We are pleased to announce of the two Junior Labs available to young scientists:

• NEW ARTISTIC FORMS, CULTURAL INNOVATION AND ARTISTIC RESEARCH
  This theme invites PhDs in contemporary art, cultural studies and related fields to explore how new artistic forms are emerging, circulating and gaining significance across Europe.
  ARTISTIC RESEARCH
• PEDAGOGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: SUPPORTING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT, IDENTITY AND TRANSITIONS – Multidisciplinary  PEDAGOGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

All essential information regarding the T4EU PhD Junior Lab can be found on the following website https://transform4europe.eu/t4eu-junior-labs/

We invite you to participate in Junior Lab.

We are pleased to inform you that Magdalena Nowacka-Flakiewicz, a fourth-year doctoral student studying cultural and religious studies at the Doctoral School, served as the production and post-production manager for the documentary “33 Photos from the Ghetto,” directed by Jan Czarlewski, which will premiere on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, on HBO Max (Max Original / HBO). The film tells the story of the only known civilian photographs documenting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.

Basic Information:

• Title: “33 Photos from the Ghetto”
• Director: Jan Czarlewski
• Production: MWM media Post-production: Bomedia
• Co-producers: TVN Warner Bros. Discovery; City Culture Institute in Gdańsk (operator of the Gdańsk Film Fund)
• Co-financed by: Polish Film Institute
• Premiere: January 27, 2026 – HBO Max

Press materials and information:

https://prasa.wbdpoland.pl/post/premiera-dokumentu-hbo-original-33-zdjecia-z-getta-juz-27-styczn

https://pisf.pl/aktualnosci/premiera-filmu-dokumentalnego-33-zdjecia-z-getta/

https://tvn.pl/filmy/kiedy-premiera-dokumentu-33-zdjecia-z-getta-gdzie-ogladac-znamy-date-st8845973

https://trojka.polskieradio.pl/artykul/3634395,jedyne-takie-zdjecia-wykonane-przez-cywila-premiera-filmu-33-zdjecia-z-getta

link to trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-BZ7erUnQ

Dear Doctoral Candidates of the First and Second Year,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the second edition of the T4EU PhD Tracks programme. By doing so, we encourage you to strengthen the international component of your research projects by collaborating with our foreign partners in Transform4Europe Alliance.

Candidates who intend to apply for this programme are kindly asked to submit a motivation letter in English. In the letter, please indicate the specific researchers with whom you would like to cooperate, explain their role in your project, and provide confirmation (for example, an email message) of their preliminary agreement to enter into academic cooperation.

Please send the motivation letter — in electronic form — to the address lidia.jasik@us.edu.pl by 30 January 2026. The next stage of the recruitment process will be interviews scheduled for 17 February 2026. The number of places in the programme is unlimited.

All essential information regarding the T4EU PhD Tracks can be found on the following website https://us.edu.pl/szkola-doktorska/en/t4eu-phd-tracks/.

We introduce a practical guide on applying for a T4EU PhD Tracks prepared by our coordinator:T4EU_PhD_Tracks_Guide 2025

We are pleased to announce the opening of new applications for the “jUSt transition” project. All applications are open until January 30th. Prepared documents, approved by the Doctoral School (Bankowa 14, room 409), must be submitted to the project office in the Rector’s Office (Bankowa 12, room 2.11) by that date.

PhD students whose doctoral projects address the topic of transition, with particular emphasis on the green and digital economy, are eligible to apply. In any doubts please contact the Doctoral School by e-mail (szkola.doktorska@us.edu.pl)

An important change compared to previous announcements: each person can apply for funding once for each form of support (6.1, 6.2, 6.5, 6.7, 6.9), instead of only once for the entire project, as previously. This means that doctoral students who have already received support in a specific category (e.g., 6.7 – conferences) can apply for funding in other categories (e.g., 6.1 – travel within Europe, 6.5 – research-related purchases).

All funded activities must be completed and settled by May 31, 2026.

List of announcements

PhD student mobility:

• 6.1 – mobility in Europe: https://just.fesl.us.edu.pl/announcement-of-the-call-for-proposals-to-task-6-1-co-financing-of-individual-research-activities-costs-of-foreign-trips-europe-related-to-the-implementation-of-individual-research-plans-at-the-d-6/
• 6.2 – mobility outside Europe: https://just.fesl.us.edu.pl/announcement-of-the-call-for-proposals-to-task-6-2-co-financing-of-individual-research-activities-costs-of-foreign-trips-outside-europe-related-to-the-implementation-of-individual-researc-5/
• 6.7 – scientific conferences: https://just.fesl.us.edu.pl/ogloszenie-o-naborze-wnioskow-do-zadania-6-7-dofinansowanie-udzialu-w-konferencji-naukowej-zagranicznej-doktorantow-ek-szkoly-doktorskiej-us-8/

Support for research (purches and services)

• 6.5 – support for research: https://just.fesl.us.edu.pl/announcement-of-the-call-for-proposals-to-task-6-5-financing-the-costs-of-research-conducted-by-doctoral-candidate-at-the-doctoral-school-of-the-university-of-silesia-5/

Support for publications in scientific journals

• • 6.9 – Article Processing Charges/Open Access: https://just.fesl.us.edu.pl/announcement-of-the-call-for-proposals-to-support-for-the-publishing-activities-of-doctoral-students-of-the-doctoral-school-at-the-university-of-silesia-in-katowice-and-the-international-environment-9/

We are pleased to announce that five doctoral students from the Doctoral School have been awarded funding in the prestigious PRELUDIUM 24 competition organized by the National Science Centre (NCN). This programme is dedicated to early-career researchers and supports the implementation of innovative research projects across all scientific disciplines.

The following doctoral students received funding:

• MA Olga Rembielińska
• MA Wiktoria Sikorska
• MA Miłosz Barłóg
• MA Karolina Żółkiewicz
• MA Jolanta Rajca

In this year’s edition of PRELUDIUM 24, a total of 2,506 proposals were submitted, out of which only 369 projects across Poland received funding. The success rate was 14.7%. We extend our warmest congratulations to our doctoral students for being among the top young researchers.

We congratulate all the awardees and wish them great success in carrying out their research projects!

https://ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/2025-11-28-wyniki-opus29-preludium24

On 27 November 2025 at 5.30 p.m., an election meeting of the University Doctoral Student Council will be held.

The meeting will take place in a hybrid format, in stationary form at the URSD Office and remotely via the MS Teams application.

The URSD Office is located in room 425 in the Faculty of Science and Technology building (Katowice, Bankowa 14 Street, directly above the Doctoral School Office). Access to the MS Teams group is possible via the code –  zjrl945.

All persons studying at Doctoral Schools at the University of Silesia may take part in the election in active and passive form. Any person with active or passive electoral rights to the URSD attending the election meeting has the right to be a candidate and to propose candidates.

The number of seats to be filled depends on the number of candidates proposed, but may not be less than eight or more than twelve.

Registration for the Silesian edition of Three Minute Thesis® 2025 is open! Apply and tell the story of your PhD in 3 minutes
Three Minute Thesis® competition stages:
Application deadline: October 29th: https://tiny.pl/99tx9
November 15th: Eliminations
November 28th: ​​Finals
The competition is open to PhD students from universities and branches of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Silesian Voivodeship, as well as those working on their doctoral theses at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Institute of Oncology in Gliwice.

The inauguration of the academic year 2025/2026 of the Doctoral School took place on Friday, October 3, 2025, at spinPLACE, the building of the University of Silesia in Katowice. In the program: inaugural speech by Vice-Rector for Science, Agnieszka Turska-Kawa prof. US, speech by the Dean of the Doctoral School, prof. Alina Świeściak-Fast and a speech by the Deputy Dean of the Doctoral School, prof. Michał Baczyński and Chairman of the Doctoral Council Michał Gębicki, M.A. During the ceremony, doctoral students were matriculated. Inaugural lecture entitled “Is there one correct interpretation possible?” was delivered by prof. Zygmunt Tobor.