AGH - University of Science and Technology

A leading Polish university in modern technologies on an international scale

AGH-UST is one of the best and most renowned modern Polish universities. For many years it has been ranked on top of the list of such schools. AGH-UST is a leading Polish university in modern technologies and belongs to a group of prestigious international educational centres. Our long and rich tradition – the University is 90 years old – also influences our popularity. Throughout all these years the University has educated the engineers who were needed by Polish industry. Our school has other advantages, too, namely an ideal location in the most beautiful Polish town – Krakow, its own campus with excellent facilities for 9,000 students, located not very far from the university buildings, a modern scientific base with laboratories and the latest equipment, collaboration with other Polish and foreign universities, facilities for the disabled and the atmosphere of studies. The latter is not to be found anywhere else. More than 34,000 full-time and extramural students as well as about 500 doctoral students study at 15 faculties and at the Multidisciplinary School of Biomedical Engineering. Students learn at 32 disciplines and more than 180 specialisations.

The variety of the disciplines offered is worth noting. Apart from traditional faculties, closely connected with mining or metallurgy, we have faculties dealing with, eg computer science, telecommunication, automatics, robotics, new materials, technical physics, applied mathematics as well as management and social sciences. New disciplines include: Tourism and Recreation, Culture Studies, Geophysics, Oil and Gas Engineering, Medical Physics, Acoustic Engineering. New specialisations are offered within the domain of traditional disciplines, for example Mathematics for Finance at the Faculty of Mathematics. The University conducts also doctoral (more than 500 doctoral students at 11 Faculties and post-graduate studies with more than 2,600 participants). Presently, the University employs more than 2,000 research workers, about 500 of them have the status of an independent worker.

The research activity of AGH-UST includes eight thematic groups, namely:

Information Technologies;
New materials and technologies;
Environment and climatic changes;
Energy and its resources;
Mining;
Electrical and mechanical engineering;
Natural sciences;
Humanities, social and economical sciences.

AGH-UST is an important centre of creating and transferring innovative technologies and knowledge. In order to create mechanisms which will ease and intensify the transfer of innovative technologies and knowledge from AGH-UST to business and other institutions, in March 2007 Technology Transfer Center (CTT AGH) and the Centre for Enterpreneurs (AIP AGH) were established. CTT AGH deals with comprehensive technology transfer, including:

Promoting research, technological and expert offer to businesspeople and investors;
Selling and making other forms of intellectual property accessible (patents, licenses, know-how);
Patent protection;
Obtaining financial means for supporting transfer of technologies;
Information, consulting and training on transfer of technologies.

The Centre for Enterpreneurship AGH-UST is an independent non-profit unit, aimed to propagate the ideals of creativity and professional independence among students, Ph.D. candidates and academics from high schools and universities in the Malopolska province and to help them start their own business.

International collaboration is important in research and development. We have signed more than 140 direct agreements with foreign partners in Europe, both Americas and Asia. The agreements comprise multidirectional and mutual collaboration in education and research. Every year in collaboration with our foreign partners, we complete about 200 research projects within the framework of EU programmes, Inerreg, COST, EUREKA, SAVE, ALTENER, CULTURE 2000, DESY or CERN. AGH-UST also implements projects issued by the Ministry of Higher Education within the framework of inter-governmental agreements. AGH-UST also participates in numerous educational projects assisted by Erasmus LLP, Leonardo da Vinci, CEEPUS, TEMPUS, Visegrad Fund, Eten and European Structural Fund. Presently we have about 180 agreements signed within Erasmus LLP.

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