Research Grants

Projects
    • Project Title: DEMRES: The effectiveness of discursive strategies of democratic backsliding and democratic resilience
      Principal Investigator: dr hab. Agnieszka Kwiatkowska
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2025
      Project webpage: https://agnieszka.es/demres.html
    • Project Title: Germany – Poland – Ukraine. Joint textbook projects in the context of social change following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022
      Principal Investigator: Tomasz Stryjek
      Funding Institution: German-Polish Science Foundation
      Start of the project: 2025
    • Project Title: Constructing policy change: How do political entrepreneurs use multilevel contextual and political factors to bring about change in the European Union’s foreign policy?
      Principal Investigator: Monika Sus
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2025
    • Project Title: Career trajectories in the security apparatus of the Polish People’s Republic. A study of the social foundations of dictatorship
      Principal Investigator: Piotr Osęka
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2025
    • Project Title: Comparative perspectives on students, generations and communism
      Principal Investigator: Tom Junes
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2024
    • Project Title: Strangers among their own. Political and identity dilemmas of Polish communists of Jewish origin
      Principal Investigator: Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2024
    • Project Title: The image of Polish-Jewish relations in Israeli public discourse (1948–1967) – a survey
      Principal Investigator: Magdalena Semczyszyn
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2024
    • Project Title: “Double diaspora.” Poles in Ukraine and from Ukraine during full-scale war
      Principal Investigator: Grzegorz Demel
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2024
    • Project Title: Scientific and expert conference: “Ukrainian communities in Poland: relations and discourses”
      Principal Investigator: Grzegorz Demel
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2025
    • Project Title: Richard Pipes Conference
      Principal Investigator: Bartłomiej Krzysztan
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2024
    • Project Title: Poland under German occupation, 1939–1945. Textbook (Polish-German Foundation for Science)
      Principal Investigator: Paweł Machcewicz
      Funding Institution: German-Polish Science Foundation
      Start of the project: 2023
    • Project Title: The political nature of the Baroque. The state and sovereign power in the thought of Benedict Spinoza
      Principal Investigator: Antonina Wiktoria Januszkiewicz
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2023
    • Project Title: New life from the ashes. The Bund in Poland, 1944–1949
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2023
    • Project Title: Poles in the North Caucasus in the light of archival materials – edition of sources
      Principal Investigator: Przemysław Adamczewski
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2022
    • Project Title: The anti-Zionist campaign 1967-1968: a new synthesis (details)
      Principal Investigator: Dariusz Stola
      Start of the project: 2022
    • Project Title: Far-right parties in the European Union and European integration in the years 1992–2004
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2023
    • Project Title: PowerUp: Internationalization and organizational strengthening of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the field of servicing foreign doctoral students and researchers
      Funding Institution: The Polish National Agency For Academic Exchange
      Start of the project: 2022
    • Project Title: The formation of modern Austrian nation
      Principal Investigator: Piotr Andrzejewski
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2022
    • Project Title: The Three Seas Initiative Research Center
      Principal Investigator: Agnieszka Orzelska-Stączek
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2022
    • Project Title: “For our freedom and yours” – Poles and the Caucasus
      Principal Investigator: Przemysłam Adamczewski
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2021
    • Project Title: A troublesome ally? The Polish People’s Republic and the Republic of Poland in the political structures of the Warsaw Pact in 1980–1991
      Principal Investigator: Wanda Jarząbek
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2021
    • Project Title: Wierzchowiny 1945: facts and myths, contemporary historical discourses and disputes over the perpetration of crimes and the National Armed Forces
      Principal Investigator: Mariusz Zajączkowski
      Funding Institution: Ministry Of Science And Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2021
    • Project Title: Between Metaphysics and Politics: Neo-Confucianism and Monism in the Early Modern European Thought
      Principal Investigator: Mateusz Janik
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2019
    • Project Title: Causes and Consequences of Political Trust: Political Polarization and Democratic Utility of Trust in Comparative Perspective
      Principal Investigator: Marta Kołczyńska
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2019
    • Project Title: High Representative as Policy Entrepreneur. The Dynamics of EU Foreign Policy Decision Making After 2009
      Principal Investigator: Monika Sus
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2019
    • Project Title: Principles, Patterns, and Practices of Everyday Multiconfessional Coexistence in Lviv at the Turn of 16th and 17th Century
      Principal Investigator: Jakub Wysmułek
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2019
    • Project Title: Legal Regulations on Commemmorating the Past in the Russian Federation. Do Commemmorative Acts Fulfil the Aims of History-Based Politics of the Russian Federation after the Year 2000 and to What Extent
      Principal Investigator: Dagmara Moskwa
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2019
    • Project Title: Three Generations of the Polish Transformation. Analysis of Social Change in the Cohort Perspective
      Principal Investigator: Ireneusz Sadowski
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2018
    • Project Title: The Book Program for Poland, 1956-1989
      Principal Investigator: Paweł Sowiński
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2017
    • Project Title: Historical Cultures in Transition: Negotiating Memory, History and Identity in the Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
      Principal Investigator: Tomasz A. Stryjek
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2017
    • Project Title: Philosophy and Negativity in Hegel and Žižek
      Principal Investigator: Bartosz Wójcik
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2017
    • Project Title: Prisons in Poland 1944-1956 – Forms and Mechanisms of Building Social Relationships and Strategies for Survival in the Conditions of the Prison System Shaped by the Authoritarian Regime
      Principal Investigator: Anna Machcewicz
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2017
    • Project Title: Co-Production of Welfare Services: Education and Social Assistance Policy in Poland after 1989
      Principal Investigator: Anna Ciepielewska-Kowalik
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2016
    • Project Title: Differentiated Integration, Turkish Accession Prospects and EU Geopolitics
      Principal Investigator: Jakub Wódka
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2016
    • Project Title: “Post-Transitional Elite” and “Elite of Poland as a Member of the West”. Reproduction or Replacement?
      Principal Investigator: Witold Betkiewicz
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2016
    • Project Title: Economic Foundations of Geopolitical Supremacy
      Principal Investigator: Tomasz G. Grosse
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2016
    • Project Title: Historical and Contemporary International Aspects of “Operation Vistula” in 1947: Political and Military Cooperation of Poland, USSR, and the Czechoslovakia, Propaganda Justification for Expulsions and Combating Guerilla Units, Current Reflections in Historiography and Politics of Memory
      Principal Investigator: Grzegorz Motyka
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2016
    • Project Title: Juliusz Mieroszewski’s Reflections on the Position of Poland in Europe and in the World. An Archive Query
      Principal Investigator: Wojciech Łysek
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2018
    • Project Title: Lviv at a Time of Martin Gruneweg (1582-1602): A Study of Interethnic and Interreligious Relations in an Early Modern Town
      Principal Investigator: Jakub Wysmułek
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2017
    • Project Title: Policy of Making State Identity in Multi-Ethnic States in South Caucasus
      Principal Investigator: Przemysław Adamczewski
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2016
    • Project Title: “Enforcers”. The Collective Portrait of the Security Apparatus Staff in the Polish People’s Republic 1944-1990
      Principal Investigator: Piotr Osęka
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2016
    • Project Title: Study of Case SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger – Squads and Units of Foreign Volunteers in War Struggles of Two Empires (Third Reich and USSR) 1940-1945
      Principal Investigator: Hubert Kuberski
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2015
    • Project Title: Documents of the Breakthrough Period. Polish Systemic Transformation, 1989-1991, in the Light of the Documents of the Civic Parliamentary Caucus Affiliated to the President of the “Solidarność” Trade Union and those of Civic Committees of the “Solidarność”
      Principal Investigator: Irena A. Słodkowska
      Funding Institution: Ministry of Science and Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2014
    • Project Title: People in Nets: The Impact of Social Context on an Individual and its Role in Structuring the Society
      Principal Investigator: Bogdan Mach
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2014
    • Project Title: Punishment, Memory and Politics: Settling Accounts with the Past Since the WWII
      Principal Investigator: Andrzej Paczkowski
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2014
    • Project Title: The Secularization of Political Thinking in Russia. The Transition from the Religious Idea of ”Proper Existence” to the Idea of Empire and Geopolitics
      Principal Investigator: Włodzimierz Marciniak
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2014
    • Project Title: Soviet Authorities’ Policy on Jewish Socialists-Jewish Labour Party Bund – in the Years 1939-1957
      Principal Investigator: Martyna Rusiniak-Karwat
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2014
    • Project Title: “Solidarność” – the Origin of the Revolution, Mobilization and De-mobilization of the Movement. “Solidarność”, New Approach to the Social Movement
      Principal Investigator: Marcin Zaremba
      Funding Institution: Ministry of Science and Higher Education
      Start of the project: 2013
    • Project Title: Europeanization of Political Parties and Interest Groups in the Context of the Eastern Partnership
      Principal Investigator: Agnieszka Cianciara
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2013
    • Project Title: To Who’s Advantage?-the Polish German Policy, 1944/45-1989/90
      Principal Investigator: Wanda Jarząbek
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2013
    • Project Title: Social Engineering. Projects of Nation-State Building and their Representation in Historiography and Historical Memory: Croatia, Germany, Poland and Ukraine in 20th Century
      Principal Investigator: Piotr Madajczyk
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2013
    • Project Title: Voting Behaviour of Poles in the Third Republic from the Perspective of the Economic Voting Theory
      Principal Investigator: Michał Kotnarowski
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2013
    • Project Title: Model of Decision Making in International Affairs of Small States As an Example of Foreign Policy of the Slovak Republic in the Years 1993-2012
      Principal Investigator: Piotr Bajda
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2012
    • Project Title: State, Administrative and Political Elites: Careers, Identities, Relations
      Principal Investigator: Ewa Nalewajko
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2012
    • Project Title: The State as Patron in Polish Mundane Discourse. Case Study of a City in Masovian Voivodeship
      Principal Investigator: Aleksandra Dudzińska
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2011
    • Project Title: The Role of Euro-Atlantic System in Multipolar World in the Context of the New World Order
      Principal Investigator: Józef M. Fiszer
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2011
    • Project Title: Sociological Analysis of a Legislative Process in the Light of Selected Statements in Luhmann’s Systems Theory
      Principal Investigator: Agnieszka Kloskowska-Dudzińska
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2011
    • Project Title: Polish General Electoral Study 2011
      Principal Investigator: Radosław Markowski
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2011
    • Project Title: Well-Trodden Paths and Meanders to Second World War German Cemeteries in Poland
      Principal Investigator: Joanna Szymoniczek
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2011
    • Project Title: Foundations, Associations and Social Organizations in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy in Poland in Transition Period. A New Social Investment and Activation Model
      Principal Investigator: Anna Ciepielewska
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2011
    • Project Title: Does Geoeconomics Matter in European Integration Processes
      Principal Investigator: Tomasz G. Grosse
      Funding Institution: National Science Centre
      Start of the project: 2010