M-Eranet

Poland: NCN

Name of Funding agency

National Science Centre

Geographical coverage (national/regional)

national

Name of the programme/initiative

M-ERA.NET

Programme website

https://www.ncn.gov.pl/wspolpraca-zagraniczna/wspolpraca-wielostronna/konkurs-mera?language=en

Programme owner

National Science Centre, Poland

Program manager (executing funding organisation)

National Science Centre, Poland

Contact person(s) (e-mail, tel.)

Anna Kotarba, e-mail: tel.: 695 211 482

Dr inż. Klaudyna Śpiewak-Wojtyła, e-mail:

Funding Commitment

€ 1 000 000

Anticipated number of fundable research partners

5-6

Maximum funding per grant awarded to a partner

No maximum funding limit per partner.

Type of research eligible for funding: eligible TRL range

TRL 1-4, only basic research

Funding rates (approx.)

N/A

Major eligibility criteria
(e.g. types of organisations, thematic restriction, cost types and caps)
  1. Principal Investigator: Any researchers with a doctoral degree, employed at a Polish host institution may act as Principal Investigator or Project Leader.
  2. Eligible costs - Applicants are obliged to adhere to the rules included in the Annex to terms and regulations on awarding funding for research tasks funded or co-funded under  international  calls  launched  by  the  National  Science  Centre  and  carried  out  as  multilateral collaboration UNISONO, available on the NCN website.
  3. Overhead costs must not exceed a maximum of 20% of the total direct costs and may not be increased during the course of a research project. Additionally, indirect costs of up to 2% of direct costs may be spent on open access to publications and research data.

Submission of the proposal at national/regional level (schedule, cut-off dates, deadlines, etc.)

At the full proposal stage an NCN proposal covering the Polish part of the project must be prepared by the Polish research team and submitted to the NCN electronically via the ZSUN/OSF submission system.

Submission deadline for NCN proposals in ZSUN/OSF: 24 November 2022, 4 p.m. CET (7 days following submission of full proposals in the M-era.Net Proposal Submission Platform).

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 = 4.4879 PLN.

Submission of financial and scientific reports at the national/regional level

NCN requires submitting annual and final reports. Each report consist of scientific and financial parts.

Further guidance

Detailed information on submitting proposals, project contracts, reporting and settlement of financed projects will be available in the call announcement on the NCN website:

https://www.ncn.gov.pl/en/wspolpraca-zagraniczna/wspolpraca-wielostronna/konkurs-mera/ogloszenie2022