Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej

2.2 First Team Dual Use, Fundusze Europejskie dla Nowoczesnej Gospodarki

Deadline: 20 November 202618 days left · at 16:00
Amount per project: up to 4,000,000 PLN

What it funds

Funds research organisations conducting dual-use R&D with foreign scientific and Polish business partners; only the research organisation receives funding.

Dual-use technologies · Applied research · Experimental development · Science-business cooperation

Who can apply

The principal investigator holds a doctorate. The call states the period after it.

Institution: The funding goes to a research organisation, such as a university.

Your career stage

Before the doctorateAfter the doctorateAfter habilitation

Give your stage and we tell you whether this call is for you.

Rules of this edition

In Polish, as the source we read gives them.

Projekt dotyczy technologii podwójnego zastosowania i wpisuje się w KIS oraz jeden z obszarów tematycznych naboru.
Obowiązkowa współpraca z co najmniej jednym zagranicznym partnerem naukowym i jednym krajowym przedsiębiorstwem.
Główny wykonawca 2–12 lat po doktoracie, z dopuszczalnymi przedłużeniami; zatrudnienie na rzecz projektu minimum 0,5 etatu.
Finansowanie nie obejmuje badań podstawowych. Wnioski do 20 listopada 2026 r., godz. 16:00 czasu polskiego.

Rules checked on 30 October 2026 on the operator's page: fnp.org.pl

Deadline and amount as of 1 November 2026.

Who won before

Wrocław University of Science and Technology · 2 projects since 2017

Fiber-based mid-infrared frequency combs for laser spectroscopy and environmental monitoringGrzegorz Jakub Soboń · Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems · 4,574,235 PLN · 2018
Nonlinear Optics, Nanoparticles and Amyloids (NONA) – application of nonlinear optics and gold nanoparticles to study amyloid formationJoanna Olesiak-Bańska · Faculty of Chemistry · whole project 2,100,820 PLN · 2017

Other Polish institutions · 6 projects

Innowacyjne urządzenie dynamic_DCIS_device naśladujące dynamiczną architekturę inwazji przewodowego raka piersi in situ oraz poznanie komponentów molekularnych zaangażowanych w ten procesPaulina Nastały · Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny · 3,963,720 PLN · 2026
Innowacyjna (nano)hormonochemioterapia: Nowe strategie dostarczania leków w terapii hormonozależnych nowotworów piersiBarbara Pucelik · Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz - Krakowski Instytut Technologiczny · 3,999,920 PLN · 2024
ANFIBIOM - an anti-inflammatory, antifibrotic biological medicinal product modulating wound healingMarta Pokrywczyńska · Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu · 3,994,900 PLN · 2024
Nanofibre-based sponges for atopic skin treatmentUrszula Stachewicz · Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie · 3,935,000 PLN · 2018
Audio Processing using Distributed Acoustic SensorsKonrad Kowalczyk · Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie · 2,497,625 PLN · 2017

Sources: RAD-on (OPI-PIB), CORDIS, Baza of Wrocław University of Science and Technology. For the university's projects we give its part of the sum and the award year.

Next steps at Wrocław University of Science and Technology

FirstBefore you start work on the application, tell the head of your unit and set out the project's risks. You need written consent to prepare and run the project. The head of the unit also names the project lead on the notice form.
Tell the Projects Office you plan to apply.
By 5 November 2026Hand in the original project notice at the Projects Office secretariat, signed by the project lead and the dean (in another unit: its head), at least 10 working days before the application goes out. Hand in the signed risk analysis with it. When the project spans several units, their heads consent to their own tasks.Documents: annex 1 to ZW 2/2023 and annex 1b
Before the application goes out (the rules give no number of days)Hand the original annex on the project's scope to the Bursar's Office (Kwestura) for a VAT opinion, and request the VAT eligibility statement in the form the funder requires. When the statement exists only in the funder's system, attach a printout from it. Send a scan of the opinion to the Projects Office. A copy of the statement later goes with the request to open the project.Documents: annex 2 to ZW 2/2023
Attach the mandatory documents to the application.Documents: letter of intent from the foreign research partner, letter from the Polish business partner, principal investigator's statement, schedule of work and costs
By 10 November 2026Send the application to the Projects Office for checking as a PDF generated by the system, at least 7 working days before the application goes out. The FNP system cannot add users.Documents: the application as a PDF from the FNP system
After the check and your corrections, close the application for editing. A closed application cannot be reopened or changed.
The Vice-Rector must sign the application. Download the closed application as one PDF and pass it to the Projects Office, which arranges the signature.Documents: one PDF with all attachments
The Projects Office returns the signed application with a power of attorney. Attach both in the FNP system and send the application.
20 November 2026, at 16:00, Polish timeThe last moment to file the application with the funder.Source of the hour: FNP, ogłoszenie o naborze

The dates count statutory holidays, not days off set by the Rector.

The rules on the Projects Office site

Contact

Dział ProjektówMain Building, A-1, room 150AWyb. Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław+48 71 320 45 71 dp@pwr.edu.pl