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On Saturday, 2 October, we started building the Rawa Scienceville, an outdoor infrastructure of the 5th Silesian Science Festival KATOWICE, led and organised by the University of Silesia.<\/span><\/p>\n This year’s edition of the Science Festival is special \u2013 the Festival will take place by the Rawa river boulevards – it stretches from the Market Square in Katowice to the end of ul. prof. Waleriana Pa\u0144ki with the area of the Katowice campus of the University of Silesia, the Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library (CINiBA). Please check <\/span>the map of the Festival area<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n This edition is a great organisational challenge for the University. Arranging and adapting such an extensive area will significantly affect the traffic organisation on our campus and its vicinity, including the unavailability of some car parks.<\/span><\/p>\n We are aware that the temporary unavailability of some car park spaces may be inconvenient for employees, PhD students and students. However, we ask you for your understanding and faith that temporary changes on the campus will favour further plans for the development of the University’s infrastructure (including the creation of a science zone in Katowice). For the duration of the Festival, we made efforts to introduce alternative solutions and enable our employees to use city car parks.<\/span><\/p>\n Partial closure of car park spaces within the main campus of the University of Silesia will be implemented in stages, from 2 to 13 October 2021. The exclusion will start at 6:00 a.m. on a designated day, unless different hours appear in the schedule below. According to the schedule:<\/span><\/p>\n The schedule may be subject to slight changes, which will result from the process of building the outdoor infrastructure of the Festival. Due to the scale of the inconveniences, subcontractors responsible for the preparation of the festival area will make every effort to shorten the time of taking up the space.<\/span><\/p>\n At the same time, we would like to draw attention to the importance of the event, in which you are so willing to actively participate and thanks to which the University of Silesia in a relatively short time increased its international visibility, which will result in, among others, the presence of the University at EXPO 2020 in Dubai, as well as the possibility of receiving the title of the European City of Science 2024 together with the City of Katowice.<\/span><\/p>\n We hope that we will meet together on 10 October at the Festival to spend time together after an exceptionally long break, learn about our scientific research and teaching achievements as well as take advantage of cultural attractions. This day of the Festival will end with Artur Andrus concert on the Rawa Valley Stage, located by CINIBA \u2013 it will be a unique opportunity for a positive start of the academic year.<\/span><\/p>\n During the unavailability of car park spaces, we encourage you to use the car parks provided by the Katowice City Hall in, among others, Strefa Kultury (Culture Zone) – near the International Congress Centre and the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. At the same time, we also recommend using free car parks at the transfer centres in Katowice (in Bryn\u00f3w, Ligota and Zawodzie).<\/span><\/p>\n In order to minimise the inconveniences related to the unavailability of car parks near the campus, the Katowice City Hall has provided us with a temporary car park in Strefa Kultury (Culture Zone) near the NOSPR (Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra). The car park will be available from Thursday, 7 October on \u2013 it will be a designated area with access control.<\/span><\/p>\n From 7 October, the organisation of traffic around the Katowice campus will change as well. The planned changes include:<\/span><\/p>\n The Festival will be held on 9-15 October:<\/span><\/p>\n The detailed programme is available here: <\/span>www.slaskifestiwalnauki.pl\/program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Location of car parks within the Katowice campus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \n\n
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