University of Silesia in Katowice

Dean of the Doctoral School decided on distributing funds for research and artistic activity of PhD students for the year 2025. The decision may be changed because the budget of the school hasn’t been established yet.

The amount of the funds: 470,000 PLN, including:

• 122,700 PLN (300 PLN/per person) resources for individual access for each PhD student – to spend until September 30th.
• 25,000 PLN in the dean’s reserve
• 274,300 PLN – to be divided in contests announced by the Doctoral School
• 48,000 PLN – funds for internationalization, included in contests for doctoral students.

The initial schedule of the contests (final term of application):

1. March 7rd, 2025
2. May 22th, 2025
3. October 10th, 2025 (the competition will be announced if there will be any funds left)

Details on the announced competition and information about the settlement of funds in previous competitions – look at “Competition for PhD students” below.