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 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/

Effective February 28^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 March 14^th  2025 at: doktoranci@us.edu.pl . In addition,  until March 8^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 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 call for applications for the ‘Science of the Youth’ grant programme, organised by the Youth
Council of the European Science City, is open until 14 June.
As part of the competition, funding for team-based research can be sought by those studying at
Doctoral Schools or third-degree programmes at universities of the Consortium Academic City
of Science Katowice. The maximum amount of funding for one project is PLN 10 000.00.
Research teams may include other students from Consortium universities. The call for
applications lasts until 14 June 2024.
The competition regulations and contact to project coordinators are available at the linkhttps://www.ue.katowice.pl/pracownicy/aktualnosci/article/trwa-nabor-wnioskow-doprogramu-grantowego-naukamlodych.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0Do_1zUx97mM2C7lE_Ts5SECz2bauBTYu
okoVWN4WJH1RIHaP2Q7vKPXE_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw
On 11 June 2024 at 18.00 an information meeting will be held, during which the project
coordinators will introduce the project objectives and the competition procedure. The meeting
will be held on the Google Meets platform- https://meet.google.com/azz-sfni-cai

Sylwia Giza, MSc Eng., PhD student at the Faculty of Law and Administration, won the 6th regional edition of the Three Minute Thesis® (3MT®) competition.

3MT® is a global competition in science communication licensed by the University of Queensland (Australia). It was organised for the 6th time in Silesia. The competitors, PhD students representing various scientific disciplines, are to present the issues related to their doctoral thesis to the audience and jury. They have to do it within three minutes and must not use any additional props or aids except a single, static slide displayed from the beginning of the speech to its end.

The Silesian edition of the competition is organised by the Science Popularisation Centre of the Silesian University of Technology. The Silesian edition of the competition is open to PhD students of universities from the Silesian Voivodeship or branches of the Polish Academy of Sciences located in Silesia, as well as PhD students implementing their theses at the National Institute of Oncology in Gliwice.

The final took place on Friday, 18 November 2023 in Gliwice, and featured 10 people representing the Silesian University of Technology, the Medical University of Silesia, and the University of Silesia. The competition was won by Sylwia Giza, a PhD student from the University of Silesia. Her speech ‘I know you’re watching me! Digital advertising and Privacy’ was dedicated to showing the issue of digital personal data protection in profiling for the sake of Internet advertisement. The USil PhD student—and engineer as well as MA in law—included two perspectives related to profiling: technical and legal. She presented its scale and indicated difficulties regarding attempts at its legal regulation.

Sylwia Giza is a PhD student at the Doctoral School at the University of Silesia. She is preparing her doctoral dissertation on personal data processing in the process of personalised online advertising, supervised by Mariusz Jagielski, PhD, DLitt, Assoc. Prof.

Read more details about the competition on the website: We know the winners of the Three Minute Thesis® 2023 competition (polsl.pl).

Sylwia Giza, PhD student at the Faculty of Law and Administration. Photo from a private gallery

Sylwia Giza, doktorantka z Wydziału Prawa i Administracji UŚ. Fot. archiwum prywatne

Effective February 28^th 2023, 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 March 14^th 2023 at: doktoranci@us.edu.pl . In addition,  until March 7^th, we will accept your applications for consultation for formal errors with the possibility of sending them back for correction.

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 2023.

Position: PhD student in physics discipline

Unit of the project realization: Faculty of Science and Technology – University of Silesia in Katowice

Unit realizing the PhD student education: Doctoral School at the University of Silesia in Katowice

The scholarship applies to theoretical research of molecular friction of polymers in dilute and concentrated solutions. The main tool of research are molecular dynamics simu-lations. The research will be carry out within the project funded by the National Center Science: “Molecular spectroscopy of polymer chains” (2019/35/O/ST3/00936) under supervision of dr. hab. Jarosław Paturej, prof. UŚ. The research is a collaboration work between the University of Silesia and Leibniz Insitute for Polymer Research (IPF) in Dresden (Germany). It is expected from the PhD candidate to carry out some of the research tasks during six month visit at the IPF.

Duration of the scholarship: 48 months

Scholarship amount:  5000 PLN (for the first 24 months), 6000 PLN (for the last 24 months)

Requirements:

1. Master of science in the field of physics, chemistry or related sciences.
2. Proficiency in programming language (C, Fortran or Python)
3. Proficiency in English that allows for publishing research results.
4. High motivation to carry out research.
5. Documented scientific track record will an advantage.

Required documents:

1. Cover letter with description of scientific interests
2. CV
3. List of publications
4. The copy of MSc
5. Two reference contacts.

Candidates should register in IRK system and select „Doctoral School – admission to a grant”.

Documents should be delivered till  13.12 2021  to an e-mail: jaroslaw.paturej@us.edu.pl

In case of any questions, before the formal application please contact to the grant leader for the e-mail address given above.

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