Financing institution:

National Agency for Academic Exchange

Subject of the competition:

National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) has announced a call for proposals intended to support the mobility of scientists conducting research projects agreed and carried out jointly by eligible applicants from Poland and Austria.

Termin składania wniosków do NAWA upływa 27 czerwca 2023 r. o godz. 15:00.

Terms of the call:

• Eligible to apply for funding are institutions of science and higher education, e.g. universities, referred to in the Act of 20 July 2018 on Higher Education and Science (i.e. Journal of Laws of 2022 item 574 as amended) 
• The project may be carried out within 24 months starting from 2 January 2024 and finishing on 31 December 2025.
• The project may address any research domain. 
• Funds for projects under the call for proposals are allocated to cover the travel expenses and costs of stay for the scientists, except for financing the research itself. 
• Each party shall bear the travel and subsistence expenses of scientists from its own country.
• The maximum funding per project from the NAWA budget is PLN 30,000. The above amount may be extended at will using the applicant’s own funds. 
• Under the funds awarded by NAWA, eligible expenditures under the project for the Polish side are: 
  1. Travel expenses of Polish scientists to Austria – a flat rate amount dependent on distance in a straight line between the participant's place of residence and the place of stay:

• Only proposals submitted jointly in Poland and in Austria will be considered. Proposals submitted in Poland and in Austria should have the same title in English and the same implementation period. 
• Coordinator in the project may be a person with doctorate, employed by the applicant. 
• Members of the research team can be members of the Project coordinator’s current research team, employed in their unit or other units being part of the Polish system of science and higher education. Students may also be members of the research team, as long as they take an active part in conducting research covered by the Project, and their participation is allowed by the partner country. 
• Units that have already benefited from funding under previous calls for proposals in joint research projects with Austria can only apply with another partner.
• It shall only be possible to act as a coordinator for one Project in a given call. The Project coordinator cannot be a member of the team in another proposal submitted in the same call.
• The application and its annexes shall be drawn up in Polish. Exception shall be the project title, abstract and a CV of a coordinator from a partner country included in the application (in English).
• There is no limit for proposals submitted by one applicant. It is allowed to submit one proposal as part of one research project.
• A person submitting the proposal needs a valid power of attorney to represent the applicant, conferred by an authorised person, which should be attached to the proposal on submission. The RSC will draw up the power of attorney for all applicants in the call. 
• On review of the proposals additional criteria will be applied:
  • participation of young scientists in the Polish research team,
  • prospective cooperation with partners from the social and economic environment over the course of project implementation.

Please note: 
In the application, in the section: Representative of the institution authorised to sign contracts on behalf of the applicant, please provide the following data: prof. dr hab. Piotr Kuśtrowski, JU Vice-Rector for Research, email: prorektor.nauka@uj.edu.pl , phone no. +48 12-663-11- 42

The required power of attorney for the representative authorised to sign contracts, which must be attached in the NAWA ICT system, will be sent to the persons submitting proposals by the call assistant at the RSC.