Microgrants for PhD students – edition 2026

Call for applications

• Name of the call: Microgrants for PhD students
• Objective: co-financing of publishing activities and specific scientific activities of UW PhD students, which will improve the quality of research carried out by PhD students in connection with their doctoral dissertations and facilitate their defence
• Grant purpose:
  • proofreading – covering the costs of proofreading by a native speaker of a scientific text to be published in a journal or a chapter in a monograph,
  • purchasing the Open Access option for an article or chapter in a monograph,
  • participation in a foreign or domestic query,
  • participation in specialist training, including a summer school,
  • active participation in a foreign scientific conference,
  • a research trip to a foreign research centre lasting up to 60 days,
  • conducting scientific research – new research tasks that improve the quality of research carried out in connection with the doctoral dissertation being prepared,
  • conducting scientific research as part of a research trip – a new research task carried out as part of a trip to a foreign research centre or a place where research is carried out, justified by the specific nature of the discipline in which research related to the doctoral dissertation is conducted, trip lasting up to 60 days.
• Applicant: PhD student at the University of Warsaw
• Maximum amount of support: depends on the selected funding path
• Date of call for applications: 10.12.2025
• Start of the call for applications: 10.12.2025
• Closing date for applications:
  • 31.03.2026 – for activities: a research trip, conducting scientific research, conducting research as part of a research trip
  • 30.06.2026 – for other activities
• Project implementation period: until 30 September 2026.
• How to apply: only electronically to the following address: dokt.idub2026@uw.edu.pl

Call for microgrant applications suspended

Due to the IDUB Programme settlement period for 2020-2025, we would like to inform you that the call for microgrant applications will be suspended from 22 December 2025 to 11 January 2026. Applications will be accepted and processed again from 12 January.

Applications submitted up to and including 21 December 2025 will be processed in accordance with the Rules.