Financing institution:

National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)

• Joint project proposals must be submitted simultaneously by French partners to Campus France and by Polish partners to NAWA. Only proposals submitted jointly in Poland and the partner country that have the same title in English and the same implementation period are considered.
• 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 1 January 2025 and finishing on 31 December 2026.
• The project may address any research domain. Priority for funding will be given to projects whose subject matter corresponds to the priorities of the Strategic Partnership between the French Republic 2 and the Republic of Poland and the European Union's Horizon Europe framework programme. The proposal shall indicate the subject area to which the proposal relates, based on the OECD classification.
• 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. The source of funding for the research may be another research project already obtained or funds from the Unit.
• 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 30,000.00. The above amount may be extended at will using the applicant’s own funds. 
• W ramach środków przyznanych przez NAWA wydatkami kwalifikowalnymi po stronie polskiej są następujące koszty:
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    the unit rate for subsistence and accommodation costs for researchers from Poland in the partner country - in the amount of PLN 400 per day for stays of up to 11 days; for longer stays, the unit rate is PLN 4400 for the entire stay.  
    the unit rate for travel costs for researchers from Poland to France - in the amount of PLN 2000. The above rate is the total amount for a round trip for one person. 
• The coordinator in the project may be a person with at least a doctoral degree, employed by the applicant. 
• A project coordinator cannot be a team member in another project submitted in the same call.
• The project team may include persons employed in units forming 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. 
• Priority for funding will be given to mobility projects involving early-career researchers (i.e. researchers whose doctoral degree or equivalent title was obtained less than 7 years before the date of application) and doctoral students.
• The proposal 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 proposal (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.
• The person submitting the proposal in the system must have a current power of attorney to represent the applicant granted 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 researchers in the Polish research team,
  • prospective cooperation with partners from the social and economic environment over the course of project implementation. 
  • Potential for collaboration through EU initiatives.

• by 04 July 2024:
  - a draft proposal, for the purposes of review and verification of formal eligibility (as a pdf file) to the address of the call assistant at the RSC, 
  - the Research Project Entry Form filled out in the electronic system JU Project Zone available at: https://strefaprojektow.uj.edu.pl/. 
  by 11 July 2024 the final version of the proposal - electronic version sent in as a pdf file signed with a qualified electronic signature or a scan of the hard copy with handwritten signatures – signatures required: principal investigator and the head of the JU organisational unit acting as the project host entity (i.e. Dean or Director/Head of other organisational unit). 
   
  The final version of the proposal generated in the NAWA system, which shall be saved as a pdf, titled as follows: Surname and forename of the principal investigator, name of the programme, date of the document (e.g. Kowalski_Jan_NAWA_FRANCJA_11-07-2024).