The Ulam NAWA Programme

The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) is pleased to announce the third edition of the programme for post-doctoral incoming researchers: The Ulam NAWA Programme. The programme will allow both recognised and promising scientists who hold at least a doctoral degree, to visit Poland in order to strengthen the scientific potential of Polish entities and to participate in their scientific activities, primarily research projects and didactics. The programme will allow to invite scientists regardless of their age, from all around the world and representing all fields of science, including Polish scientists working permanently abroad. HEIs, scientific and research institutes will have the opportunity to invite specialists from their priority areas to Poland – they will make a significant contribution to the research conducted by a given institution, strengthen didactics or support the institution in applying for prestigious grants.

Activities to be carried out during the Scholarship may include:

  • conducting research and/or development work
  • post-doctoral training
  • obtaining materials for scientific work or publication
  • in addition to the above activities, the visit may also include conducting didactic classes at the Host institution.

The visits under the Project can last from 6 to 24 months. The Programme provides financing for a Scholarship that covers the Fellow’s living allowance of PLN 10,000 a month, along with a mobility allowance. The visits of foreign scientists have to commence between 1 January 2022 and 1 October 2022.

Call for proposals: until 15 June 2021

Learn more about the conditions for application, timing, etc. https://nawa.gov.pl/en/scientists/the-ulam-programme

Contact person: Magdalena Kowalczyk, PhD, e-mail: magdalena.kowalczyk@nawa.gov.pl; + 48 22 390-35-72

 

Facebook Bekker NAWA i Ulam NAWA na profilu NAWA: https://www.facebook.com/NarodowaAgencjaWymianyAkademickiej/photos/a.207932819932850/811781326214660/

Twitter – Bekker NAWA i Ulam NAWA na profilu NAWA :

Post w języku angielskim:

https://twitter.com/NAWA_Poland/status/1375051295581687811

ESCI database development

Communication of 10 December 2020 on the extension of the ESCI database

The scope of the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) available under the national Web of Science licence has been extended to include archival yearbooks 2005-2014. The additional yearbooks contain nearly 2 million records from over 7,000 journals, including 30,000 publications with at least one Polish co-author. In particular, ESCI indexes 197 Polish scientific journals, which are also on the MNiSW scoring list.

Source: https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/komunikaty/.

Predator Journals

On September 21, 2018, on the NCN website, a letter was published by the Director of National Science Centre (NCN) regarding the so-called “Predatory magazines”. These journals are often published in the form of “Open Access” </ strong> for significantly inflated prices, with a negligent editorial process. An important issue is also the lack of NCN approval for the publication of articles created as part of projects financed by the National Science Center – the consequence may be the return of funds from the publication and removal of such publication from the report. <! – more ->

Link to the article and letter (PL):

https://ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/2018-09- 21-letter-director-NCN-predatory-journals

Exciting articles explaining the principles of such magazines and references to interesting sources, including websites on this subject were published by dr hab. Emanuel Kulczycki on his scientific blog (PL).

http: / /ekulczycki.pl/teoria_komunikacji/grantu-z-ncn-u-nie-rozliczysz-publikacja-w-drapieznym-czasopismie/

http://ekulczycki.pl/warsztat_badacza/wykaz-czasopism-przunktowanych-i-drapiezni-wydawcy /

An updated list of “predatory journals” so-called Bella List </ strong>:

https://beallslist.weebly.com/