More funding coming for NCBR for innovative projects – Gowin

The National Research and Development Agency of Poland (the NCBiR), an executive agency of the Ministry of Science, will allot more than PLN 5 billion on innovative projects in 2017, according to Minister of Science Jaroslaw Gowin. He was speaking to reporters at a press briefing. “I want to emphasize that the activities of the NCBR do not exclude any sector,” stressed Gowin to the press in Warsaw. As well, the Gowin elaborated on the comprehensiveness of projects using the money. “We do not stop [at] the continuation of the already introduced mechanisms to the support of the commercialization of R&D. Using the best world experience, for example, we are introducing new solutions, setting ambitious goals and providing public support for innovative projects of high risk,” he stated. The financing, which will come from the EU’s Operational Programme for Development of Intelligent, will be made available through 17 competitions. It supports development and industrial research, commercialization of R&D and cooperation between science and business. The total amount allocated for such scientific research and development for the 2014-2020 period is approximately PLN 36 billion. More than half of this amount is at the disposal of the NCBiR.