Science Department

Our assignments

Tasks carried out within the framework of research activities:

  • Informing those undertaking research tasks about the procedures and principles of planning, applying for grants, fund settlements, and the forms of financing research activities
  • Receiving and formally verifying applications for research task funding within scientific activities and forwarding them to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) as well as to other institutions supporting research activities.
  • Preparing contracts and contract annexes for the implementation of research projects (MNiSW, NCN, and commissioned research), and collaborating in the preparation of research schedules and cost estimates
  • Maintaining a record of research work in a manner that enables the analysis of incurred costs.
  • Full administrative and financial support.
  • Ongoing settlement of research costs
  • Informing researchers about the extent to which they have used the allocated funds.
  • Recording financial resources spent on research
  • Participate in the preparation of annual and final reports on the implementation of the study
  • Preparation of materials for the Senate and the University Science Council
  • Preparation of an appendix to the balance sheet accounting for research activities

Tasks related to the organization of research, promotion of results:

  • Administrative activities in connection with staff trips to conferences, symposia, seminars, fellowships, queries, etc.
  • Performing administrative activities related to the organization of scientific conferences, seminars, sessions, lectures, etc. by UKW employees;
  • Preparing data for reports on research activities and personnel training (for the needs of the university, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Central Statistical Office, etc.; reports to the Central Statistical Office together with information from the Department of Human Resources and Training and the Department of Quality and Organization of Education);
  • Organizational and administrative activities related to applying for the Minister of Science award.

Tasks related to the training and development of university teachers:

  • Undertaking organizational and administrative activities to support staff training in the areas of internships and sabbaticals.