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PROM project – International scholarship exchange of doctoral students and academic staff


General information

The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) awarded the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research PAS in Olsztyn (IAR&FR) with funds for the PROM project – International scholarship exchange of doctoral students and academic staff in the amount of PLN 530 640.

The objective of the project is to foster scholarship exchange addressed to doctoral students and academic staff. The project aims to acquire materials for a doctoral dissertation / scientific article, take measurements using unique equipment, including the use of large research infrastructure unavailable in the home country, as well as participation in the preparation of an international grant application by taking part in:

  • short-term internships abroad (from 5 to 30 days) to increase competences and qualifications,
  • international conferences,
  • summer / winter schools, workshops, trainings etc.

Grant agreement: PPI/PRO/2019/1/00042/U/00001

Project implementation period: 01/10/2019 – 31/10/2022

More information about the PROM program can be found on the NAWA website.

Recruitment for the project

The recruitment takes place in accordance with the „Regulations for the recruitment to the PROM programme – international scholarship exchange of doctoral students and academic staff at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research PAS in Olsztyn„. To participate in the project, please refer to the above mentioned Regulations and submit application documents.

Persons interested in participating in the project submit the following documents:

  • application form,
  • letter of motivation,
  • document confirming the status of doctoral student,
  • opinion of the supervisor or head of the department (applies to PhD students),
  • CV with a list of scientific achievements.

Scans of the signed documents should be sent in a pdf format to the e-mail address nawa@pan.olsztyn.pl or the originals of the signed documents should be forwarded in person or sent by post to the following address: Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Tuwima 10, 10-748 Olsztyn, Poland (room no. 7) with the note „NAWA PROM”.

Persons qualified to participate in the project are informed by e-mail and are required to:

  • sign with IAR&FR an agreement describing the conditions for the implementation / settlement of a given activity and the form of scholarship payment – Agreement template,
  • sign a statement regarding the processing of personal data in connection with joining the project financed from EU funds under the PO WER program – Annex 2 to the Agreement.

Other required documents:

Settlement of participation in the project

After completing participation in a given activity, the project participant is required to submit the following documents to the Project Office within 7 days from the date of return:

Within 14 days upon the end of the activity, the participant is required to complete an on-line evaluation questionnaire, accessible through a link sent by the Project Office along with the access code by e-mail.

Project participants

  1. Karolina WOŁODKO (internship at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK).
  2. Paulina OPYD (participation in: Nutrition Winter School 2020, Diet & Microbes: Gut health for the brain and body, 27-31.01.2020 Levi, Finland).
  3. Giorgia PODICO (Department of Comparative Bioscience, University of Illinois, USA; internship at the Department of Reproductive Immunology and Pathology, IAR&FR PAS).
  4. Małgorzata WIETESKA (IT Sligo, Mathematical Modelling Group, Sligo, Irlandia; internship at the Department of Reproductive Immunology and Pathology, IAR&FR PAS).
  5. Joanna NAJMUŁA (participation in: ISEV 2020 Annual Meeting, 20-22.07.2020).
  6. Magdalena KOWACZ (University of Washington, USA; short visit at the Department of Reproductive Immunology and Pathology, IAR&FR PAS).
  7. Isabel Maria GIMENO MIQUEL (Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario, Asturis, Spain; internship at the Department of Hormonal Action Mechanisms, IAR&FR PAS).
  8. Qurat UL AIN RESHI (University of Tartu, Estonia; internship at the Department of Hormonal Action Mechanisms, IAR&FR PAS).
  9. Mohammad Mehedi HASAN (University of Tartu, Estonia; internship at the Department of Hormonal Action Mechanisms, IAR&FR PAS)).
  10. Ewelina GORYSZEWSKA-SZCZUREK (internship at the Clinic of Reproductive Medicine, Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Zurich, Lindau, Switzerland).
  11. Edyta WALEWSKA (internship at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK).
  12. Norhayati BINTI LIAQAT ALI KHAN (Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; short visit at the Department of Hormonal Action Mechanisms, IAR&FR PAS).
  13. Manish BHATTACHARJEE (Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India; internship at the Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Analysis and Imaging, IAR&FR PAS).
  14. Chanaka Nishan Premathilaka EGODAWATTE GEDARA (Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia; internship at the Department ofHormonal Action Mechanisms, IAR&FR PAS).
  15. Gayandi Chulendra Manike EKANAYAKE MUDIYANSELAGE (Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia; internship at the Department ofHormonal Action Mechanisms, IAR&FR PAS).
  16. Magda SŁYSZEWSKA (internship at Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia).
  17. Natalia WALĘDZIAK (internship at Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia).
  18. Ewelina ŻEBROWSKA (internship at Institute for Molecular Bioscienses, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany).
  19. Abhipsa PANDA (internship at Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain).
  20. Rossella DEBERNARDIS (internship at Fish Physiology and Genomics Institute of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment / Laboratoire de Physiologie et Génomique des Poissons (INRAE), Rennes Cedex, France).
  21. Sylwia MACHCIŃSKA (internship at Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland).
  22. Angelika KOTLARCZYK (internship at Institute of Reproductive Biology, Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology / Institut für Fortpflanzungsbiologie, Forschungsinstitut für Nutztierbiologie (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany).
  23. Ana SARIC (Institute for Biological Research, Belgrad, Serbia; internship at Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Analysis and Imaging, IAR&FR PAS).
  24. Fearghus DOWNES (Institute of Technology Sligo, Sligo, Irlandia; internship at the Department Reproductive Immunology and Pathology, IAR&FR PAS).
  25. dr Krzysztof WITEK (visit at the Hannover Medical School – Research Core Unit for Laser Microscopy, Hannover, Germany).
  26. Amber HART (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Wielka Brytania; internship at the Department ofHormonal Action Mechanisms, IAR&FR PAS).
  27. dr hab. Aneta ANDRONOWSKA (participation in: 11th International Society for Extracellular Vesicles Annual Meeting (ISEV 2022) / ISEV’s Education Day, 25-29.05.2022 Lyon, France).
  28. Monika BARYŁA (internship at Regional Agrifood Research and Development Service / Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desar-rollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Asturias, Spain).
  29. Johana PIITBOR (Institute of veterinary medicine and animal sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia; internship at the Department of Hormonal Action Mechanisms, IAR&FR PAS).
  30. Manohara MAHADEVA (internship at Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal).
  31. Anna WÓJTOWICZ (internship at Institute for Farm Animal Genetics / Institut für Nutztiergenetik, Neustadt, Germany).
  32. Wiesław KASZUBSKI (participation in: 3rd Summer School „Innovative approaches and tools to substantiate the link between dietary polyphenols and health – from clinical to mechanistic research”, INRAE, 12-15.09.2022 Paris, Francja).
  33. dr Kasun GODAGEDARA (Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Estonian University of Life Sciences; visit at the Department ofHormonal Action Mechanisms, IAR&FR PAS).
  34. dr Joanna NYNCA (visit at Fish Physiology and Genomics Institute, French National Research Institute for Agricultu-re, Food and the Environment / Laboratoire de Physiologie et Génomique des Poissons (IN-RAE), Rennes Cedex, France).
  35. dr Damian MUZZIO (short visit at the Department of Biology and Pathology of Human Reproduction, IAR&FR PAS).
  36. Elena ZU KLAMPEN (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute for Farm Animal Genetics, Neustadt, Germany; internship at Reproductive Immunology and Pathology, IAR&FR PAS).
  37. Paulina ZAJĄC (internship at Regional Agrifood Research and Development Service / Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desar-rollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Asturias, Spain).
  38. Saumya GUNASEKARA (internship at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia).
  39. Signe PARTS (Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; internship at Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Analysis and Imaging, IAR&FR PAS).
  40. Seyed Omid Reza MOUSAVI (Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia; internship at the Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Analysis and Imaging, IAR&FR PAS).

Contact

Aneta Andronowska, Ph.D, D.Sc. (tel. +48 89 539 31 20)
Aleksandra Mrozek, M.Sc. (tel. +48 89 5234625)

Project Office: Biuro Wspierania Badań (room no. 7)
Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research PAS, 10 Tuwima St., 10-748 Olsztyn, Poland
e-mail: nawa@pan.olsztyn.pl