MINIATURA: enabling award

MINIATURA is a scheme offering funding for activities that serve as part of larger basic research

 MINIATURA 5 - announced on 4 May 2021

MINIATURA 4 - announced on 1 June 2020 

MINIATURA 3 – announced on 17 June 2019 (available in Polish)

MINIATURA 2 - closed on 31 December 2018

Applicants: researchers with a doctoral degree obtained within the last 12 years prior to the submission of the proposal, who have not been NCN-grantees and who are employed by the host institution applying for the grant

Project duration: 12 months, with a possibility of shortening the project if it has been completed earlier

Funding:

• From  PLN 5,000–50,000 (ca. EUR 1,200–12,000)
• Within this scheme applicants may not seek funding for employment costs or scholarships, except for personnel costs of collective investigators who are not employees of the MINIATURA host institution.
• Within this grant, researchers may not seek funding for research equipment.
• Overheads may not exceed 10% of direct costs.

Evaluation criteria:

• proposals from within NCN Panels, involving basic research,
• research portfolio of the applicants,
• justification of the planned activity,
• justification of the planned costs.

Evaluation procedure: 1-stage merit-based evaluation by peer reviewers

Application: written in Polish

Call for proposals: on-going

Contact:

informacja@ncn.gov.pl

Tel: 0048 12 341 9000