NCN

OPUS 32 LAP/Weave

Deadline: 15 December 202643 days left · at 14:00
Winning projects received: median 1,797,670 PLN

What it funds

Funds basic research across all NCN panels for eligible Polish institutions, legal entities and individuals, with optional or format-specific international cooperation.

Basic research · Research equipment and software · International research cooperation

Who can apply

For researchers at any career stage. The lead has at least one work published or accepted for print or, in the arts, one artistic achievement.

Institution: The university that hosts the project applies. At Wrocław University of Science and Technology it goes through the Projects Office (Dział Projektów).

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.

Wyłącznie badania podstawowe; zakaz podwójnego finansowania tych samych badań.
W OPUS współpraca zagraniczna jest opcjonalna; w OPUS LAP partnerzy składają równoległe wnioski do właściwych agencji.
Nie można finansować aparatury ani infrastruktury informatycznej o wartości jednostkowej powyżej 500 000 zł.
Wniosek elektroniczny w OSF do 15 grudnia 2026 r., godz. 14:00.

Conditions to check

Answer every question. Check each "no" in the rules before you start the application.

Do you have at least one work published or accepted for print or, in the arts, one artistic achievement?

NCN limits

In one edition of the competitions you can be the project lead in one application only. In this edition you choose one: OPUS, OPUS LAP or SONATA. With two applications NCN takes the one sent first.
In calls that close after 1 January 2027 you can be the project lead in one application a calendar year. A second one is possible when one of them is OPUS LAP or a competition with foreign agencies, and the two are in different editions.
NCN projects you lead, plus your applications in evaluation or qualified for funding, can total two at most. Leading lasts until the final report is filed. PRELUDIUM BIS and DIOSCURI do not count.
The limit rises to three only if you lead an OPUS LAP project or one from a competition run with foreign agencies, or have such an application in evaluation.

Read on 2 November 2026: NCN Regulations, Rada NCN resolutions 18/2026 and 73/2026, §7–§10 (our reader could not open the NCN page, so this is a copy and a web search)

Rules read on 30 October 2026 from: ncn.gov.pl Confirm them in the announcement.

Deadline and amount as of 24 October 2026.

Who won before

Wrocław University of Science and Technology · 231 projects since 2017

OASIS: Rozwijanie inżynieryjnego i zrównoważonego potencjału zaawansowanych organicznych systemów jonowychJoanna Feder-Kubis · Faculty of Chemistry · whole project 2,902,300 PLN
Dekompozycja modów Laguerr'a - Gauss'a z wykorzystaniem uczenia głębokiegoMateusz Szatkowski · Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology · 1,817,150 PLN
Identifying conservation laws and slow modes in macroscopic quantum lattice modelsMarcin Piotr Mierzejewski · Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology · 733,800 PLN · 2026
Physics-aware multimodal self-supervised learning with tensor decompositions for detection and identification of cyclostationary impulsive fault signatures in rotating machineryRafał Zdunek · Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems · 690,400 PLN · 2026
Badania dynamiki powstawania i ewolucji filmu cieczowego w dwufazowych przepływach w rurkach kapilarnych przy wykorzystaniu konfokalnych chromatycznych czujników przemieszczenia wraz z metody PIV.Sławomir Paweł Pietrowicz · Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering · 3,600,220 PLN · 2025

Other Polish institutions · 6,658 projects

Translational study of intracranial aneurysm–associated neuroinflammation: from clinical observations to experimental animal models.Bartosz Pomierny · Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie · 4,327,480 PLN · 2026
The Role of Periostin in Stromal Remodeling and Therapeutic Resistance in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer (NEPCHubert Pakuła · Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy · 4,017,132 PLN · 2026
Impact of gut microbiome-derived metabolites on T-cell metabolic dysfunction and immune exhaustion in chronic lymphocytic leukemiaKrzysztof Giannopoulos · Uniwersytet Medyczny w Lublinie · 3,984,754 PLN · 2026
The role of cytokeratin 16 and 17 in wound healing in diabetic rats – research into molecular mechanisms using keratin-sericin biomaterial.Marek Konop · Warszawski Uniwersytet Medyczny · 3,950,734 PLN · 2026
Applications of Wasserstein metrics in NMR spectroscopyKrzysztof Kazimierczuk · Uniwersytet Warszawski · 3,794,512 PLN · 2026

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 staff who run NCN calls that you plan to apply.
By 1 December 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 (individual project: annex 1a) and annex 1b
In a partner project, the notice starts the check of the cooperation agreement.
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 (investment project: annex 2a for equipment, annex 2b for construction)
In OSF, add the Projects Office as an assistant editor (login DZP), so it can check the application before it goes out.
By 4 December 2026Hand in the application documents for the Projects Office to check at least 7 working days before the application goes out, also when PWr is a partner or a consortium member.Documents: application documents
Hand in the consent to take part in the project, signed by the head of the unit and the project lead.Documents: consent to take part (template on the Projects Office's NCN page)
15 December 2026, at 14:00, Polish timeThe last moment to file the application with the funder.Source of the hour: Biuro Obsługi Badań UW

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