One of the most important events of the academic year is ahead of us, which will allow us to celebrate the new academic year together during numerous planned attractions and events. Join us during the Interuniversity Inauguration of the Academic Year 2024\/2025 in the European City of Science Katowice 2024!<\/strong><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n Those interested in participating in the ceremony are asked to complete the registration form (available in Polish and English).<\/p>\n Registration form in Polish<\/a> \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n Events accompanying the inauguration<\/strong><\/p>\n The programme of the ceremony organised by seven universities of the Academic Consortium Katowice City of Science includes both events at the seat of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and accompanying events. We will start the celebrations at 11.00 a.m. at the Rawa Club in spinPLACE (Katowice, ul. Bankowa 5, building A, 4th floor), where we will listen live to \u2018A Wish Concert\u2019 \u2013 a special edition of the Radio Nowy \u015awiat programme, hosted by Joanna Ko\u0142aczkowska and Prof. Ryszard Kozio\u0142ek \u2013 Rector of the University of Silesia. It will also be a great opportunity to share the memories of your academic days, and participants who still have their student years ahead of them will be able to talk about what are their expectations for this time.<\/p>\n Lots of attractions await us at the Market Square in Katowice, where from 12.00 p.m. we invite you to visit the Research Camp of the European City of Science Katowice 2024. Its formula refers to \u015aFN on Tour \u2013 away shows of the Silesian Science Festival KATOWICE \u2013 which will be a kind of a pre-taste of the eighth edition of \u015aFN (which takes place in December). All interested people, regardless of age, will be able to see what scientists do on a daily basis, as well as how fascinating and close to all of us science really is. There will be workshops and exhibition stands prepared by scientists and students of the University of Silesia \u2013 the \u2018MediujeMy\u2019 student research group will invite you to participate in communication workshops, and at the \u2018Faunatyka\u2019 student research group stand you will be able to learn about the broadly understood world of zoology \u2013 from small insects to the skulls of large vertebrates. At the stand of the \u2018Planeta\u2019 student research group, we will discover the secrets of the microworld invisible to the naked eye \u2013 we will look at microscopic slides of human tissues, animals, microorganisms and plants.<\/p>\n And these are still not all of the attractions prepared on the Katowice Market Square! At 2.45\u20133.15 p.m. we will watch performances of university folk groups: Dance Ensemble \u201cD\u0105browiacy\u201d of the Silesian University of Technology, Student Song and Dance Ensemble \u201cKatowice” of the University of Silesia and Song and Dance Ensemble \u201cSilesianie\u201d of the University of Economics in Katowice. Each of them will present a short, approximately 10-minute repertoire.<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n Lecture by Prof. Norman Davies and more<\/strong><\/p>\n After the scientific and cultural events, at 3.40 p.m., the traditional march of Rector\u2019s retinues will begin at the Katowice Market Square and continue through the city streets to the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra concert hall, where at 4.00 p.m. we will begin the next part of the celebrations. Participants will have a unique opportunity to listen live to the special guest of the event \u2013 Prof. Norman Davies! The author of best-selling books on European history and a world-famous English historian of Welsh descent will give a lecture \u2018Knowledge and Ignorance: Does the West Understand Everything?\u2019.<\/p>\n There will also be permanent elements of the inauguration ceremonies \u2013 speeches by rectors as well as matriculation and oath of students and doctoral students. Moreover, the whole event will be enriched by music performed by the Cieszyn Brass Band of the University of Silesia, the “Harmonia\u201d Choir of the University of Silesia, the Academic Choir of the Silesian University of Technology, the Choir of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice and the Choir of the University of Economics in Katowice. The culmination of the celebrations will be a ceremonial concert during which we will hear ballet music from the opera The Countess<\/em> and Mazurka from the opera The Haunted Manor<\/em> by Stanis\u0142aw Moniuszko, as well as \u2018Slavic Dances\u2019 op. 72, no. 1, 2, 6 and 7 by Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k performed by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the choirs of the Consortium universities: \u201cHarmonia\u201d Choir of the University of Silesia, Academic Choir of the Silesian University of Technology, Choir of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice and Choir of the University of Economics in Katowice.<\/p>\n Join us during the celebrations on Friday, 27 September!<\/strong><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″]\r\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row] […]<\/p>\n
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Photo by\u00a0Ma\u0142gorzata Dymowska<\/p>\n