Meeting of the series “Discussions on Horizon in the PolSCA Office”, topic: JPI Urban Europe

The Polish Science Contact Agency PolSCA kindly invites you to the next meeting of the series ‘Discussions on Horizon in the PolSCA Office’ addressed to representatives of Polish regional offices in Brussels. Special guests will be representatives of the JPI Urban Europe network – Dr. Margit Noll and Ms. Elena Simion. During the meeting, a plenty of activities of the JPI Urban Europe network will be discussed (including current ERA-NET Co-Fund Urban Transformation Capacities call). Moreover, the possibilities of cooperation under the new European Partnership Driving urban transitions to a sustainable future (DUT) will be presented. The meeting will also be an opportunity for short presentations of individual regions and a discussion on the participants’ experiences in engaging in urban transformation activities.

The meeting, taking place on 12 March 2021 (Friday) from 09.30 to 11.30 in the online mode, is open to representatives of the national regional offices in Brussels.

The detailed agenda of the meeting is available here.

Your opinion counts! Public consultations of the UE documents.

In the current programming period for 2021-2027, the European Commission has set itself the goal of working even more closely with the public and other stakeholders in the policy-making and EU legislative procedure. The process is to be more transparent, simplified, effective and reflecting the views of citizens and stakeholders. The public consultations are already open not only to public institutions, but also to any organization or private person. Certainly, this also applies to the research and innovation sector. As a consequence, the public consultations will have a significant impact on the directions and strategies related to the R&I policy in the European Union.

Webinar: international ERA-Net calls. NCBR’s offer

Polish Science Contact Agency (PolSCA) of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Brussels in cooperation with the National Centre for Research and Development invites you to a webinar dedicated to international calls for research projects, implemented in multilateral cooperation (Era-Net competitions) under Horizon 2020. The aim of the meeting will primarily be to present the process preparation of calls within international networks, the process of submitting and evaluating applications, and what is particularly interesting – presenting the current NCBR’s offer in this area.

The training is addressed only to academic and administrative staff of the Polish Academy of Sciences and will be held online on March 8, 2021 (Monday) from from 1.00 pm. to 2.45 pm.

The detailed agenda of the meeting is available here (in Polish).

V4 Training: Spring Edition 2021 – We are waiting for your applications!

We cordially invite you to participate in the next edition of the V4 Training which is addressed primarily to managers of European research projects and organized by the Polish Science Contact Agency PolSCA together with the V4 liaison offices in Brussels. Due to constraints caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Training will be held entirely online between 26-28 April 2021.

Webinar: Brexit and scientific cooperation between PL-UK

Polish Science Contact Agency (PolSCA) of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Brussels in cooperation with the UK Research Office (UKRO) in Brussels are delighted to invite you to a webinar during which the EU-UK scientific cooperation in the context of Brexit will be discussed. In particular, the meeting will be focused on participation of British beneficiaries in Horizon 2020 projects and the future conditions of participation of the United Kingdom in Horizon Europe program.

The main objective of the webinar is to present and consolidate knowledge about research cooperation with scientists and research institutions in the UK which will be possible thanks to our speakers from the British liaison office in Brussels (UKRO).

The meeting is addressed to researchers and administrative support staff of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It will be helpful especially for those who are involved in international scientific cooperation between Poland and Great Britain, especially on the basis of grants from the EU R&I framework program.

The webinar will be held online on February 19, 2021 (in Polish ).

The meeting agenda (in Polish) is available here.

Flood forecasting, climate change, water protection. The most important water congress in Europe is hosted by PAS

The participants of the 6th IAHR Europe Congress will have the unique opportunity to talk about, among others, how to forecast floods or achieve the sustainable development in urban water supply systems. The congress agenda includes sessions and webinars combined with discussions with the audience. Europe Regional Hydro-Environment Heritage awards will be presented. This year’s congress, organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences – PAS, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW and PAS Institute of Geophysics, will be attended online by 400 experts from 53 countries.

Webinar: international ERA-Net / JPI programmes. NCN’s offer

The Polish Science Contact Agency (PolSCA) of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Brussels, in cooperation with the National Science Centre, organises a webinar on international calls for research projects carried out in multilateral cooperation (Era-Net) under Horizon 2020. The seminar is addressed mainly to scientific and administrative staff of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It will be held online on February 5, 2021 (Friday) from from 13.00 to 14.30.

The aim of the webinar is primarily to present the process of preparing programmes within international networks, the process of submitting and evaluating applications, and what is particularly interesting – to present the current NCN calls’ offer in this area.

The detailed agenda of the meeting is available here.

International research funding through the JPIs’ and ERA-NETs’ funding schemes. Portfolio of the National Science Centre.

Before the new Horizon Europe framework program enters the landscape of R&I funding for good, let’s take a look at what the retiring Horizon 2020 still has to offer. Below we present currently available international research calls for proposals launched by the ERA-NET and JPI networks, in which the National Science Centre (NCN) participates. The current NCN’s portfolio includes funding schemes for multilateral research projects in various disciplines: life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, art, humanities and social sciences.

Doubling poetry – a book about the linguistic poetry of Marian Pankowski

‘One day, Marian Pankowski, a very polyvalent author, during a meeting in Brussels, when he was talking about his poems, he made me feel like getting to know them better’. This is how the book “DOUBLING POETRY. Marian Pankowski – Polish poet of the French language ”(DÉDOUBLEMENT POÉTIQUE. Marian Pankowski – poète polonais de langue française), written by prof. Dorota Walczak-Delanois, began. The Polish Science Contact Agency would like to recommend a publication devoted to this recognized professor of the Free University of Brussels (ULB), translator and author of the first post-war anthology of Polish poetry translated into French. The book was published at the end of 2020 in a bilingual Polish – French format in the Polish-Belgian series ‘Polonica in Belgium – Belgica in Poland. People – sources – texts’ (Polonica en Belgique – Belgica en Pologne. Figures – sources – textes). It is worth adding that it is part of the scientific cooperation between the University of Warsaw (Institute of Applied Polish Studies, Faculty of Polish Philology) and the Department of Polish Studies at ULB. Enjoy the reading!

Social sciences and humanities in the EU framework programs – ‘state of art’ and new opportunities

The beginning of the year is both a period of scientific summaries and a time when new opportunities are opening up for researchers. Therefore, Polish Science Contact Agency PolSCA would like to highlight the main conclusions from the 5th report of the European Commission on the integration of social sciences and humanities in the EU framework program ‘Horizon 2020’, which may shape solutions implemented in the next program ‘Horizon Europe’. In addition, we present below three other EU initiatives that may be of interest to the research community in the field of SSH: ‘EIT Cultural and Creative Industries-KIC’ partnership, as well as the ‘New European Bauhaus’ initiative and the continuation of the ‘Creative Europe’ program. We encourage you to read it!