We are pleased to announce the opening of new applications for the “jUSt transition” project. All applications are open until December 3rd. 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, 6.10), 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-5/
• 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-4/
• 6.7 – scientific conferences: https://just.fesl.us.edu.pl/announcement-of-the-call-for-proposals-to-task-6-7-co-financing-of-participation-in-a-foreign-scientific-conference-of-doctoral-students-of-the-doctoral-school-of-the-university-of-silesia-7/

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-4/

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-7/
• 6.10 – proofreading: 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-8/

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.

Registration for classes via the USOS system for the upcoming semester/year will take place according to the following schedule:

1. Registration for core classes in the curriculum: September 30 (Tuesday), 9:00 PM – October 3 (Friday), 11:59 PM. Registration includes the following classes:

• Research Methodology (for first-year students)
• Teaching in higher educational schools (for first-year students)
• English Language Course (for first-year students)
• Academic English (for all) – class groups assigned to specific disciplines
• Intellectual Property Law and Copyright (for all except PhD students in artistic disciplines) – groups assigned to specific areas, with a separate English-language group.

These classes begin the week of October 6-10, unless otherwise scheduled. If any doctoral student needs to catch up on classes from the first year, please contact the Doctoral School office by email.

2. Registration for facultative and specialized classes: October 7 (Tuesday), 9:00 PM – October 9 (Thursday), 11:59 PM.                                                                                                                                                                              Please note that registration for facultative and specialized classes covers both the winter and summer semesters. It will not be possible to register for classes in the summer semester that are not offered during this registration period.