University of Silesia in Katowice

The development of foundations for multifaceted, modern humanities education in V4 countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia) with the sense of responsibility for the present and future climate of our planet is the goal of „The V4 Humanities Education for the Climate Diagnoses – Best Practices – Recommendations” (HEC) The initiative has been

The University of Silesia in Katowice has become a member of the consortium implementing the project entitled „Electro-Intrusion Simultaneous transformation of ambient heat and undersired vibrations into electricity via nanotriboelectrification during non-wetting liquid intrusion-extrusion into-from nanopores” The project is funded under Horizon 2020 Programme as part of the prestigious FET Proactive competition The

The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange has announced the results of selection for the second edition of Promotion of the Polish language programme 15 projects received co-funding for activities connected with the promotion of Polish language in the competition resolved on 25 September, including 3 initiatives to be implemented by the University

The international research consortium which includes the Centre for Critical Technology Studies (CCTS) managed by Assoc Prof Michał Krzykawski from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia will begin to implement the project entitled „Networking Ecologically Smart Territories – NeST” as part of Horizon 2020 project (MSCA – Research and Innovation

The consortium consisting of:  University of Silesia in Katowice – project leader, SPIN-US Sp z oo, a special purpose vehicle of the University and Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce will jointly implement the project entitled ‘Innovation Incubator 40’ The programme is intended to support the process of managing the results of scientific research

Promotion of scientific achievements, work of scientists, as well as research and development work conducted at the University are the goals of the new project, whose implementation the University of Silesia in Katowice will begin soon, namely in October this year PLN 410,000 will be allocated for this purpose The University will receive

In May 2020, Dr Grzegorz Niemczuk, pianist from the Institute of Music at the University of Silesia, started an online artistic project of listening to and understanding mazurkas by Frédéric Chopin The project consists in recording 57 films about each of the mazurkas by Frédéric Chopin, which analyse their musical, folk, pianist, technical

In April 2020 the University of Silesia will begin to work on the creation of a competence centre which will be unique on a national scale, specialised in microscopic studies on “soft matter” The centre will be created as part of the project entitled “Centre for Microscopic Studies on Matter (CMBM SPIN-Lab)”, and