Effective June 18^th 2025, the University Council of Doctoral Student Government announces a competition for doctoral students and doctoral organizations of the University of Silesia for funds. The maximum amount of funding is PLN 5,000 and PLN 10,000, respectively.

The competition funds are used to support such activities and projects aimed at activating the environment of doctoral students, improving the quality of their scientific research, publishing their results or popularizing scientific knowledge.

Applications can be submitted until July 2^nd  2025 at: doktoranci@us.edu.pl . In addition,  until June 25^th , we will accept your applications for consultation for formal errors with the possibility of sending them back for correction.

We also inform you that due to the amendment of the Regulations on the distribution of funds at the disposal of the Doctoral Student Council of the University of Silesia in Katowice and the repeal of § 3(5) of the Regulations by a resolution of the URSD dated February 27, 2024, applicants for funding from the URSD budget do not need to show previous application for funds in the Doctoral School competition.

In addition, we remind you:

-The form for individual applications is Annex No.1 and for academic organisations is Annex No.2;

-In Section I of Appendix 1 dedicated to year of study it is required to indicate current year of studies, not the academic year;

-The declaration of consent to the processing of personal data requires, in addition to the date and signature, the selection of the appropriate option from I consent/ I do not consent;

-Signatures on all documents may be either handwritten or through a qualified electronic signature.

All information and application forms are available on the website at the link:

https://us.edu.pl/doktorant/en/samorzad-doktorantow/finansowanie-organizacji-doktoranckich/

We kindly ask you to carefully read the provisions of the Regulation and all documentation in the attachments on the site, and to send us well thought-out projects. The amount of funds is limited! Submission of a correctly filled out application by the deadline does not guarantee the funds will be allocated. The assessment of projects by the URSD competition committee will be the deciding factor. The final amount of funds available for distribution in the competition will be determined by the Council on the basis of the allocated amount of the URSD budget for 2025.

The Doctoral School of the University of Silesia in Katowice invites international doctoral students to participate in the PROM – International Academic Exchange Programme 2024.

The aim of the project is to support international mobility and enhance participants’ academic competencies through short-term educational and exchange activities organized by the University of Silesia. Each visit must be related to the scientific development goals specified in the submitted application documents.

Application procedure:

The call is open and will continue until all available places are filled, but no later than 31 July 2025.

To apply, please complete the appropriate online form:

• Application form for international doctoral students:

https://formularze.us.edu.pl/form/index/6116

Funding includes:

• A scholarship to cover travel, accommodation, and subsistence costs:
  • Lump sums for travel and accommodation are defined in Annex 14 of the programme regulations (destination country: Poland).
  • Daily subsistence allowance:
    • 125.00 PLN/day – for doctoral students

Contact:

If you have any questions or doubts, please contact the PROM programme coordinator at the University of Silesia:

dr Emilia Rekosz-Cebula

e-mail: drwm@us.edu.pl

phone: +48 32 359 22 77

More information: https://us.edu.pl/en/komunikaty/prom-krotkookresowa-wymiana-akademicka-nawa/

Another call for applications in the “jUSt transition” project have just been open. We’d like to encourage you to apply for funds in one of the tasks of your choice. Announced tasks:

1. Financing of international mobility:
   • Foreign research journeys – Europe – link to the announcement
   • Foreign research journeys – beyond Europe – link to the announcement
   • Scientific conferences – link to the announcement
2. Financing of cost of research – purchase and services – link to the announcement
3. Support for publication activity of doctoral students:
   • Financing of proofreading – link to the announcement
   • Financing of publication’s costs – link to the announcement

Key conditions:

• The PhD student conducts research which supports the transformation process, in particular in the directions of the green and digital economy (supervisor’s opinion required)
• The PhD student has not yet received funding in any module of the “jUSt transition” project

The recruitment lasts until June 4. The recruitment requires filling in the appropriate forms and submitting them in paper form to the project office.

We’ve got it! The first edition of the Three Minute Thesis® competition in English is launching in the Silesian Voivodeship. We invite you to participate in the contest and tell us about your doctoral research in just 3 minutes!

Three Minute Thesis® (3MT®) is a global competition in science communication, licensed by the University of Queensland (Australia). The competition in Polish has been organized by the Science Popularization Centre since 2017, and this year, for the first time, we are introducing its English-language edition.

Who can participate?

Three Minute Thesis® – Polish your English! is open to all PhD students from universities and research institutes in the Silesian Voivodeship.

This is a competition for people who wish to present their PhD thesis in English. Participants must explain their dissertation topics in a clear and engaging way – in just three minutes – for a broad audience.

Competition schedule

• until April 22 – submit a 3-minute video of presenting the key aspects of your doctoral research,
• until April 28 – the jury will evaluate the video submissions and select 20 participants for the elimination round,
• May 10 – elimination in the New Technologies Centre, Konarskiego 22B, Gliwice). The jury will select 10 finalists,
• June 6 – FINAL.

How to enter?

You must be a PhD student at a university or a branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Silesian Voivodeship.

Register via our online form.

Send a link to your video submission to the following email address: konkurs3mt@polsl.pl.

More information: https://www.polsl.pl/rjo7-cpn/en/three-minute-thesis-competition/

The Three Minute Thesis®—Polish your English competition is aimed at foreign and Polish doctoral students who want to present the issues from their doctoral thesis in English in 3 minutes. The competition is open to doctoral students from universities and branches of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Silesian Voivodeship.

Competition schedule:

until March 14 – preliminaries; participants register via the form on the website: https://www.polsl.pl/rjo7-cpn/en/registration-three-minute-thesis/ and send a video file with a 3-minute speech to konkurs3mt@polsl.pl,
until March 25 – the jury evaluates the submitted video with speeches and selects the 20 best presentations to participate in the eliminations,
May 10 – eliminations at the Center of New Technologies of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice; the jury selects 10 finalists from 20 participants, who will take part in the final,
June 6 – final at the Silesian University of Technology Library in Gliwice.

Materials:  3MT Polish Your English – materials

Links to events:

– facebook: https://fb.me/e/aZNtYvicX

– competition website: https://www.polsl.pl/rjo7-cpn/en/three-minute-thesis-competition/

– registration form: https://www.polsl.pl/rjo7-cpn/en/registration-three-minute-thesis/