the principal investigator:
  • the principal investigator must hold at least a PhD degree;
  • a person named as the principal investigator in an NCN proposal must not be planned for a research activity in any proposal which has been submitted to the MINIATURA call and for which the funding decision has not become final.
  • a principal investigator in a national proposal in the call must not be a person for whom, on the last day of submitting proposals, the total number of ongoing NCN projects and proposals recommended for funding or under evaluation at the NCN is greater than or equal to 3 (excluding proposals submitted or funded under: TANGO; DIOSCURI; EXPRESS CALL TO FUND RESEARCH INTO COVID-19, PRELUDIUM BIS);
  • a principal investigator may only be employed over the entire course of the project’s implementation at the entity planned as the host entity, pursuant to a contract of employment for at least half time of the full-time work;
  • a principal investigator shall spend at least 50% of the project’s duration on the territory of the Republic of Poland. This period includes business trips essential to the implementation of the project, especially related to field research, participation in research conferences and archive searchers
  Under the BTC ENUTC Call 2023, funds can be applied for to cover salaries for members of the research team, salaries and scholarships for students and PhD students, purchase or manufacturing of research equipment and other costs crucial to the research project.
• The budget for the Polish research team in the joint proposal must be the same as the budget in the national proposal in the OSF submission system.
• The budget in the joint proposal must be specified in EUR and in the national proposal in the OSF submission system, in PLN, rounded down to total values;
• A purchase of a qualified electronic signature should be included in the project’s budget under direct costs, amounting ca. PLN 360 (a signature valid 2 years + validity extension kit valid 2 years).
• The EUR budget of the Polish part of the project in the joint proposal must be calculated according to the following exchange rate: 1 EUR = 4.6976 PLN.
• Indirect costs may not exceed 20% of direct costs. Additionally, indirect costs of up to 2% of direct costs may be spent on open access to publications and research data. Please include these costs in the planned budget in the maximum possible amount.