University of Silesia in Katowice

We are pleased to announce that on October 9, 2025, Mauro Arturo Rivera León, PhD, DLitt spoke at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law in Hanoi (Vietnam). Organized by the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, the event aimed to create a platform for the exchange of knowledge between scholars, practitioners, and...

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...

Empowering Higher Education for the Green and Digital Transition Registration is now open for two new international training programmes developed by the BIKE-HEI consortium in partnership with four European universities: University of Primorska, University of Alicante, Saarland University, and Mariupol State University. Both courses are certified, delivered in English, and designed to help university staff...

POP Science About science. For people. Science communication makes scientific discoveries more understandable. It allows us to see the importance of scientific research in everyday life and notice its impact on our future. The POP Science project, coordinated by the University of Silesia in Katowice on behalf of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education,...

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...

The short film Dad’s Not Home directed by Jan Saczek won gold in the Narrative category at the 52nd Student Academy Awards in New York. This was the first time that filmmakers from the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School at the University of Silesia were presented with this prestigious award, which often paves the way to...