The MIANOWSKI FUND established in 1881 was reestablished in the form of a Foundation for the Promotion of Science in 1991. The Fund has an Advisory Board, composed of delegates representing Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow, Warsaw Society of Arts and Sciences, Poznań Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences, The Scientific Society of Gdańsk, University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, University of Łódź, Nicholas Copernicus University, Toruń, Marie Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Catholic University of Lublin, Warsaw University of Technology and Wrocław University of Technology.