The President of the University Council of the Doctoral Candidates Self-Government of the University of Silesia in Katowice announces the recruitment of candidates for:

1. the Commission for Equality and Diversity
2. the Library Council of the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Applications, along with an indication to which body the candidature is submitted and a brief justification, should be sent to michal.gebicki@us.edu.pl by 23.59 on 17 October 2024.

Effective February 28^th 2024, 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  2024 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;

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 2024.

On 5th December 2023 at 5.30 p.m., an election meeting of the University’s Doctoral Student Council will be held. The venue of the meeting is room 318 in the building of the Faculty of Science and Technology (Katowice, Bankowa 14 Street).

All persons studying at Doctoral Schools at the University of Silesia, as well as persons pursuing a doctorate as part of their doctoral studies at the University, 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 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.

Effective June 15^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 June28^th 2023 at: doktoranci@us.edu.pl . In addition,  until June 22^nd, we will accept your applications for consultation for formal errors with the possibility of sending them back for correction.

In addition, we remind you:

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

-Section I.4 of Appendix 1 (year of study) requires an indication of the current year of study, 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;

-In the case of studying at an International Environmental Doctoral School, please indicate this in your application.

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.