{"id":180588,"date":"2025-01-28T08:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T07:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/?page_id=180588"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:40:19","slug":"english-international-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/english-research\/english-international-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"international cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]\r\n                <div class=\"text-modules\">\r\n                    <div class=\"container\">\r\n                        \r\n                        <div class=\"text-modules__content\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice is open to international research cooperation. The Faculty conducts cooperation in the form of scientific internships held in Katowice, didactic stays within the framework of the Erasmus Plus program, as well as in the form of agreements concluded with foreign universities.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]\r\n                <div class=\"text-modules\">\r\n                    <div class=\"container\">\r\n                        \r\n                        <div class=\"text-modules__content\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faculty of Law and Administration \u2013 Prof. Piotr Pinior\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L9RPJf00GWM?list=PLlhOYvtSn-ftAJSPXuTxADc8u-Y_U5oQg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]\r\n                <div class=\"text-modules \">\r\n                    <div class=\"container\">\r\n                         \r\n                        <div class=\"row m-0\">\r\n                            <div class=\"text-modules__content\">\r\n                                <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The research stay in the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia in Katowice<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice invites researchers to undertake research internships in Katowice. The right to conduct a research stay is available to a person who is not an employee (including a Ph.D. student or a participant of the Doctoral School) of the University of Silesia, employed in a research unit in Poland or abroad, as well as Ph.D. students and participants of Doctoral Schools from other units.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The detailed provisions for the internship are specified in the Regulation, the text of which is available at the link: <a href=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/Bez-kategorii\/Research-stay-at-the-Faculty-of-Law-and-Administration-University-of-Silesia-in-Katowice.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" data-mtli=\"mtli_filesize18180kB\">Research stay at the Faculty of Law and Administration University of Silesia in Katowice<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Erasmus Plus program <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice invites researchers as a host institution to visit Katowice as part of the Erasmus Plus program. As part of the stay, we organize seminars with students and Ph.D. candidates, as well as meetings with the academic staff of our Faculty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more detailed information on staying in the Erasmus Plus program, please contact Dr. Dominika Iwan-Sojka: <a href=\"mailto:erasmus.wpia@us.edu.pl\">erasmus.wpia@us.edu.pl<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>International cooperation with foreign institutions <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice conducts international cooperation, among others with:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The University of Toledo College of Law (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientific partners and co-founders of the USA Law School, which serves as a platform for educational and scientific collaboration between the University of Silesia and three leading universities in the USA. The collaboration includes joint research, scientific projects, and the preparation of publications. As part of the cooperation, employees from the aforementioned Universities have served as Visiting Professors at WPIA, delivering lectures, seminars, and workshops. The collaboration also covers educational cooperation, which is carried out via online connections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lincoln Memorial University, Knoxville (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The collaboration includes co-organizing and co-leading the international Global Law Classroom project with project initiator Professor Melanie Reid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Southeastern Association of Law Schools (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS), a regional association of law schools, hosts an annual meeting that is held in late July or early August. A highlight of the meeting is the New Scholars Workshop which offers newer faculty the opportunity to present a work in progress, and to receive feedback from assigned mentors and audience participants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting also offers legal educators panels and discussion groups that focus on pedagogy; thus offering law professors an opportunity to enhance their classroom teaching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, it provides numerous panels and discussion groups of a host of cutting-edge topics that will prove important for both scholarly works and teaching covering the breadth of legal issues.\u00a0 Because the meeting attracts scholars from all over the U.S., indeed from around the world, the discussions can be lively and intense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>School of Law and School of European Languages and Cultures, Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing (China)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Northeastern University in Shenyang (China)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientific partners and co-founders of the School of Law and Chinese Culture, which serves as a platform for educational and scientific collaboration between the University of Silesia and the aforementioned Universities. The cooperation involves joint research, scientific projects, and the preparation of publications. As part of the collaboration, staff members from both universities have served as Visiting Professors at our School of Law, delivering lectures, seminars, and workshops. Students from both universities also participated in a student exchange program, with some completing their studies in Beijing and, respectively, in Katowice. The collaboration also includes supervision of doctoral candidates within the framework of joint doctoral programs, as well as joint publication projects and business support for entrepreneurs collaborating with the partners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Inter-American Academy of Human Rights of the Autonomous University of Coahuila (Mexico)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia and the Inter-American Academy of Human Rights (Mexico) have signed an institutional agreement of cooperation in 2022. In the last two years, the institutions have jointly organized an international seminary hosting three Professors and the Mexican Ambassador in a discussion pertaining to the protection of human rights in Latin America. Further cooperation has crystallized in the joint participation of scholars in conferences organized at the respective institutions, research projects, or participation in teaching activities. Currently, the institutions are working on expanding the agreement to ensure effective academic exchanges between students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bahria University (Pakistan)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Faculty of Law\u00a0and Administration of the University of Silesia\u00a0led the signing of a full cooperation agreement between the University of Silesia in Katowice and the University of Bahria (Islamabad, Pakistan). A scholar from the University of Silesia has taken part in teaching activities organized by BU. Both institutions have been working to implement student exchange effectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Miskolc University (Hungary) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result of the earlier individual scientific cooperation between researchers from the law faculties, in 2020, the University of Silesia in Katowice signed a bilateral framework agreement with the University of Miskolc (Hungary). This agreement enables the development of research and educational projects, broadening the scope of cooperation to include new fields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From the very beginning, dr Micha\u0142 Bara\u0144ski from the University of Silesia in Katowice and dr G\u00e1bor M\u00e9lypataki from the University of Miskolc have coordinated this collaboration, implementing a variety of initiatives. For instance, in 2020, the seminar <em>\u201cKatowice-Miskolc: Distance Learning \u2013 International Discussion\u201d<\/em> was organized. Researchers from both Universities have prepared joint publications on several occasions (comparative analyses of SMEs in Poland and Hungary; research on remote working; contributions to volumes on Central European labour law). Polish researchers have also participated in international scientific conferences organised by the Hungarian partner. Hungarian researchers have also contributed to the development of the scientific journal <em>\u201cZ Problematyki Prawa Pracy i Polityki Socjalnej\u201d<\/em> [Labour Law and Social Policy Issues].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In turn, Polish researchers participate in the editorial work of the scientific journals <em>\u201cCentral European Academy Law Review\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cCentral European Journal of Comparative Law.\u201d<\/em> In 2021, the Erasmus+ program was expanded to include the law faculties of both universities. Cooperation was also established with the doctoral school of the University of Miskolc, where graduates of the University of Silesia (mgr Tomasz Miros\u0142awski and mgr Norbert Sitko) were admitted as part of the Central European Academy in Budapest (the Central European Academy Scholarship doctoral program, organized by the University of Miskolc). Dr Micha\u0142 Bara\u0144ski became the supervisor of both doctoral candidates. Moreover, between 2022 and 2024, the University of Miskolc participated in the GEPARD project, led by the University of Silesia. As part of the cooperation between the universities, visits by Hungarian researchers were also organized who conducted in Katowice academic seminars and delivered lectures on labour law, thereby strengthening the exchange of knowledge and experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Pavol Josef \u0160afarik University in Ko\u0161ice (Slovakia) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Faculty of Law and Administration cooperates actively with Pavol Josef \u0160afarik University in Ko\u0161ice. The representatives of the Faculty regularly and actively participated in conferences a.o. Law, Business, and Economics organized by the Faculty of Law, Pavol Josef \u0160afarik University in Ko\u0161ice, and participated in Erasmus+ programme. Dr. Mateusz \u017baba obtained a scholarship from Slovakia&#8217;s Ministry of Higher Education and completed an internship at Pavol Josef \u0160afarik University in Ko\u0161ice. Prof. Piotr Pinior and dr Mateusz \u017baba were also investigators in grant APVV-19-0424 \u201cInovat\u00edvna obchodn\u00e1 spolo\u010dnos\u0165: vn\u00fatrokorpor\u00e1tne premeny, digit\u00e1lne v\u00fdzvy a n\u00e1stup umelej inteligencie\u201d Univerzita Pavla Jozefa \u0160afarika v Ko\u0161iciach (2020-2024). Prof. Pinior was awarded a Commemorative medal on the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Pavol Josef \u0160ar\u00e1rik University in Ko\u0161ice for long-term cooperation (2023).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, (Ukraine) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Long-lasting cooperation with Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, started in 2014. Both parties participated in several conferences in Ivano-Frankivsk and Katowice. Dr. M. \u017baba and Prof. P. Pinior are experts in the project: &#8220;Recodification of Commercial Codes in V4 states and Ukraine&#8221;, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ukraine, ID 22420042, 2024-2025, and formerly they were engaged in the project of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano \u2013 Frankivsk, &#8220;Company Law of Visegrad States&#8217; Group&#8221;, ID \u2013 61450003, 2015 \u2013 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Taras Shevchenko<\/strong> <strong>National University of Kyiv, (Ukraine) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2018, the former Department of Economic and Commercial Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia in Katowice, signed with the Department of the Civil Law of Law Faculty Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the Memorandum of Understanding in the spirit of promoting international friendship and stimulating and supporting international activities and projects with an emphasis on internationalization and development of Law and Higher Legal Education of Ukraine and Poland. Both faculties&#8217; representatives participated in several conferences in Kyiv and Katowice. Prof. Roman Maydanyk, of the University in Kyiv was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law in Katowice (2018).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We invite you to watch videos that will allow you to get to know better the Faculty of Law and Administration, what we have to offer and the city of Katowice itself, which is the heart of the Upper Silesian Metropolis!<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-3\"><\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                            \r\n                            \r\n                        <\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]\r\n                <div class=\"text-modules\">\r\n                    <div class=\"container\">\r\n                        \r\n                        <div class=\"text-modules__content\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faculty of Law and Administration \u2013 Prof. Monika Jagielska\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q2yufUN4DZI?list=PLlhOYvtSn-ftAJSPXuTxADc8u-Y_U5oQg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faculty of Law and Administration \u2013 Prof. Magdalena Habdas\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9rRT5HRTdq8?list=PLlhOYvtSn-ftAJSPXuTxADc8u-Y_U5oQg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">a[data-mtli~=\"mtli_filesize18180kB\"]:after {content:\" (181.80 kB)\"}<\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row] [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/english-research\/english-international-cooperation\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"parent":163139,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180588"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182774,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180588\/revisions\/182774"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wpia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}