University of Silesia in Katowice

The European Commission has announced today the results of the second call for the European Universities Initiative The University of Silesia is a member of an alliance that has acquired the European University status, united by the idea of “Transform4Europe – T4E: The European University for Knowledge Entrepreneurs” European Universities is an initiative intended

The University of Silesia in Katowice has established international cooperation with the University of Miskolc (Hungary) The bilateral agreement for scientific-research and educational cooperation was signed in June 2020 by the Rectors of both universities The agreement enables the universities to conduct research work, organise conferences, exchange academics and students, as well as carry

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The Foundation for Polish Science has awarded one-year grants to outstanding young scholars from Poland for the 28th time This year, 100 researchers were distinguished out of 845 candidates who are at the beginning of their scientific careers, with documented achievements in their area of research Most of the awarded scientists represent biological

In the difficult pandemic time, the University of Silesia comes up with new proposals for science communication The University has just launched its new channels on Spotify and Soundcloud, where you can listen to various podcasts The channels of the University of Silesia contain scientists’ talks, recordings of selected events and lectures, including

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

World Piano Teachers Association Poland and the Institute of Music at the University of Silesia in Katowice co-organise the 1st MusicAlive International Piano Competition Online, which is addressed to pianists of all nations up to the age of 25 The competition will be conducted in five age categories, and the participants will be