DAINA Call for Proposals: 2017 Polish-Lithuanian Funding Initiative

Deadline: 15 December 2017

The National Science Centre (NCN) and the Research Council of Lithuania (RCL) have jointly announced a first call for proposals within the funding initiative DAINA in order to strengthen international academic co-operation, wishing to fund high quality scientific research within their own countries, and conscious that some of the best research can be delivered by working with the best researchers internationally.

The DAINA initiative was started in order to provide funding for integrated Polish-Lithuanian research projects of outstanding scientific quality in all fields of science and the humanities.

Grant Information

The budget of the Polish part of the project must be at least 150 000 PLN.
The budget of the Lithuanian part of the project must not exceed 80 000 EUR (in the case of a 24- month project) or 120 000 EUR (in the case of a 36-month project).

Eligibility Criteria

Researchers are invited to submit proposals in all fields of science and the humanities.
All projects must focus on substantive research and feature an integrated work programme. Scientific infrastructure or networking activities can only be funded within projects with a substantive research focus. As stand-alone projects, infrastructure or networking projects will not be eligible.
All budget items must conform to the national rules relevant for each applicant. Applicants must note that the NCN and RCL retain the right to reject proposals which fail to comply with the procedures set out in the respective guidelines. If a proposal is deemed ineligible by one national agency, the complete project will be rejected by both agencies.
Grants that are considered state aid will not be offered.
If an application has been submitted to any other call or funding line of the NCN, RCL or any other funding agency, this must be clearly stated in the proposal. Please also check the respective national agency’s rules regarding submission of a project to more than one scheme.
A PI may submit only one proposal under the same call Complete proposals must be written in English.
Joint Polish-Lithuanian research projects may be funded for a period of either 24 or 36
The research project must start on the first day of a calendar month, not earlier than 1 September 2018 and not later than 1 January 2019.
Each joint research project must consist of one Polish and one Lithuanian research team. Each team must be led by one Principal Investigator (PI) and hosted either by an eligible Host Institution in Poland or eligible implementing institution in Lithuania.
The Polish PI must have at least a PhD degree when submitting a proposal. The Lithuanian PI must be a scientist.
Eligible Host institutions in Poland: academic or research organisations, research consortia, scientific networks and university organisational institutions which are not basic organizational institutions, research and development centres, Polish Academy of Sciences research centres, university research centres, scientific libraries, organisational institutions having legal personality which have been established on Polish territory.