SONATINA 11

Applicant types

Individual

Purpose

Research and innovation

R&D relevance

1 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

—

Region

Any

Consortium

Unclear

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Topics

• Early-career research
• Postdoctoral research

Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026

Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.

Application restriction

Detailed SONATINA 11 conditions, procedure and start dates remain pending Council resolutions according to NCN's planned schedule.

Do not treat earlier SONATINA editions as the rules for SONATINA 11.

Eligible project scope

NCN's national-competitions page describes the SONATINA competition line as research projects by persons with a doctoral degree obtained within three years before the application year. This is the general category description on the page, not a verified complete eligibility rule for SONATINA 11.

The current schedule gives no reference-date calculation, exclusions or extensions. Confirm the SONATINA 11-specific cutoff and exceptions from its final call materials.

Other condition

Resolution 73/2026 states that its common project-funding rules cover, among other named competitions, SONATINA.

These are the current common regulations reviewed here; future SONATINA 11 call documents may supply additional or call-specific conditions that have not yet been reviewed.

Other condition

The common evaluation criteria include a planned international fellowship as a 10% criterion in the SONATINA proposal evaluation. This is an evaluation criterion, not evidence that every project must include a fellowship or that a particular travel allowance is funded.

No separate fellowship duration, destination, travel amount or cost entitlement is asserted; consult the SONATINA 11 application documents when published.

Other condition

The planned 2026 schedule lists SONATINA 11 for opening on 15 December 2026, submission until 15 March 2027, and decision by September 2027.

These are calendar dates, not a confirmation that the future call has already opened. The schedule expressly says detailed conditions, procedure and commencement dates will be posted after Council resolutions.

Eligible cost

For additional remuneration, the common NCN regulation allows employment contracts at full or part time and civil-law contracts for research-team members; student and doctoral-candidate remuneration is excluded from this pool except in PRELUDIUM and SONATINA.

A team member employed under an employment contract by the implementing entity may receive additional remuneration only in a form other than a civil-law contract. This describes eligible forms, not a requirement to hire.

Eligible cost

The common NCN regulation's remuneration-and-scholarship category covers remuneration, non-wage employment costs and scholarships only for research-team members, defined there as the project leader and other project performers.

This is a cost-category boundary, not a call-specific staffing roster or hiring entitlement.

Rates and allowances

An allowance, cap or unit contribution is not a guaranteed salary.

• Reference · Salary · unspecifiedPLN 1,500/ month

  Reference amount from the current common NCN rules only, not a SONATINA 11 salary promise or entitlement. The rule describes the listed limit and associated conditions for SONATINA; whether it governs the forthcoming SONATINA 11 call must be checked against the final Council-approved call documents. Maximum combined additional-remuneration budget per planned project month for all project performers other than the project leader; this is a project-wide shared pool, not a per-person rate. Student and doctoral-candidate remuneration is permitted in the SONATINA additional-remuneration pool under the stated exception, subject to the same shared-pool scope and the future call documents.

• Reference · Salary · personPLN 140,000/ year

  Reference amount from the current common NCN rules only, not a SONATINA 11 salary promise or entitlement. The rule describes the listed limit and associated conditions for SONATINA; whether it governs the forthcoming SONATINA 11 call must be checked against the final Council-approved call documents. Up to PLN 140,000 per year for the project leader's full-time project-dedicated employment salary under the current common rule. Conditional on no other direct-cost salary from NCN research projects, no employment salary from another employer (including abroad), and no pension/equivalent benefits. SONATINA is excluded from the option to shorten this full-time salary period below the project term. This is not a call-specific guarantee or salary promise.

• Doctoral candidate

  Budget estimate rule only

  Reference to the current common NCN rules only: the student/doctoral remuneration section excludes these payments from the additional-remuneration pool except for PRELUDIUM and SONATINA. This does not establish that the exception or any separate pool applies to SONATINA 11; no SONATINA 11 headcount, role, FTE, individual rate or stipend ceiling is asserted.

• Researcher

  Budget estimate rule only

  Reference to the current common NCN rules only. They permit additional remuneration for research-team members and list a SONATINA shared monthly pool for all performers other than the project leader. This is not confirmed as a SONATINA 11 entitlement pending the call-specific resolutions and terms. No headcount, qualifications, FTE or individual rate is set.

• Researcher

  Budget estimate rule only

  Reference to the current common NCN rules only. They list a project-dedicated full-time employment option for a project leader in SONATINA, subject to the stated conditions; this packet does not establish that the rule will govern the forthcoming SONATINA 11 call. The option is not a requirement to hire or a call-specific entitlement. The schedule says detailed call conditions await Council resolutions.

• Student

  Budget estimate rule only

  Reference to the current common NCN rules only: the student/doctoral remuneration section excludes these payments from the additional-remuneration pool except for PRELUDIUM and SONATINA. This does not establish that the exception or any separate pool applies to SONATINA 11; no SONATINA 11 headcount, role, FTE, individual rate or stipend ceiling is asserted.

• NCN research-project regulations and cost rules, Resolution 73/2026 Annex 1

  ncn.gov.pl

• NCN planned 2026 competition schedule (official page)

  ncn.gov.pl

• NCN national competitions listing (official page)

  ncn.gov.pl

Opens

15 Dec 2026

Provider

NCN

Source

ncn.gov.pl

Checked

23 Oct 2026

Review status

Partial review

Reviewed

23 Oct 2026