As part of the third Beethoven Classic competition for Polish-German research projects scientists will receive a total of over PLN 30 million in the field of humanities, social and art sciences and selected disciplines of exact and technical sciences.

The Beethoven Classic competition is organized by the National Science Center in cooperation with the German Research Community (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; DFG). This year, scientists submitted 130 applications for funding research projects, of which 63 in the humanities, social sciences and art (HS), and 67 in selected disciplines of exact and technical sciences (chemistry, mathematics, physics, materials science). From those applications, experts selected 34 best projects.

The awarded projects will be implemented jointly by Polish and German research teams. The research could be scheduled for 2 or 3 years, and the amount requested for the implementation of the Polish part of the project could not be lower than 150,000. PLN.