Science in Poland• Three sectors:

– Universities/Higher Education 474 institutions, 71 000 scientists140 public „state” + 334 non-public „private”

– State Institutes 119 institutions, 2 400 scientists– Polish Academy of Sciences 70 institutions, 2 500 scientists

Researchers Overall: 74 000HS: 31 000PE: 22 000

Engineering: 15 000Natural science: 7 000

LS: 22 000 Biology 5 000 Agriculture 5 000 Medicine 12 500

Professors: 10 400HS: 3 900PE: 3 100

Engineering: 1 800Exact science: 1 300

LS: 3 400 Biology 700 Agriculture 1 000 Medicine 1 700

40 000 PhD students, 10 x more than 25 years ago!

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: 24Chemistry: 14Physics & Astro: 17

% Q1 publications in 2009-2013

% Q1 publications in 2009-2013

% Q1 publications in 2005-2008

€ 200 mln per year: 15-20% HS; 35% LS; 45-50% PE

ERC-modeled 2-step peer Review procedure:

1st panel of domestic experts

2nd external reviewers & panel

LS >90% foreign reviews

NCN Award for researchers <40 LS 2013: Andrzej Dziembowski

(ERC starting, EMBO SDIG) LS 2014: Janusz Bujnicki

(ERC starting, EMBO/HHMI)

Since 2011

up to € 0.5 mln

up to € 1 mln

Grants from NCN (basic research)SH LS PE

0 12.5 25 mln €

Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Nencki Institute

Warsaw U.

Gdansk U.

Lodz Med.U.

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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 nanoparticles and metabolites of antibiotic nature produced by actinomycetes of extreme environments B. Buszewski Copernicus University, Torun > € 700 000

SYMFONIA -- SYMPHONY2014 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 of protein-protein interactions. T. Holak Jagiellonan University, Krakow, 6 496 600 PLN > € 1.5 mln

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 Evolution 1

• Direct support • Competition format• Peer-review method • Scientific excellence • “Hard money”

principle

> € 25 mln in 2013

Top Research Institutes in Molecular Biology

Kraków

Wroclaw

Gdansk

Poznan

Top University Faculties in Molecular Biology

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

Organizations

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 258 research units doing life science research, not counting infrastructure investments and stipends for students/young researchers.