Professor Marek Kwiek was nominated for 4 years (2020-2024) a vice-chairman (for research) in the new IDUB “Excellence Initiative”.
About 100 million USD will be spent in the coming years on AMU development.
The other vice-chairman is Professor Marek Nawrocki. The Chairwoman is Professor Bogumiła Kaniewska, AMU Rector.
30 October 2019 – AMU one of the winners of the “Excellence Inititaive – Research University” competition organized by the Minister of Science and Higher Education
KEY INFORMATION ON THE “EXCELLENCE INITIATIVE – AMU RESEARCH UNIVERSITY” PROJECT
- Strictly defined participation criteria – short list of 20 universities
- AMU among 10 winners of the ID-UB project
- Very high assessment of AMU application by a team of international experts (read more)
- The application was assessed on four criteria:
- substantive quality of the application,
- relevance of assumed objectives to enhancing the international significance of the university’s activity,
- adequacy of described actions to the assumed objectives,
- potential of the university
- High 3rd place among the winners, ex equo with Jagiellonian University, Warsaw University of Technology and AGH University of Science and Technology.
- Project implementation period – years 2020-2025 + year 2026
- Amount of annual grant increase – 10% of the funds allocated for 2019; for AMU this means PLN 49.9 million per year
- The additional grant can be used for:
- Increasing the impact of research at the university on the development of world science,
- Strengthening research cooperation with internationally renowned scientific institutions,
- Improvement of the quality of education of students and doctoral students, especially in the Priority Research Areas (PRAs),
- Preparation and implementation of comprehensive solutions for the professional development of university staff, in particular young scientists,
- Improvement of the quality of university management, including pro-quality organisational changes
- Programme of development based on a reliable SWOT analysis with indication of Priority Research Areas
- Programme of development described in terms of 10 strategic objectives, 57 specific objectives and 45 actions
- Actions funded in accordance with the programme of development and the agreed schedule of actions,
- Programme implementation within the framework of 5 Priority Research Areas and through university-wide actions (e.g. actions related to education of students and doctoral students)
- Priority Research Areas, according to the ASJC classification of disciplines
- PRA 1 AgriEarth: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- PRA 2 BioGenMol: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- PRA 3 ChemMat: Chemistry, Materials Science
- PRA 4 MathPhysComp: Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Computer Sciences
- PRA 5 HumSoc: Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Project implementation in four periods:
- Pre-implementation period, October 2019 – February 2020
- First implementation period, February 2020 – December 2020
- Second implementation period, January 2021 – December 2025
- Third implementation period, January 2026 – December 2026
- Monitoring of project progress as measured by mandatory and optional indicators