Dr. hab. Irena Grudzińska-Gross, professor in the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Science is the 2022 recipient of the Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award of The Polish Institute of Arts and Science in New York. The award recognizes the excellence of her academic work. Founded in 1942, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences is a center of science and culture.

We are pleased to announce that three projects from the Institute of Slavic Studies have received funding as part of the POLONEZ BIS 2 competition of the National Science Centre.

Dr Anna Becker from Germany will implement a project titled “New multilingual realities in Polish higher education: The negotiation of language practices, identities, and ideologies in times of unprecedented migration and resurgent nationalism”. Dr hab. Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska, prof. ISS PAS will be her mentor.

Dr Anton Dinerstein from Belarus received funding for a project titled “Power and identity in Russian-language political discourse: The case of Belarus”. The project will be supervised by dr hab. Anna Engelking, prof. ISS PAS.

Dr Orest Semotiuk from Ukraine will conduct research on the topic “Laughter during the war: Russian aggression in Ukraine in political cartoons and memes” under the supervision of dr hab. Roman Roszko, prof. ISS PAS.

In the second edition of the POLONEZ BIS call, 153 applications were submitted to the National Science Centre. 52 projects with a total value of almost PLN 48.2 million were qualified for financing. In the humanities, social sciences, and arts 18 projects received funding.

The POLONEZ BIS call is addressed to researchers from abroad who have a PhD degree or at least four years of full-time research experience and who have not stayed, worked or studied in Poland in the three years preceding the opening date of the call for proposals for more than 12 months in total. In the competition, the applicants can receive funds for the implementation of 24-month research projects, including i.a. remuneration for the PI and members of the research team, including scholarships for students or doctoral students, and expenses necessary for the implementation of the research project.

POLONEZ BIS is co-financed by the European Commission and the National Science Centre under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND grant.

More information on the competition and the results is available on NCN’s website:
https://ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/2022-12-06-wyniki-opus23-preludium21-polonezbis2

We are pleased to announce that Andrzej Żak, MA, received funding under the PRELUDIUM 21 call for the implementation of the project “Acoustic stress correlates in Kashubian”. Andrzej Żak is a PhD student at the Anthropos Doctoral School of the Polish Academy of Sciences, conducting research at the Institute of Slavic Studies and working on his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Irena Sawicka. He is part of the research team of a National Science Centre SONATA BIS grant “Linguistic diversity in Poland: collateral languages, language-oriented activities and conceptualization of collective identity” whose PI is Dr hab. Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska, prof. ISS PAS.

In the PRELUDIUM 21 call for proposals, 2,163 applications were submitted, 258 of them will receive funding. Within the humanities, social sciences, and arts 73 research projects were qualified for funding.

PRELUDIUM is dedicated to research projects carried out by scholars who do not have a doctoral degree. The research team in a project may consist of a maximum of three people, including the project manager and the scientific supervisor.

More information on the competition and the results is available on NCN’s website:

https://ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/2022-12-06-wyniki-opus23-preludium21-polonezbis22

We are proud to announce that dr Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska is among 5 winners of Polityka weekly’s 22nd Scientific Awards. In this way, the successes, efforts and contribution to the development of science of our employee, who studies post-war resettlement in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, were appreciated.

From among hundreds of candidates, 15 finalists are selected each year in five fields of study: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, life sciences and technology. In 2022, the top five received Scientific Awards – scholarships in the amount of PLN 15,000 and an interview in the “Polityka” weekly.

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