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University of Bialystok
University of Bialystok was created in 1997 by transforming the
former 29-year-old Branch of Warsaw University. The level and
scientific potential made it one of the biggest and most dynamic academic institutions in the north-eastern part of Poland.
In the year 2013 the students of natural and mathematical
sciences will be able to start their education in a modern and
well-equipped campus. This is the biggest investment in the
history of the UwB.
The UwB is comprised of ten faculties, with a satellite department in Siedlce and a foreign faculty in Vilnius. The University
educates 18,000 students in almost 30 fields of study. It offers
90 different postgraduate course. The student movement is
thriving: there are about 70 student research clubs at the University.
UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK
ul. M. Skłodowskiej-Curie 14
15-097 Białystok
Rector’s office:
tel. 85 745 70 01, fax 85 744 77 49
[email protected]
Head office:
tel. 85 745 70 00, fax 85 745 70 73
[email protected]
www.uwb.edu.pl
In 2010 and 2011 the University of Bialystok was ranked third in
the competition “The most innovative and creative institution
of higher education in Poland”. In 2011 the UwB was awarded
the certificate “University of Leaders” by the Foundation for
the Development of Education and Higher Learning. The competition promotes institutions of higher learning which invest
in the job market-oriented education and care about the practical education of students. Moreover, a lot of academic teachers and students may boast individual prizes and distinctions.
In recognition of great merits in the field of science as well as
social and political life, the University granted the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to ten eminent personalities including: Ryszard Kaczorowski, Jerzy Giedroyć, prof. Andrzej Stelmachowski,
prof. Andrzej Wyczański, Metropolitan Sawa, prof. Marcel Morabito, Białystok Metopolitan prof. Edward Ozorowski, prof. Keiichi
Yamanaka, prof. dr. hab. Brunon Hołyst and prof. dr. hab. Jerzy
Wilkin.
Mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology are essential for knowing the
rational Truth - the Truth about Life and Universe. The idea of their interpenetration and creation of Synthesis is the imperative of the 21st century. It is
suggested that the construction of the above-mentioned science departments and institutions buildings be subjected to this idea. The four streets of
Oneness cross to create the square of symbolic Sciences Synthesis.
Four glass entrance portals with diode surfaces and four glass annexes placed at 4.2 m over the ground floor flooring, propped up on thick round glass
cylinders (rust – proof steel structure), create the “information” walls of the
square. On each portal, annexe or signpost information about the events
key to a given scientific field may be projected. In the centre of the concrete
flooring, emphasized by a division, there is shallow water – a puddle with a
huge glass sphere, always kept moving by a stream of water.
The square space seems to flow between the cylinders and escape through
the “closing” gates into the indefiniteness of knowledge about: ....the life of
plants (trees on the building of Science), life of people (Sun Square) and energetics of mechanisms created by them (car park). The Mathematics, Physics
and University Cultural Centre buildings are the beginning of the Sun Square whose a priori glass facade (transparent in the low belt and highly reflective in the upper one) and the model of Solar System remind us of the determined relationships and common Origin of Nature and Culture. The a priori, unified form of Oneness, Synthesis of Sciences Square and Sun Square
streets is juxtaposed with the spontaneously arranged spaces of four yards
whose forms are shaped by room purposes.
Description by prof. Marek Budzyński, Campus Architect
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Vice-Rector for Research and International Cooperation
EXPANDING THE
BOUNDARIES OF KNOWLEDGE
We are pleased to present you with the publication whose aim is to
show you the potential of the University of Bialystok academic staff,
scientific research, international cooperation and cooperation with
regional entrepreneurs and institutions. We hope that this university prospectus will give you an overview of the University academic
programmes and services, and inspire you to join scientific research
and activities for the benefit of our regional community. Over the
fifteen years of its independent existence, the University of Bialystok has become a dynamically growing institution of higher education, the largest in Podlasie, both in respect of the number of research workers, fields of study and forms of education offered as
well as the number of students and graduates. Our university incorporates the idea of European university – teaching through the
prism of scientific experiments.
Didactic potential
The university is composed of 10 Faculties, including a foreign one in
Vilnius. A wide variety of educational programmes is provided in 25
fields of study and over 60 specialisations, taught according to the
three-cycle degree structure. The major fields of study offer unique
and inter-faculty courses created to meet the social demand. The curricula are constantly developed and updated, with a special emphasis
on their interdisciplinary character. There are several projects implemented under the Human Capital Operational Programme, including:
Modern and effective education in cooperation with entrepreneurs, Education and practice - key to the future as well as Designing and implementing legal English curriculum with application of innovative educational materials. The University also offers a range of the so-called specially tailored progammes of study. All the fields of study have been
accredited by the State Accreditation Committee, and the field of
chemistry has received the European accreditation, that is the Eurobachelor label and Euromaster label, approved by the European Chemistry Network Association (ECTNA). Moreover, the Faculty of Economics
and Management has implemented the System of Quality Management for managing students’ education processes, scientific research
as well as expertise and research activities in economic studies, certified by the Polish Centre for Accrediation. The university offers more
than 90 postgraduate courses increasing students’ skills and abilities as
well as granting new competences.
Academic staff
and scientific cooperation
Our university employs 900 academic teachers. The number includes around 200 professors, with over 70 holding full academic
titles. The university is entitled to confer the university degree of
doctor in economic, legal, physical, biological and chemical sciences as well as in humanities, that is in history, language studies,
literature and pedagogy. It also has the right to confer the postdoctoral degree of doctor habilitatus in law, economics, biology
and history. The doctoral programmes are run at five university
faculties.
The scientific staff at the University of Bialystok conduct scientific
research at international level, both in natural and exact sciences as
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Development of infrastructure
well as in humanities and social sciences, not only expanding the
boundaries of knowledge by making discoveries, but also by providing expertise and experience to the whole region of Podlasie.
The works connected with the unique nature and cultural diversity
of the region should be especially emphasized. The academic staff
include scholars known for their scientific achievements in Poland
and abroad as well as professionals related to the world of business.
The University of Bialystok cooperates with institutions of higher
educations in the majority of European countries. Joint research
and undertakings are done under over forty contracts with foreign
partners. Numerous international secondment and exchange programmes for academic staff facilitate modern approaches to the
education of young people. The international cooperation is also
held under over a hundred bilateral agreements the University of
Bialystok has signed with the European institutions of higher education within the framework of the LLP-Erasmus programme. An essential element of international cooperation is a joint organisation
of conferences and symposia by the University of Bialystok and other research centres as well as a member of educational consortia responsible for implementing different scientific programmes. Some
of them are regular events gathering scholars also from outside Europe and promoting our university abroad. The 30-year conference
focusing on the application of geometric methods in physics called
Workshop on Geometric Methods and International School of Physics
and Condensed-Phase Chemistry are worth mentioning here. The
University’s success was also its participation in the 6th and 7th European Union Framework Programme for Research, Technological
Development and Demonstration Activities.
Beneficiary of European funds
The membership in the European Union opened new possibilities
of financing Polish scientific activities, also by making use of the European Union structural funds. Currently, the University of Bialystok
is implementing 18 projects within the framework of Operational
Programmes, including 11 projects under the Human Capital Operational Programme and other EU grants. Participation in these programmes allows for expanding the University as well as establishing and modernising its teaching and research facilities.
The University Library is currently the most advanced scientific library in the region. Fully computerized, it offers free access to over
500,000 printed volumes and internet resources, enabling online
access to library catalogs as well as computer-based information
and bibliography systems abroad. The reading rooms meeting the
21st century standards and special individual study rooms serve the
students and academic staff from the whole region. The library is
also a culture-making institution organizing open exhibitions, lectures and meetings with prominent guests. It also seeks to popularize science by offering, for instance, a series of lectures on Podlasie
in scientific research delivered by the University of Bialystok employees.
The current strategy of University development is centred on enlarging the University premises. In 2011 the construction of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Physics, Institute of
Biology and Institute of Chemistry buildings started. The University
campus will hold multimedia-equipped rooms, lecture halls, seminar rooms and specialist workshops and laboratories. The project
funds will serve to purchase specialist research equipment, which
will allow for modernising the scientific facilities of the University.
The University Computing Centre will become a computation base
for the whole University, a scientific research centre as well as a research development and implementation centre. The basic task of
the Centre will be to collect and give access to computing resources in the form of high-capacity computers, specialist software and
data storage devices to the university research staff. The University
Cultural Centre will house student organisations, a café and a concert hall. The Prof. Andrzej Myrcha University Museum of Nature will
gain space to exhibit its collected items, whereas the university
campus will have educational trails with, for instance, a lapidarium
with erratic boulders from the Pleistocene glaciations in the Podlaskie Voivodeship, enriched with glacial plant relics as well as
a special trail showing different stages of life on Earth in the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras.
The University authorities are committed to sustaining high standards of performance and the continuing professional development of its academic staff. The guarantee of our growth is an enormous involvement and professionalism of the academic staff and
energy of our students. Joint activity is the only policy for the University to maintain its stability and increase prestige.
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FACULTY OF
BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
First degree courses
BIOLOGY specialisation: Experimental and Molecular Biology, Ecology
and Environmental Management, Microbiology; CHEMISTRY; NATURAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
Second degree courses
BIOLOGY specialisation: General and Molecular Biology, Environmental Biology; CHEMISTRY; NATURAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
Doctoral programmes in Biology
Postgraduate courses
Contemporary Methods of Chemical Analysis; Management of Chemical Laboratory; Chemistry; Inter-Faculty Postgraduate Studies: Nature
– Education Stage IV
Pogodna 65, 15-399 Białystok, tel. +48 85 745 71 40, fax +48 85 747 01 14
[email protected]
The Faculty consists of two units: the Institute of Biology directed by
prof. dr hab. Andrzej Górniak and the Institute of Chemistry directed by
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Winkler. It has been granted the second research
category by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. All the fields
of study at the Faculty have been accredited by the State Accreditation
Committee, and the field of chemistry was the first in the country to receive the European accreditation, that is the Eurobachelor Label and
Euromaster Label, documented by the ECTNA.
The Faculty is entitled to grant the degree of doctor habilitatus in biological sciences and the degree of doctor of chemical sciences in
the field of chemistry, whereas the Institute of Biology has the right
to confer the degree of doctor of biological sciences in the field of biology. Since 1997 the Faculty has promoted 60 doctors, 14 research
workers have been awarded the degree of doctor habilitatus and 10
others the title of professor. The unit employs 125 academic teachers
including 28 senior academics.
The Faculty is active in raising European funds. It has recently received
considerable financial resources to implement the following projects:
Bio-Nano-Techno and Shaping proecological attitudes with the use of educational facilities of the University Museum of Nature, University of Bialystok. The first one significantly contributes to the Faculty’s research
equipment facilities and the second focuses on cooperation of the
scholarly community with the region.
The Faculty students are involved in the Polish Chemical Society and in
various nation-wide biological societies. The latter organize a lot of regular events such as bird ringing at the Siemianówka Reservoir, elk
counting at the Biebrza River or fauna and flora inventory in the territory of north-eastern Poland. The clubs are recognized and awarded in
competitions for student research clubs affiliated to the Polish institutions of higher education.
The scientific associations active at the Faculty include the branches
of the Polish Chemical Society, Polish Biochemical Society, Polish Botanical Society, Polish Hydrobiological Society and Polish Geographical Society.
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Scientific research
Bioelectrochemistry of cell membranes
and semipermeable membranes
Scientific research concerns the physical and chemical properties
of both natural membranes such as cell membranes and their artificial models in the form of monolayers, lipid bilayers and liposomes. The chemical equilibria between the membrane components, and between the membrane and environment components have been studied. Physical and chemical properties of normal cells and pathologically-affected cells as well as the changes
taking place in cell membranes under the influence of various factors are studied. The Langmuir technique, measurements of interfacial tension in lipid bilayers, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, voltammetry, chronopotentiometry, microphoresis and
various chromatographic techniques are used in the research.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Figaszewski, [email protected]
Publications: A. D. Petelska, A. Niemcunowicz-Janica, M. Szeremeta, Z. Figaszewski, Equilibria of phosphatidylcholine-Ca2+ ions in monolayer at the air/
water interface, Langmuir, 26 (2010) 13359-63; I. Dobrzyńska, B. SzachowiczPetelska, E. Skrzydlewska, Z. Figaszewski, Effect of L-carnitine on liver cell membranes in ethanol-intoxicated rats, Chemico-Biological Interactions, 188 (2010)
44-51.
Partial synthesis and structural
analysis of natural products
and their biologically active analogues
Chemistry of natural products and synthesis of their biologically active analogues based on modern methods of organic synthesis is a major field of research, having not only scientific
merit but also potential practical applications. Especially promising are the results of studies on the synthesis of OSW-1 saponin and its analogues which show cytotoxic activity against selected malicious cancer cells, even at nanomolar concentration. The research on synthesis of vitamin A analogues based
on olefin metathesis reactions may also have practical applications. The cross metathesis reactions of natural polyenes with
various olefinic partners in the presence of ruthenium metathesis catalysts are studied. The metathesis reactions are also
used in the synthesis of other natural products, e.g. steroidal
sapogenins and for constructing molecular machines (rotors).
Natural products (e.g. β-tocopherol and chromane derivatives)
are also used as ligands in the synthesis of new complexes that
may serve as metathesis catalysts. The other area of studies are
electrochemical reactions (e.g. the electrochemical glycosylation of cholesterol and other sterols).
Contact: prof. dr hab. Jacek Morzycki, [email protected]
Publications: J. Maj, J. W. Morzycki, L. Rárová, J. Oklešťková, M. Strnad, A. Wojtkielewicz, Synthesis and biological activity of 22-deoxo-23-oxa analogues of saponin OSW-1, J. Med. Chem. 54 (2011), 3298-3305. A. Wojtkielewicz, J. Maj, A. Dzieszkowska, J. W. Morzycki, Cross metathesis approach to retinoids and other
β-apocarotenoids, Tetrahedron, 67 (2011), 6868-6875..
Analytical problems of determining some trace metals
and compounds relevant to clinical analysis
as well as biological and environmental samples
The research carried out aims to find new selective analytical procedures for isolating, concentrating and determining biologically active
compounds in environmental samples and pharmaceutical preparations. The research is focused on the study of psychotropic, hipolipemic, anti-fungal drugs, α-blockers and hydrogen pump inhibitors. To
isolate the studied compounds extraction (LLE, SPE, CPE) and chromatographic (HPLC, TLC) techniques are used. The methods for
marking selected pharmaceutical products using their physical,
chemical and analytical properties are based on instrumental techniques, such as molecular spectroscopy and voltamperommetry. The
scope of work also includes the assessment of drug durability in simulated environmental conditions and the identification of photodecomposition products by chemometric and chromatographic methods (HPLC, HPLC-MS, and GC-MS). Also, the research whose purpose is
to determine trace amounts of substances polluting the environment is conducted. The studies concern such substances as natural
waters, sewage, street and road dust. Mainly heavy metal content is
determined, with a special focus on the platinum group. The studies
are carried out with the use of flow injection analysis technique and
various detection techniques, including spectrophotometry, chemiluminescence, electroluminescence and atomic absorption spectroscopy.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Anatol Kojło, [email protected]
Publications: J. Karpińska, A. Sokół, M. Kobeszko, B. Starczewska, U. Czyżewska, M.
Hryniewicka: Study on degradation process of famotidine hydrochloride in aqueous samples, Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, 92 (2010) 1409-1422; J.
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Malejko, B. Godlewska-Żyłkiewicz, A. Kojło, A novel flow-injection method for the
determination of Pt(IV) in environmental samples based on chemiluminescence
reaction of lucigenin and biosorption, Talanta, 81 (2010) 1719-24.
oxidase-positive staphylococcal species isolated from wild small mammals, Systematic and Applied Microbiology 33 (2011) 183-187.
Valorization and protection
of unique ecosystems in the north-eastern Poland
Regulation of metabolism in cells and living organisms at
physiological, biophysical and biochemical level
For more than 30 years the Institute of Biology has been doing a detailed survey of the unique natural heritage values and resources of
the north-eastern Poland. Interesting and scientifically important
findings have been obtained as a result of research into the genetic
structure of plant and animal relic or endangered species, and in the
survey of biogeochemical processes shaping the ecosystems of rivers and lakes. The obtained results are fundamental for the balanced
management of natural resources and for taking the protection and
recultivation measures.
The Institute of Biology conducts research whose aim is to determine
the mechanisms of adaptation and protection of photosynthetic apparatus as well as the reactions preventing the stress effects in plants
and animals. The role of biological membranes in bioenergetic processes, transport of iones, oxydative stress and apoptosis is analysed,
and the mechanism affecting the cells in antioxidants of plant origin,
regulation of cell metabolism by plant and animal hormones and
other modulators of enzyme activity are studied. An important research issue is tracing the evolution of ecophysiological processes, in
particular those related to the energy management in small animals
experiencing different physiological states The research leads to the
attempts at using various metabolism regulators to fight pathogenes,
and aim at providing an insight into the processes which allow living
forms to adapt to living in different environmental conditions.
Contact: dr hab. Emilia Brzosko, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: E. Brzosko, A. Wróblewska, I. Tałałaj, E. Wasilewska, Genetic diversity of Cypripedium calceolus in Poland, Plant Systematics and Evolution
295 (2011) 83-96; K.A. Jadwiszczak, A. Banaszek, E. Jabłońska, O.V. Sozinov,
Could Betula humilis have survived the last glaciation at a current margin of its
distribution? Testing the hypothesis of a glacial refugium using nuclear microsatellites, Plant Systematics and Evolution 297 (2011) 147-156.
Antibiotic resistance and insecticidal activity of bacteria
from natural environments
The growth of large-scale research with results applicable in practice
is observed. An example of this trend may be an attempt to determine the entomopathogenic properties of environmental toxins of
Bacillus thuringiensis strain as well as the research into bacterial toxins
of Bacillus cereus in foodstuffs and their potential meaning for consumers. Also, molecular analyses are made into the plasmids and
genes responsible for the resistance of Staphylococcus strain bacteria
to antibiotics. The results of the research may give theoretical basis
for developing new strategies of protecting cultivated plants and
producing new antibiotics.
Contact: dr hab. Izabela Święcicka, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: I. Święcicka, M. Sztachelska, M. Czajkowska, D. K. Bideshi, B. A.
Federici, Characterization of Bacillus thuringiensis isolates from soil and small
mammals that harbour vip3A gene homologues, Biocontrol Science and Technology 21(4) (2011) 461-473; T. Hauschild, S. Stepanović, J. ZakrzewskaCzerwińska, Staphylococcus stepannovicii sp. nov., a novel novobiocin-resistant
Contact: prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Włostowski, [email protected]
Publications: A. Piotrowska, A. Bajguz, Conjugates of abscisic acid, brassinosteroids, ethylene, gibberellins, and jasmonates, Phytochemistry 72 (2011) 20972112; T. Włostowski, K. Dmowski, E. Bonda-Ostaszewska, Cadmium accumulation, metallothionein and glutathione levels, and histopathological changes in the
kidneys and liver of magpie (Pica pica) from a zinc smelter area. Ecotoxicology 19
(2010) 1066-1073; I. Ciereszko, A. Szczygła, E. Żebrowska, Phosphate deficiency affects acid phosphatase activity and growth of two wheat varirties, Journal of Plant
Nutrition 34 (2011) 815-829.
Scientific conferences
The most important and noteworthy scientific conferences organized by
the Faculty are: Bacterial Toxins for Insect Control; Safety, Ecology and
New Strains (2009), II conference: Wetlands and fresh water ecosystems the functioning, threats and protection, 2009, PTBER Scientific Symposium Sweet novelties of the last decade – transport, metabolism and regulatory role of sugars, 2007 as well as Research issues and perspectives for
orchids, 2007. Since 1992 the Faculty has been an organiser of the Local
Chemists’ Conference.
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Cooperation
in Poland and abroad
The Institute of Biology has participated in building the Polish
Biodiversity Information Network (PolBIN) since it originated in
2007. Within the PolBIN the employees of the Institute of Biology
have created a database with over 11,000 records of vascular
plants, lichens and arachnids, mainly from the territory of northeastern Poland. The database is regularly updated.
The Institute of Biology and the Biebrza National Park have been
engaged in the long-term research on the nature of Biebrza River
valley and its protection. The results of the research activities contribute substantially to the popularization of Biebrza National Park
and its natural values. The research scope has been enlarged thanks
to the opening in the year 2008 the Field Station of the University of
Bialystok in Gugny, run by dr hab. R. E. Taylor, prof. UwB.
The Institute of Biology entered into a cooperation agreement
with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in Białowieża and
the PAN Institute of Zoology in Warsaw, on the implementation of
the project called The influence of evolutionary history and anthropogenic factors on the genetic structure of the Eurasian lynx (Lynx
lynx) at the western edge of its range in Europe. Since 2008 the Institute has been a member of the consortium of the Białowieża Geobotanical Station of the European Centre for Natural Forests.
The research workers from the Institute of Biology cooperate with
47 scientific institutions from 19 countries, including the Czech Republic, Belarus, Russia, Japan, Italy, Sweden, England, Germany,
Belgium, USA, Denmark and India. The Institute of Biology conducts scientific research in cooperation with, for instance, Yanka
Kupala State University of Grodno, the Institute of Pharmacology
and Biochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
in Grodno, or the Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev.
The Institute of Chemistry researchers cooperate with renowned
research centres in Poland and abroad, such as the Institute of Organic Chemistry and the PAN Institute of Physical Chemistry in
Warsaw, University of Saskatchewan in Canada, the University of
Turku in Finland and a number of universities in the USA with the
University of California, Clemson University or Wichita State University, the effect of which are numerous scientific publications.
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Research staff
A lot of Faculty workers have seats on editorial boards of scientific journals and are members of important scientific institutions, such as the
Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). In 2010 prof. dr hab. Marek Konarzewski became a member of Division II of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr hab. Beata Godlewska-Żyłkiewicz, prof. UwB is a licensed coach
of the Polish TrainMiC team (Training in Metrology in Chemistry), at the
Institute for Reference Methods and Measurements (IRMM) in Geel, Belgium. Dr hab. Emilia Brzosko, prof. UwB, dr Ada Wróblewska and dr Izabela Tałałaj received a team Award of the Minister of Environment for
the work Ecological and genetic diversity of orchids as a measure of their
evolutionary potential and basis for conservation activity (in Polish). In
2007 prof. dr hab. Andrzej Górniak was granted an Award of the Minister of Environment for his work Research on Sudovian lakes and reclamation of Siemianówka Reservoir (in Polish).
The Faculty workers are also noted for many scientific achievements.
Prof. dr hab. Marek Konarzewski (a PAN member-correspondent)
showed a correlation between the size of body, genome and cell, and
the speed of metabolism and growth in animals. Prof. dr hab. Stanisław
Fedyk studied the geographical variability in chromosomes and hybridization zones of interracial hybrids in the common shrew in the
north-eastern Poland. Dr Andrzej Bajguz works successfully on the hormonal nature of brassinosteroids in lower plants. Dr hab. Izabela
Święcicka, prof. UwB and dr hab. Tomasz Hauschild, are successful in
their research into the special genetic features of Bacillus thuringensis
and Staphylococus sp strains as regards their antibiotic resistance and
production of toxins Cry and Vip. Prof. dr hab. Jacek Morzycki is
a world-known specialist in the steroid chemistry. Dr hab. Beata
Godlewska-Żyłkiewicz, prof. UwB is well-known for her work on the
use of atomic absorption spectroscopy for determining trace amounts
of substances polluting the natural environment. Prof. dr hab. Anatol
Kojło has published a number of important papers on the injection
flow analysis technique. Prof. dr hab. Valery Isidorov is a world-renowned specialist in chromatography and environmental chemistry.
He has written a few coursebooks in this area of interest. Prof. dr hab.
Zbigniew Figaszewski is an acknowledged specialist in bioelectrochemistry. His works concerning natural and artificial membranes are
especially valued. Dr hab. Ryszard Łaźny, prof. UwB is successful in his
research on the solid-phase organic synthesis, whereas prof. dr hab.
Krzysztof Winkler has made remarkable achievements in the electrosynthesis of fullerene polymers.
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First degree courses
ECONOMICS specialisation: Corporate Accountancy and Finance, Foreign Trade, Contemporary Economy Operation and Development, Regional and Local Economy; MANAGEMENT specialisation: Business
Management, Public Organisations Management; INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMETRICS (in cooperation with the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics); INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS specialisation: International Trade; ECONOMICS AND LAW
(in cooperation with the Faculty of Law) specialisation: Public Sector,
Private Sector
Second degree courses
ECONOMICS specialisation: Enterprise on the Market, Economics and
Regional Development, Functioning and Development of Contemporary Economy, Global Economy; MANAGEMENT specialisation: Corporate Management, Management in Public Organisations; INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS specialisation: International Cooperation; SOCIAL POLICY (in cooperation with the Faculty of Pedagogy
and Psychology)
Doctoral programmes in Economy
Postgraduate courses
Corporate Finance and Accountancy; Accountancy and Internal Audit
in Public Sector Entities; Managerial Studies, European Union Project
Management; An Official as a Competent Adviser – Human Resources
Management; Real Estate Assessment and Management; Financial
Analysis and Methodology of Economic Research, EURO Zone Mechanisms; Customs, Taxes and Logistics in International Trade in Goods;
Entrepreneurship for Teachers; Information Technology Systems in
Business Management; Global Market Business Planning for SMEs; Psychology in Management
Warszawska 63, 15-062 Białystok, tel. +48 85 745 77 11, fax +48 85 741 46 85
[email protected]
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FACULTY OF
ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Since 1991 the Faculty has been authorised to confer the university
degree of doctor of economic sciences in the field of economics, and
since 2002 - the postdoctoral degree of doctor habilitatus of economic sciences in the field of economics.
The Faculty employs 84 research workers, including 28 senior academics. Since 1997 the Faculty has granted 83 degrees of doctor, promoted
seven doctor habilitatus degree holders and one professor.
The Faculty publishes a national quarterly called Optimum. Studia ekonomiczne, awarded 6 points by the Ministry of Science and Higher
Education – editor-in-chief doctor Dariusz Kiełczewski, prof. UwB.
The students at the Faculty are involved in the following student research clubs: Managers’ Society, Economics of Tourism Society, Europroject, Entrepreneurs’ Society, UwB SIFE team (Students in Free Enterprise),
AIESEC EKO and Business Society. The result of work of student clubs are
numerous scientific conferences, the effects of which are non-serial publications edited by the Faculty research workers. They include: The European Union funds as an instrument of Podlaskie Voivodeship growth in the
years 2007-2013 (in Polish), edited by T. Truskolaski, Marketing communications and human resources management – good cooperation (in Polish), edited by M. Kruk, Białystok – city of the future (in Polish), edited by T. Truskolaski), Enterprise and entrepreneurship under the conditions of integration
(in Polish), edited by A. Sadowski, Economic and social determinants of poverty in the Podlaskie Voivodeship (in Polish), edited by D. Perło.
Podlasie Development Foundation, Business Incubator, Eastern Centre of Technology Transfer and Austrian School of Economics Society
are also active at the Faculty.
The Faculty runs prestigious postgraduate MBA courses within the
framework of the EU project Education and practice - key to the future,
2009-2012. In 2010 the Faculty, as the only one in Poland, received the
ISO certificate 9001. In 2011 the Faculty of Economics and Management
was awarded by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for cooperation with entrepreneurs in creating the new field of study: international
economic relations. In the academic year 2010/2011 the Faculty is a part
of the Polish Government’s Scholarship Programme for Young Scholars.
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Scientific research
The process of creating capital in peripheral economy
Contact: prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Meredyk, [email protected]
Publications: K. Meredyk (ed.), Mechanism of economic growth in peripheral areas (in Polish), Białystok 2007.
though globalization has grown as an effect of market economy, and
market has never ceased to be a fundamental regulatory power for economic activity, a gradual modification of the way market functions has
been observed in the form of rules conformable to the interests of transnational companies. All this shows that the world is sentenced to globalization, albeit modified by the crisis of the years 2007-2009. The question
arises as to what part it plays in creating the world economic growth and
the growth of particular national economies.
Impact of globalization and economic integration in the
European Union upon the functioning of an enterprise
Contact: prof. dr hab. Andrzej F. Bocian, [email protected]
Publications: A. F. Bocian, Globalization, economic growth and relations between
poverty and wealth (in Polish), Optimum. Studia Ekonomiczne, 4 (2008) 109-134.
The main research hypothesis is the assumption that there are big capital
and investment reserves in peripheral economy. How to make them
available remains a systematic issue, and conditions the dynamics of high
economic growth as well as the continuity of structural changes.
Within this field of research the impact of globalization upon the
marketing and management functions as well as the influence of EU
integration on Polish enterprises are analysed.
Contact: dr hab. Jerzy Borowski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: J. Borowski, Globalization, international competitiveness and enterprise strategies (in Polish), Białystok 2008.
Globalization processes – genesis, development
and perspectives. Polish economy potential
The initial spontaneous emergence of globalization phenomena has
gradually been subjected to different kinds of regulations on the part of
the strongest business entities active on the market. It means that al-
Development of cluster structures in the Podlaskie
Voivodeship and in the regions of Eastern Poland
The clusters may be interpreted as a new way of analysing economy,
also in regional and local variants. The specific approach mainly involves focusing attention on the mutual relations and new role of companies, authorities and other institutions aiming at strengthening competitiveness. The purpose of the research is, therefore, to provide practical support for regional policies and to generate guidelines for effective strategies of the companies aiming to be part of network
structures.
Contact: dr hab. Bogusław Plawgo, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: B. Plawgo, Clusters as a development potential in the Podlaskie
Voivodeship (in Polish), BFKK Foundation, Białystok 2010; B. Plawgo, The food
sector cluster of Podlasie – study of cluster enterprise case [in:] E. Bojar (ed.) Clusters Politics Management Good Clustering Practices in the World, TNOiK, Toruń
2009.
Innovation and transfer of technologies
on regional and international scale
This field of study is very important from the point of view of economic development on local and national scale. It allows for conducting joint research and projects with regional and national companies and institutions. The effects of the research is, for instance, the
Regional Innovation Strategy for Podlaskie Voivodeship; Podlasie Innovation Centre; Innovation Potential of Suwałki Subregion for the Development of New Technologies Infrastructure and Information Society (e-Sudovia), the project implemented by the Euroregion Neman and fi-
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nanced by the ESF and the Ministry of Labour and Social Politics
(ZPORR 2.6), 2006-2007.
Contact: dr hab. Robert Ciborowski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: R. Ciborowski, Determinants of innovation processes in global
economy (in Polish), Optimum. Studia Ekonomiczne, 4 (2009) 184-194.
Basic categories in economics of sustainable development
The purpose of the study is to specify and later define the structure
of fundamental concepts of the research area called the economics
of sustainable development. The area may be specified as the economic theory of sustainable growth. The current results of research
conducted within the research field were mainly presented in the following conferences: Determinants and mechanisms of sustainable development (July 2007 and June 2009) and disseminated in the form of
publications and academic coursebooks.
Contact: dr hab. Dariusz Kiełczewski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: D. Kiełczewski, Consumption and perspectives in sustainable development (in Polish), Białystok 2008; D. Kiełczewski, B. Dobrzańska, G.
Dobrzański, Natural environment protection (in Polish), Warszawa 2008; D.
Kiełczewski (ed.), From the concept of eco-growth to the economics of sustainable development (in Polish), Białystok 2009.
Scientific conferences
In the past three years the Faculty has organised over 20 scientific
national and international conferences, with a few of deserving
special mention: Economy – Politics – Ethics III (2010); Financial markets: yesterday, today and tomorrow (2010); Flexicurity as a response to
the challenges of contemporary labour market (2010); From the Great
Depression to the Mortgage Crisis - 80th Anniversary of the Great Depression (2009); Podlasie – Region of the Future (2009); Financial and
Non-Financial Factors of SME development in Poland (2009); Labour
Market and Education (2008); Regional Development and Sustainable
Growth (2008).
The Faculty organises such regular international conferences as: Determinants and Mechanisms of Sustainable Development (1998) and The
public sector in contemporary economy (2008).
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Cooperation
in Poland and abroad
The Faculty is a partner of the Polish-German Network of Scholars for Sustainable Development, which was recognized as an
official initiative of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development for the years 2010-2011.
As a part of the consortium active in five voivodeships of eastern
Poland, and within the framework of Competent Commune project, the Faculty cooperates with the Marshal’s Office of Podlaskie
Voivodeship, Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship, Świętokrzyskie
Voivodeship, Jan Kochanowski Humanities and Sciences University in Kielce, Rzeszów School of Business, Lublin University of Technology as well as the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
In 2009 the University of Bialystok consortium (Faculty of Economics and Management), commissioned by the Marshal’s Office of the
Podlaskie Voivodeship, prepared the expertise on the Types of projects released within the RPOWP in the context of economic changes.
The University of Bialystok consortium (Faculty of Economics
and Management) has won the tender in the Voivodeship Labour Office in Białystok for doing research into the STARTERS OF
PODLASIE ECONOMY: Analysis of economic growth and innovation
areas in the Podlaskie Voivodeship - Sector of Medical Products and
Equipment. Sector of Geriatric Rehabilitation (in Polish). In the
years 2009-2010 the University of Bialystok consortium, with the
participation of the Faculty, implemented the project concerning research and promotion of the flexicurity concept.
Since May 2010 the University of Bialystok consortium (Faculty of
Economics and Management), along with the Marshal’s Office of
the Podlaskie Voivodeship, have been implementing the project
e-Podlaskie – Information Society Development Trends in Podlaskie
Voivodeship. The aim of the project is to create the Programme
of Information Society Development (PRIS).
The Faculty has signed a cooperation agreement with the Faculty of Economics of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and
Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. In the nearest future a
cooperation agreement with Szent István University in Gödöllö
(Hungary) will be signed. Also, the Faculty is in advanced talks to
enter into an official cooperation agreement with Wrocław University of Economics and the Institute of Public Affairs of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
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Research staff
Research projects
The research staff of the Faculty are active participants of international scientific conferences and experts in a variety of research projects implemented by external institutions. They have
also been honoured with many prestigious awards. In 2005 prof.
dr hab. Janusz Kaliński received an individual award of the Ministry of National Education and Sport for the coursebook Historia
gospodarcza XIX i XX w. Earlier, in 1997 prof. dr hab. Bazyli Poskrobko was awarded the title of Honorary Academic of the Belarusian Academy of Engineering, and in 2001 he was presented
with a golden medal by this University.
In 2004 dr hab. Henryk Wnorowski, prof. UwB was honoured
with an individual award by the Minister of National Education
and Sport for his postdoctoral thesis Excise policy and spirits industry growth in Poland in the 1990’s (in Polish).
In 2010 dr hab. Ryta Iwona Dziemianowicz, prof. UwB became
a laureate of the award by the president of the National Bank of Poland for the best postdoctoral thesis in the field of public finance.
In 2008 dr hab. Adam Sadowski received a medal of the Minister
of Agriculture and Rural Development For His Outstanding Services to Agriculture for the whole of his research activity devoted to
the economics of agriculture and rural areas development. In 2010
dr hab. Ryta Iwona-Dziemianowicz prof. UwB became a member
of the State Examining Commission for Tax Counselling.
The Faculty workers hold a lot of offices with no direct ties to research or education, including that of the President of Białystok,
adviser to the Podlaskie Voivodeship’ marshal; BFFK president,
president of the Regional Studies Institute, president of the Podlasie Development Foundation, president of prof. zw. dr hab. Tadeusz Kasprzak Foundation, president of Polmos Białystok S.A.
Management Board, CEDC Group. They are members of such
foundations and associations as the PTE, SERiA, programme
council of the Neighbours Foundation or Resursa Podlaska as
well as part of the economic fields of study team at the State Accreditation Committee or Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Affairs. They sit on supervisory boards of state shareholdings such
as Cezas, private enterprises such as PGE Dystrybucja Białystok
and housing councils. They are experts in the National Centre
for Research and Development as well as in many operational
programmes financed by the European Union.
REDIS – Restructuring districts into science quarters
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The purpose of the project is a more effective use of know-how and innovation in towns and cities, which contributes to the development of
economy based on knowledge. Each partner town or city in the project creates or develops science quarters, science and technology parks,
and other innovation initiatives. The projects is financed from the ERDF
funds within the programme URBACT II.
Project duration: 2008-2011
Flexicurity as a chance for sustainable development of labour market
The main purpose of the project is to adapt and popularize the flexicurity concept among the employers and employees of enterprises in the
Podlaskie Voivodeship as well as to initiate public debate on the flexicurity model adjusted to the needs of the regional labour market. Under
the project a conference was organised for labour market practitioners,
that is for employers, labour organisations, labour market institutions
and business-related organisations. The projects is financed from the
European Union funds.
Project duration: 2009-2010
E-podlaskie project – information society development
trends in the Podlaskie Voivodeship
The aim of he project is to encourage the representatives of business enterprises, employers’ organisations, trade unions, self-government units, labour offices and other institutions focused on the regional development
to make a thorough analysis of information society situation in the Podlaskie Voivodeship, to make local partnerships aiming at the development
of information society and to prepare the relevant goal setting documentation.
Project duration: 2010-2011
Podlasie Innvovation Strategy
– building the implementation system
The aim of the project is to create and start up a system of implementing the Podlasie Innovation Strategy, including the updating, monitoring, benchmarking, regional foresight, development of innovation cooperation network, promotion of technology and innovation transfer
as well as the popularization of innovation in the region.
Project duration: 2009-2011
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FACULTY of PHILOLOGY
First degree courses
POLISH PHILOLOGY: Editorial Studies, City and Region Promotion, Cultural Studies; PHILOLOGY specialisation: French Philology, French Philology for Beginners, Russian Philology – Language Communication in
Business, English Philology, Belarusian Philology, Belarusian Philology
for Beginners, Belarusian Philology with the English Language, Belarussian Philology – Eastern Slavic Studies, Russian Philology, Russian Philology for Beginners, Russian Philology with the English Language, Russian
Philology with the Belarusian Language, French for Specific Purposes
with Spanish, English for Specific Purposes with Spanish, LIBRARY AND
INFORMATION SCIENCE; CULTURAL STUDIES (in cooperation with
the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology) specialisation: Cultural Tourism, Media and Communication, Advertising and Public Relations
Second degree courses
POLISH PHILOLOGY specialisation: Journalism, Philology and Editing,
Philosophy and Philology, Cultural Anthropology, Information and Bibliology; PHILOLOGY specialisation: English Philology, Belarusian Philology,
Belarusian Philology with the English Language, Russian Philology, Russian Philology with the English Language; CULTURAL STUDIES (in cooperation with the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, extramural course
only ) specialisation: Third Age Culture, Podlasie Culture, Art Criticism, Film
and Media Studies
Doctoral programmes in Linguistics and Literary Studies
Postgraduate courses
Library and Information Science, Logopedics, Cultural Studies, Editorial Studies, Journalism and Public Relations, Rhetoric, Polish Philology,
Audio Description and Practical Rhetoric
Plac Uniwersytecki 1, 15-420 Białystok, tel. +48 85 745 74 46, fax +48 85 745 74 78
[email protected]
The Faculty consists of the Institute of Polish Philology, the Institute
of Eastern Slavic Philology, the Chair of Neophilology and the Chair of
Bioethics and Philosophical Anthropology. It has been awarded second research category by the Minister of Science and Higher Education. Since the year 2000 the Faculty has been entitled to confer the
degree of doctor of humanities in the field of linguistics, and since
2006 – the doctor of humanities in literary studies. Since 1999 sixtyseven Faculty members have received the degree of doctor, 25 the
postdoctoral degree of doctor habilitatus and six have obtained the
title of professor. The Unit currently employs 139 research and academic staff, including 30 professors. The Faculty issues Białostockie Archiwum Językowe (Białystok Language Archives, awarded 6 points by
the Ministry of Science and Higher Education) - editor-in-chief dr hab.
Bogusław Nowowiejski, prof. UwB; Studia Wschodniosłowiańskie (Eastern Slavic Studies, 6 points) – editors-in-chief: prof. dr hab. Wanda Supa, prof. dr hab. Leonarda Dacewicz; Idea. Studia nad Strukturą i Rozwojem Pojęć Filozoficznych (Idea. Studies on the Structure and Development of Philosophical Concepts, 9 points), editors-in-chief: dr Joanna
Usakiewicz, dr Sławomir Raube; Archeus. Studia z Bioetyki i Antropologii Filozoficznej (Archeus. Studies in Bioethics and Philosophical Anthropology, 6 points), editors-in-chief: dr hab. Maria Nowacka, prof. UwB;
Linguodidactica (6 points), editor-in-chief dr hab. Roman Hajczuk,
prof. UwB. The Faculty also issues other journals, such as Studia
Slawistyczne (Slavic Studies), editors-in-chief: prof. dr hab. Zofia
Abramowicz, prof. dr hab. Leonarda Dacewicz, and Białorutenistyka
Białostocka (Białystok Belarusian Studies), editor-in-chief dr hab. Halina
Twaranowicz, prof. UwB. The Faculty is home to a number of scientific associations: Białystok Branch of the Language Culture Society,
Podlasie Henryk Sienkiewicz Society and Adam Mickiewicz Literary
Society in Białystok, as well as student research clubs: the Polish Philology Students’ Society and the Student Intercultural Society.The effect of student clubs’ work are publications and cultural events. Every
year the Student Intercultural Society organizes the French Spring –
a series of events dedicated to French culture.
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Scientific research
The language and culture of the region
The research concerns the Polish language of the north-eastern region, dialects of north-eastern Poland and Polish dialect lexicography and writing in the region. An important element of the regional
research is also the onomastics of Polish and East Slavic borderland.
The object of numerous studies is the antroponymy of Białystok and
Podlasie Jews, Tartars, Lithuanians, Ukrainians and Belarusians as
well as the urban names in the north-eastern Poland. Regional cultural research concerns the spiritual heritage of Slavs and ethnic
groups in the north-eastern Poland, folk culture in Podlasie, Polish –
Belarusian cultural ties, for instance: Dziady by Adam Mickiewicz and
the Belarusian dziady custom, Belarusian folklore and culture in the
Białystok region as well as reading habits and book culture in the
Podlasie region.
Contact: dr hab. Bogusław Nowowiejski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: Z. Abramowicz, Antroponymy of Białystok Jews (in Polish),
Białystok 2010; B. Nowowiejski (ed.), Nineteenth-century dialect glossaries
from the north-eastern Poland (in Polish), Białystok 2009; M. Kondratiuk and
B. Siegień, Hajnówka Commune places. History, origin and language, part I (in
Polish), Białystok 2008; L. Dacewicz, Antroponymy of Białystok in the 17th and
18th centuries (in Polish), Białystok 2001; L. Citko, Northern Podlasie personal
names in the 16th century (in Polish), Białystok 2001.
Polish and contrastive linguistics
The object of study is the synchronic and diachronic approach to the
vocabulary, grammatical system, semantics and pragmatics of the
Polish language. The research concerns the Polish legal discourse,
language policy, codification of contemporary Polish as well as the
style and language of Polish authors. Also, research is conducted into
language contacts, Polish-English and Polish-French contrastive linguistics as well as computer and corpus linguistics. The contrastive
research is related to the lexicon, phraseology, paremiology, intercultural pragmatics, phonetic interference and pragmatic function of
prosody.
Contact: dr hab. Urszula Sokólska, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: B. Nowowiejski, Issues in language contacts (in Polish), Białystok 2010;
U. Sokólska, Studies in the language of Polish writers. Selected Issues (in Polish), Białystok
2010; A. Miatluk, D. Szymaniuk, O. Turłaj (eds.), Contrastive Phonetics of English and Polish: Phonetic Interference, Białystok 2008; J. Cholewa, Image encyclopédique et linguistique du chat et du chien en français et en polonais contemporains, Białystok 2008; I.
Szczepankowska (ed.), Style and semantics (in Polish), Białystok 2008.
Old and modern Polish literature
Anthropology of literature and culture
The research concerns such areas as: the literature of the Renaissance and Baroque (religious prose, memoirs, romances), foreign
characters and themes in Polish literature, relations between old
literature and theology, relations between modern poetry and
old tradition and painting, old Polish editing techniques; Polish
literature and culture between the East and West: ideas of Europe, Faustian and Byzantine motifs in Polish culture, Romanticism, Modernism, contemporary literature in the comparative
perspective, beauty, aesthetics, art concepts of selected authors
from the 18th to the 21st centuries (Słowacki, Mickiewicz,
Żeromski, Miłosz); literature and historical awareness in the 18th
and 19th centuries, 19th century literary heritage and modernity,
19th century traditions of Polish popular writing, women’s literature and critique; travel discourse in the Polish culture of the
19th and 20th centuries, worldview and aesthetics in the Polish
culture of the 19th century. Other objects of study are changes,
forms and trends in the Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries: literary cycle in Poland, literary culture of the interwar period; epic in the Polish postwar literature, non-fiction genres in
the Polish literature after the year 1989 as well as memory and
identity versus globalization, localness and im(migration) in the
anthropological and cultural perspective; theory and anthropology of literature, historical poetics, narratology, new paradigms
in cultural research and problems of audio-visual culture.
Contact: dr hab. Dariusz Kulesza, prof. UwB, [email protected]
dr hab. Alicja Kisielewska, [email protected]
Publications: M. Kochanowski (ed.), Wiesław Kazanecki’s literary output (in Polish), Białystok 2010, J. Ławski, Mickiewicz - Myth - History: Studies (in Polish),
Białystok 2010; J. Sztachelska, H. Struve, A selection of aesthetic writings: introduction, selection and preparation (in Polish), Kraków 2010; K. Budrowska, Literature, writers and the PRL 1948-1958 censorship (in Polish), Białystok 2009,
A. Kisielewska, Family mythologies in Polish tele-sagas (in Polish), Białystok 2009;
E. Konończuk, In search of access to the past. On debut novels by Hanna Malewska and Jacek Bocheński (in Polish), Białystok 2009; B. Puchalska-Dąbrowska, Heroes and heroines of the British Isles as models of sainthood in the Polish hagiography of the 16th and 17th centuries (in Polish), Białystok 2009; M. Leś, Sociological
fantasy. Poetics and utopian thinking (in Polish), Białystok 2008; A. Kieżuń, Ways
of his own: on Young Poland literary works by Artur Górski (in Polish), Białystok
2006; D. Kulesza, Two Truths. Zofia Kossak and Tadeusz Borowski and the image of
war in the Polish prose of 1944-1948 (in Polish), Białystok 2006.
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East Slavic literatures
Methodology of teaching foreign languages and Polish
The research conducted in this area encompasses the following
issues: satire in East Slavic languages, Russian religious poetry,
history and theory of Russian poetry from the 10th to 19th centuries, Polish-Russian literary ties, artistic translation issues, East
Slavic “restored” literature (immigration literature or literature
created by dissidents), old and modern Belarusian literature:
main development tendencies, trends, representatives and
20th-century Belarusian poetry.
The object of research is the didactics of English, French, Russian,
Belarusian and Polish. The research conducted in the Chair of
Neophilology concerns the creation and evaluation of self-assessment tools (European Language Portfolio), models of educating
teachers of Romance languages in a diachronic perspective, didactics of foreign languages in philological fields of study; evaluation of teacher training programmes, applying qualitative forms
of language evaluation, such as self-assessment instruments prepared by the Council of Europe as well as the actual beliefs and
behaviours of teachers and students in the process of education.
The research carried out in the Institute of East Slavic Philology
covers foreign language teaching to the Polish students doing
philology courses, with a focus on the transposition and interference of related languages, teaching business English as a second
language in the Russian language studies as well as the scientific
work on multi-language terminological dictionaries.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Wanda Supa, [email protected]
Publications: H. Twaranowicz (ed.), East Slavic literatures: the latest studies (in
Polish), Białystok 2010; J. Czykwin, Janissary’s records (in Polish), Białystok
2008, W. Supa (ed.), Satire in East Slavic languages, v. I-VII (in Polish), Białystok
1993-2008; W. Supa, Bible and contemporary Russian prose (in Polish),
Białystok 2006; W. Jakimiuk-Sawczyńska, Konstantin Fofanov’s lyrics in the
context of pure art trend (in Polish), Białystok 2005.
Culture and literature of Englishand French-speaking areas
The literary resarch concerns: 20th-century African-American poetry, modernism, postmodernism and feminism in African-American literature, African-American images in white American literature of the 20th century, postcolonial studies, literary output of
British writers of Asian origin, travel discourse, Aldous Huxley’s
works, postmodernist literature and the Holocaust theme in English prose. The cultural studies are related to the culture of cyberspace, cultural changes of the American Polonia, image of the
“other” in French literature and film; Polish-French, English-Polish
and Polish-French cultural ties as well as intercultural issues.
Contact: dr Anna Tomczak, [email protected]
Publications: G. Moroz, J. Sztachelska (ed.), Metamorphoses of Travel Writing.
Across Theories, Genres, Centuries and Literary Tradition, Cambridge 2010; A.
Rozumko, Multiculturalism of English speaking countries in proverbs and sayings. Proverbs in language and intercultural education (in Polish), Białystok
2010; A. M. Tomczak, Reading Class: Non-verbal Communication as a Reflection of Middle Class Attitudes and Behaviours in Selected Novels of Iris Murdoch,
Białystok 2009; L. Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, J. Kamionowski (eds.), Many more
windows: on American feminine poetry (in Polish), Białystok 2008; M. Kamecka, P. Guzowski (eds.), Anglo-Saxons, French and Poles – mutual images in the
past and today, Białystok 2005.
Contact: d
r Barbara Głowacka, [email protected]
dr Robert Szymula, [email protected]
Publications: R. Hajczuk, A. Zubow, Информационные технологии в
обучении русскому языку как иностранному, Białystok 2009; K. Bogacki, B.
Głowacka, D. Potocka (eds.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Foreign Language
Teacher Education, Białystok 2008; P. Wróblewski (ed.), Issues in language education at school (in Polish), Białystok 2008; E. Awramiuk, Reading and writing in Polish for beginners: linguistic foundations (in Polish), Białystok 2006; B. Głowacka,
Who so neglects learning in his youth (...) European Language Portfolio for pupils
aged 10 – 15: teachers guide, Warszawa 2005.
Bioethics and philosophical anthropology
The research covers such areas as: modern philosophy, Cartesianism, theological entanglements of philosophy, human being in
the context of the development of biomedical knowledge, health
as an ethical concept as well as ethical and legal boundaries of research.
Contact: dr hab. Maria Nowacka, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: S. Raube, Samuel Clarke’s metaphysics and ethics (in Polish),
Białystok 2010, J. Usakiewicz, Love of reason : Arnold Geulincx’ ethics (1624-1669)
(in Polish), Białystok 2010; J. Kopania, Cartesian sketches (in Polish), Kraków
2009; M. Nowacka, The ethics of transplantation (in Polish), Warszawa 2003; J.
Kopania, Ethical dimensions of corporeality (in Polish), Kraków 2002.
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Cooperation
in Poland and abroad
The Faculty has signed cooperation contracts with the following
institutions: the Pushkhin State Russian Language Institute in
Moscow, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, the Belarusian
State University in Minsk and Minsk State Linguistic University.
The cooperation involves the exchange of university students
and staff and publishing coursebooks. Moreover, the Faculty
members have library study visits or lectures at the above –
mentioned institutions and, conversely, the Faculty hosts library
study visits and lectures from the employees of cooperating institutions coming to Białystok.
The Faculty maintains intensive contacts with the majority of academic institutions in Poland. Its members are regularly invited for
lectures or to be part of committees of prestigious conferences.
The Chair of Neophilology works along with the Université de
Franche-Comté in Besançon in France on the project entitled:
Dictionary of Polish verbs for the NOOJ platform. The project manager is dr J. Cholewa.
The Faculty also cooperates with over a dozen foreign universities within the framework of the LLP-Erasmus programme.
Scientific conferences
In the years 2009-2010 the Faculty organised eight scientific
conferences: Polish-Belarusian language, literary, historical and
cultural ties (held once a year since 1998), Cycle and cyclicity in
literature (held since 2000), Christian spiritual heritage of Slavic
nations (held since 2003), Satire in East Slavic literatures (held
since 1992), Anglo-Saxons, French and Poles: mutual inspirations
in language, culture and literature, (held since 2004). In 2009 the
Faculty organised the Polish celebrations of Juliusz Słowacki
Year and the international conference The beauty of Słowacki. In
2009 the conference Tradition, forms and changes in travel discourse in national literatures and a path to mutuality was held,
and in 2010 the conference Stylistic variants of the Polish language in the past and present was organised.
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Publishing series
The Białostockie Studia Językoznawcze (Białystok Language Studies) series, edited by B. Nowowiejski includes the following publications: B. I. Kuryłowicz,
The Polish language in the sixteenth-century Knyszyn town records (in Polish),
2005; I. Szczepankowska, Studies on the Polish language of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski’s era (in Polish), 2004; U. Andrejewicz, Polish personal pronouns: grammatical approach (in Polish), 2001; U. Sokólska, The seventeenthcentury Polish language of the north-eastern Kresy (in Polish), 1999. The
Białostocka Biblioteka Polonistyczna (The Białystok Library of Polish Studies) series includes the following publications edited by. J. Sztachelska: “Nad
Niemnem” revisited: studies and sketches (in Polish), 2001 and On Young Poland: studies and sketches (in Polish), 1998. The Czarny Romantyzm (Black Romanticism) series initiated by dr hab. Halina Krukowska, prof. UwB encompasses the following publications: K. Korotkich, J. Ławski (eds.), Apocalypse.
Symbols-Tradition-Exegesis v. I. 2006, v. II. 2007 (in Polish); J. Ławski, Marys of
Romantics: metaphysical images of femininity. Mickiewicz – Malczewski –
Krasiński (in Polish), 2003. The Poetyka i Horyzonty Tradycji (Poetics and Horizons of Tradition) series includes: B. Chodźko, E. Feliksiak, E. Konończuk (eds.)
Presence. Maria Renata Mayenowa (1908-1980) (in Polish), 2006; E. Sidoruk,
Grotesque in poetry of the interwar period (in Polish), 2004. The Biblioteka
Pamięci i Myśli (Library of Memory and Thought) series encompasses: E. Feliksiak et al. (eds.) Vilnius and Vilnius Region as a landscape and environment of
many cultures v. I-IV (in Polish), 1992; E. Feliksiak et al. (ed.) Vilnius and north –
eastern Kresy v. I-IV (in Polish), 1996. The Komparatystyka (Comparative Studies) series includes: E. Feliksiak, M. Leś, E. Sidoruk (eds.) Herbert and signs of
the time, v. I 2001, v. II 2002 (in Polish).
Research staff
The publications by the Faculty members are held in high esteem both
by readers and juries of prestigious competitions. In 2004 in the Academic Book Fair ATENA in Warsaw Starobiałoruska literatura XI-XVIII w edited
by Halina Twaranowicz won a distinction in the best academic coursebook competition. The publication Radio Free Europe on writers’ immigration trails (in Polish) by Violetta Wejs-Milewska received the Book of the
Year 2008 award from the Union of Polish Writers Abroad. In 2010 the
university publishing house Trans Humana was honoured with the best
academic coursebook award for the publication of Gallery of fathers: public authority in Polish literature of the years 1800-1861 (in Polish) by Elżbieta
Dąbrowicz from the Institute of Polish Philology.
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FACULTY OF PHYSICS
First degree courses
PHYSICS specialisation: General Physics, Medical Physics, Computer
Techniques
Second degree courses
PHYSICS specialisation: Experimental Physics, Theoretical Physics, Computer Physics, Medical Physics
Postgraduate courses
Physics; Natural Sciences – Education Stage IV (in cooperation with the
Faculty of Biology and Chemistry)
Lipowa 41, 15-424 Białystok, tel. +48 85 745 72 22, fax +48 85 745 72 23
[email protected]
The Faculty has been awarded the first research category by the
Ministry of Science and Higher Education. It employs 35 research
workers, including 12 senior academics.
Since 2008 the Faculty has been entitled to confer the university degree of doctor of physical sciences in the field of physics (the Institute
of Physics, later transformed into a faculty, has had these rights since
1996). Since 1997 the Faculty has promoted nine doctor habilitatus
degree holders and one professor, whereas 14 research workers have
received the doctor’s degree.
Several Faculty workers hold important offices and positions in
scientific organisations as well as on editorial boards of a number
of scientific journals. Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Maziewski is a member
of the PAN (Polish Academy of Sciences) Physics Committee. Prof.
dr hab. Ludwik Dobrzyński is a member of the United Nations Scientific Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR, UN
Committee), Physica Scripta editorial board as well as of the Scientific Council of the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Świerk.
Dr hab. Krzysztof Szymański, prof. UwB is a member of The International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect. Dr hab. Jan
L. Cieśliński, prof. UwB is a member of the Journal of Physics A Advisory Board. Dr hab. Michał Spaliński, prof. UwB has a seat on the
editorial board of the International Journal of Modern Physics A,
whereas dr hab. Piotr Jaranowski, prof. UwB and dr Marek
Nikołajuk are members of the International Astronomical Union.
In 1999 dr hab. Krzysztof Szymański, prof. UwB was honoured with an
individual award from the Minister of National Education for constructing a monochromatic, polarized source of gamma radiation.
In 2010 the Faculty received a patent for the invention called Method of
depositing layers of metal, especially iron, cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc,
and the electrolyte for producing metallic layers.
The Faculty is home to the Białystok Branch of the Polish Physical Society and the Society of Physics Students.
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Scientific research
Gravitational waves,
relativistic celestial mechanics and active galactic nuclei
The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics conducts research related to the astronomy of gravitational waves. The studies
involve searching for these waves in the data being collected by
the currently operating large-scale detectors: Virgo, LIGO and
GEO600. Relativistic celestial mechanics analyses the motion and
gravitational radiation of neutron stars or black holes systems,
which interact gravitationally according to Einstein’s theory of
general relativity. Astrophysics of galaxies with active nuclei encompasses theoretical modelling of electromagnetic spectrum of
galactic nuclei and estimating masses of giant black holes in the
centres of galaxies. The Department also deals with the didactics
of astronomy, using the well-equipped Astronomical Observatory,
the only facility of its kind in this part of Poland.
Contact: dr hab. Piotr Jaranowski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: A. Branicki, Observations and astronomical measurements for students, pupils and astronomy fans (in Polish), Warszawa 2006; M. Gierliński, M.
Nikołajuk, B. Czerny, High-frequency X-ray variability as a mass estimator of stellar and supermassive black holes, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society 383 (2008) 741; P. Jaranowski, A. Królak, Analysis of Gravitational-Wave
Data, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009.
Properties of electrons in condensed matter
Electrons have charge, spin and momentum. Distributions of these
quantities in crystals, amorphous bodies and fluids are examined, also
with the use of large scale facilities such as synchrotrons and accelerators. The Department of Solid State Physics uses the X-ray radiation, synchrotron radiation and neutron diffraction methods to measure the distribution of charge and spin density, whereas the Compton spectrometry provides information on the electron momentum density distribution. The Mössbauer spectrometer is used to analyse the interactions
between electrons and atomic nucleus. In the Bialystok laboratory
a monochromatic polarized gamma radiation is applied from the only
source of this type in the world. The Department cooperates with local
companies implementing advanced technologies.
Contact: dr hab. Krzysztof Szymański, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: K. Szymański, D. Satuła, L. Dobrzyński, E. Voronina, E. P. Yelsukov,
T. Miyanaga, Arrangements of magnetic moments in nanocrystalline Fe48Al52,
Phys. Rev. B 72 (2005) 104409; K. Szymański, Polarized radiation in Mössbauer
spectroscopy, Physics Reports, 423 (2006) 295; J. Kwiatkowska, L. Dobrzyński, A.
Andrejczuk, E. Żukowski, Ch. Bellin, G. Loupias, A. Shukla, Th. Buslaps, Electron
momentum density in Ni75Cu25 and Ni75Co25 disordered alloys: a high-resolution
Compton-scattering study, J. Phys.: Condensed Matter 17 (2005) 6425; D. Satuła,
K. Szymański, L. Dobrzyński, V.H. Tran, and R. Troć, Mössbauer data analysis
based on invariants and application to UFe5Sn, Phys. Rev., B 78 (2008) 014411; D.
Satuła, K. Szymański and L. Dobrzyński, Determination of the Mössbauer absorption cross section and reconstruction of hyperfine field distribution by the
maximum entropy method, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 22 (2010) 296005.
Magnetic nanostructures
The Department of Physics of Magnetic Materials examines the
properties of magnetic nanostructures. Nanostructures are created
by special methods, such as molecular-beam epitaxy, in the form
of ultra-thin single and multiple layers where particular ferromagnetic nanometer-thick layers are separated from each other by
films of non-ferromagnetic material. The magnetic properties of
this type of systems may be additionally modified by introducing,
for instance, structured substrates, such as about 100-nm thick
planar gold “islands” on the layer of molybdenum, or by treating
a sample locally with an ion beam of adequate energy and dose.
The magnetic properties are analysed by the use of such techniques as: mili- and micro- magneto-optical magnetometry, STM/
AMF/MFM scanning microscopy and femtosecond magneto-optics. The research is conducted in broad cooperation in Poland
(Polish National Scientific Network ARTMAG) and abroad. In the
years 2004-2009 prof. dr hab. Andrzej Maziewski coordinated the
implementation of the European project NANOMAG-LAB, financed
within the Sixth Framework Programme and the bilateral PolishGerman project. Currently, the SPINLAB and FANTOMAS projects
are being implemented.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Maziewski, [email protected]
Publications: A. Stupakiewicz, A. Maziewski, K. Matlak, N. Spiridis, M. Ślęzak, T.
Ślęzak, M. Zając, J. Korecki, Tailoring of the perpendicular magnetization component
in ferromagnetic films on a vicinal substrate, Phys. Rev. Letters, 101 (2008) 741; A. Stupakiewicz, E. Vedmedenko, A. Fleurence, T. Maroutian, P. Beauvillain, A. Maziewski,
R. Wiesendanger, Atomic-Level Control of the domain wall velocity in ultrathin magnets by tuning of exchange interactions, Phys. Rev. Letters, 103 (2009) 137202; J. Jaworowicz, A. Maziewski, P. Mazalski, M. Kisielewski, I. Sveklo, M. Tekielak, V.
Zablotskii, J. Ferre, N. Vernier, A. Mougin, A. Henschke, J. Fassbender, Spin reorientation transitions in Pt/Co/Pt films under low dose Ga+ ion irradiation, Appl. Phys. Letters, 95 (2009) 022502; M. Tekielak, R. Gieniusz, M. Kisielewski, P. Mazalski, A. Maziewski, V. Zablotskii, F. Stobiecki, B. Szymański, and R. Schaefer, The effect of magne-
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Scientific conferences
tostatic coupling on spin configurations in ultrathin multilayers, J. Appl. Phys., 110
(2011) 043924.
Quantum fluids and soliton equations
The scope of research in the Department of Nonlinear Physics encompasses: the theory of weakly interacting Bose gas at non-zero
temperatures, spinor and dipolar condensates, topological properties
of condensates, dipolar resonances, dynamical properties of cold
gases and mixtures of cold gases and fermionic condensates. The research workers also deal with solving soliton equations with the use
of such geometric methods as Darboux-Backlund transformations or
Clifford algebras, and with applying them to model physical phenomena, as well as with the discretization of differential equations,
geometric numerical integration and time scales. The Department
cooperates with an experimental group of prof. K. Bongs from Birmingham University. The joint studies concern the magnetic properties of dipolar gas in ultra-weak magnetic fields.
Contact: dr hab. Mirosław Brewczyk, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: J. L. Cieśliński, Why the phase shifts for solitons on a vortex filament are so large: A theoretical explanation, Phys. Rev. Lett., 94 (2005) 134503;
K. Gawryluk, M. Brewczyk, K. Bongs, M. Gajda, Resonant Einstein-de Haas effect in a rubidium condensate, Phys. Rev. Lett., 99 (2007) 130401; K. Gawryluk,
K. Bongs and M. Brewczyk, How to observe dipolar effects in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, Phys. Rev. Lett., 407 (2011) 3196.
Elementary particles,
light-front quantum field theory
The Department of Field Theory conducts research into various models
describing the properties and internal structure of elementary particles. Cosmological models describing early stages of universe evolution, in accordance with the current astronomical observations, are
also considered. The scope of research involves the light-front quantum field theory, electrodynamics with electrical and magnetic currents, high-spin particles, spin-mass coupling, dynamics of particles
in deformed space and time as well as the string theory applied to
cosmology.
Contact: dr hab. Jerzy Przeszowski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: M. Daszkiewicz, C. J. Walczyk, Newton equation for canonical,
Lie-algebraic and quadratic deformation of classical space, Phys. Rev., D 77
(2008) 105008; M. Spaliński, Initial conditions for small-field inflation, Phys.
Rev., D 80 (2009) 63529.
Since the year 1987 the Faculty has been an organiser of the regular summer International School on Physics and Chemistry of Condensed Matter in Białowieża. 50 participants attend the school,
amongst them the most outstanding world-known lecturers. It is
a source of information on the latest trends in physics and chemistry of condensed matter, providing a bridge between scientists
and young doctoral students from the East and West. Usually
about 50 hours of lectures take place, accompanied by a poster
session and tutorials. The post-conference materials are issued on
CD discs.
A special attention should also be given to four other conferences
organized in recent years. The Second Workshop on Nonlinearity and
Geometry. Darboux Days (Będlewo 2008), co-organized with the Banach
Centre, Warsaw University and the University of Warmia and Mazury,
was devoted to the use of differential geometry in mathematical
physics, and especially in the theory of soliton systems (Darboux Bäcklund transformations, hydrodynamic systems, Poisson geometry, twistor theory, discrete differential systems, Sato Grassmannian
geometry, ultra-discrete systems and tropical geometry). The
meeting was attended by 50 people from 11 countries.
The CMD23 conference (23rd General Conference of the Condensed
Matter Division of the European Physical Society, Warsaw 2010) was
organised in Poland for the first time with the participation of the
Institute for Nuclear Studies in Świerk and the Faculty of Physics,
University of Warsaw. About 200 participants from the whole of Europe attended over 50 lectures and almost 50 short presentations,
dedicated in particular to the physics of semiconductors, superconductors, magnetic materials, polymers, fluids, surfaces and biophysics. The results of the latest works were presented on over 100
posters. After the conference the library of the Faculty of Physics
was enriched with 70 copies of books from Cambridge University
Press and Oxford University Press publishing houses.
The Workshop on high temporal and spatial resolution studies of magnetic nanostructures (Augustów 2008) and The School and Workshop
on novel trends in optics and magnetism of nanostructures (Augustów
2011) were devoted to the presentation of the latest trends in the research concerning the physics of magnetism. Over 60 participants
from different countries exchanged experiences in spintronics,
properties of ultra-thin metallic and semiconductor magnetic systems as well as ultrafast dynamics of magnetization processes.
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Scientific projects
The National Centre of Magnetic Nanostructures
for Applications in Spin Electronics (SPINLAB)
The project with the total value of over 36 mln PLN is implemented by the
consortium of six national centres: three Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)
institutes, the University of Science and Technology (AGH), the Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) and the University of Bialystok (UwB) within the
framework of Innovation Economy Operational Programme. The aim of
the project is to establish the Centre and supply its scientific units with the
equipment indispensable to do joint research on international level. In
Białystok a Brillouin light scattering spectrometer is being built and a new
system for research on magnetic dynamics on femtosecond scale started.
Project duration: 2009-2012
Cooperation
in Poland and abroad
The Faculty cooperates with several research institutions in Poland and abroad. It is a participant of three scientific networks: The
Laboratory of Physical Foundation of Information Processing, the
LFPPI, Magnetic nanostructures for use in spin electronics, ARTMAG as well as the Interdisciplinary research with the use of neutron
beams at the European classical and spallation sources, and in particular the ILL in Grenoble and the European Spallation Source,
NeutroNet. The Faculty is a member of scientific consortia such as
Virgo collaboration, SPINLAB (the National Centre of Magnetic
Nanostructures for Applications in Spin Electronics) and the Polish
Synchrotron National Consortium, which supports the project of
establishing the National Centre of Synchrotron Radiation.
Femtosecond opto-magnetism and novel approaches
to ultrafast magnetism at the nanoscale (FANTOMAS)
The project is financed by the European Union from the Seventh Framework
Programme (Marie Curie Initial Training Networks) and implemented in
cooperation with nine research centers in the Germany, Great Britain, the
Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. Its purpose is to study ultrafast
magnetic processes with the use of modern measurement techniques. PhD
student exchanges take place under the project.
Project duration: 2008-2012
Ion induced spin reorientation
transition of thin Pt/Co/Pt trilayers
The bilateral Polish-German DAAD-MNiSW project in cooperation with
the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany). The aim of
the project is to study new possibilities of modifying magnetic and
magneto-optical properties of ultrathin films bombarded by ions.
Project duration: 2009-2011
The Faculty entered into an agreement with the Institute of Physics
of the Polish Academy of Sciences PAN on co-participation in the
International PhD Programme created by the Institute in 1999.
The Faculty employees participate in scientific conferences or
work on joint research projects, which also involve long-term
post-doc internships, study visits and short-term internships in international centres.
Virgo collaboration
The staff of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics are members of the international project whose purpose is to build, exploit and
analyse data collected by the detector of gravitational waves Virgo. It is
a Fabry-Pérot interferometer with 3-km long arms, located in the vicinity
of Piza, Italy. Currently, the consortium consists of 18 research groups
from different countries in Europe, including the POLGRAW group, a part
of which are the Faculty employees.
Project duration: 2010-2014
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hist-soc.uwb.edu.pl
FACULTY OF
HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY
First degree courses
SOCIOLOGY; HISTORY specialisation: Preservation and Promotion
of Cultural Heritage; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PHILOSOPHY
Second degree courses
SOCIOLOGY specialisation: Sociology of Organisation, Sociology of
Multiculturalism, Sociology of Business and New Technologies, Civil Society and Regional Policy; HISTORY specialisation: Preservation and Promotion of National Heritage, Social History, History of Culture; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Doctoral programmes in History and in Sociology
Postgraduate courses
Archival Science; History; Preservation and Promotion of Cultural
Heritage; Genealogical Studies
Plac Uniwersytecki 1, 15-420 Białystok, tel. +48 85 745 74 37 (38)
fax +48 85 745 75 29, [email protected]
The Faculty of History and Sociology is composed of two institutes:
the Institute of History and Political Sciences headed by dr hab.
Wojciech Śleszyński, prof. UwB and the Institute of Sociology whose
director is dr hab. Edmund Dmitrów, prof. UwB. In 2010 the Faculty
obtained the rights to confer the university degree of doctor of humanities in the field of history. It is also entitled to award the degree
of doctor of humanities in the field of sociology (since 2007), whereas
the Institute of History and Political Sciences in the field of history
(since 1993). The Faculty employs 154 researchers, including 46 senior
academics. Since 1997 thirty seven academic teachers have been
awarded the degree of doctor, 17 have been granted the degree of
doctor habilitatus and 17 the title of professor.
The Faculty publishes four accredited scientific journals: (Podlasie
Studies, awarded 6 points by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education) edited by dr hab. Józef Maroszek, Pogranicze. Studia Społeczne
science annual (Borderland: Social Studies, 6 points) edited by prof. dr
hab. Andrzej Sadowski as well as journals in English: Studies in Logic,
Grammar and Rhetoric (10 points), co-edited by prof. dr hab. Kazimierz
Trzęsicki and Limes (4 points), co-edited by dr hab. Wioletta
Małgorzata Kowalska, prof UwB.
Moreover, the Institute of History and Political Sciences issues two
scientific journals: Białostockie Teki Historyczne, (Białystok Historical
Files) with editor-in-chief prof. dr hab. Halina Parafianowicz and
a popular science journal: Gryfita, edited by dr Piotr Guzowski.
The Faculty is home to Student Societies of: Sociologists, Historians,
International Relations’ Students; Eastern Borderland Student Society;
SOCJOMAT; Film Discussion Society; Gender Studies Section; Student
Volunteer Section or visual Anthropology Section. The students of
sociology participate in the Project Prison whose aim is to create
a new approach to prison as a total institution. The object of study is
the Custody Suite in Białystok. Also, scientific associations are located
at the Faculty, including the Białystok Centre for Research and Social Initiatives (BOBiIS).
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Scientific research
Sociology of borderland and multiculturalism
The eastern borderland and the creation of multicultural society have always been the focus of research efforts of the Institute of Sociology employees. The subjects are discussed in the scientific journal Pogranicze.
Studia Społeczne, at regular conferences and in numerous publications by
research workers from the Chair of Multicultural Sociology.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Sadowski, [email protected]
Publications: R. Poczykowski, K. Niziołek (eds.), History, memory, tolerance:
teaching multiculturalism and local history (in Polish), Białystok 2009; A. Sadowski, U. Abłażewicz - Górnicka, K. Krzysztofek, R. Oryszczyszyn (eds.), Social
and cultural capital of Central European towns and cities and East European borderlands (in Polish), Białystok 2009; S. Yatskevich (ed.), Autochthonic minorities
in borderlands and their relations with the isolated maternal ethnos (in Polish),
Białystok 2009; A. Sadowski (ed.), Pogranicze. Studia Społeczne, volumes I-XVI.
Creation of civil society
The research workers from the Department of Contemporary Polish
Society and the Chair of Sociology and Social Structures attempt to
determine the mechanisms and local dimension of changes in the
contemporary Polish society. So far, they have examined such issues
as: the process of building social capital, the non-government sector
and the processes of empowerment observed in local communities
in Poland. An example may be the field studies conducted in July
2007 when a research project was implemented, connected with the
processes of social integration in a small town community of Suchowola. The students of the Faculty were involved in the preparation
and interpretation of study results. The effect of the project was a series of reports.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Piotr Gliński, [email protected]
Publications: P. Gliński, I. Sadowski, A. Zawistowska-Sadowska (ed.), Cultural
aspects of social structure (in Polish), Warszawa 2010; P. Gliński, Third sector (in
Polish), Academia. Magazyn Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1 (2010) 4-7; P. Gliński, Citizens are (also) born in the Church (in Polish), Więź, 7 (2010) 5-11; P. Gliński, Society and sociology 2010 (in Polish), Kultura i Edukacja, 4 (2010) 125-138; P. Gliński,
A. Kościański (eds.), Sociology and Siciński. Lifestyles. Civil society. Study of the future (in Polish), Warszawa 2009.
Polish society of the modern era
The Chair of Modern History analyses the transformations of social
structures covering a broad chronological span, from the Ancient
Times to the Modern Era. The investigation of the team headed by prof.
dr hab. Teresa Chynczewska-Hennel is centred around the ideology
and political system of the Republic of Poland in the 16th – 18th centuries, as well as the role and meaning of magnate elites. The processes
involved in the emergence of magnates as a social group within the
nobility, as well as the distinct magnate criteria, property, participation
in power and external signs of prestige are examined. The Unit of Social and Economic History, Demography and Statistics conducts research into the Household help and remunerated employment in the historical perspective. The research headed by prof. dr. hab. Cezary Kuklo is
a kind of interdisciplinary approach towards the part of the old time society, and has a pioneer character in reference to the current achievements of Polish historians. The studies cover a period extending from
the 16th to the 19th centuries. Their major but not the only aim is to reconstruct the demographic structure (including gender, age and marital status) of the above-mentioned social and professional group as
well as to specify its distribution in the rural and urban population, with
a focus on its professional activity.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Cezary Kuklo, [email protected]
dr hab. Jerzy Urwanowicz, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: J. Urwanowicz, E. Dubas-Urwanowicz, P. Guzowski (ed), Power
and prestige: magnates in the Republic of Poland in the 16th -18th centuries (in
Polish), Białystok 2003; E. Dubas-Urwanowicz (ed.), With respect to the king
and Republic of Poland: magnates in the 15th - 18th centuries (in Polish),
Kraków 2010; C. Kuklo, Demography of the pre-partition Republic of Poland (in
Polish), Warszawa 2009; C. Kuklo (ed.), Family and household in the Polish land
of the 15th - 20th centuries. Demographic, social and economic structures (in
Polish), Warszawa 2008.
Religion and society
in Ancient Rome and Greece and in the Middle Ages
The research concerns the following issues: political culture in the
Middle Ages (ideology, rituals and symbols of power); Monasticism in
the fifth-century Constantinople, Roman Empire in the late Middle
Ages and Early Byzantine period; Monophitism and Nestorianism;
Late Antiquity sources; history of Antique culture (especially religion,
gender and sexuality issues in Greek culture); Antique metapoetics
and general role of metatextual statements in literature; research into
ancient narratives; ancient mythography and functions of mythical
stories in Greek culture; the last years of the Antigonid dynasty and
circumstances of Macedonia’s collapse; historical methodology; history of the Late Roman Empire, crisis of the third century and tetrarchy. The studies headed by dr. hab. Zbigniew Dalewski, prof. UwB
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combine the political history, history of culture, mentality, historiography and methodology of history.
Contact: dr hab. Zbigniew Dalewski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: Z. Dalewski, Ritual and Politics. Writing a History of a Dynastic Conflict in Medieval Poland, Leiden-Boston 2008; P. Guzowski, Peasants and money
at the turn of the Modern Era (in Polish), Kraków 2008.
Europe and the United States of America
in the 19th and 20th centuries
The participants of the project headed by prof. dr hab. Halina Parafianowicz conduct research into the relations between the United States
of America and European countries (especially Poland, Czech Republic,
Hungary and Scandinavian countries), immigration to the USA as well
as the Americanization of Europe in the 20th century and globalization
issues. They take part in conferences in Poland and abroad, where they
present their search results, and publish articles in specialist Polish journals, also in the Białostockie Teki Historyczne reactivated a few years ago.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Halina Parafianowicz, [email protected]
Publications: H. Parafianowicz, Eleanor Anna Roosevelt (1884-1962): in the shadow of
great husband (in Polish), Warszawa 2000; H. Parafianowicz, Czech Republic in the politics of the Unites States of America in the years 1918-1933 (in Polish), Białystok 1996.
The north – eastern lands in the history of Poland
The research concerns the military history of the north – eastern Polish lands in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the political orientation of the population. The object of investigation also includes the
military activity in the Białystok region in the years 1939-1944, the vicissitudes of Polish refugees in the north-eastern Poland during the
World War II and the Polish – Jewish relations during the World War II.
Contact: d
r hab. Wojciech Śleszyński, prof. UwB, [email protected]
dr hab. Daniel Boćkowski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: M. Gnatowski, Myths, fiction and concealment of the “Białystok Truth”:
a monographic outline of the conspirational Soviet underground newspaper in the
Białystok District (1943-1944) (in Polish), Łomża 2006; D. Boćkowski, Together forever:
Białystok and Łomża regions in the Soviet politics during World War II (IX 1939 – VIII
1944) (in Polish), Warszawa 2005; K. Buchowski, Lithuaniaphiles and Polonizers:
myths, mutual images and stereotypes in the Polish-Lithuanian relations in the first
half of the 20th century (in Polish), Białystok 2006; K. Buchowski, Polish-Lithuanian
sketches, or uneasy neighbours in the first half of the 20th century (in Polish), Toruń
2006; W. Śleszyński, Internal safety in the politics of the Polish state in the north-eastern lands of the Second Polish Republic (in Polish), Warszawa 2007; W. Śleszyński, An-
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ti-Jewish riots in Brest-on-the-Bug on 13 V 1937 (in Polish), Białystok 2004;
W. Śleszyński, Combating the Belarusian sabotage activities of 1920-1925 by the state
institutions (in Polish), Białystok 2005.
Foreign policy of post-Soviet states
The Chair of International Politics specializes in ethnic, cultural and legal
relations in Eastern Europe and Asia. The scientific studies conducted under the supervision of prof. dr. hab. Eugeniusz Mironowicz give a broad
insight into the issues regarding the recent history of the former Eastern
Bloc countries. The economic development trends, military conflicts,
consequences of dynamic demographic changes or cultural and religious permeation in the region are especially important and interesting
in the context of the Polish attitude to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Similar research in terms of the territory and topics is done by the Political Relations Unit. The team headed by dr. hab. Wojciech Śleszyński,
prof. UwB pays special attention to the description of specific events
(also in the historical context) which determine certain political behaviours, and gives an analysis of the political parties, groups of interest,
election systems and roles of political elites in particular countries as
well as their influence on international situation.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Eugeniusz Mironowicz, [email protected]
dr hab. Wojciech Śleszyński, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: E. Mironowicz, History of the 20th century states. Belarus (in Polish),
Warszawa 2007; E. Mironowicz, Belarusians and Ukrainians in the politics of Józef
Piłsudski’s camp (in Polish), Białystok 2007; E. Mironowicz, Nationalities’ policy in
the Polish People’s Republic (in Polish), Białystok 2000; E. Mironowicz, Biełarusy
w Polszczy (1918-1949), Wilnia-Biełastok 2010; W. Śleszyński, Borderland
world:social and political relations in the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian borderland in
the 20th and 21st centuries, v. 2 (in Polish), Białystok 2010.
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Cooperation
in Poland and abroad
Intas Loclab - Dynamics and Impacts of Local Labour Markets on
Communities in Eastern Europe is a consortium made up of scientific centres in Switzerland, Bulgaria, Germany, Belarus, Russia,
Georgia and Ukraine. The research in which the Institute of Sociology is also engaged, is centered on the analysis of the European Union and globalization influences on local communities
(case studies in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Belarus).
The interdyscyplinary and international research Continuation and
breakthrough under the conditions of changing military occupations.
Interethnic relations in Białystok and Vilnius in the years 1939-19411944/45 is conducted within the scientific and research consortium
composed of the Institut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen
in Nordosteuropa (Nordost-Institut), the Lithuanian Institute of
History in Vilnius and the Institute of Sociology of the UwB.
The Institute of Sociology is implementing the research project
entitled The Polish – German places of remembrance, coordinated by the PAN Historical Research Centre in Berlin. Its aim is to
make inventory and analyse the places of remembrance as regards their functional aspect.
The East-European Philosophical Initiative is a consortium composed of the Institute of History and Sociology of the University
of Bialystok, the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology,Warsaw
University, the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the College of Public Administration in Białystok. It has established cooperation with international centres in France, Lithuania and Belarus. The first work result
of this international team was a conference on New Europe and
the publication The New Europe. Uncertain Identity and Borders.
The Institute of History and Political Sciences cooperates with
the institutions and universities in eastern and western Europe.
It has contacts with Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.
These are mainly annual student exchanges. The employees of
the Institute have library and archives study visits abroad. The
scientific and research cooperation also concerns the institutions on the North American continent, such as with the University of Toronto, the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, the
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in Toronto, Kansas University or George Washington University of North Carolina.
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Scientific conferences
The Faculty is known for its highly-valued scientific conferences. The most
important ones, recently organised by the Institute of Sociology are: Cultural aspects of social structures. Foundations-structures-facades (2009); Autochthonic minorities in borderlands and their relations with the isolated maternity ethnos (international conference, 2009); Narcissism: an individual, society and culture (2009); Young people’s entrepreneurial skills as a dynamic factor of economic and social growth in the region of Podlasie (2008); Borders of
Civilizations as a Social, Cultural and Political Question (2008); Social and cultural capital of the towns and cities in the Central and East European borderlands (2008); Myth of authority – authority of myth (2008).
The Institute of History organised the following conferences: Borders and
borderlands. Microhistories (2008); The Great War Years. The year 1918 in the
East Central Europe (2008); With respect to the king and Republic of Poland:
magnates in the 15th -18th centuries (2009); Local and regional markets from
the 14th to 18th centuries (2009); An update on current research into the multicultural heritage of the old Republic of Poland (2009); Rediscovering Eastern Europe (international conference, 2009); 90 years of diplomatic relations between
Poland and the USA (2010); The Apostollic Nunciature in the Republic of Poland: an update on current research and perspectives (2010), Joint or separate?
Places of remembrance of the Eastern European nations (2010). IIn May 2010
through the combined efforts of both institutes a conference entitled entitled
Cultural diversity and change in the inhabitants of the Eastern borderland of
the 20th century Poland in view of Ludwik Zamenhof’s idea was organised.
The inspiration for the conference was a hundredth anniversary of esperanto movement in the Białystok region.
Research staff
The research activity of the Faculty employees is valued in Poland and
abroad. The Polityka weekly conferred a historical award on dr. hab. Krzysztof Buchowski, prof UwB for his book Lithuaniaphiles and Polonizers. Prof.
dr hab. Cezary Kuklo received the first award in an international competition for the best doctoral dissertation in economic history from the Association Internationale d’Histoire Economique w Louvain (Belgium) and an
individual award from the Minister of National Education for his postdoctoral thesis. The book entitled Pogranicze Litwy i Korony w planach Zygmunta Augusta by dr. hab. Józef Maroszek was acknowledged as the bestedited academic textbook in the seventh National Academic Book Fair ATENA in Warsaw.
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FACULTY OF
MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS
The Faculty is composed of the Institute of Informatics and the Institute of
Mathematics. The Faculty has been awarded the third research category
by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Since the year1997 twenty-six Faculty workers have been granted the university degree of doctor,
six – the postdoctoral degree of doctor habilitatus and two – of professor.
There are 78 academic teachers at the Faculty, including 18 senior academics.
First degree courses
INFORMATICS; MATHEMATICS; MATHEMATICS specialisation: Financial Mathematics; INFORMATICS AND ECONOMETRICS; EDUCATION
IN TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS
Second degree courses
INFORMATICS specialisation: Internet and Mobile Technologies,
Information Technology in Medicine, Intelligent Computational
Methods,Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Theoretical Information
Technology; MATHEMATICS; MATHEMATICS specialisation: Financial
Mathematics
Postgraduate courses
Mathematics; Informatics for Teachers
Sosnowa 64, 15-887 Białystok, tel. +48 85 745 76 41, fax +48 85 745 76 40
[email protected]
A lot of them have received important awards and prizes in Poland and
abroad. In 2005 M. Wacławek award for the best doctoral thesis defended in the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
(PAN) was granted to dr Krzysztof Zajkowski, and in 2009 to dr Bartosz
Kwaśniewski. In 2006 r. prof. dr hab. Anatol Odzijewicz and dr Tomasz
Goliński were presented with the third award in Marek Kuczma competition for the best work on functional equations, organised by the Institute
of Mathematics of the University of Silesia. In 2009 mgr Karol Pąk was
awarded the Mizar Prize for Young Researchers. In 2011 r. prof. dr hab.
Anatol Odzijewicz was honoured with a medal from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, CTU in Prague.
Prof. dr hab. Anatol Odzijewicz is a member of the editorial board of
the international journal Advances in Mathematical Physics and a science
editor of the worldwide Polish journal Demonstratio Mathematica.
The Unit of Programming and Formal Methods at the Institute of Informatics is a co-editor of the journal Formalized Mathematics published in English.
The Faculty is home to the Mathematics and Informatics Society for Students of Mathematics and Students of Informatics Society. Within the
framework of the project Modern and Effective Education in Cooperation
with Entrepreneurs, the Institute of Informatics works on implementing
modern information systems at the University of Bialystok employed, for
instance, to enable distance learning with the use of Blackboard e-learning platform.
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Scientific research
Mathematical Physics
Differential equations
The research concerns geometric and algebraic methods of quantization of physical systems, Hamiltonian integrable systems on Banach
manifolds, integrable systems in quantum nonlinear optics, functional
equations in physical problems and mathematical basics in quantum
mechanics.
The research concerns the theory of ordinary and partial differential
equations, including the group theoretic analysis of differential equations, generalized symmetries and solution structures of non - linear
equations in mathematical physics, hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations and asymptomatic methods in the theory of ordinary
equations.
Contact: prof dr hab. Anatol Odzijewicz, [email protected]
Publications: T. Goliński, A. Odzijewicz, Hierarchy of Hamilton equations on Banach Lie-Poisson spaces related to restricted Grassmannian, J. Funct. Anal. 258
(2010), no. 10, 3266-3294; G. Jakimowicz, A. Odzijewicz, Quantum ball as an example of quantum Kahler manifold, J. Geom. Phys. 59 (2009), 279-294; A. Odzijewicz, T. S. Ratiu, Induced and coinduced Banach Lie-Poisson spaces and integrability, J. Funct. Anal. 255 (2008), 1225-1272; A. Odzijewicz, T. S. Ratiu, Induction for
weak symplectic Banach manifolds, J. Geom. Phys. 58 (2008), 701-719.
Contact: dr hab. Ivan Tsyfra, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: T. Czyżycki, J. Hrivnak, Equivalence problem and integrability of
the Riccati equations Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. (2009), online: 2009 DOI
20.1007/s00030-009-0049-2. S. A. Stepin, Asimptotika integralnogo jadra i reguljarizovannyj sled difuzjonnoj podgruppy, Funct. Anal. Appl. (Ru) (2010) t. 44,
No 1, 90-96.
Dynamical systems and ergodic theory
Algebra and discrete structures
The research involves the theory of non-local and singular operators
and non-local equations generated by them. The topics include representations of operator algebras generated by automorphisms and endomorphisms, non-local operators ergodic theory, topological and dynamic methods of calculating spectral characteristics, theory of nonlocal equations in functional spaces, differential operators with δ - potential, problems of multiplication of distributions and self-adjoint
extensions of symmetric operators.
The research is focused on the following issues: finite groups, and especially the structure of finite groups, finite p-groups, automorhism
groups, lattice group properties; theory of radicals; filial rings; ring extensions; Hopf algebras, actions of Hopf algebras on associative algebras and their invariants. In the field of discrete structures the studies
also concern the geometry of the structures embedded in projective
spaces (especially the Grassmannian geometry). Another research
theme is the theory of configurations and combinatorial methods of
configuration construction.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Andrei Lebedev, [email protected]
Publications: U. Ostaszewska, K. Zajkowski, Variational principle for the spectral
exponent of polynomials of weighted composition operators, J. Math. Anal. Appl.
361 (2010), 246-251; B. Kwaśniewski, A. Lebedev, Crossed Product of a C*- Algebra
by a Semigroup of Endomorphisms Generated by Partial Isometries, Integr, Equ.
Oper. Theory 63 (2009), 403-425; B. Kwaśniewski, A. Lebedev, Reversible extensions
of irreversible dynamical systems: C*-method, Mat. Sb. 199 (2008), no. 11, 45-74.
Topology and differential geometry
The research concerns geometric structures on the base manifold of
holomorphic vector bundle, defined by the Bergman kernel, and
morphisms related to them.
Contact: dr hab. Zbigniew Pasternak-Winiarski, prof. UwB,
[email protected]
Publications: M.Nesterenko, J. Patera, M. Szajewska, A. Tereszkiewicz, Orthogonal
polynomials of compact simple Lie groups: Branching rules for polynomials, J. Phys. A
Math. Theor. 43(2010), no.495207,1-27; M. Szajewska, A Property of the Curvature and
Torsion of a Regular Family of Curves in En Math. Notes 83(2008), no.5, 688-692.
Contact: dr hab. Romuald Andruszkiewicz, prof. UwB,
[email protected];
dr hab. Krzysztof Prażmowski, prof. UwB,
[email protected]
Publications: I. Malinowska, The automorphism group of a split metacyclic 2-group
and some groups of crossed homomorphisms, Arch. Math. (Basel) (2009), no. 93, 99109; P. Grzeszczuk, M. Hryniewicka, Actions of pointed Hopf algebras with reduced pi
invariants, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), no. 8, 2381-2389; R. Andruszkiewicz,
K. Pryszczepko, On commutative reduced filial rings, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 81 (2010),
310-316. : K. Petelczyc, M. Prażmowska, Twisted Fano spaces and their classification,
linear completions of systems of triangle perspectives, Des. Codes Cryptogr. 54 (2010),
241-251; M. Prażmowska, K. Prażmowski, M. Żynel, Metric affine geometry on the
universe of lines, Linear Algebra Appl. 430 (2009), no. 11-12, 3066-3079.
Mathematical logic and formalization of mathematics
The research concerns the use of logic in informatics and includes: the
theory of knowledge representation, computational complexity, au-
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tomatization of mathematical reasoning as well as formal logical systems. These topics are related to the field of data mining. The research
activity on the formalization of mathematics is connected with the
works on the development and improvement of the Mizar computer
system, which is used for checking mathematical proofs.
Contact: dr Anna Gomolińska, [email protected],
dr Artur Korniłowicz; [email protected]
Publications: O. Beyersdorff and Z. Sadowski. Characterizing the existence of optimal proof systems and complete sets for promise classes. LNCS, 5675:45-58, 2009; A.
Gomolińska. Rough approximation based on weak q-RIFs. Transactions on
Rough Sets X, a subline journal of LNCS, 5656:117-135,2009; A. Naumowicz, Interfacing External CA Systems for Gröbner Bases Computation in Mizar Proof Checking,
Int. J. Comput. Sci., Vol. 87(1), 1-11, 2010; A. Grabowski, A. Naumowicz i A.
Korniłowicz, Mizar in a Nutshell, J. Form. Reasoning, Vol. 3(2), 153-245, 2010.
Financial mathematics
with Undesirable and Garbage Symbols, [in:] Image Processing and Communications Challenges, 120-127, 2009; E. Oczeretko, M. Borowska, A. Kitlas, T. Laudański, Synchronization in the bivariate intrauterine pressure signals – nonlinear dynamics methods, Reproductive Sciences, 2010, 667672; E. Oczeretko, A. Kitlas, J. Świątecka, M. Borowska, Uterine contraction
signals- Application of the linear synchronization measures, European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 144S, 2009,
61-64.
Computational methods in boundary problems
The research concerns the effective methods for numerical solutions
of various boundary problems. These problems are modeled mainly
by means of parametric integral equation systems. The studies also
cover modeling various boundary problems, not only in a precise
way but also with the use of interval method.
The research concerns the relations between the theory of information
and the quantum game theory (classical and quantum models). The
proposed structures allow for recognizing the usefulness of information measures to understand the processes of quantum calculations
(quantum computers, quantum cryptography, artificial intelligence
modeled by the quantum formalism).
Contact: dr hab. inż. Eugeniusz Zieniuk, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: E. Zieniuk, K. Szerszeń, Triangular Bézier patches in modeling
smooth boundary surface in exterior Helmholtz problems solved by PIES, Arch.
of Acoustics, Warszawa, 1 (34) 2009, 1-11; E. Zieniuk, A. Bołtuć, Iterative solution of linear and nonlinear boundary problems using PIES, LNCS 6067, 136145, 2010.
Contact: dr hab. Edward Piotrowski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: A. Szczypinska, E. W. Piotrowski, Inconsistency of the judgment matrix in the AHP method and the decision maker’s knowledge, Physica A, 388 (2009)
907-915; Makowski. M, Transitivity vs. intransitivity in decision making process - an
example in quantum game theory, Phys.Lett.A 373 (2009), 2125-2130.
The research involves the modeling and computer simulation of
nanostructures’ properties for use in spintronics and magnetoelectronics as well as the dynamics and non-linear effects of
nanomaterials, based on the femtosecond laser system. Moreover,
the research concerns the issues related to the effective networking technologies in distance design and modeling selected functional materials.
Methods of analyzing and processing signals
The studies are connected with the intelligent processing of information
and include: speech processing, natural speech synthesis for Polish, natural language recognition, image recognition, information structure discovery, syntactic and semantic analysis as well as information granularity.
The research also covers the issues related to the development of signal
and biomedical image analysis methods, that is, digital signal processing,
use of fractals, theory of chaos and wavelet analysis.
Contact: dr hab. inż. Władysław Homenda, prof. UwB,
[email protected]; dr Agnieszka Kitlas, [email protected]
Publications: W. Homenda, Automatic data understanding: a necessity of
intelligent communication, 476-483, LNAI 6114, Springer, 2010; W. Homenda, W. Lesinski, Optical Music Recognition: a Case of Pattern Recognition
Physical systems modeling
Contact: d
r hab. Marian S. Uba, prof. UwB [email protected],
prof. dr hab. Teodor Breczko, [email protected]
Publications: L. Uba, S. Uba, A. Polewko-Klim, E. Miniuk, T. Lucinski, P. Wandziuk, A. N. Yaresko and V. N. Antonov, Optical and magneto-optical study
of Fe/Si multilayers, Materials Science-Poland, Vol. 25 No. 2, 2007 ,383-389;
T. Breczko, V. V. Barkaline, R. M. Grechishkin, V. V. Nelayev, Magnetic Properties of Ni2MnGaAlloy, Materials Physics and Mechanics 9 (2010), 53-67;
T. Breczko, S. Ilyashenko, D. Bykov, O. Korpusov, O. V. Malyshkina, R. Grechishkin, K. Dovzhik, Martensitic and Magnetic Domain Structures of Ferroics of
the Ni-Mn-Ga and Co-Ni- Ga Families, Phys. of the Solid S., 2010, vol. 52,
No.1, 101-104.
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Cooperation
in Poland and abroad
The Faculty participates in such scientific consortiums as the
Mathematical Knowledge Management-Interest Group (MKMIG) and The Types Project (TYPES). It has signed cooperation
contracts with Shinshu University (Japan), the Belarusian State
University of Informatics and Radioelectronics in Minsk, the Institute of Technical Acoustics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Vitebsk State Technological University (Belarus),
Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University (Russia) and Tver
State University (Russia).
The Faculty has established scientific cooperation with the Medical University of Bialystok and the Institute of Scientific Research
of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań.
It makes use of scientific grants in joint projects with such international institutions as Dresden University of Technology, the
United Institute of Informatics Problems, the Speech Recognition and Synthesis Laboratory (Belarus) and St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation (Russia).
The Faculty has also established scientific cooperation with the
Concordia University in Montreal, Université de Montréal (Canada), Steklov University in Moscow (Russia), École Polytechnique
Fédérale in Lausanne, University of Mannheim (Germany),
Prague Polytechnic (Czech Republic), Paris VI University and Paris VII University (France), the National Academy of Sciences of
Belarus in Minsk, Belarusian State University in Minsk, Uppsala
University (Sweden), Departamento de Fisica del Cinvestav in
Mexico City, the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy
of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade.
The Faculty takes part in numerous scientific conferences and
workshops, including TYPES, MKM and TPHOLS. Its employees
are members of conference programme committees, organise
summer schools in international institutions, participate in internship and scholarship programmes abroad, for instance, in
Japan, Italy, Denmark, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland. The Faculty
hosts visitors from cooperating research centres in the Czech
Republic, Holland, Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belarus, France, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, USA, Ukraine, Serbia,
Mexico, Spain and Romania.
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Scientific conferences
Since 1981 the Mathematical Physics Department headed by prof.
dr. hab. Anatol Odzijewicz has been organising the international
conference Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics. (WGMP,
wgmp.uwb.edu.pl). The organsational committee is now made up
of S. T. Ali (Montreal), V. Buchstaber (Moscow), M. Schlicheinmaier
(Luxembourg) and Th. Voronov (Manchester). The conference topics include quantization, coherent states methods, symplectic and
Poisson geometry, Hamiltonian integrable systems, quantum optics, theory of field, infinite Lie and operator algebras. Current plenary lecturers of the Białowieża conference were delivered by renowned mathematicians and physicians, also a Nobel Prize laureates, including: Dymitrij Anosov, Francesco Calogero, David Elworthy, Boris Fedosov, Roy Glauber, Martin Kruskal, George Mackey,
Bruce De Witt and Stanisław Woronowicz. Since 1992 the conference results have been published in the form of post - conference
non - serial publication. The conference organisers cooperate with
the PWN, the University of Warsaw publishing house, Plenum Press,
World Scientific, Journal of Nonlinear Physics, and since the year
2007 with the American Institute of Physics. In 2010 in the March
issue of the Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, an
article entitled The Białowieża Meetings on Geometric Methods in
Physics: Thirty Years of Success and Inspiration (www.ems-ph.org/
journals/newsletter/pdf/2010-03-75.pdf) was published, which
presaged the thirtieth jubilee Białowieża scientific meeting in
2011.
Scientific and didactic conferences:
The Mathematical Physics Department of the Institute of Mathematics and the Doppler Institute of the Czech Technical University
in Prague are co-organisers of the scientific and didactic conference
Winter School on Mathematical Physics (kmlinux.fjfi.cvutcz/~ambrop1
/wsmp), held annually for 20 years in Horni Polubny (Czech Republic), aimed at the students of mathematics and theoretical physics,
and doctoral students who are given an opportunity to present the
results of their work there. Moreover, series of overview lectures by
well-known specialists are offered. The conference is attended by
young scholars and students from Czech, Slovak and Hungarian
universities as well as from the University of Bialystok.
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FACULTY OF PEDAGOGY
AND PSYCHOLOGY
First degree courses
PEDAGOGY specialisation: Cultural Pedagogy, Social Care Education,
Early School Education and Pre-school Education, Pre-school Education
and Primary Education, Re-education Pedagogy, Rehabilitation Pedagogy, Integrated Elementary Education, Education for Security, Cultural
Animation and Art Therapy, Media Education; SOCIAL WORK,
CULTURAL STUDIES (in cooperation with the Faculty of Philology)
specialisation: Cultural Tourism, Media and Communications, Advertising and Public Relations
Second degree courses
PEDAGOGY specialisation: Early School Education, Pre-school Education,
Education for Security, Cultural Pedagogy, Re-education Pedagogy,
Rehabilitation Pedagogy, Cultural Animation and Art Therapy; SOCIAL
POLICY (in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics and Management)
Postgraduate courses
Elementary Education, Pedagogical Therapy, Social Care Education,
Social Therapy, Family Life Education, School Education Management,
Education for Security, Re-education Pedagogy; teacher training in:
Professional Counselling (two series), Second Subject Teaching and
Vocational Subjects Teaching (co-funded by the UE through the ESF);
pedagogical training for the employees of the National Fire Service of
Podlaskie Voivodeship (co-financed by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism and the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism)
Świerkowa 20, 15-328 Białystok, tel. +48 85 745 73 90
tel./fax +48 85 745 73 95, [email protected]
The Faculty is made up of two chairs and fourteen units. Since 1995 it
has been entitled to confer the university degree of doctor of humanities in the field of pedagogy. Since 1997 the Faculty Council has awarded 40 degrees of doctor. 12 academic workers have received the degree of doctor habilitatus and three the title of professor. The Faculty
employs 105 research workers, including 17 senior academics.
The Faculty is a successful applicant for European funding. Currently,
the following European Union-funded projects are being implemented: The twenty-first Century Teacher for students pursuing three year daytime study programmes, Usus Est Optimus Magister - Practice is
the Best Teacher for the UwB students, Growth Through Competences
for middle school pupils from the voivodeships in the north-eastern
Poland, and Internet Education Centres in the Countryside for rural areas
in Poland.
There are 15 student research clubs at the Faculty, including the Intercultural Education Society, History of Education Society, Young Volunteers’ Society, Special Pedagogy Society, Film Studies Society, Young
Pedagogy Theoreticians’ Society, Active Didacticians’ Society, Psychology Society, Creativity Society, Sociology of Education Society, Philosophical Society, Andragogists and Gerontologists’ Society, Rehabilitation Pedagogy Society, Ethno-education Society, and the Artistic and
Theatrical Society. The Faulty also features a photo gallery called Onehundredthirteen.
The Faculty is home to the Employees and Alumni Association of the
Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, UwB. Its integral part is the Trans
Humana university publishing house which has been honoured with
several prestigious awards, for instance, for the best academic textbook
in Poland, conferred in the years 2008 and 2010 during the Poznań Science Book Days. In 2006 dr hab. Elwira J. Kryńska, prof. UwB and prof. dr
hab. Stanisław Mauersberg received a Wł. Spasowski scientific award in
the field of pedagogy, granted by the Institute of Social Studies of the
Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in Warsaw, for the monograph Indoctrination of School Youth in Poland in the years 1945-1956 (in Polish),
published by the Trans Humana University Publishing House.
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Scientific research
Inter-generational communication of cultural heritage,
cultural identity and cultural competences of children
and youth in the culture of the region
The effect of cultural pluralism of the Polish society, especially in Podlasie, is that the issues related to the socialization of non-antagonist
identity become one of the most important educational areas. The aim
of the research is to apply them, which happens directly during the
pedagogical studies, and indirectly by pedagogy graduates whose
pedagogical efforts on employment are inspired by the course of studies related to multi- and interculturalism. For several years there has
been ongoing scientific research into the meaning of intercultural education in the transformation of cultural communities under the conditions of migration.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Jerzy Nikitorowicz, [email protected]
Publications: J. Nikitorowicz, Ethnic groups in multicultural world (in Polish), Sopot 2010; J. Nikitorowicz, Regional and intercultural education (in Polish),
Warszawa 2009; J. Nikitorowicz, Creating a child’s identity: challenges of multicultural education, Gdańsk 2005; A. Harbatski, Chrześcijaństwo, Brześć (part I
2009, part II 2010); M. Sobecki, Symbolic culture and identity: a study of cultural
identity of Poles in Grodno Region from the perspective of intercultural education,
Białystok 2007.
A child’s living and educational environment
– changes, features and new dimensions
The research concerns such issues as migration, unemployment, poverty, illness, disabilities, media, social exclusion, effectiveness of aid from
the self-government and non-profit sector. The object of study are also: knowledge and competence of parents with respect to the addictions and hazardous behaviours in children and youth in Białystok.
Contact: dr Wioletta Danilewicz, [email protected]
dr Joanna Szymanowska, [email protected]
Publications: J. Szymanowska, Family with a disabled child. Social aid and support (in Polish), Białystok 2008; W. Danilewicz, Family across borders. Transnational experiences of family community (in Polish), Białystok 2010.
Dimensions of contemporary culture
The cultural research is devoted to, for instance, the therapeutic efforts
of artists representing the avant-garde of the first half of the twenty –
first century. Another research area is the turn of the twenty – first century art whose aim is to restore the aesthetic order, but also show the
chaos related to postmodern changes. The research themes connect-
ed with psychoanalysis concern the authors’ own artistic creations as
well as the analysis and interpretation of artistic and scientific works,
and the social and cultural phenomena, which allow for capturing the
existential experiences of a contemporary human from the point of
view of pedagogy, psychology, philosophy and other humanities. The
object of research in the field of comparative education studies are
changes in the compulsory secondary and tertiary education in Poland
and abroad, and especially in the European Union countries; comparative analysis of education facts, international school cooperation and
education in the context of changes in the contemporary societies.
Contact: dr hab. Katarzyna Citko, prof. UwB, [email protected]
dr hab. Agata Cudowska, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: K. Citko, Pedro Almodovar film world. Emotional Universum (in Polish), Białystok 2007; A. Cudowska, Life directions of contemporary students (in Polish), Białystok 2008; T. Olchanowski, Will and Possession. Enantiodromia and reality (in Polish), Warszawa 2010.
History of pedagogical thought, doctrines and educational
institutions from the twenty-first century perspective
The research in the field of history of education concerns the role and
meaning of patriotic education in the shaping of social awareness; social
and political determinants of educational ideologies in history; education policies of the state towards various social and professional groups
and national minorities from a historical perspective as well as education
under the conditions of coercion in the years 1945-1956.
Contact: dr hab. Elwira Jolanta Kryńska, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: E. J. Kryńska, Characteristics of the world resistance movement in the
Białystok Voivodeship in the years of the II World War (in Polish), Białystok 2010; E. J.
Kryńska, J. Dąbrowska, A. Szarkowska, U. Wróblewska (eds.), Patriotism and education (in Polish), Białystok 2009; E. J. Kryńska, A. Skreczko (eds.), What kind of education? (in Polish), Białystok 2007; E. J. Kryńska (ed.), Terror and conspiracy. Youth and
communist indoctrination of 1945-1956 (in Polish), Białystok 2004; E. J. Kryńska, S.
Mauersberg, Indoctrination of school youth in Poland in the years 1945-1956 (in
Polish), Białystok 2003; E. J. Kryńska, The Polish White Cross (in Polish), Białystok
1997; J. Dąbrowska, Klementyna – On Klementyna Hoffman née Tańska (in Polish),
Białystok 2008; A. Konopacki, Religious life of Tartars in the territory of the Grand
Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th-19th centuries (in Polish), Warszawa 2010.
Old man in family and society
In the years 2006-2009 the employees of the Andragogy and Gerontology Unit and the Sociology of Education Unit undertook to diagnose
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the problem of violence among elderly people in order to plan and
take effective preventive, intervention and educational measures. The
research was implemented in the rural and urban areas of the PolishBelarusian borderland, selected on account of the environmental diversity regarding social status as well as ethnic and cultural aspects.
Contact: dr hab. Małgorzata Halicka, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: J. Halicki, Images of old age drawn by experiences of senior citizens
(in Polish), Białystok 2010; M. Halicka, J. Halicki (eds.), Violence towards the elderly based on the field studies conducted in the Podlaskie Voivodeship (in Polish),
Białystok 2010; M. Halicka, J. Halicki, K. Czykier (eds.), Old age and pre-old age
hazards (in Polish), Białystok 2010.
School achievements and failures
at different education stages
The research in this area is centered around the broad topics of
development and education of a child in the early and late childhood. The studies are not only embedded in pedagogy, but also
refer to the psychology of child development in preschool and
early school age. Based on the diagnosis of a child’s functioning
across various spheres, including intellectual, emotional and social, adequate strategies are sought to enhance its growth in institutionalized education. The research also encompasses the broadly-understood education policy and effects of the decision on
changes in the system of education made a few years ago as well
as the state of emotional competencies of middle school teachers
and the need to improve them in view of the hazards of the contemporary world, social impact of educators and professional development of teachers.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Rafał Piwowarski, [email protected]
dr hab. Anna Karpińska, prof. UwB, anna_karpiń[email protected]
dr hab. Włodzimierz Prokopiuk, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: A. Karpińska, Grade retention: pedagogical challenge for the contemporary world (in Polish), Białystok 1999; R. Piwowarski, Education from the
local and international perspective (in Polish), Warszawa-Białystok 2006; W. Prokopiuk, Teacher in the fields of humanization of education (in Polish), Kraków
2010; J. Uszyńska-Jarmoc, From the potential creation to auto-creation in school
(in Polish), Białystok 2007; W. Wróblewska, Auto-didactism of students at university from the subject’s perspective (in Polish), Białystok 2008; E. Jaszczyszyn,
Models of reading education in nursery school, and readiness to read and reading
skills in six-year-old children (in Polish), Białystok 2010.
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Cooperation
in Poland and abroad
The Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology develops international
and inter-university cooperation. It has signed contracts with the
following institutions: Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno in
Belarus, Saint Petersburg Pedagogical University in Russia, State
University named after N.A. Nekrasov in Russia and A.S. Pushkin
Brest State University in Belarus. The Andragogy and Gerontology
Unit and the Sociology of Education Unit cooperate for the implementation of scientific projects with partners in Europe. In connection with the IANUS project, they have established cooperation with research centres in Slovenia, Greece, Austria, Germany,
Ireland and England. Within the framework of DAPHNE III project,
they cooperate with various institutions in England, Germany,
Portugal, Israel and Hungary. The Faculty was also a co-organiser
of the 6th Polonia Education Forum attended by activists from
Polish organisations in 17 countries.
Several Faculty units also cooperate with Polish scientific centres,
such as the Academy of Special Education in Warsaw, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznań, the University of Warsaw, the University of Silesia (Cieszyn
Branch), Warsaw School of Economics, the Institute of Social Policy of the University of Warsaw as well as other research centres in
Poland and in the region. The Faculty is implementing the project
The Teacher of the Twenty-First Century along with Szczecin University and Combidata Poland sp. z o.o. Company.
Scientific conferences
The Faculty is known in academic circles for regular conferences, organised for years. The following topic areas are worth
mentioning: intercultural education (since 1994); history of education (since 2001); general didactics (since 2001), social pedagogy (since 2002); preschool and early school education (since
2002). The Faculty organises scientific debates which are a permanent element of national scientific sessions.
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Research staff
Scientific projects
The Faculty staff may be proud of numerous scientific distinctions, the result of which are appointments of the Faculty employees at various scientific institutions. Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Nikitorowicz is a scientific secretary of the PAN Committee of
Pedagogical Sciences and the chairman of the Pedagogy of
Culture and Intercultural Education Team of the PAN Committee of Pedagogical Sciences. He also sits on journal scientific
boards. Dr hab. Włodzimierz Prokopiuk, prof. UwB is a cofounder of the National Seminar of Pedagogical Methodology
of the Polish Pedagogical Society. Dr hab. Janina Uszyńska-Jarmoc, prof. UwB is a member of the Elementary Education Team
of the PAN Committee of Pedagogical Sciences and holds the
office of president of the Podlasie Branch of the Polish Committee of the World Preschool Education OMEP, whereas dr
hab. Anna Karpińska, prof. UwB is a vice-chair of the General
Didactics Team of the PAN Committee of Pedagogical Sciences. Since 2007 r. prof. dr hab. Rafał Piwowarski has been the
head of the International Research Project TALIS (Teaching and
Learning International Survey).
In 2005 prof. dr hab. Jerzy Nikitorowicz was presented with EDUCATION XXI prize, awarded in the 18th Educational Book Fair
XXI for the monograph entitled Creating a child’s identity: challenges of intercultural education (in Polish). In 2006 dr hab. Elwira J. Kryńska, prof. UwB was awarded a Wł. Spasowski scientific
prize in the field of pedagogy by the PAN Division of Social Sciences, for the monograph Indoctrination of school youth in Poland in the years 1945-1956 (in Polish, co-author prof. dr hab.
Stanisław Mauersberg).
In 1999 dr Jerzy Halicki received a second degree scientific
award for his doctoral dissertation Education of senior citizens in
the aspect of competence theory: a historical and comparative
study (in Polish), conferred by the Polish Gerontological Society. In 2008 dr Joanna Szymanowska was honoured with the
second prize by the Minister of Labour and Social Policy in the
9th season of the competition for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of labour and social policy. The award was
granted for the work Aid from self-government institutions and
non-government organisations to families with disabled children
(based on the research in the Sokółka district).
The Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology implemented the following
projects financed by the European Union funds:
Learning Hospitals
The didactic and educational project implemented from the LLPGrundtvig programme. Within the framework of the project, data
on the type of information transferred during a patient’s stay in
hospital was collected and examined. Also, a comparative analysis
of hospital procedures related to a patient’s hospital admission
and stay was made in order to identify cultural differences embedded in the varied educational needs, and connected with the
pro-health activity of health care facilities
Project duration: 2008-2010
Intimate Partner Violence against Older Women
The research project was implemented within the DAPHNE III Programme by the Sociology of Education Unit and the Andragogy
and Gerontology Unit. The aim of the project was to assess the intimate partner violence against women aged 60 and over in marriage and partner relationships from a few European Union countries, based on the joint research programme implemented in
three stages. The studies conducted in this area will contribute to
the creation of unified methods of effective prevention of violence experienced by older women in marital (and partner) relationships.
Project duration: 2008-2010
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FACULTY OF LAW
Uniform Master’s courses
law
First degree courses
ADMINISTRATION; EUROPEAN STUDIES; INTERNAL SECURITY (extramural course only); ECONOMICS AND LAW (in cooperation with the
Faculty of Economics and Management) specialisation: public sector, private sector
Second degree courses
ADMINISTRATION; EUROPEAN STUDIES
Doctoral programmes in Legal Sciences
Postgraduate courses
Public Administration; Vital Records Administration; Court Mediators; Tax
Law; Tax Counselling; Public Procurement; Legal English; Bankruptcy Law;
Intellectual Property Law & Public Relations in Administration and Entrepreneurship; Counteracting Violence in Family – Crisis Intervention; European Union Funds; Criminal – Law Protection of the State Treasury’s Financial Interests – Effective Property Recovery
Mickiewicza 1, 15-213 Białystok, tel. +48 85 745 71 46, fax +48 85 740 60 89
[email protected]
The Faculty of Law is one of the best legal departments in Poland and
has been awarded the first research category by the Ministry of Science
and Higher Education.
Since the year 1994 it has been entitled to confer the university degree
of doctor and since 1997 the degree of doctor habilitatus in the field of
law. Since the year 1997 the Faculty has promoted 132 doctors and 23
doctor habilitatus degree holders, whereas 13 Faculty employees have
been honoured with the title of professor. Currently 105 research workers are employed, including 31 senior academics.
The Faulty staff publish four accredited scientific journals listed by the
Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW): Studia Iuridica
Agraria (6 points), editor-in-chief prof. dr hab. Stanisław Prutis; Miscellanea Historico-Iuridica (6 points) edited by prof. dr hab. Adam Lityński
and dr Piotr Fiedorczyk; Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric (9 points
from the MNiSW, 10 points in the ERIH reference index), editor-in-chief
prof. dr hab. Halina Święczkowska; Białostockie Studia Prawnicze
(Białystok Legal Studies, 2 points), editorial board members: dr hab. Teresa Mróz, prof. UwB, dr hab. Grażyna B. Szczygieł, prof. UwB, dr hab.
Mieczysława Zdanowicz, prof UwB and dr Justyna Matys.
The Faculty is home to the following organisations: the Centre of Information and Organisation of Public Finance Research and Tax Law in the
Central and Eastern European Countries with about 200 researchers
from a dozen of European countries, Polish Studies in Roman Law representing a group of Roman Law researchers, Law and Partnership
Foundation taking actions for the promotion of civil society, law and
order as well as the Faculty of Law Alumni Association and the Faculty
of Law Friends Association, also involved with research activities.
There are over 20 student research clubs at the Faculty, including Civil
Law, European Law, Financial Law, Criminal Law and Criminology, International Law and Human Rights, Labour Law, Intellectual Property Law,
Media and Internet, UwB Social Theories, European Funds Management, Administrative Law, Philosophy of Law, Ancient Law and Culture
Enthusiasts, Penal Sciences, Economic Law and Constitutional Law
Friends.
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Scientific research
European Union financial law
Tax and self-government fees reform
The object of study are normative regulations with respect to the
common currency and uniform financial market as well as the EU income, expenses and budget, including the regulations and directives
on budget, taxes, banking and financial institutions which determine
the directions in the harmonisation of the EU law in member states.
The research into the European Union regulations also concerns their
application (reception, implementation and interpretation) in the system of Polish law.
The aim of the research is to identify the problems connected
with making and applying legal regulations concerning the taxes
and fees which are income of self-government units. In this context the acts of making and applying law are analysed, and the
mechanism of administering self-government taxes by state tax
authorities is also evaluated. The consequence of identifying the
problems will be offering proposals for systematic and individual
change.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Cezary Kosikowski, [email protected]
Publications: C. Kosikowski, Financial Law of the European Union, Białystok
2008; C. Kosikowski, E. Ruśkowski (eds.), Public finance and financial law (in Polish), Warszawa 2008; C. Kosikowski, Public economic law in Poland and the European Union (in Polish), Warszawa 2010; C. Kosikowski, European Union law in
the system of Polish financial law (in Polish), Białystok 2010.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Leonard Etel, [email protected]
Publications: M. Popławski, D. Šramková, Legal Sanctions: Theoretical and Practical Aspects in Poland and Czech Republic, Brno 2008; L. Etel, Real estate taxes
(in Polish), Warszawa 2009; R. Dowgier, M. Popławski, Local tax law -making in
communes (in Polish), Warszawa 2009; M. Popławski (ed.), Local taxes and fees
assessment and collection (in Polish), Białystok 2009; G. Liszewski (ed.), Self-government fees in Poland: practical issues (in Polish), Białystok 2010.
International cooperation
in criminal matters from the EU perspective
The research conducted in cooperation with international organisations aims at ensuring the safety and security of citizens.
Through the involvement of prosecution and judicial practitioners
in the research process, the initial analysis of penal legislation and
institutions related to the counteracting and combatting of crime
has been complemented by practical elements. In cooperation
with technical institutions of higher education, ready-made solutions are being prepared to ensure the citizens’ safety. In this kind
of research, criminological and legal knowledge is used for designing state-of-the-art technology solutions, unique on both
a European and world scale. Another stage is to apply the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy and support the economic sector connected with security and safety.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Emil W. Pływaczewski, [email protected]
Publications: E. W. Pływaczewski (ed.), Current problems of the penal law
and criminology (4), Białystok 2009; L. Paprzycki, Z. Rau (eds.), Practical elements of combating organised crime and terrorism. Modern technologies and
operational work (in Polish), Warszawa 2009; K. Laskowska, Russian - language organised crime (in Polish) , Białystok 2006; E. W. Pływaczewski (ed.),
Current issues in penal law and criminology (3) (in Polish) , Białystok 2005;
W. Cebulak, E. W. Pływaczewski, Prostitution in the United States and Poland,
Białystok 2007.
Public finance reform in Poland
and Central and Eastern European countries
The aim of the research is to identify the areas in the public finance
system, which require changes on account of the improper functioning of specific institutions, and then to suggest potentially optimal solutions. The public finance reform is determined by the accession of some countries to the EU, steady enlargement of the eurozone and changes in the structures of societies due to their ageing, which has a considerable impact on the level of public finance.
The works carried out are related to the state and self-government
level finance in Poland and other Central and East European countries. The research also includes the budget discipline with respect
to limiting the budget deficit and public debt as well as implementing the task budget. On the self-government level the studies refer
to, inter alia, the issues of financial decentralization of self-government units.
Contact: prof. dr hab. Eugeniusz Ruśkowski, [email protected]
Publications: E. Ruśkowski, M. Tyniewicki (eds.) The Basic Problems of Public
Finance Reforms in the 21 Century in Europe. Les reformes principales des finances publiques en Europe au debut du XXI siecle. Białystok 2008, no. 6;
E. Ruśkowski, I. Zaverucha (eds.) Public finance and financial law in Central
and Eastern Europe under the conditions of financial crisis (in Polish), Białystok
– Lwów 2010; J. M. Salachna (ed.), Budget and a long-term financial prognosis
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for self-government units (in Polish) , Gdańsk 2010; P. J. Lewkowicz, J. Stankiewicz (eds.), Constitutional determinants of making and applying financial and
tax law (in Polish), Białystok 2010.
European Union migration policy
The research area concerns a few sectors of the European Union
policies, and especially the asylum policy, visa policy as well as the
economic aspects of migration of persons in the European Union.
The research conducted aims at identifying trends in the examined
areas, with a particular focus on the changes in policies towards Poland’s eastern neighbours after the accession to the European
Union and the Schengen zone. The area related to the economic
aspects of people’s migration has a broader scope as it includes the
analysis of migration of Poles in member countries. Apart from the
problem diagnosis, the foreseen research effects should also involve legislative proposals.
Contact: dr hab. Mieczysława Zdanowicz, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: M. Zdanowicz (ed.), Poland in Schengen (in Polish),
Białystok 2009; M. Zdanowicz, A. Doliwa-Klepacka (eds.), Selected aspects
of the impact of Central and Eastern European states’ membership on the relations with eastern neighbouring countries (in Polish), Białystok 2009;
M. Zdanowicz, T. Dubowski, A. Piekutowska (eds.), Eastern Partnership –
dimensions of real integration (in Polish) Warszawa 2010; M. Zdanowicz,
A. Doliwa-Klepacka, Visa politics in the European Union (in Polish) [in:]
E. Dynia (ed.), International and Community law and challenges of the contemporary world (in Polish), Rzeszów 2009; A. Piekutowska, A five-year
membership in the European Union: advantages and hazards of migration
for employment in the free movement of workers (in Polish) [in:], A. DoliwaKlepacka (ed.), European integration platform (in Polish), Ostrowiec
Świętokrzyski 2009.
Scientific conferences
In the years 2009-2010 the Faculty organised over 50 scientific conferences. A special mention should be given to such regular events
as: The Days of Law in the Central and Eastern European Countries (international conference held since 2009), Tax Ordinance in practice (national conference held since 2008), Self-government taxes and fees
(held since 2008), Finance and Taxes in the Central and Eastern European Countries (international conference held since 2007).
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Cooperation
in Poland and abroad
Since 2009 The Faculty of Law has been a member of the Scientific Network Making and applying tax law by self-government
units. The network also includes the University of Warmia and
Mazury, the University of Silesia and the Catholic University of
Lublin. The aim of cooperation between the universities is to
propagate information regarding the principles of making and
applying tax law as well as the training and counselling activity
for behalf of self-government units.
As part of the initiative called Scientific Forum: Warmia and Mazury in the field of penal and financial law, cooperation has been
established with the Faculty of Law and Administration of the
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn and the Police
Academy in Szczytno.
The Faculty is a member of the Polish Platform for Internal Security and Safety, an association which, apart from the institutions of state administration, justice and prosecution, also includes 9 Polish public schools of higher education. The Association’s work involves preparing projects for ministerial competitions. The participating institutions have staff exchanges, jointly
prepare scientific expertise, etc.
The Faculty has entered into nearly 70 agreements with the
following scientific institutions: the University of Abertay,
Dundee (Scotland), the University of Bern (Switzerland), the
Northeastern University in Boston (USA), the University of Texas Pan American (USA), the University of Tsukuba (Japan), the
University of P. J. Safaric (Slovakia), Yanka Kupala State University (Belarus), the Academy of Budget and Treasury (Russia),
the Russian Legal Academy (Russia), Voronezh State University
in Voronezh (Russia), the University Constantin Brancusi of Târgu-Jiu (Romania). It also cooperates with Max Planck Institute
for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg (Germany). The Faculty has entered into a double doctoral diploma agreement with Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic.
Since 2010 the Faculty has been running a summer school of
law programme, based on the agreements made with the University of Michigan in the USA and Saint Petersburg State University in Russia.
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Research staff
Scientific projects
The employees of the Faculty of Law are valued specialists in
their fields. In recognition of his services, prof. dr hab. Cezary
Kosikowski was awarded a degree Honoris Causa by Pavol
Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (1995), whereas prof. dr hab.
Adam Jamróz – a degree Honoris Causa by the University in
Grodno. He also received the Knight’s Cross of the Legion of
Honour.
Prof. dr hab. Emil Pływaczewski won a special distinction
award from the head of the Internal Affairs Bureau of the
Polish Police Headquarters, for his contribution to the creation of legal system conducive to fighting corruption, and
an award from the Minister of the Interior and Administration for outstanding services to the development of internal safety strategy (2008). He was honoured with the
Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and awarded the title of Polish Congress Ambassador. He was also
granted an award from the American Society of Criminology and the medal Pro Meritis erga Academian Administrarionis Publicae Securitatis in Szczytno of the Police Academy in Szczytno.
The Faculty employees win awards and distinctions in competitions for the best postdoctoral and doctoral dissertations
in the field of legal sciences. Dr hab. Mirosława Melezini, prof.
UwB received a L. Petrażycki award granted by the Polish
Academy of Sciences for the postdoctoral thesis Punitivity of
penal jurisdiction in Poland in the 20th century (in Polish, 2005).
In the National Competition of the State and Law awards
were granted to dr hab. Grażyna B. Szczygieł, prof. UwB
(2004), dr hab. Mirosława Melezini, prof. UwB (2005), dr hab.
Joanna Salachna (2010) and dr Anna Piszcz (2008). Dr hab. Joanna Sieńczyło-Chlabicz, prof. UwB received an award in the
5th competition for the best postdoctoral dissertation on industrial property, organised by the Patent Office of the Polish
Republic in 2007, whereas dr Aneta Giedrewicz-Niewińska
(2007) and dr Justyna Matys (2008) won prizes awarded by
the Wolters Kluwer Polska publishing house. Dr Anna Piszcz is
the first prize laureate of the competition of the National
Council of Legal Advisers for the essay on economic mediation (2009).
Evolution of constitutionalism
in the Vysehrad Group countries
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The aim of the project is to examine, comparatively, the trends in evolution
of constitutional law in the countries of Vysehrad Group, through the exchange of experiences in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
The research encompassed the historical evolution of constitutional systems, contemporary problems related to political systems and the protection of human rights. The project is financed by the Vysehrad Fund.
Eastern Partnership – Poland
as a promoter of real integration
Project duration: 2010
The aim of the project is to promote Poland as a country interested in
developing partner relations with the countries from Eastern Europe
and the South Caucasus and to spread the idea of Eastern Partnership
among the young generation. The project is co-financed within the
framework of the competition organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Promotion of Knowledge about Poland.
Project duration: 2010
Monitoring, identifying
and counteracting threats to citizen safety and security
The scientific project commissioned by the MNiSW provided for the increase in the effectiveness of measures undertaken by state bodies, to
ensure the citizen safety and security by analysing potential threats and
finding legal and technical solutions. The project was implemented by
a consortium with the Military University of Technology in Warsaw.
Project duration: 2007-2010
Legal and criminological aspects of implementing
and applying modern technologies for the protection
of internal security and safety
The project concerns the analysis of modern technologies for the protection of internal safety and security, and the propagation of these
technologies among economic entities.
Project duration: 2009-2011
Designing and implementing legal English curriculum
with application of innovative educational materials
The aim of the project is to publish a legal English coursebook. The
project is financed by the European Social Fund within the framework
of the Human Capital Operational Programme, Priority 4 System of
Higher Education and Learning.
Czas trwania projektu: 2009-2011
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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
AND INFORMATICS IN VILNIUS
First degree courses
INFORMATICS; ECONOMICS
Kalvarijų g. 143, LT-08221 Vilnius, Lietuva
tel. 0037 052766739 fax 0037 05276639, [email protected]
The Faculty of Economics and Informatics in Vilnius was established in
2007. The University of Białystok was the first Polish higher education
institution to start a faculty abroad and educate students in Polish. The
initiative was launched in order to improve higher education attainment levels among the Polish minority in Lithuania, which were two
times lower than the national average.
According to the official statistics, the Polish community of 235,000
people living now in Lithuania is the largest national minority in the
country (6.7 percent of the population). Currently there are more than
100 schools in Lithuania with Polish as the language of instruction,
where over fourteen thousand pupils study. 75 percent of the school
leavers continue their education in universities or colleges. There are
450 students at the Faculty of Economics and Informatics in Vilnius. In
July 2010 the first forty graduates were awarded Bachelor’s degrees of
the University of Białystok.
The Faculty consists of two departments: the Department of Informatics
headed by dr hab. Tadeusz Łozowski, prof. UwB, and the Department of
Economics chaired by prof. dr hab. Czesław Noniewicz. There are nine research workers employed at the Faculty, including three senior academics. The Faculty used to be a co-publisher of Rocznik Stowarzyszenia Naukowców Polaków Litwy (The Annual of the Association of Polish Scientists in
Lithuania). At present the Faculty is organizing its own publication, the
first two volumes of which have already appeared.
There are two student research clubs at the Faculty: Friedrich von
Hayek Student Society, which organizes conferences and meetings
with entrepreneurs for students of Economics, and IT Specialists and
Programmers Student Society.
The Faculty has organized a number of important scientific conferences, including An overview of the effects of Lithuania’s accession to the
European Union on the Polish minority in 2007, European educational
space in 2009, The impact of the world economic crisis on the Central and
Eastern European countries: economic and social aspects in 2010, and
The role of human capital in the development of a knowledge-based
economy in 2011.
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Scientific research
A study of entrepreneurship in Lithuania:
current situation and perspectives for growth
Within the framework of research a survey has been carried out in
about 360 companies from the small and medium-sized business
sector in the Vilnius district, for the purpose of examining the competitive value of businesses in Vilnius and the surrounding area as
well as determining the decisive competitive features. There are 113
questions in the survey and the studies are done by means of direct
interview method.
Contact: dr Alina Grynia, [email protected]
Economic development of Vilnius city
and Vilnius Voivodeship in the years 1922-1939
The economic growth of Vilnius Voivodeship in the interwar period has not been yet studied. There is a common stereotype,
both in Lithuania and in Poland, that these areas were economically underdeveloped and neglected (Poland B). However, the
statistical data show that the dynamics of economic development in these territories was impressively high, with several industries showing strong growth, for instance radiotechnics. The
research aims to present changes in the economy of the region,
based on the statistical information found in the Vilnius region
(part of the documentation can be found in the Lithuanian archives and the other part in the Belarusian ones, in Molodechno), and the Vilnius city Statistics Annual from the interwar period (altogether, 8 statistics annuals were published). The research
has tremendous social meaning for the Polish minority in Lithuania.
ital-to-analog converters as well as to control the very measurement process of the device.
Contact: dr hab. Tadeusz Łozowski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Publications: K. Backfolk, J. Sidaravicius, P. Sirviö, R. Maldzius, T. Lozovski, J. B.
Rosenholm; Effect of base paper grammage and electrolyte content on electrical
and dielectric properties of coated papers; Nordic Pulp and Paper Research Journal; 25 (2010) 319-326.
Usefulness of computer systems
Computer systems are used in all spheres of contemporary life. The
job effectiveness and performance of a computer system user has
a direct impact on their task effectiveness and performance. Human - computer communication involves the analysis of user needs
and user-oriented design. The research is conducted at all stages of
software creation as well as during the use stage after the project
completion.
Contact: dr Krystyna Łapin, [email protected]
Impact of economic crisis
on the business activity in the Vilnius district
The purpose of the research is to determine the impact of economic crisis on the business activity in the Vilnius district, with
a special focus on the small and medium-sized business sector.
The research topics are part of the research activity started in
2009 and related to the competitive value of Lithuanian economy
at the micro-economic level. The sources of business competitive
edge are examined in the specific surroundings a given enterprise
interacts with.
Contact: dr hab. Jarosław Wołkonowski, prof. UwB, [email protected]
Contact: dr Alina Grynia, [email protected]
Enhancement of computer-aided
measurement systems
Human capital and regional development
(based on the example of Lithuania)
It is still a topical subject given the fact that the information measurement systems find broad application both in scientific research,
and industrial and living measurements. The research examines the
possibilities of using different algorithms and programmes to collect measurement data from sensors, and analog-to-digital and dig-
The research topic concerns a very dynamic growth of regions and
search for solutions aiming to diminish regional differences and show
the reasons for spatial development differentiation in Lithuania.
Kontakt: mgr Justyna Łuczyńska, [email protected]
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Director: mgr Halina Brzezińska-Stec
Vice-Director: mgr Wiesława Wojtkowska
Jerzy Giedroyc
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
The Library holds a wide range of national and international items to
meet the University needs, especially in the field of humanities, that is,
philosophy, logic, history, religion, Roman Catholic and Orthodox
Church theologies, sociology, law, philological studies, pedagogy and
psychology, economy and exact sciences. Special attention is given to
acquiring publications of national minorities and literature related to
the multicultural character of the region. The Library also has a collection of cartographic works, graphics, musical records, analogous and
compact discs, cassettes, microfilms and microfiches.
Jerzy Giedroyc University Library Departments and Units
Acquisitions and Collection Development
Reference
Preservation and Conservation
Circulation and Inter-library Loans
Open Access Collections
Periodicals
Special Collections Reading Room and Digital Media Center
European Documentation Centre
Automation
Computer Lab
Administrative Services
M. Skłodowskiej-Curie 14A, 15-097 Białystok, tel. +48 85 745 76 87
fax +48 85 745 76 86, [email protected]
At the end of 2010 the Library collection included:
Non-serial publications – 472,228 volumes
Periodicals – 74,784 volumes
Special collection – 12,563 volumes and items
Total – 559,575 volumes and items
Moreover, numerous databases are subscribed, including the Web of
Science, Science Direct, Springer, EBSCO Publishing, LexPolonica Perfecta or Polskie Prawo Gospodarcze.
The most precious items in the library collection are Komedia Dantego z 1589 r., Biblia. Księga Starego i Nowego Testamentu według
łacińskiego przekładu Starego Testamentu by D. Jakub Wuyek of
Wągrowiec (The Bible. Books of the Old and New Testament According to
the Latin Translation of the Old Testament by D. Jakub Wuyek of
Wągrowiec), published in Kraków in 1599, Żywoty Świętych (The Lives of
the Saints), Piotra Skargi z 1601 r., Kazania niedzielne (Sunday Sermons),
X. Sebastyana Lachowskiego v. 1, published in Supraśl in the Basilians’
Printing House in 1793 and the Księga liturgiczna. Służebnik (Liturgical
Book. Service Book), in the Old Church Slavonic language from 1791.
The last item is an exceptionally rare old print.
The new University Library building opened in 2005 and is now one
of the most modern facilities of this type in the country. Its city centre location makes it an important cultural centre.
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Access
The University Library’s collections are available to the UwB employees and students as well as external users. A general reading
room, special collections reading room, lending library and inter-library loan office are available. The Reference Department collects
bibliographic and full text databases on CD-ROMs, offers access to
information resources on the internet and provides access to international library catalogs, and information and bibliographic systems.
In 2010 the Open Access Collections Department was founded,
where users have free access to books in different disciplines, arranged by topic according to the Universal Decimal Classification.
The modern form of library access are also individual study booths,
situated on the third floor of the reading room with free access to
the collection. Each booth is equipped with a computer workplace
with access to the catalog, Internet and licensed databases.
Podlasie Digital Library
and Digital Media Centre
The digital media centre is equipped with state-of-the-art technologies. The centre is a place where electronic documents are prepared for the Podlasie Digital Library opened in 2006, and a place
where library collections are scanned for users.
The Podlasie Digital Library is a project implemented by the Scientific Consortium of Białystok City. In the years 2007-2011 Jerzy
Giedroyc University Library in Białystok has been the project coordinator. The Podlasie Digital Library uses mainly the dLibra
software created in the Poznań Supercomputer-Networking
Centre. Its task is to enable easy and fast access to the collection,
to protect and secure the treasures of early Polish writing, to create Polish internet educational and cultural resources and to
support the growth of research potential in the institutions of
higher education. The PDL team is made up of the following collections: cultural heritage, cartography, Eastern Kresy (Borderlands) of the Republic of Poland, regional items and social life
documentation, research and didactic materials as well as musical items. At the end of 2010, the number of published works
held was around 11,000.
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The Centre
of European Documentation
The Centre of European Documentation of the University of Bialystok Library founded by virtue of the agreement by the Directoriat General of the European Commission and UwB Rector, is a seventeenth centre of this type in Poland and the only one in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It was opened in 2009 at the initiative and with
the help and expertise of the Faculty of Law. Its function is to collect and give access to the resources connected with the European
Union. It has a status of a regular centre and, therefore, it has the
right to receive the materials related to all European Union spheres
of activity.
The CED collection contains books, newspapers and magazines,
brochures and CD-ROMs obtained from the Publications Office of
the European Union in Luxembourg. The Centre regularly develops
and updates its collection with publications acquired on the book
market, or as gifts from the institutions dealing with European integration and conducting publishing activity. In 2010 the CED had
a collection of 3,000 EU-related items.
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Cultural
and promotional activity
Library
for the disabled
The promotional activity of the Library is aimed at integrating the local
scientific and library environment as well as promoting the Library as
a cultural institution.
Jerzy Giedroyc University Library in Białystok is a friendly
place to disabled visitors. It has special facilities which help
the disabled users to benefit from the Library and their own
resources. Two small audio-frequency induction loops help
the hard-of-hearing persons to use the lending library and
reading room, and the portable loop for the areas of up to
150 m2 and FM systems may be used when needed. The
specialist equipment can also be found in the special collections reading room and the multimedia hall. Readers may also use the audio reader, which makes it possible to hear
a text and record it on a CD disc, or the computer with
touchscreen devices, which allow the blind and the visually
impaired visitors to browse through files with computer
graphics. Special software enables users to convert (adjust
or change) the library resources into special versions for the
disabled. The people who are familiar with the Braille alphabet may use the electronic typing machine, printer and two
electronic audio book players. In the reading room with free
access to the Library collections there is a stationary magnifier, the so-called reading converter – magnifying text
30 times on the monitor screen. Readers may also use the
electronic magnifying glass.
In the library hall exhibitions are arranged, prepared by the employees
of the Reference Department. In 2006 a cycle of meetings called the
Podlasie Librarians Forum was initiated. The meetings are an open discussion forum and a platform for the exchange of views by the employees of Białystok libraries.
Since 2008 also monthly meetings are organised within the framework
of the project entitled Podlasie in Scientific Research. This is an initiative
which serves the popularization of scientific research results among
the local community.
An Hour with the French Fable project is implemented in cooperation with the students of French Philology, UwB. These are regular
meetings for primary school children, which popularize French literature and art.
The calendar of events organised by the Library also includes national scientific conferences. The first conference was held in 2007. It concerned the issues of organisational culture in the library. The next
one, organised in 2009, was devoted to selected aspects of internal
marketing in the library activities.
Since the Library was moved to a new building, it has been a venue
for meetings with renowned personalities from the world of politics
and science. The Library has been visited by the ambassadors of Latvia and Israel, or by solicitors form the USA and Swiss embassies. It
hosted prof. Władysław Bartoszewski and Ryszard Kaczorowski – the
last President of the Republic of Poland in Exile. In 2006 a press conference of prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz was held.
The Library hosts annual celebrations of the Library Week. Scientific,
theatrical and musical events held are open in character and enjoy
great popularity
Access to the Library building and the door width are adjusted to the needs of wheelchair users and voice-operated
elevators help blind and partially sighted visitors to leave at
the right floor. The reading rooms are equipped with adequate tables. On each floor there are also special toilet facilities.
On 10 September, 2010 the University Library was proud to
host a special gala of the competition The Disabled-Friendly
Place, in which the UwB Library was awarded a distinction.
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Projects for the region
SCIENCE
FOR SOCIETY
The University is involved in a lot of projects whose aim is to
support the regional development. This is mainly achieved by
means of expert studies with practical guidelines and demands
for action to improve the situation in the examined areas. The
University research workers get engaged in the works for public
benefit organisations, hold offices in government and self-government institutions, raise EU-funding for the projects intended
to spur the development of the north-eastern Poland. The activity within the framework of consortiums and research networks
has practical applications. Its effect are reports, ex-ante and expost assessments, evaluations, strategies and programme documentation. The University cooperates with entrepreneurs, does
research in support of the country’s economy, organises student
internships with companies, invites practitioners to deliver lectures at the University and organises thematic conferences.
New trends, new methods
In response to social demand, the University launches new fields
of study, for instance the International Economic Relations at the
Faculty of Economics and Management which, according to the
report prepared in 2011 by the Ministry of Science and Higher
Education, was listed among the eleven most popular, the so called unique fields of study in Poland.
The Faculty of Physics, jointly with the Białystok Oncology Centre, introduced a specialisation called Medical Physics. Currently,
it trains medical staff to handle medical equipment.
Within the framework of the project The twenty-first century teacher, the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology conducts training
courses for students of pedagogy aimed to prepare them to
work as teachers in new technological conditions. The didactic
work is mainly done by distance learning.
The Eastern Centre of Technology Transfer, founded at the University of
Bialystok, along with the Marshal’s Office of the Podlaskie Voivodeship, is
implementing the project Podlasie Innovation Strategy – building the implementation system (2009-2011). The created strategy involves the updating, monitoring, benchmarking, regional foresight, development of
innovation cooperation network as well as the promotion of technology
and innovation transfer.
Within the framework of the research project entitled Entrepreneurship in
Podlasie, the employees of the Law Faculty analysed legal, economic and
social conditions of economic activity in Podlasie, in view of the fact that
the region is in many respects incomparable to other areas of Poland. The
grounds for the research may be the de lege ferenda proposals for regulations by law and office management. The Faculty also conducts several
criminological research projects. These are the Monitoring, identifying and
counteracting threats to citizen safety and security (project commissioned by
the Ministry of Science and Higher Education), Legal and criminological aspects of implementing and applying modern technologies for the protection
of internal security and safety as well as the Forfeiture of property and economic gains derived from criminal activity.
The Faculty of Law carries out research in the area of migration policy in
the European Union, focused mainly on the visa policy, refugee policy
and economic aspects of labour migration. Its aim is to evaluate the current legal solutions and analyse their impact on the relations with the
eastern neighbouring countries. The result of the research will be proposals, also in the form of legislative initiatives, for instance regarding the
liberalization of the visa regime, which may lead to the economic boost
in the border regions.
An example of the activity for the benefit of the region is research carried
out by the Faculty of Economics and Management on the determinants
of the development in the north – eastern region of Poland. The analysis
covered both the infrastructural, planning, demographic, natural and financial factors. Commissioned by the Ministry of Regional Development,
the Faculty prepared The development strategy of Podlaskie Voivodeship
2020. The Faculty of Economics and Management also prepared a new
concept of measuring the structural social and economic development,
the WSR, as an alternative to the GDP per capita. It is also involved in the
projects promoting the entrepreneurial activity in the region, including
the Flexicurity as a chance for sustainable development of labour market
(2009-2011) or Start in business, the project implemented with the Podlaska Regional Development Foundation, which is intended to lead to
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the creation of 60 new firms in Podlasie. The employees of the Faculty of
Pedagogy and Psychology were involved in the European Union project
Internet education centres in the countryside whose aim was to diminish
the disparities in access to education between urban areas and the countryside. They also implement projects related to social problems, for instance by examining the education awareness in family (commissioned
by the Municipal Office in Białystok) or preparing a report on the pilot research concerning the phenomenon of children and parents separation
(in cooperation with the Board of Education in Białystok). The Faculty
workers sit on the advisory board of Podlaskie Voivode, which coordinates the work of services counteracting violence in family. The Student
Young Volunteers’ Society takes part in the preventive campaign called
Homeless but not helpless. The project is implemented in cooperation
with the Voivodeship Headquarters of the Police and students from other institutions of higher education in Białystok. The scientific staff of the
Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology take part in the activities of the Caritas of Białystok Archdiocese working group, dealing with the problem of
homelessness. Within the framework of the Tenth Convention of Movement Against Social Helplessness they work in the team preparing the
Civil Strategy of Counteracting Poverty for the years 2010-2015.
The Faculty of History and Sociology implements research projects whose
aim is to reconstruct the historical memory of the region’s inhabitants.
The Faculty of Biology and Chemistry did an evaluation of the priority investment in the region related to an airport construction. It concerned
the incidence of herpetofauna in the three of suggested locations for the
regional airport. Commissioned by the Minister of Environment and National Fund of Environmental Protection and Water Management, the
Faculty prepared the Strategy of protecting and managing the elk population in Poland.
Scientific staff activities
The UwB employees are appointed to work in government agencies.
Since 2007 prof. dr hab. Barbara Kudrycka has held the office of Minister
of Science and Higher Education. Dr hab. Tadeusz Truskolaski, prof. UwB,
serves his second term of office as President of Białystok. Prof. dr hab. Adam Jamróz and prof. dr hab. Marian Grzybowski sit on the panel of the
Constitutional Tribunal. Dr hab. Dariusz Kijowski, prof. UwB, is a judge of
the State Tribunal and in 2010 he became a member of the Polish Prime
Minister’s Legislative Council – 11th term of office. Prof. dr hab. Walerian
Sanetra is a President of the Supreme Court and prof. dr hab. Bogusław
Cudowski is a Supreme Court judge. The employees of the Faculty of
Law serve as experts appointed by the Polish Sejm Bureau of Research.
Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Nikitorowicz, UwB Rector, is Vice-President of the
Conference of Polish University Rectors, a member of the Science and
Innovation Commission and the Commission for Education of the Conference of Polish University Rectors.
Since 2009 prof. dr hab. Marek Konarzewski has been a science and
technology adviser at the Polish Embassy in Washington.
Academic employees establish new associations and societies, or preside over non-government organisations whose aim is to act for the
benefit of the region and country.
Cooperation with entrepreneurs
and institutions
The Academic Enterprise Incubator at the Faculty of Economics and
Management has been successful for years. Its role is to help people run their own business, especially by exempting them from social insurance contributions, helping in bookkeeping, making contracts and providing legal advice.
The Faculty cooperates with entrepreneurs and financial institutions in
the region. The cooperation is mainly associated with sponsoring, or
promoting companies. Currently, it is gaining a more profound charac-
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ter and is formalized by partnership agreements. These involve student
apprenticeships with different companies and institutions, training, exchange of experiences, joint conference organisation, service and research as well as expert works.
The Faculty of Law cooperates with several institutions on the exchange
of experiences and practice regarding the law application and staff training. It has signed agreements with, for instance, lawyers’ offices, the District Court in Białystok (concerning the costs of student apprenticeships),
the National Training Centre for the Officials of Common Courts of Law
and the Public Prosecutors’ Offices. The Faculty also cooperates with the
Voivodeship Police Headquarters and the Polish Criminological Association. The cooperation concerns, for instance, the exchange of information, dissemination of criminological knowledge and preparing didactic
programmes. The Faculty employees organise training, lectures and conferences on tax law and proceedings, for the benefit of such institutions
as the Self-Government Appeal Court, the Regional Accounting Chamber, particular self - governments or organisations they are members of,
such as the Dialogue Foundation, public institutions and tax offices. At
the initiative of the Faculty of Law, the University of Bialystok participates
in the project entitled the Cluster of business-related institutions, implemented under the European Union programme. The CBRI is one of the
so-called knowledge clusters, based on cooperation of science and business, and is supposed to contribute to the development of entrepreneurial activity and competitiveness.
The Faculty of Biology and Chemistry provides various research services for external companies, for instance by preparing genetic tests for
the Public Prosecutor’s Office and courts. It has also prepared an evaluation concerning the location of the facility used for selecting, collecting and producing waste-derived fuels and storing asbestos waste in
the territory of Wyszonki-Błonie (Klukowo commune, Podlaskie
Voivodeship), or the report Validation of development at the Siemianówka Reservoir within the territory of Tarnopol (Narewka commune, Podlaskie Voivodeship). The employees of the Institute of Biology, in cooperation with the Ekoton company, are preparing the documentation
related to the fauna inventory, essential for the construction of a barrage and power plant on the Vistula River near Wrocławek.
The Faculty also runs International thematic workshops on the use of bacterial
toxins for limiting insect growth as well as field workshops for specialists
from different scientific and inspection institutions evaluating river ecological conditions, based on the RHS methods, recommended for implement-
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ing the EU Water Framework Directive. On account of the presence of English specialists and the standardized protocol of training, the workshop
participants could obtain a certificate from the British Environmental Agency to make hydromorphological surveys of running waters.
Within the European Union project entitled Modern and effective training in cooperation with entrepreneurs, the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics started an Internet platform for contacts between students
and employers. One of the project goals is to include entrepreneurs in
the process of training future employees.
Other initiatives
An important element of the activities for the benefit of the region was
starting the Student Legal Services at the Faculty of Law in 1998, providing free legal advice to Białystok inhabitants.
Moreover, students of law hold an annual campaign called A book for
a prisoner, where books are collected for the people detained in custody
suites and penal institutions in Podlasie.
The employees and students of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology are known for their involvement in voluntary work. They organise various campaigns to benefit people in need, especially the disabled.
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POPULARIZATION OF SCIENCE
The employees of the University of Bialystok popularize science by
organising regular scientific conferences, publishing individual and
collective monographs, and initiating events whose purpose is to
present the latest scientific achievements in an accessible and interesting way.
Events
The University hosts lectures of the most eminent scholars. They are
open in character and are enjoyed by Białystok dwellers. Every year the
UwB participates in the Podlasie Science and Art Festival. For the past
few years the Jerzy Giedroyc University Library has been an organiser
of a series of lectures called Podlasie in scientific research. It also successfully participates in a national cultural event called The Night of Museums.
The Faculty of Philology regularly holds Belarusian Thursdays, devoted to the culture of Belarusians living in Podlasie. Students organise
meetings with writers from Poland and abroad. The Polish Philology Students’ Society organised the project Miastopisanie (Citywriting). As a result of the poetic workshop, the volume To miasto: odczytywanie – zapisywanie (This City: Reading – Recording) was created.
The club is also preparing The Białystok Alphabet describing the
character of Podlasie capital. Every year the Student Intercultural
Society organises the French Spring. The Faculty has recently prepared two major exhibitions: Podlasie Iconostasis and The Earth Bird’s
Eye View – a Sustainable Growth. Literature experts are invited to sit
on the jury of writing competitions.
Top politicians are frequent guests at the Faculty of Law. The Faculty
also organises events for the local community, such as a court trial
show run by a well-known TV personality, judge Anna Maria
Wesołowska, simulation of a court trial in the common law system
with the participation of judges from the Wood Green Crown Court
in the United Kingdom. During the Faculty of Law Days one may take
part in the POLYGRAPH workshop to check whether they can trick the
polygraph, or learn simple ways of securing the traces of burglary
during the show Sherlock Holmes the Polish Way. The Faculty also organises Oxford debates with the participation of secondary school
pupils. The Faculty issues the Faculty of Law Bulletin – a bimonthly
publication with texts by students and doctoral students of law, also
accessible in electronic version, .
The employees of the Institute of Sociology who are members of
the University of Bialystok Foundation, organised two historical
walks in Białystok: The Jewish Heritage Trail and The PRL Architectural
Landmarks Trail. They both enjoyed great popularity and became an
inspiration for similar events. The Faculty of Physics is an organiser
of a series of lectures which popularise difficult problems of the
contemporary physics in an accessible way. The exhibition Large
Hadron Collider – How Does It Work?, organised in 2009, was a great
event in Białystok.
The Faculty of Economics and Informatics in Vilnius organises a series
of open lectures: Business People Talk About Their Career.
Cooperation with schools
The majority of UwB faculties organise preparatory courses for matriculation examinations, cooperate in organising subject contests or special shows and competitions for secondary school pupils.
Each year the Prof. Andrzej Myrcha University Museum of Nature is visited by a few thousand school pupils.
In cooperation with schools, the Faculty of Philology hosts guest lectures and workshops for school pupils. Moreover, the Youth Cultural
Society in Białystok organises a series of lectures for secondary school
leavers entitled School Reading List – Reinterpretations.
The Faculty of Physics organises popular internet competitions for the
best measurement results for students and secondary school pupils.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics has for years organised the
Regional Informatics Competition for secondary school pupils and
a seminar Information Technology in Teaching Mathematics for teachers
from the Podlaskie Voivodeship. The school club Infa at the Institute of
Informatics was awarded the title Talent Discovery Spot in 2011.
The Faculty of Law organises the National Constitutional Law Competition and the Ancient World Contest. The Law and European
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Union Funds’ Management Society implemented the project entitled Design creatively – act positively. It was meant to help pupils prepare their own business plans. The employees of the Faculty of
Pedagogy and Psychology are authors of the preventive programme How to stop anorexia and bulimia. Under the programme
prevention classes for the youth, school council training and education meetings for parents, were held in 16 schools from the Podlaskie and Warmińsko-Mazurskie voivodeships. The European Union
project Towards the enriching diversity, an intercultural workshop
was organised for Polish and Chechen children. The Faculty is an organiser of a European Union project Growth through competences.
Its purpose is to develop key competences in the middle school
pupils, that is those related to mathematics, natural sciences and
entrepreneurial skills. The project involved almost 2200 pupils from
100 middle schools in four voivodeships.
Within the framework of the European Union project Białystok –
a good Place to Study (2010-2011), secondary school teachers from the
region could take part in the training organised by academic teachers, whereas the pupils participated in free courses preparing to
study, for instance, at the University of Bialystok.
University as a culture–
making institution
For over 35 years the Academic Choir of the University of Bialystok
has been giving concerts all over the world. It adds splendour to major university events and has issued many records.
The research employees of the University of Bialystok were initiators
of the Białystok Cultural Knowledge Centre. They organise regular
lectures, discussions and presentations in the Sleńdzińscy Gallery
concerning the issues in contemporary culture and modern art.
The Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology has for years featured the
Stotrzynaście (Onehundredthirteen) Gallery. It is famous far beyond
the university walls. The pedagogy students have also joined the
amateur film -making movement, very dynamic in Podlasie, and cocreate such projects as the Film Podlasie Attacks or the Żubroffka
Festival. They organise film workshops for the youth from Poland,
Germany, Ukraine, Czech Republic and Belarus.
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In cooperation with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and Social
Film Institute in Warsaw, the Faculty founded the University Videotheque
WATCH DOCS, an archive of documentary films on human rights.
The activity of the UwB employees led to the creation of the Factory
of Bestsellers association, promoting regional, that is the Białystok and
Polish literary works. The Factory also organises writing workshops
and literary festivals, including the Time for Prose or Collected. The National Short Prose Competition Seethe, organised by the Polish Philology Students’ Society, has already had its fifth season.
An important University cultural centre is the University Library,
which organises exhibitions, concerts and meetings with authors for
the city dwellers.
Open education
An example of involvement of the University of Bialystok in open education is starting the Children’s Economic University at the Faculty of Economics and Management. Its task is to build the economic awareness
among children. The educational offer of the Children’s Economic University is addressed to school pupils from the last grades of primary
school. There are about 100 students in each year of study and there is
still a number of applicants on the waiting list.
Classes for elderly people are equally popular. They are organised by the
University of the Third Age, which is in close cooperation with the University of Bialystok, where it is located.
Different forms of open education through internet are becoming more
and more popular. It is possible to ask a physicist a question using the
Faculty of Physics website and get a quick and professional reply. The
physicists are also doing an open experiment Magnetism through Internet with access to the measurement location via the network.
In 2009 the Faculty of Law established the Bureau for Legal Traineeship
and Career, running free traineeship preparatory courses for students
and graduates. In 2008 the Faculty started the programme First Aid at
the Last Moment, an internet help forum for pupils taking their matriculation exams in Civic Studies. The Faculty workers voluntarily help the exam takers. The matriculation exam-takers are also the addressees of lectures organised within the series Secondary school leavers for Law. The
Faculty associations organise numerous open training sessions, including those on tax law or inter-sector partnership.
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RESEARCH FACILITIES
The University of Bialystok meets the standards set for science in
the twenty-first century. It has well-organised information infrastructure (wireless internet, University’s own servers and easily accessible LAN sockets). Thanks to that, it is possible to have classes
and consultation by distance learning.
The UwB makes necessary investments in laboratories and research
studios. Thanks to a European Union project (2009-2012), exceptionally costly and technologically advanced equipment has been purchased for the Centre of Synthesis and Analysis BioNanoTechno,
which was created at the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry. The laboratory infrastructure consists of three studios: Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Nanotechnology and Material Chemistry as well as
Modern Technologies of Polymer Synthesis and Analysis. Having
highly professional staff working with the state-of-the-art equipment
allows for comprehensive research on the materials at the macro-,
micro- and nanoscale.
Experimental units of the Faculty of Physics have over a dozen measurement sites to examine crystal structures as well as magnetic and
electronic properties of condensed matter. Thanks to the funds from
the implemented European Union projects, modern equipment has
been collected for research on the magnetic nanomaterials in the following laboratories: STM/AFM/MFM Scanning Microscopy, Femtosecond Laser Techniques, Magneto-optic Magnetometry and Brillouin
Scattering. In turn, the Mössbauer Spectrometry Laboratory uses the
unique source of circularly polarized radiation. Modern instruments
and unique measurement techniques make the Białystok research
centre an attractive partner for international cooperation. Several research projects are implemented in foreign laboratories during measurement sessions using large-scale apparatuses, such as synchrotrons or neutron sources. A part of the Faculty of Physics is the Astronomical Observatory, a very well-equipped didactic and research
centre for the observation of astronomical objects, the only facility of
its kind in this part of Poland, applying unique solutions on the na-
tional level. For visual observation and photographic registration two
100/1000 binoculars and a 150/2250 telescope are used as well as
Made LX200/12 telescope with the CCD and TV cameras.
The University location amidst three national parks puts special demands on scholars. Hence, in the year 2008 a modern field station in
Gugny was established, with splendid laboratory facilities. Thanks to
the station, it is possible to examine the unique fauna and flora of the
Biebrza River valley and prepare scientific methods of protecting its
precious natural values.
The Humanities employees have smaller requirements concerning
modern equipment and technologies. However, they also use
unique instruments and software. The Criminology Laboratory at
the Faculty of Law is equipped with the apparatus for examining
the authenticity of documents, mainly money. Specialist software
installed on the server of the Institute of Sociology enables construction and implementation of an online research questionnaire.
The Faculty of Philology has two language laboratories. Under the
project Teacher of the twenty-first century, implemented by the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, new educational tools are used,
including the skype, graphoscopes, multimedia projectors, DVD
and VHS players, screens, laptop computers and interactive boards
configured with the laptops.
The UwB takes care of the scientific development of the disabled
students and academic teachers. The University Library is one of
the three best-equipped university libraries in Poland as regards the
specialist equipment for the disabled users.
UNIvERSiT y of BIAlYSTOK young | dynamic | with perspectives
THE UNIVERSITY
OF BIALYSTOK CAMPUS
The construction of university campus, which has a chance to become
the most recognizable structure in the region, started in February 2011.
It will also be one of the most modern academic centres in Poland in
terms of its scientific and didactic facilities.
This is the biggest investment in the history of the UwB. The academic
town will be created in Ciołkowskiego Street. It will cover the area of
about 30 hectares, half of which will be a green park where students and
scholars will find inspiration and rest. According to the plan, the first
structures will be handed over at the end of 2013.
Investment costs
The planned investment costs are about 200 million PLN. The funds
come from the European Union grants and state budget.
Within the framework of the Operational Programme Infrastructure and
Environment, the construction of the Faculty of Physics, the Institute of
Chemistry and the University Cultural Centre will be implemented. The
amount of money for the purchase of specialist equipment in the classrooms and laboratories is over 15 million PLN.
Thanks to the funds from the Operational Programme Development of Eastern Poland, the Institute of Biology and the Institute of
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Mathematics and Informatics with the University Computation Centre will be built. The amount of money planned to be spent on
specialist equipment is nearly 13 million PLN. All the classrooms and
laboratories in the campus will be equipped with the highest quality computer and laboratory equipment, essential for teaching purposes.
About the project
The campus designer is prof. Marek Budzyński, one of the most renowned Polish architects, the creator of the University Library in
Warsaw. The architectural design is based on the philosophical concept which assumes the synthesis of sciences in pursuit of the truth.
The names of campus alleys allude to this idea. Around the crossing
streets of Oneness, converging at the Square of Sciences Synthesis,
the buildings of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty
of Physics, Institute of Biology and Chemistry will be constructed.
The Square will be surrounded by entrance portals to particular institutes and faculties, with engraved mottoes related to a given
field. In the middle of the Square there will be a sphere-shaped
fountain. The campus will also house the University Computational
Centre, the Prof. Andrzej Myrcha University Museum of Nature,
a greenhouse, an animal house and laboratories. In many lecture
rooms the Sun Square will be seen through glass windows. The Faculty of Physics will be adjacent to the University Cultural Centre,
where student organisations and parliament as well as a cafe and
concert hall will be located.
University of Bialystok
University of Bialystok was created in 1997 by transforming the
former 29-year-old Branch of Warsaw University. The level and
scientific potential made it one of the biggest and most dynamic academic institutions in the north-eastern part of Poland.
In the year 2013 the students of natural and mathematical
sciences will be able to start their education in a modern and
well-equipped campus. This is the biggest investment in the
history of the UwB.
The UwB is comprised of ten faculties, with a satellite department in Siedlce and a foreign faculty in Vilnius. The University
educates 18,000 students in almost 30 fields of study. It offers
90 different postgraduate course. The student movement is
thriving: there are about 70 student research clubs at the University.
UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK
ul. M. Skłodowskiej-Curie 14
15-097 Białystok
Rector’s office:
tel. 85 745 70 01, fax 85 744 77 49
[email protected]
Head office:
tel. 85 745 70 00, fax 85 745 70 73
[email protected]
www.uwb.edu.pl
In 2010 and 2011 the University of Bialystok was ranked third in
the competition “The most innovative and creative institution
of higher education in Poland”. In 2011 the UwB was awarded
the certificate “University of Leaders” by the Foundation for
the Development of Education and Higher Learning. The competition promotes institutions of higher learning which invest
in the job market-oriented education and care about the practical education of students. Moreover, a lot of academic teachers and students may boast individual prizes and distinctions.
In recognition of great merits in the field of science as well as
social and political life, the University granted the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to ten eminent personalities including: Ryszard Kaczorowski, Jerzy Giedroyć, prof. Andrzej Stelmachowski,
prof. Andrzej Wyczański, Metropolitan Sawa, prof. Marcel Morabito, Białystok Metopolitan prof. Edward Ozorowski, prof. Keiichi
Yamanaka, prof. dr. hab. Brunon Hołyst and prof. dr. hab. Jerzy
Wilkin.
Mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology are essential for knowing the
rational Truth - the Truth about Life and Universe. The idea of their interpenetration and creation of Synthesis is the imperative of the 21st century. It is
suggested that the construction of the above-mentioned science departments and institutions buildings be subjected to this idea. The four streets of
Oneness cross to create the square of symbolic Sciences Synthesis.
Four glass entrance portals with diode surfaces and four glass annexes placed at 4.2 m over the ground floor flooring, propped up on thick round glass
cylinders (rust – proof steel structure), create the “information” walls of the
square. On each portal, annexe or signpost information about the events
key to a given scientific field may be projected. In the centre of the concrete
flooring, emphasized by a division, there is shallow water – a puddle with a
huge glass sphere, always kept moving by a stream of water.
The square space seems to flow between the cylinders and escape through
the “closing” gates into the indefiniteness of knowledge about: ....the life of
plants (trees on the building of Science), life of people (Sun Square) and energetics of mechanisms created by them (car park). The Mathematics, Physics
and University Cultural Centre buildings are the beginning of the Sun Square whose a priori glass facade (transparent in the low belt and highly reflective in the upper one) and the model of Solar System remind us of the determined relationships and common Origin of Nature and Culture. The a priori, unified form of Oneness, Synthesis of Sciences Square and Sun Square
streets is juxtaposed with the spontaneously arranged spaces of four yards
whose forms are shaped by room purposes.
Description by prof. Marek Budzyński, Campus Architect
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, ul. M. Skłodowskiej-Curie 14A | 3. INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS, ul. Akademicka 2 | 4. CHAIR OF NEOPHILOLOGY,
ul. Liniarskiego 3 | 5. PHILOLOGICAL FACULTY, FACULTY OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY, ul. Plac Uniwersytecki 1 | 6. ORTHODOX THEOLOGY
CHAIR, ul. Św. Mikołaja 5 | 7. FACULTY OF PHYSICS, ul. Lipowa 41 | 8. STUDENT’S HOUSE NO. 2, ul. Krakowska 9 A | 9. FACULTY OF
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AND MANAGEMENT, ul. Warszawska 63 | 12. CHAIR OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY, ul. Warszawska 50 | 13. FACULTY OF LAW, ul. Mickiewicza 1
| 14. FACULTY OF PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY, ul. Świerkowa 20 | 15. PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS CENTRE, SPORTS HALL,
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| 18. STUDENT’S HOUSE NO. 1, ul. Żeromskiego 1 | 19. STUDENT’S HOUSE NO. 3, ul. Pogodna 1 | 20. INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY, ul. Hurtowa 1
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