Get involved in the fight against coronavirus, take part in the pan-European #EUvsVirus hackathon!

The European Commission, in close collaboration with the EU member states, will host a pan-European hackathon to connect civil society, innovators, partners and investors across Europe in order to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges. The event will be held online on 24-26th April 2020. The registration is open only until 19th April!

JRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP) programme

JRC is the science and knowledge service of the European Commission and supports EU policies with independent evidence. Education and training activities are an integral part of the JRC work that builds on the organisation’s robust research capacity. In order to enhance the science-policy link, the JRC is offering the collaborative doctoral partnership (CDP) programme to higher education institutions (HEIs/universities) to benefit from a strategic, win-win collaboration with the JRC.

A Report on Women in Polish Political Science: From Diagnosis to Cooperation – conclusions and recommendations

Over the past few years, the number of women involved in research and innovation has been steadily increasing (for detailed statistics see She Figures 2018 report). Furthermore, the international mobility of women researchers in the higher education sector is greater. However, this does not change the fact that gender is still an important factor influencing access to high positions at universities, hampering the progress in academic careers by ignoring women’s achievements or assigning women scientists’ findings to men. As European Commission factsheet shows, there is a high need for equal treatment policy in HE institutions, monitoring of female researchers’ needs and sharing good practices in supporting women’s scientific careers.

Let’s strengthen digitization! Digital V4 Group

In October 2019 the new V4 initiative called Digital V4 Group was established. This tech coalition includes four organisations: Digital Poland Association (ZIPSEE) , IT Association of Slovakia (ITAS), Consumer Electronics Association in Czech Republic (ASE) and ICT Association of Hungarian (IVSZ). The Group was set up by organisations from digital and advanced technologies industry in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary to strengthen a policy supporting development of innovation and digitization in Central and Eastern Europe. The initiative refers to political and economical collaboration between the four countries in scope of the Visegrad Group (V4), particularly the Warsaw Declaration supporting innovative economy, signed in 2017.

The Ulam Programme and Polish Returns – NAWA extends the deadline for submitting applications to 23rd April 2020!

The Ulam Programme and the Polish Returns programme – both funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange – are undoubtedly a big chance for individual scientists to develop their research career in Poland. It is also a great opportunity for Polish universities and Polish scientific and research institutes to increase their potential. Due to the fact that in both programs the application deadline has been extended to 23rd April 2020, we are providing you with the essential information about them.

INFO: PolSCA team in home office mode

Due to the prevention of the current spread of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 virus) until 30 April 2020 the PolSCA team is working from home (the above-mentioned period may be extended depending on the development of the epidemiological situation). In addition, all meetings organized by the PolSCA during the next calendar month are also canceled.

Changes in PolSCA team

We would like to kindly inform you that on 29th February the over 2-year work of dr hab. Małgorzata Molęda-Zdziech as the Director of the PolSCA Office was terminated. In the light of this, a meeting summarizing PolSCA activities under her leadership was held on 19th February 19 in our premises.

#V4Training Spring Edition 2020 – call for applications!

The Polish Science Contact Agency (PolSCA) cordially invites managers of European research projects from Poland to take part in the next edition of #V4Training co-organized by the V4 group!

The training will be held on 20-22 April 2020 in Brussels.

IGLO Open on Horizon Europe Missions – summary

The very first IGLO Open meeting of the 2020 was hosted by PolSCA Office. The guest speaker was Mr Mr. Neville Reeve  – Head of Sector for Missions at unit A.3 of DG RTD (Policy & Programming Centre) who provided the presentation entitled “Identifying and developing missions under Horizon Europe”. The event took place on Wednesday, 8th of January 2020 and was held at the KoWi premises.

The Future of the EU – a summary of the conference in Paris

On 10th October 2019, the conference ‘The Future of the EU, Military Cooperation and Transatlantic Relations from Polish and French perspective’ took place at the Scientific Centre of PAS in Paris. The event was also co-organized by the following institutions: CERI Sciences Po from Paris, the Polish Science Contact Agency PolSCA in Brussels and the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM).

The conference was opened by: dr habil. Maciej Forycki, director of the Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Paris, dr Sławomir Dębski, director of PISM, prof. Alain Dieckhoff, director of CERI Sciences Po and dr hab. Małgorzata Molęda-Zdziech, director of the PolSCA Office. All of them agreed on the fact that the conference is one of the of events taking place in 2019, the Polish-French Year of Science. The directors of the PAS Scientific Centres pointed out that the common conference is the result of the fruitful cooperation.