Programme description
The call is addressed to researchers who hold a PhD degree or have at least 4 years of full-time equivalent research experience and who have not lived, studied or been employed in Poland for an uninterrupted period of over 12 months within 3 years prior to the call launch.
The fellowship budget may cover remuneration of the principal investigator and research team members, including scholarships for students and PhD students, as well as project-related costs, i.e. research equipment and small instruments, materials, outsourced services, business trips, open access to publications, etc.
Principal investigators in the projects carried out under POLONEZ BIS 2 must be incoming researchers who are planning to conduct basic research at an institution located in Poland.
The Principal Investigator (PI) must fulfil two fundamental eligibility criteria:
- research experience: at the date of the call launch, the PI must hold a PhD degree or have at least 4 years of documented full-time research experience;
- mobility requirement: within the 3 years immediately before the date of the call’s launch (i.e. between 15 March 2019 and 14 June 2022) the PI must not have lived, studied or been employed in Poland for more than 12 months in total, with the exception of short holidays, time of mandatory military service or refugee procedure.
- PI’s scientific achievements should include at least one research paper published or accepted for publication. In the case of research in the arts, the PI must have at least one paper published or accepted for publication or at least one artistic achievement or achievement in research in art completed. The proposal should include artistic work and/or achievements covering the period of the last 10 years before the proposal year (as of 2012). In specific cases, this period may be extended.
Proposals submitted to the call must involve basic research in any of 25 NCN review panels.
Under the call, research projects may be planned for a period of 24 months. The applicant may choose to start the project on 1 March or 1 April 2023.
Apart from the principal investigator, research
tasks in the project funded under the POLONEZ BIS 2 call may be
performed by co-investigators, including:
- a mentor (mandatory);
- other investigators (optional);
- students and PhD students (optional).
The mentor must have research experience sufficient to allow for adequate supervision of the project and mentoring of the principal investigator. The host institution must employ the mentor on the date of the call launch and throughout the project funding term.
Timeline
The deadline for submitting proposals via the OSF submission system is 15 June 2022 (4:00 p.m. CEST).
An interview with the principal investigator is held at the second stage of merit-based evaluation in English by means of available telecommunication tools and is planned for October/ November 2022.
Types of eligible costs
Direct costs include funds for:
1. Salary of the principal investigator: the salary paid by the host institution under the full time employment contract for the entire project funding term.
- The PI’s remuneration for the 24-month project is composed of the following:
- living allowance – EUR 65,760;
- mobility allowance – EUR 41,400;
- family allowance – EUR 7,200 for PI’s whose spouse/partner and/or child/children are relocated to Poland with them for at least 3 months during the project funding term;
- special needs allowance – EUR 4,800 for researchers with long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others (Article 1 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities).
2. Salaries of staff assigned or recruited to the project, including:
- mentor’s additional salary – no more than PLN 2,000 per month;
- salaries of other co-investigators – no limit given, salaries of co-investigators should be planned taking into account their period of employment, the scope of work in the project, the workload, and the level of professional qualifications required;
- salaries and scholarships for students and PhD students – no more than PLN 5,000 per person per month.
3. Other direct costs of research, including:
- costs of research equipment, devices and software: the unit cost must not exceed EUR 2,500 (PLN 10,879);
- other direct costs of research, including materials and small laboratory, IT and office equipment (the unit cost must not exceed EUR 2,500 (PLN 10,879)), outsourced services, business trips, individual visits by and consultations with external collaborators and/or consultants, compensation for collective investigators, purchase of data/databases and specialist research papers, costs of publication of research results, costs of publication of monographs (following their positive review by the NCN);
- costs of actions intended to promote the project and its results;
- other costs indispensable for the completion of the research project, which comply with the document “Costs in research projects funded by the National Science Centre under POLONEZ BIS 2”.
Indirect costs include:
- indirect cost of Open Access (up to 2% of project direct costs), which may be designated only for the cost of open access to publications or research data;
- other indirect costs (up to 20% of project direct costs), which may be spent on costs that are related indirectly to the research project, including the cost of open access to publications and research data.
