Science in Poland

Three sectors:
Universities/Higher Education
scientists

474 institutions, 71 000

140 public state + 334 non-public

private

State Institutes
119 institutions,
2 400 scientists
10 400
Researchers
Overall: of
74Sciences Professors:
Polish Academy
70 institutions, 2 500
000 scientists
HS:
3 900
HS:
31 000
PE:
3 100
PE: 22 000
Engineering:
1 800
Engineering:
15
Exact science: 1 300
000
LS:
3 400
Natural science: 7
Biology
700
000
Agriculture
1 000
LS:
22 000
Medicine
1 700
Biology
5
40 000 PhD students, 10 x more than
000
25 years ago!
Agriculture
5 000

Financing Science
State science budget 2014: 1 550 mln;
growth 10% in 2015, 100% till 2020.
Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Statutory institutional core grants 500 mln
Infrastructure development 60 mln
International cooperation

65 mln

NCBiR 650 mln (R&D grant agency)

NCN

200 mln (basic research grant agency)

EU 2014-2020: > 8 000 mln, mostly via NCBiR

New initiatives:
International Research Agendas (MAB)
Virtual Institutes

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Poland (citations)
Overall: 24
Chemistry: 14
Physics & Astro: 17

% Q1 publications in 2009-2013

% Q1 publications in 2009-2013

% Q1 publications in 2005-2008

Since 2011

NCN Award for researchers

200 mln per year:
<40
15-20% HS; 35% LS; 45-50% PE
LS 2013: Andrzej
up to 0.5 mln
Dziembowski

(ERC starting, EMBO SDIG

ERC-modeled
2-step
peer
up to 1 mln
LS 2014: Janusz Bujnicki
Review procedure:
1st panel of domestic experts (ERC starting, EMBO/HHMI
2nd external reviewers & panel
LS >90% foreign reviews

Grants from NCN (basic research)

SH LS PE
Life Sciences 2011-2013
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Nencki Institute
Warsaw U.
Gdansk U.
Lodz Med.U.

12.5

25 mln

All fields 2011-2013

2012

2013

SYMPHONY: Interdisciplinary projects

2013
Towards quantitative biology via novel method of mobility
measurement in the living cell: interactions of proteins with
intracellular structures of glycogen and mitochondria. J. Duszynski,
Nencki Institute > 1 mln
NeuroPerKog: development of phonematic hearing and working
memory in infants and children. W. Duch, Copernicus University, Torun
> 750 000
Extracellular proteolytic activity of human epithelium - role in the
modulation of signal transduction J. Potempa, Jagiellonan University,
Krakow > 1.5 mln
Neuroengineering control and regulation of behavior A. Wrobel, Nencki
Institute, Warsaw > 1.5 mln
The dual role of the blue light - an interdisciplinary study on effects of
the short wavelength visible light on circadian regulation, neural
aspects of cognitive and effective functioning, and on the light
contribution to degeneration and pathologies of retina T. Sarna,
Jagiellonan University, Krakow > 1.5 mln
Application of hyphenated separation techniques for fractionation of

SYMFONIA -- SYMPHONY
2014
Mitochondrial RNA decay and surveillance - comprehensive
interdisciplinary studies. M. Nowotny, International Institute
of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, 6 879 968 PLN >
1.5 mln
The role of antimicrobial protein-chemerin in skin
pathophysiology. J. Cichy, Jagiellonan University, Krakow, 6
589 560 PLN > 1.5 mln
Development of " Computational Chemical Linguistics" and its
Applications to the Efficient Planning of Multisep Chemical
Syntheses. B. Grzybowski, Insitute of Organic Chemistry PAN
5 427 680 PLN > 1.2 mln
Revealing unknown vitamin B12 reactivity. D. Gryko Insitute of
Organic Chemistry PAN 3 066 800 PLN > 750 000 mln
Dynasty and population of the Piast State in view of the
integrated historical, anthropological and genomic studies. M.
Figlerowicz Insitute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAN 6 000 000 PLN
> 1.4 mln
Transient protein states in designing small-molecule inhibitors

Laureates of the FNP Prize

(the most prestigious PL
award)
Life Sciences
Mol Biol sensu largo 9:
Biochemistry 3
Structural Biology 3
Mol Neurobiology 3
Medicine & Pharmacology
7
Ecology 3
Dev Biol 1

Direct support
Competition
format
Peer-review
method
Scientific
excellence
Hard money
principle
> 25 mln in

Top Research Institutes in Molecular

Biology

Top University Facultie

in Molecular Biology

Krakw

Wroclaw
Gdansk
Poznan

Organizatio
ns

Scientific Committees of PAN:

Biochemistry & Biophysics
Cell Biology
Neurobiology

Scientific Societies:
Polish Biochemical Society
Polish Biophysical Society
Polish Cell Biology Society
Polish Neuroscience Society
Polish Bioinformatics Society

 There is a significant research potential

Especially in structural biology
& neurobiology
Needs to be developed
External collaboration is essential
(EMBL!)

International projects

ELIXIR (European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological

Information), ESFRI project.
NEBI, part of Euro-BioImaging, ESFRI.
POL-OPENSCREEN, part of EU-OPENSCREEN, ESFRI ERIC
project.
SeCuRe, part of MIRRI (Microbial Resource Research
Infrastructure), ESFRI.
BBMRI (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research
Infrastructure), ESFRI.
130 COST actions in Biomedicine and Molecular
Biosciences; Food and Agriculture; Forests, their Products
and Service; Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and
Technologies; Earth System Science and Environmental
Management

In 2014 MNiSW has spend 870 mln PLN (210 mln ) supporting