University of Silesia in Katowice

The Dean of the Doctoral School informs about the opening of the competition for financing scientific, artistic and development activities from the budget of the Doctoral School for 2025.

Basic information:

Closing of the online form: March 7, 2025 at 12:00

Term for confirming the application by a PhD supervisor: March 10, 2025 at 23:59

Link to the form: https://formularze.us.edu.pl/form/index/5988

Link for confirmation of a supervisor: https://formularze.us.edu.pl/form/index/5991

The planned date of announcing the results: March 15th on the website of the Doctoral School.

Application procedure:

• a doctoral student fills in and sends the SRW form (https://formularze.us.edu.pl/form/index/5988), and then confirms the submission of the application by clicking on the link sent by the system. Deadline for closing the system: March 7th (Friday) at 12:00.
• a doctoral student brings the application to a supervisor and asks him/her for approval
• a supervisor informs the Doctoral School about approval by filling and sending another SRW form: https://formularze.us.edu.pl/form/index/5991. The deadline for this approval is March 10 (Monday), 23:59.
• if significant changes are suggested by a supervisor, a doctoral student should fill the application form again. Please remember that this is not possible after the term.
• applications that are not approved by a supervisor, will not be taken into consideration (without first warning).
• applications that do not meet the formal requirements (from the regulations or from the additional conditions listed below) will not be considered (without being asked to supplement or correct)
• the committee’s decision is final and cannot be appealed.

Additional terms of the competition, not included in the Regulations:

1. No funds exceeding PLN 5,000 will be awarded per doctoral student. If the applications submitted by one doctoral student extend 5000 PLN in summary, they will be all rejected in total.
2. A doctoral student should submit several applications if he or she wants to apply for financing of various projects (for a total amount not exceeding PLN 5,000).
3. The competition introduces a limit of funds that can be applied for in individual categories (not exceeding PLN 5,000 in total):
   1. foreign travel – PLN 5,000
   2. domestic travels – PLN 3,000
4. Only funds to be spent in the period after the contest and till the end of 2025 may be financed in this competition.
5. A doctoral student who has submitted an individual research plan should apply for funds planned in the IPB (IRP) budget. Other activities will be financed only in the case of remaining free funds after financing all activities included in IPB (this rule does not apply to 1st-year doctoral students).

Please read the Regulamin podziału środków 2025 (in Polish)

The Dean of the Doctoral School informs about the opening of the competition for financing scientific, artistic and development activities from the budget of the Doctoral School – only for scientific conferences in the beginning of 2025.

Basic information:

Closing of the online form: December 12, 2024 at 9:00

Term for confirming the application by a PhD supervisor: takin into account short term we do not need the supervisor’s confirmation

Link to the form: https://formularze.us.edu.pl/form/index/5781

Planned date of announcing the results: December 16th on the website of the Doctoral School.

Application procedure:

• The doctoral student fills in and sends the SRW form, and then confirms the submission of the application by clicking on the link sent by the system. Deadline for closing the system: December 12th (Thursday) at 9:00.

Additional terms of the competition, not included in the Regulations:

1. No funds exceeding PLN 5,000 will be awarded per doctoral student. If the applications submitted by the one doctoral student extends 5000 PLN in summary, they will be all rejected in total.
2. A doctoral student should submit several applications if he or she wants to apply for financing of various projects (for a total amount not exceeding PLN 5,000).
3. The competition introduces a limit of funds that can be applied for in individual categories (not exceeding PLN 5,000 in total):
   1. foreign travels – PLN 5,000
   2. domestic travels – PLN 3,000
4. Only funds to be spent in the period after the contest and between January 1st and March 15th 2025  may be financed in this competition.
5. A doctoral student who has submitted an individual research plan should apply for funds planned in the IPB (IRP) budget. Other activities will be financed only in the case of remaining free funds after financing all activities included in IPB (this rule does not apply to 1st-year doctoral students).

Please read the Regulation on spending funds.