The National Center for Research and Development (NCBR) together with the National Science Center (NCN) are inviting scientists and entrepreneurs to submit applications for the fifth competition of the TANGO Joint Undertaking. The institutions allocated PLN 30 million to support the development of technologies based on the results of basic research.

The call for proposals in the competition will be conducted by the NCBR from February 1 to June 30, 2021.

TANGO is the idea of ​​joining basic research and its practical use. NCN and NCBR meet the expectations of innovators whose basic research – i.e. experimental or theoretical work is conducted primarily in order to gain new knowledge about the foundations of phenomena and observable facts and at the same time they have significant implementation potential.

The addressees of the TANGO competition are scientific units and scientific-industrial consortia conducting conceptual work, industrial research and development work based on the results of basic research previously financed by the National Science Center. There are no thematic restrictions.