The new funding opportunity for Polish-Chinese research projects

Funding institution: National Science Center

Subjective of the call:

In order to strengthen international academic co-operation, wishing to fund high quality scientific research within their own countries, and conscious that some of the best research can be delivered by working with the best researchers internationally, the National Science Centre (NCN) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) are launching the first call for proposals within the joint funding initiative “Sheng”. The partner agencies will conduct parallel peer review and selection processes. Funding will be distributed according to the funding rules of each individual agency. Funding within this initiative will be available for collaborative research projects involving researchers from both partner countries. Projects must have well-defined joint working programmes, demonstrating clearly the added value of international collaboration. It is expected that each partner contributes substantially to the common project; this includes taking organisational responsibilities. The division of responsibilities should also be reflected in the amount of funds requested by each partner. Only proposals involving basic research may be submitted.

Deadline for the call for proposals:

September 17, 2018

Application process: A complete proposal should be submitted via the ZSUN/OSF submission system  together with all necessary documents conforming to the formal requirements set out in the call documentation.

Internal regulations of the Jagiellonian University: 

In accordance with the Jagiellonian University Rector’s Directive No. 56 on July 11, 2016 on the rules of procedure for the preparation and implementation at the JU of projects financed from external sources, researchers interested in participating in the call should submit to the CAWP:

• in the case of a project submitted in a consortium, by August 31, 2018 a draft consortium agreement or guidelines for a consortium agreement - to Ms Ewa Prażuch, tel. 12 663 30 10, ewa.prazuch@uj.edu.pl;
• until September 6, 2018, a draft application together with the Joint Project Description sent in a PDF file to the address of the CAWP call supervisors; verification of the draft proposal is aimed at a preliminary assessment of it and assistance in eliminating formal errors,
• until September 11, 2018 the final version of the application in one copy together with the required documents, i.e .:
  • a printed and signed project registration form,
  • generated and printed from the ZSUN/OSF system (Annex 2e to the call) "State aid questionnaire" (all questions in the questionnaire should be answered affirmatively) - an unsigned copy,
  • generated and printed from the OSF system, the document titled “CONFIRMATION OF SUBMITTING THE PROPOSAL UNDER AN NCN CALL BY AN AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ENTITY ACTING AS THE PROJECT’S HOST INSTITUTION " - applies to researchers employed at the Jagiellonian University under a contract of employment, or in the case of an application being a natural person: "CONFIRMATION OF SUBMITTING THE PROPOSAL UNDER AN NCN CALL BY A NATURAL PERSON ACTING AS THE APPLICANT",
  • university-wide units that do not receive grants for statutory activities from the science budget are required to attach Annex 1 to the application (according to the NCN call for proposal).

In addition, Annex 1 provides the data of the entity / unit necessary to complete the application for financing a research project financed from the NCN funds.

The above-mentioned dates should be treated as final.

More information:

Rector's announcement (in Polish)

Project registration form

Call for proposals on the NCN website