SONATINA 6

The National Science Centre (NCN) has announced the SONATINA 6 call for research projects.

1. The main objective of the call is to support the career development of early career researchers by creating opportunities for full-time employment and research in Poland as well as enabling them to gain knowledge and experience during fellowships in first-rate foreign research institutions.
2. The call is open to researchers who were conferred their PhD in the year of submitting the application or within 3 years before the year of submitting the application (in the period from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021) or will be conferred their PhD before the end of June 2022. The 3-year period may be extended by any career breaks laid down in §5 (6) of the Resolution (https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/pliki/uchwaly-rady/2021/uchwala106_2021-zal1.pdf ).
3. Employment under a full-time employment contract must be planned for the principal investigator in the planned host institution for the project other than the one from which the principal investigator has earned a PhD degree. The principal investigator must plan and complete a foreign fellowship of from 3 to 6 months in a foreign research institution.
4. The principal investigator is obliged to stay for at least 50% of the project duration on the territory of the Republic of Poland and remain at the disposal of the entity implementing the project. The period mentioned shall include trips documented as business delegations being directly connected with the project implemented as well as leaves stipulated by the labour law.

• Proposals must only be submitted electronically via ZSUN/OSF available at: https://osf.opi.org.pl pursuant to the proposal submission procedure.
• The call for proposals in the ZSUN/OSF submission system starts on 16 December 2021 and closes on 15 March 2022, at 4 p.m.; deadline for submission at MUW from 7 January 2022 to 7 March 2022.

Please read the call documents:  https://www.ncn.gov.pl/ogloszenia/konkursy/sonatina6               

Pursuant to the decision of the University Governance, all applications shall require:

• a written approval (e.g. e-mail) of the Head of the Hospital Department/Entity for the project initiator’s conducting the project in the Department,
• a written approval (e.g. e-mail) of the Hospital Director for project implementation:

a) for applications which provide for conducting the project in the MUW’s hospital base,

b) for applications which provide for sharing of the medical data by the Hospital.

Schedule of proposal submission at the Medical University of Warsaw:

• by 30 January 2022 – sending to the address of the MUW Project Support Department (awn@wum.edu.pl) the information about the intention to prepare an application accompanied with the Declaration on the fulfilment of the criteria for the Principal Investigator (item 2-4);
• by 14 February 2022 – sending to the address of the MUW Project Support Department (awn@wum.edu.pl) the proposal in pdf format along with all appendices to be verified by the Department’s staff as well as the approvals of the Head of the Hospital Department/Unit and Hospital Director (if applicable);
• by 21 February 2022 – sending to the address of the MUW Project Support Department (awn@wum.edu.pl) the cooperation agreement to be signed by Mr. Vice Rector for projects implemented by consortia;
• by 7 March 2022 – sending to the address of the MUW Project Support Department (awn@wum.edu.pl)  the final version of the proposal in pdf format with appendices TO BE SIGNED.

The deadline for sending approved proposals to be signed by the Vice Rector for Science and Technology Transfer expires on 7 March 2022.

Call documents

Documents to be read before submitting a proposal to the NCN:

1. Terms and conditions of the SONATINA call for research projects
2. Regulations on awarding funding for research tasks funded by the National Science Centre
3. NCN panels
4. Costs in research projects funded by NCN
5. Proposal form template
6. Guidelines for applicants to complete the form in ZSUN/OSF
7. Research project cooperation agreement (mandatory when funding is requested by a group of entities)
8. State aid
9. List of countries where foreign fellowship may be planned under SONATINA
10. Funds to cover the foreign fellowship travel expenses under SONATINA
11. Guidelines for applicants to complete the form in relation to ethical aspects of the project
12. Guidelines for completing the data management plan for a research project
13. Code of the National Science Centre on research integrity and applying for research funding
14. Proposal submission procedure
15. Open Access Policy

Documents concerning evaluation of proposals:

1. Proposal evaluation criteria
2. Expert Teams of the National Science Centre - formation and appointing
3. Detailed procedure for evaluating proposals by Expert Teams
4. Service of decisions of the NCN Director
5. Guidelines for lodging appeals against the NCN Director’s decisions

Documents to be read before commencing the NCN-funded project:

1. Agreement template (in Polish only)
2. Order establishing a procedure for conducting audits on Host Institution’s premises
3. Guidelines for entities auditing the implementation of research projects funded by the National Science Centre
4. Evaluation of monographs in research projects funded by the National Science Centre