The National Science Centre has announced the 14^th edition of the OPUS and PRELUDIUM funding opportunities and the 1^st edition of the Polish-Lithuanian DAINA programme. Scholars carrying out basic research will compete for a total of € 83.4 million in funding.

– OPUS 14, funding scheme offers grants for the performance of basic research to all scientists, irrespective of their research experience (proposals submitted under this scheme may include the purchase or construction of research equipment);

– PRELUDIUM 14, offers funds to researchers at the beginning of their career who have not been awarded their PhD degree yet.

– DAINA 1, a new funding opportunity for joint Polish-Lithuanian research teams to be launched by the National Science Centre (NCN) and the Research Council of Lithuania (Lietuvos mokslo taryba, LMT). The programme aims to support research projects in all fields of science and the humanities.

Proposals must be submitted via the ZSUN/OSF system (https://osf.opi.org.pl) by 15^th December 2017.

The next HIL’s PAC meeting will be on 10th of March 2017 and starting at
10:00am. The agenda of the PAC meeting is here Agenda_PAC_10_March_2017

Since October 2015, the University of Warsaw has been celebrating 200th anniversary. 525 employees, who extraordinarily contribute to the development of their faculties, and thus the entire University, were honored with Medals of the 200th Anniversary.

In Heavy Ion Laboratory silver medals were awarded to:

• Jarosław Choiński
• Jerzy Jastrzebski
• Paweł Napiorkowski
• Krzysztof Rusek
• Julian Srebrny
• Anna Stolarz

The Medals ceremonies were held on 23rd and 30st November, 2016.