University of Silesia in Katowice

The Patent Office of the Republic of Poland (UPRP) has drawn up a report summarising the inventive activities of employees of Polish universities in 2013–2019 The University of Silesia in Katowice was ranked among 30 best domestic universities which submitted their solutions to the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland during the period

Laurels of Skills and Competence awarded to prominent companies, organisations and institutions, as well as outstanding representatives of the world of science, business, culture and politics were presented during the official gala, which took place on 22 February 2020 in Zabrze One of the prizewinners was Prof Jacek Jania from the Faculty of Natural

The best inventions have been awarded for the tenth time during the National Student-Inventor Competition organised by the Kielce University of Technology The competition is intended for students, doctoral students and graduates who, during their studies, created or co-created an invention, utility model or industrial design which is either protected by exclusive rights, or

„Corpus Christi” directed by Jan Komasa is the Polish film nominated for Best International Film at the 92nd Academy Awards The film was produced by Aneta Cebula-Hickinbotham, graduate of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television (currently Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School) Aneta Cebula-Hickinbotham has also produced the following movies: “Dark, Almost Night”, “The

Magdalena Zimna is a laureate of the seventh edition of the university poll “A Graduate with Passion” A graduate of the Faculty of Philology (currently the Faculty of Humanities), she has been running the blog titled “We read because we love reading” for over 5 years and has over 500,000 views She promotes both

The University of Silesia in Katowice has received the Global Leadership Award given by the Climate Law and Governance Initiative in recognition of the excellent organisation of Climate Law and Governance Day 2018, which was held at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia The event was part of

„Times Higher Education” has just published the World University Rankings 2020, with the University of Silesia in Katowice included in five categories The University of Silesia was placed on the list in Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences categories for the first time The University of Silesia moved up to the 5th position in Life Sciences,

The University of Silesia in Katowice was ranked seventh among research institutions in Poland (fifth among Polish universities) in the Nature Index ranking of the publishing activity of scientists in the most prestigious global natural science journals Nature Index gathers data from 82 most important journals in the world, including “Nature”, “Science” and “Physical Review