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Mobilities for employees

16.02.2026 -16.03.2026 – 12th Edition.

Applications must be submitted electronically using the dedicated competition form.

We invite you to consult with an expert from the “Mobility for Employees” competition on 17.02.2026, 24.02.2026, 3.03.2026, 10.03.2026 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Link to the consultation on the Teams platform: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup join/19%3ameeting_ZmVhOWQxZTctNzFiYi00MTI1LWI3OTktZDg0YjY5MTU5YWYw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22e80a627f-ef94-4aa9-82d6-c7ec9cfca324%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22520ff8fb-58b3-45cd-a945-0c43867ee806%22%7d


  1. Call for Proposals for postdoctoral fellows outgoing to foreign institutions under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme
    The objective of the calls of proposals is to enable young scientists employed at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń to gain international research experience by completing postdoctoral internships at recognized foreign scientific institutions. The competition may be entered by a person who obtained a doctoral degree within 3 years (in justified cases up to 5 years) before submitting the application and is employed at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in the group of research or research and teaching staff. In justified cases, the competition may be entered by a person for whom the procedure of awarding a doctoral degree has been initiated prior to submitting the application and who meets other criteria for entering the competition. The competition is aimed at members of Emerging Fields teams as well as those outside the centers of excellence and EF.
    Applications shall be sent using: the application form.

2. Call for Proposals for postdoctoral fellows incoming to the NCU under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme
The objective of the calls for proposals is to internationalise scientific research and/or education at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń through postdoctoral fellowships undertaken by young scientists from abroad. The calls for proposals are open to anyone who has been awarded a doctoral degree from a foreign scientific institution within up to 3 years (where justified up to 5 years) prior to submitting an application. In justified cases, the competition may be entered by a person for whom the procedure of awarding a doctoral degree has been initiated prior to  submitting the application and who meets other criteria for entering the competition. The competition is aimed at researchers planning a visit to an Emerging Fields team or department (does not apply to visits to university centers of excellence). 
Applications shall be sent using: the application form.

3. Competition for experienced scientist and research – teaching employees outgoing to foreign institutions as part of the “Initiative of Excellence – Research University” program
The objective of the competition is to enable experienced scientists employed at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń to gain international research experience through short-term visits to recognized foreign scientific institutions. The call of proposals may be entered by a person employed at the Nicolaus Copernicus University as a professor or university professor as well as assistant or, if he obtained a doctoral degree within more than three years of submitting the application and meets other criteria for entering the competition. The competition is aimed at members of Emerging Fields teams as well as those outside the centers of excellence and EF.
Applications shall be sent using: the application form.

4. Rules of the Call for Proposals for professors incoming to the NCU under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme
The objective of the calls for proposals is to internationalise scientific research and/or education at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń through postdoctoral fellowships undertaken by young scientists from abroad by carrying out short-term visits by outstanding scientists from abroad. The call is open to a person employed in a foreign scientific institution as Assistant Professor, Researcher, Associate Professor, Full Professor or Reader (or in equivalent positions). The competition is aimed at researchers planning a visit to an Emerging Fields team or department (does not apply to visits to university centers of excellence). 
Applications shall be sent using: the application form.

Please note! Individuals who have already participated in previous editions of the ‘Mobility for Employees’ programme are eligible to participate in the competition.

Questions regarding the project can be sent to the dedicated e-mail address mobilnosci@umk.pl.

Dominika Kwiecińska, MSc, e-mail: d_kwiecinska@umk.pl, tel. 56 611 3152

The competitions were addressed to:

1. postdoctoral fellows going abroad to foreign centres,
2. postdoctoral fellows visiting UMK,
3. experienced research and research-teaching staff going abroad to foreign centres,
4. visiting professors at UMK.

The competition requirements and application procedure were specified in the competition rules. The substantive evaluation of the competition applications was carried out by three scientific councils for specific fields of science. The composition of the Field Councils is available on the website of the Initiative of Excellence – Research University.

In the 11th edition of the Mobility Competition, 36 winners were selected from 47 applications to the HS council, 23 applications to the ST council and 29 applications to the NZ council (a total of 99 applications, 93 applications meeting the formal requirements, 6 applications withdrawn at the request of the applicants). All applications that met the formal requirements were subject to substantive evaluation by the relevant scientific councils for the fields of science.

As a result of the individual evaluations, on 16 April 2025, a list of winners of the 11th edition of the mobility competitions under the ‘Initiative of Excellence – Research University’ programme at UMK was drawn up:

Humanities, social sciences and arts:

Prof. Tímea Drinóczi (visiting professors)
Dr Jarosław Przeperski (outgoing professors)
Dr Alicja Bartnicka (outgoing professors)
Prof. Piotr Roszak (outgoing professors)
Dr Beata Borowska-Beszta, Prof. UMK (outgoing professors)
Prof. Vijgen Jörgen (incoming professors)
Prof. Abilio Azambuja Rodrigues Filho (incoming professors)
Dr Jakub Kłeczek (outgoing professors)
Dr Tomasz Jarmużek, Prof. UMK (outgoing professors)
Prof. Colin Tyler (incoming professors)
Dr Marcin Kilanowski, Prof. UMK (outgoing professors)
Dr Tomasz Komendziński (outgoing professors)
Dr Tomasz Maciej Rutkowski (incoming professors)
Dr Mateusz Popek (outgoing professors)
Dr Andrzej Pydyn, Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University (outgoing professors)
Dr Michał Piechowicz (outgoing professors)
Dr Tomasz Karol Mantyk (outgoing post-doctoral researcher)

Physical Sciences and Engineering:

Dr Marek Kejna, Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University (outgoing professors)
Dr Ewa Olewnik-Kruszkowska, Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University (outgoing professors)
Professor Katarzyna Hrynkiewicz (outgoing professors)
Dr Emmanouil Papaioannou (incoming professors)
Dr Jacek Zakrzewski, Prof. UMK (outgoing professors)
Prof. Pengchao Zhang (incoming professors)
Dr Anand S (incoming post-doctoral researcher)
Dr Zhanar Bekissanova (incoming post-doctoral researcher)

Life sciences:

Dr Paweł Kordowitzki, Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University (outgoing professors)
Dr Daniel Załuski, Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University (outgoing professors)
Dr Anna Brożyna, Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University (outgoing professors)
Dr Michał Falkowski (outgoing professors)
Dr Ramith Ramu (incoming professors)
Prof. Alina Sionkowska, PhD (outgoing professors)
Dr Karolina Szewczyk-Golec, PhD, UMK professor (outgoing professors)
Prof. Patrycja Golińska, PhD (outgoing professors)
Dr Krzysztof Jaworski, Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University (outgoing professors)
Dr Ambika Shinde (incoming post-doctoral researcher)
Dr Mateusz Kwiatkowski (outgoing post-doctoral researcher)

 

 

The calls were addressed to:

1. post-doctoral interns outgoing to foreign centres,

2. post-doctoral interns incoming to the Nicolaus Copernicus University,

3. experienced research staff and research and teaching staff outgoing to foreign centres,

4. professors incoming to the Nicolaus Copernicus University.

The Call criteria and the mode of submitting call applications are specified in the Rules of the Call. The applications were evaluated formally and substantively by three Scientific Councils for fields of science appointed by the Rector, Prof. Andrzej Sokala. The composition of the respective Scientific Councils is available on the website of the Initiative of Excellence – Research University.

47 winners were selected in the Mobility Program addressed to professors and post-doc interns. 18 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for HS, 27 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for ST, and 18 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for NZ (the total of 63 applications meet formal criteria, 57 applications met formal criteria, 1 application submitted after the closing date of recruitment, 5 applications were annulled at the request of the applicants). All applications which met formal criteria were evaluated substantively by the relevant Scientific Councils.

The list of winners in the 10th Mobility Calls under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme was made on 21 November 2024 based on the individual evaluations and panel discussions:

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences:

1. dr hab. Dominik Antonowicz prof. UMK (professors outgoing)

2. prof. Panos Merkouris (professors incoming)

3. dr Justyna Orłowska (profesor outgoing)

4. prof. Ivo Duentsch (professors incoming)

5. dr hab. Rafał Gruszczyński, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)

6. prof. dr hab. Przemysław Nehring (professors outgoing)

7. prof. Chad Howe (professors incoming)

8. dr hab. Marcin Kilanowski, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)

9. dr hab. Andrzej Pydyn, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)

10. dr Mateusz Jankiewicz (post-doc outgoing)

Physical Sciences and Engineering:

1. prof. dr hab. Alina Sionkowska (professors outgoing)

2. dr hab. Beata Derkowska-Zielińska, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)

3. dr Tadeusz Mikołaj Muzioł (professors outgoing)

4. dr Micaela Degli Esposti (professors incoming)

5. dr Magdalena Wrona Pezo (professors incoming)

6. dr Andrzej Kędziorski (professors outgoing)

7. dr Adrian Włodzimierz Topolski (professors outgoing)

8. prof. Samer Al-Gharabli (professors incoming)

9. dr hab. Anna Ilnicka, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)

10. prof. dr hab. Wojciech Kujawski (professors outgoing)

11. prof. David Wang (professors incoming)

12. prof. Frank Lipnizki (professors incoming)

13. prof. Bouchta Sahraoui (professors incoming)

14. dr hab. Joanna Kujawa, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)

15. prof. Olivier Pagès (professors incoming)

16. dr inż. Natalia Pawlak (professors outgoing)

17. prof. Pavel Izak (professors incoming)

18. dr Sumit Kumar Parta (post-doc incoming)

19. mgr inż. Dariusz Chomicki (post-doc outgoing)

20. dr Małgorzata Skorupska (post-doc outgoing)

21. dr Hamada Bedair Issa Hawash (post-doc incoming)

Life sciences:

1. dr hab. Anna Brożyna, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)

2. prof. Konrad Kleszczynski (professors incoming)

3. prof. Benjamin Field (professors incoming)

4. dr hab. Maciej Gagat, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)

5. dr Beata Kaczmarek-Szczepańska (professors outgoing)

6. dr Aleksander Zwierz (professors outgoing)

7. prof. Ketul Popat (professors incoming)

8. dr Brygida Świeżawska-Boniecka (professors outgoing)

9. dr Magdalena Gierszewska (professors outgoing)

10. dr Przemysław Żuratyński (professors outgoing)

11. dr hab. Krzysztof Skowron, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)

12. prof. Hadi Pirasteh Anosheh (professors incoming)

13. dr Rajesh Raut (professors incoming)

14. dr Szymon Suwała (post-doc outgoing)

15. dr Jerneja Kladnik (post-doc incoming)

16. dr Mickaël Péron (post-doc incoming)

The calls were addressed to:

  1. post-doctoral interns outgoing to foreign centres,
  2. post-doctoral interns incoming to the Nicolaus Copernicus University,
  3. experienced research staff and research and teaching staff outgoing to foreign centres,
  4. professors incoming to the Nicolaus Copernicus University.

The Call criteria and the mode of submitting call applications are specified in the Rules of the Call. The applications were evaluated formally and substantively by three Scientific Councils for fields of science appointed by the Rector, Prof. Andrzej Sokala. The composition of the respective Scientific Councils is available on the website of the Initiative of Excellence – Research University.

 

28 winners were selected in the Mobility Program addressed to professors and post-doc interns. 25 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for HS, 10 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for ST, and 13 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for NZ (the total of 48 applications meet formal criteria, 45 applications met formal criteria, 1 application did not meet formal criteria, 2 applications were annulled at the request of the applicants). All applications which met formal criteria were evaluated substantively by the relevant Scientific Councils.

 

The list of winners in the 9th Mobility Calls under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme was made on 9 May 2024 based on the individual evaluations and panel discussions:

 

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences:

  1. dr hab. Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  2. dr Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak  (professors outgoing)
  3. dr Maciej Żenkiewicz (professors outgoing)
  4. dr hab. Krzysztof Lasiński-Sulecki, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  5. dr Jarosław Przeperski (professors outgoing)
  6. dr hab. Wojciech Morawski, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  7. dr inż. Mateusz Tomanek (professors outgoing)
  8. dr hab. Andrzej Pydyn, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  9. dr Anna Maria Kotarba-Morley (professors incoming)
  10. dr Anna Maleszka (post-doc outgoing)
  11. prof. Dazhu Li (post-doc incoming)

Physical Sciences and Engineering:

  1. dr Iain Robertson (professors incoming)
  2. prof. Michel Grisel (professors incoming)
  3. prof. Bouthaina Gargouri (professors incoming)
  4. prof. Mohamed Bouaziz (professors incoming)
  5. prof. Carlos Jose Tavares (professors incoming)
  6. prof. Kang Li (professors incoming)
  7. dr Przemysław Płóciennik (professors outgoing)

Life sciences:

  1. prof. Konrad Kleszczynski (professors incoming)
  2. dr hab. Mariusz Kowalewski, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  3. dr hab. Daniel Załuski, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  4. dr hab. Marcin Gołyński, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  5. prof. Mahesh B (professors incoming)
  6. dr Tomasz Jędrzejewski (professors outgoing)
  7. dr hab. Ewa Olewnik-Kruszkowska, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  8. dr Vartul Sangal (professors incoming)
  9. dr hab. Patrycja Golińska, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  10. dr Marta Michalska-Sionkowska (post-doc outgoing)

Mobility Competition for post-doctoral and proffesors – 8th edition

The calls were addressed to:

  1. post-doctoral interns outgoing to foreign centres,
  2. post-doctoral interns incoming to the Nicolaus Copernicus University,
  3. experienced research staff and research and teaching staff outgoing to foreign centres,
  4. professors incoming to the Nicolaus Copernicus University.

The Call criteria and the mode of submitting call applications are specified in the Rules of the Call. The applications were evaluated formally and substantively by three Scientific Councils for fields of science appointed by the Rector, Prof. Andrzej Sokala. The composition of the respective Scientific Councils is available on the website of the Initiative of Excellence – Research University.

 

24 winners were selected in the Mobility Program addressed to professors and post-doc interns. 33 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for HS, 16 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for ST, and 14 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for NZ (the total of 63 applications meet formal criteria). All applications were evaluated substantively by the relevant Scientific Councils.

 

The list of winners in the 8th Mobility Calls under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme was made on 18 January 2024 based on the individual evaluations and panel discussions:

 

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences:

  1. prof. dr hab. Roman Czaja (professors outgoing)
  2. prof. Ivo Düntsch  (professors incoming)
  3. dr hab. Stanisław Burdziej, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  4. dr hab. Artur Duda, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  5. dr Tomasz Maciej Rutkowski (professors incoming)
  6. dr hab. Arkadiusz Gut, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  7. dr hab. Andrzej Pydyn, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  8. dr Tomasz Grodzicki (post-doc outgoing)
  9. dr Jialiang Yan (post-doc incoming)
  10. prof. dr hab. Mirosława Buchholtz (professors outgoing)
  11. dr hab. Iwona Wróblewska (professors outgoing)

Physical Sciences and Engineering:

  1. dr hab. inż. Michał Pawlak, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  2. prof. Christian Poetzsche (professors incoming)
  3. dr hab. Anna Ilnicka, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  4. dr hab. Anna Zawadzka, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  5. dr Yuanyuan Xia (professors incoming)
  6. prof. Karel Friess (professors incoming)
  7. dr Zhongyi Cheng (professors incoming)
  8. dr hab. Joanna Kujawa, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  9. dr inż. Emil Korczeniewski (post-doc outgoing)

Life sciences:

  1. dr hab. Artur Słomka, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  2. dr Beata Kaczmarek-Szczepańska (professors outgoing)
  3. dr hab. Krzysztof Skowron, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  4. prof. Tyler John Stevenson (professors incoming)
  5. dr Ambika Shinde (post-doc incoming)
  6. dr Sushma Rani Tirkey (post-doc incoming)

The calls were addressed to:

  1. post-doctoral interns outgoing to foreign centres,
  2. post-doctoral interns incoming to the Nicolaus Copernicus University,
  3. experienced research staff and research and teaching staff outgoing to foreign centres,
  4. professors incoming to the Nicolaus Copernicus University.

The Call criteria and the mode of submitting call applications are specified in the Rules of the Call. The applications were evaluated formally and substantively by three Scientific Councils for fields of science appointed by the Rector, Prof. Andrzej Sokala. The composition of the respective Scientific Councils is available on the website of the Initiative of Excellence – Research University.

14 winners were selected in the Mobility Program addressed to professors and post-doc interns. 24 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for HS, 11 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for ST, and 15 applications were submitted to the Scientific Council for NZ (the total of 50 applications meet formal criteria). All applications were evaluated substantively by the relevant Scientific Councils.

The list of winners in the 7th Mobility Calls under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme was made on 25 May 2023 based on the individual evaluations and panel discussions:

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences:

  1. prof. dr hab. Irena Dżurkowa-Kossowska (professors outgoing)
  2. dr hab. Anna Tarnowska, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  3. dr hab. Mirosław Wachowiak, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  4. dr Dazhu Li (post-doc incoming)
  5. dr Mateusz Popek (post-doc outgoing)

Physical Sciences and Engineering:

  1. dr Mariusz Tarnopolski (professors outgoing)
  2. prof. Konrad Kleszczyński (professors incoming)
  3. dr Minati Das (post-doc incoming)
  4. dr MD Eman Talukder (post-doc incoming)

Life sciences:

  1. prof. dr hab. Alina Sionkowska (professors outgoing)
  2. dr hab. Daniel Załuski, prof. UMK (professors outgoing)
  3. prof. Moulin Veronique (professors incoming)
  4. dr Hadi Pirasteh Anosheh (professors incoming)
  5. dr Katarzyna Bilińska (post-doc outgoing)
1. Recruitment:

28.03.2022 – 22.04.2022
Recruitment completed

2. Competition results:

List of winners of the competition below. Decisions together with the evaluation sheet will be sent by email to the address provided in the application form.

1. Recruitment:

11.10.2021 – 10.11.2021
Recruitment completed.

2. Competition results:

List of winners of the competition below. Decisions together with the evaluation sheet will be sent by email to the address provided in the application form.

1. Recruitment:
22.04.2021 – 24.05.2021
Recruitment completed

2. Competition results:
List of winners of the competition below. Decisions together with the evaluation sheet will be sent by email to the address provided in the application form.

1. Recruitment:

Recruitment completed

15.10.2020 – 12.11.2020

2. Competition results:

List of winners of the competition below. Decisions together with the evaluation sheet will be sent by email to the address provided in the application form.

1. Call for proposals:

03.01.2020 – 27.01.2020
Recruitment completed

2. Competition description:

Call for Proposals for postdoctoral fellows outgoing to foreign institutions under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme
The  objective  of  the  calls  for  proposalsis  to enable  young  scientists  employed  at  the Nicolaus  Copernicus  University  in  Toruń  gain  international  research  and/or  teaching experience through postdoctoral fellowships in recognised foreign scientific institutions. The calls for proposalsare open to anyone who has been awarded a doctoral degree within up  to  3  years  prior  to  submitting  an  application  and  is  employed  at  the  Nicolaus Copernicus Universityas research or research-didactic staff.
Applications shall be sent using: the application form.

Call for Proposals for postdoctoral fellows incoming to the NCU under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme
The objective of the calls for proposals is to internationalise scientific research and/or education at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń through postdoctoral fellowships undertaken by young scientists from abroad. The calls for proposals are open to anyone who has been awarded a doctoral degree from a foreign scientific institution within up to 3 years (where justified up to 5 years) prior to submitting an application. In justified cases, the competition may be entered by a person for whom the procedure of awarding a doctoral degree has been initiated prior to  submitting the application and who meets other criteria for entering the competition.
Applications shall be sent using: the application form.

Competition for experienced scientist and research – teaching employees outgoing to foreign institutions as part of the “Initiative of Excellence – Research University” program
The objective of the competition is to enable experienced scientists employed at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń to gain international research experience through short-term visits to recognized foreign scientific institutions. The call of proposals may be entered by a person employed at the Nicolaus Copernicus University as a professor or university professor as well as assistant or , if he obtained a doctoral degree within more than three years of submitting the application and meets other criteria for entering the competition.
Applications shall be sent using: the application form.

Rules of the Call for Proposals for professors incoming to the NCU under the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme
The objective of the calls for proposals is to internationalise scientific research and/or education at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń through postdoctoral fellowships undertaken by young scientists from abroad by carrying out short-term visits by outstanding scientists from abroad. The call is open to a person employed in a foreign scientific institution as Assistant Professor, Researcher, Associate Professor, Full Professor or Reader (or in equivalent positions).
Applications shall be sent using: the application form.

3. Announcements and documents:

Questions regarding the project can be sent to the dedicated e-mail address mobilnosci@umk.pl.

4. Contact:

Contact person: Magdalena Murszewska-Król, MA, phone no.: 56 611 31 31.