University of Silesia in Katowice

Research Excellence Initative (IDB) is a strategic programme of the University of Silesia that supports the university in striving for scientific perfection and qualifications’ improvement.

Not only the experience researchers benefit from the programme’s offer, but also young scientists, doctoral students, students and administrative workers. As a part of IDB, it is possible to acquire funds for the realization of individual research activities for interdisciplinary, international scientific projects or competence development. We undertake various promotional activities to make the University of Silesia in Katowice visible and recognizable in the region in Europe and all over the World. IDB also includes financing for the key scientific equipment that allows for intensive research-didactic activity in the university’s key areas.

PhD Eng. Weronika Wolany is scientifically connected with nanotechnology. In her everyday work, she coordinates the activities of the IDB programme. PhD Eng. Weronika Wolany is engaged in strategic initiatives and supports researchers in acquiring research funds and striving for scientific excellence. In the science-technology park, she was responsible for the popularization of knowledge

I want to invite you to the Project zone. In only six steps, I will tell you how to realize a project as an employee of the University of Silesia in Katowice.

STEP ONE, FIND THE SOURCE OF FINANCING

The website List of the open competitionswill help you in that. You can also use an individual consultancy by calling: +48 510 891 286.

STEP TWO – PARTICIPATE IN TRAININGS AND NETWORKING

Thanks to such meetings, you will not only learn what the rules and regulations apply to a given competition but also find a partner for the project or get invited to cooperation yourself.

STEP THREE – PREPARE THE APPLICATION

The Project Department will help you to avoid formal mistakes while preparing the application for financing of your project. They will help you verify the financial aspect of the application.

STEP FOUR – PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE RALIZATION OF THE PROJECT

Receiving the financing is only the beginning of the project realization process. The Project Department and project teams working at particular faculties will help you all the way.

STEP FIVE – GET INSPIRED

In the Project Zone you can see the exemplary projects realized by the University of Silesia in Katowice.

STEP SIX– LET’S STAY IN TOUCH

Also, in the Project Zone, you will find all that will be helpful on your way to getting the grant.

Emilia Rekosz-Cebula, PhD – Specialist in the Project Department. She supports finding financing sources and project realization as the financial assistant. Emilia Rekosz-Cebula has a PhD in social sciences in sociology.

Employees of the University of Silesia can create the research centres where they conduct interdisciplinary scientific activity. It is a very appealing kind of independent research work aimed at the needs of the environment, local communities, the region or the whole of Europe that simultaneously meets the global challenges.

The combination of knowledge and experience of our excellent researchers, artists and administrative specialists, as well as the ability to cooperate with Polish and foreign higher education institutions, allows for the realization of unique research projects.

In our research centres, we conduct, among others, research on the results of climate changes in Svalbard or the water and air quality in our region. We are also interested in the critical legal and social issues, modern humanities or various aspects of creating computer games.

Małgorzata Krasuska-Korzeniec – works in the Science Department. I am always in touch with the research centres’ leaders, and I ensure that they are provided with the best conditions that facilitate their research and help in the commercialization of their research results.

Together with Assoc. Prof. Michał Krzykawski, we have created the  Critical Technology Studies (CCTS) at the University of Silesia. CCTS is the unit conducting international research in the scope of digital humanities. I also participate in many projects and collaborations, among others, with the experimental musician and digital architecture professor Mathew Emmett (the Fringe Landscapes project), the new media artist Przemysław Jasielski (Hypnotic AI), and Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska from DISNOVATION.ORG in Paris (the NEST project).

A part of my scientific method is artistic activity. In 2020, with Pola Dwurnik I have published a book of poems Unhappy Ending. Poems for the Broken Hearted. A year ago my first pop-feminist novel Plan B, appeared (Published by Dragon). Since 2019 I have been conducting the experimental project Textrapolations, which focused on the neo-Dadaist approach to the text and the act of writing. Its first part – the poems created from the passages of scientific and literary works will be published under the title Cutting Up Books.

Ania Malinowska, PhD, Assoc. Prof  – new technologies researcher, a cultural semiologist, an author, and a poet. Among others, she specializes in the cohabitation of humans and intelligent machines in the context of emotions, feelings and affections. From 2018 to 2019, as a laureate of the Senior Research Award of the Polish-American Fulbright Commission, she conducted research at The New School in New York. The result of that work is the monograph entitled Love in Contemporary Technoculture published by the Cambridge University Press, Data Dating. Love, Technology, Desire (Intellect, Bristol) – an experimental publication on the border of cultural critique and art and new media critique written in cooperation with the Parisian curator Data Dating exhibition presented in Paris, Tel Aviv, London, Brussels and New York.