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Foundation for Polish Science Annual Report Foundation for Polish FOUNDATION FOR POLISH SCIENCE Krasickiego 20/22 Science 02-611 Warszawa phone: (+48) 22 845 95 01 e-mail: [email protected] Annual Report www.fnp.org.pl FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/FundacjanarzeczNaukiPolskiej YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/user/FundacjaFNP 2013 Wspierać najlepszych, aby mogli stać się jeszcze lepsi ISSN: 2299 2588 Supporting only the best, so that they can become even better. www.fnp.org.pl Foundation The programmes WELCOME, International PhD Projects (MPD), TEAM, VENTURES, PARENT-BRIDGE, and HOMING PLUS are co-financed from the European Regional Development Fund within the Innovative Economy Operational Programme. for Polish Science Annual Report The SKILLS project is co-financed from the European Social Fund within the Human Capital Operational Programme. 2013 www.fnp.org.pl 02 03 Annual Report 2013 About the Foundation About the Foundation Annual Report 2013 Supporting only the best, so that they can become even better The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has been active The Foundation’s founding capital of 95 million zlotys (this funding is being spent in 2008-2015). In addition, since 1991. It is a non-governmental, apolitical, non-profit originated from the Central Fund for the Development thanks to funding from the Human Capital Operational organization with a mission to support science. It is the of Science and Technology, which was liquidated in 1990, Programme (Measure 4.2 “Development of R&D system largest Polish non-governmental source of funding for whereupon the capital was directed to the FNP by a deci- staff qualifications and improving the awareness of the research. sion of the Polish parliament. For more than 20 years, role of science in economic growth”), the Foundation these funds were effectively increased by way of invest- launched the SKILLS project in 2011 and will receive THE FOUNDATION CARRIES OUT ITS STATUTORY ment, for example in bonds, investment fund units and 36 million zlotys for its implementation in 2010-2015. TASKS BY: shares, allowing the Foundation to create a stable and • supporting leading scientists and research teams, secure financial base. Thanks to the funds raised from By the end of 2013, the Foundation had spent over 330 • modernizing research facilities in all fields of science, financial market operations, the Foundation had allo- million zlotys on programmes supported by European • assisting innovative projects and the commercialisation cated a total of more than 445 million zlotys to science funds (IE OP and HC OP). of scientific discoveries and inventions. by the end of 2013. The value of the Foundation’s funds is currently more than 340 million zlotys. Since 2005, the Foundation has held the status of a pub- THE FOUNDATION OPERATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH lic benefit organization, which entitles it, among other ITS GUIDING MOTTO: SUPPORTING ONLY THE BEST, In 2003-2004, the Foundation received extra funding for things, to accept donations from private individuals of SO THAT THEY CAN BECOME EVEN BETTER AS WELL supporting science on the basis of the privatisation law 1% of their personal income tax for its statutory activ- AS THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES: of 29 March 2000, “On amendments to the law on the ity. The funds obtained from such donations are directed • support is provided directly to scientists and research privatisation of enterprises...”. The law stated that 2% towards supplementing the stipends for beneficiaries of teams, of the revenue obtained from privatising State Treasury the competitions for young scientists – in 2006-2009, • all grants, prizes and stipends are awarded by way of companies was to be added to the Foundation’s assets. these were stipends for scientists returning from abroad a competition, The resulting amount of 51.7 million zlotys was used to (POWROTY/HOMING programme), and from 2010 – sti- • the leading criterion in awarding support is scientific form a separate fund earmarked solely for financing sti- pends for the most outstanding beneficiaries in the START excellence, pends for young scientists (START programme). In 2007, programme’s competition. • the achievements and output of FNP competition en- the Foundation received supplementary funding for its trants is evaluated by scientists respected in their fields POWROTY/HOMING programme from the European Eco- In order to ensure that its activities remain transpar- – both Polish and international (peer review method), nomic Area Financial Mechanism. In 2008 it launched ent, the Foundation publishes extensive information • support is provided according to the „hard money” programmes financed by the structural funds available on its activity in the form of Annual Reports and hires principle (high selectivity when choosing recipients). under Measure 1.2 “Strengthening the human resources renowned auditing companies to have its financial state- potential of science” of the Innovative Economy Opera- ments audited. The Annual Reports are available on the tional Programme. As a beneficiary of the IE OP’s key Foundation’s website. programmes, the FNP will receive 421 million zlotys 04 05 Annual Report 2013 Authorities of the Foundation for Polish Science The Foundation for Polish Science Staff Annual Report 2013 AUTHORITIES THE FOUNDATION OF THE FOUNDATION FOR POLISH FOR POLISH SCIENCE SCIENCE STAFF status on 31 December 2013 THE EXECUTIVE BOARD PROGRAMME DIVISION ACCOUNTING AND ADMINISTRATION DIVISION OF THE FOUNDATION Michał Pietras Wanda Krzemińska Director of the Programme Division Director of Finance and Administration, PRESIDENT Prof. Maciej Żylicz, PhD habil. Chief Accountant PROGRAMME COORDINATION SECTION DEPUTY PRESIDENT Tomasz Poprawka, PhD ACCOUNTING & TAX SECTION Prof. Włodzimierz Bolecki, PhD habil. Deputy Director of the Programme Division Małgorzata Pieńkowska Monika Biłas-Henne, PhD Deputy Director of Finance and Administration DEPUTY PRESIDENT Beata Frączak, PhD Alicja Chmielińska Tomasz S. Perkowski, PhD Krystyna Frąk Dorota Komosa Anna Jeż, PhD Iwona Pachnowska The FNP’s Executive Board (from left): Prof. W. Bolecki, Dariusz Łukaszewski, PhD Katarzyna Siemieńczuk T.S. Perkowski, PhD, Prof. M. Żylicz. Joanna Rutkowska, PhD Monika Wolińska Kinga Słomińska Małgorzata Zawłocka Magdalena Sordyl Ewa Śliwowska ADMINISTRATION & SERVICES THE FOUNDATION’S COUNCIL Małgorzata Świtalska-Bury Hubert Choma Julia Zimmermann Wojciech Janikowski Piotr Urbaniak (term of office from 1 September 2012 to 31 August 2016) CONTRACTS AND CONTROL SECTION CHAIRMAN Dorota Sierak DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS DIVISION Prof. Andrzej Jerzmanowski, PhD habil. Deputy Director of the Programme Division OFFICE OF THE BOARD Jacek Kornacki Magdalena Borowska-Wittlin DEPUTY CHAIRMAN Aleksandra Kowalska Katarzyna Demczuk Prof. Irena E. Kotowska, PhD habil. Paweł Kulesza Agata Szostakiewicz Viktoryia Luchko MEMBERS : Monika Machnikowska FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND INVESTMENT Prof. Leon Gradoń, PhD habil. Marcin Marcinków Krystyna Akacka Prof. Henryk Koroniak, PhD habil. Lidia Rachocka Aneta Antolak Prof. Marek Z. Świtoński, PhD habil. Mirosław Serwaczyński Prof. Wojciech Tygielski, PhD habil. Irmina Sitnicka LEGAL SECTION Prof. Karol I. Wysokiński, PhD habil. Katarzyna Bojańczyk – Radca prawny RESEARCHER DEVELOPMENT SECTION Anna Bergiel HONORARY MEMBER Prof. Maciej W. Grabski, PhD habil. eng. Adam Zieliński Deputy Director of the Programme Division PUBLIC RELATIONS Jagoda Brewczak Magdalena Kołomańska Sonia Kamińska, PhD Elżbieta Marczuk Aleksandra Krypa Justyna Puławska Marta Michalska-Bugajska Dominika Wojtysiak-Łańska Justyna Motrenko Grażyna Żebrowska, PhD (contacts with U.S. institutions) Katarzyna Pronobis Jakub Rytka PROGRAMME EVALUATION & ANALYSIS Emilia Wojewoda Marta Łazarowicz-Kowalik The FNP’s Council (from left, top row): M.Z. Świtoński, H. Koroniak, L. Gradoń, W. Tygielski, (below): A. Jerzmanowski, I.E. Kotowska, K.I. Wysokiński. HUMAN RESOURCES Joanna Antas 06 07 Annual Report 2013 The Foundation for Polish Science Staff The Foundation for Polish Science Staff Annual Report 2013 The FNP Staff Krystyna Akacka Aneta Antolak Monika Biłas-Henne, PhD Katarzyna Bojańczyk Michał Pietras Tomasz Poprawka, PhD Katarzyna Pronobis Lidia Rachocka Magdalena Borowska-Wittlin Hubert Choma Katarzyna Demczuk Beata Frączak, PhD Joanna Rutkowska, PhD Mirosław Serwaczyński Irmina Sitnicka Kinga Słomińska Krystyna Frąk Wojciech Janikowski Anna Jeż, PhD Magdalena Kołomańska Magdalena Sordyl Małgorzata Świtalska-Bury Piotr Urbaniak Dominika Wojtysiak-Łańska Dorota Komosa Aleksandra Krypa Viktoryia Luchko Marta Łazarowicz-Kowalik Monika Wolińska Małgorzata Zawłocka Adam Zieliński Julia Zimmermann Marcin Marcinków Elżbieta Marczuk Marta Michalska-Bugajska Justyna Motrenko Grażyna Żebrowska, PhD 08 09 Annual Report 2013 Letter from the Chairman of the Foundation’s Council Letter from the Chairman of the Foundation’s Council Annual Report 2013 Letter from the Chairman of the Foundation’s Council Dear Readers, have been and still are negligible. This is one of the rea- tion’s Council, we have no doubts that the FNP can and In 2013, similarly to previous years, the Council of the sons why we spent the last year thinking about whether should be more widely involved in this area. Foundation for Polish Science fulfilled its statutory tasks the Foundation couldn’t play a much more serious role in close cooperation with the Board. The Council was kept in this aspect. We feel that the greatest opportunity lies In 2013, as in previous years, we continued to carefully up to date on the Board’s day-to-day
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