Educational Programme

Educational Programme

The fundamental educational aim is to equip the students with a set of skills necessary to identify new, innovative and applicable research problems, and to conduct research according to the highest, international level, with the use of state-of-the-art analytical methods and techniques. Studies at the Doctoral School will enable the students to gain up-to-date, specialist knowledge in the field of exact and natural sciences as well as engineering and technology, and to develop interdisciplinary understanding of the ways in which the environment operates in the context of global climate changes. The School will enable wider dissemination of knowledge and study results within the academia and the society at large.

Education in the IEDS is provided in the disciplines of Mathematics, Earth and related environmental sciences, and Biological sciences  (in the field of Natural Sciences), and Materials Engineering (in the field of Engineering and technology).

Substantive description

Requirements to enter qualification procedure

To enter the qualification procedure, each candidate must:

1. Create a personal account in irk2.us.edu.pl and fill a form containing relevant declarations and consents, information about the scientific discipline or disciplines, ORCID number
2. Submitting through irk2.us.edu.pl the following documents and information: 
• an authorized copy of master’s degree along with the supplement
• curriculum vitae;
• the research proposal with the form
• the list of the scientific achievements and documents certifying the achievements
• other documents specified in the recruitment criteria should be submitted to the IEDS, via polarknow@us.edu.pl within the recruitment schedule
3. Pay the admission fee of 400,00 PLN.

Requirements to admission

Recruitment will be conducted in accordance with the requirements of the Regulations on awarding NCN scholarships in research projects financed by the National Science Center, introduced by the resolution of the Council of the National Science Center No. 25/2019 of 14 March 2019, and in accordance with the rules applicable in this entity. The recruitment committee shall evaluate the candidates’ research achievements, their research-related achievements, and competencies as regards specific tasks in the research project, expressed as a point score:e:

1. The candidate’s research achievements, including publications in prestigious academic press and scientific reports/journals (50% of the final score):

• 4 points – outstanding;
• 3 points – very good;
• 2 points – good;
• 1 points – poor;
• 0 points – no scientific achievements.

2. Research-related achievements, scholarships, awards and research experience gained in Poland or abroad, research workshops and training courses, participation in research projects (20% of the final score):

• 4 points – outstanding (e.g. scholarships, fellowships at leading foreign research centres, prestigious international prizes or awards, workshops or training courses at the leading research centres, participation in international or foreign projects);
• 3 points – significant (scholarships, fellowships at good Polish and foreign research centres, national prizes or awards, domestic or foreign workshops or training courses, participation in Polish or foreign projects);
• 2 points – moderate (local prizes or awards, workshops or training courses, participation in university projects);
• 1 point – poor achievements;
• 0 points – no achievements.

3. The candidate’s competence to carry out specific tasks in the research project (30% of the final score):

• 3 points – very good;
• 2 points – good;
• 1 point – poor;
• 0 points – no competence.

Schedule

• July 17, 2024 — opening online registration for candidates in OAS (https://irk2.us.edu.pl/en-gb/).
• August 23, 2024 — closing of the registration of candidates in IRK, up to this date the candidate must creating an account in the IRK online recruitment system, paying the recruitment fee (the date of transfer is decisive) and entering the required information and documents.
• August 26-30, 2024 - assessment of doctoral project outlines and assessment of candidates' scientific achievements by the recruitment committee.
• September 2, 2024 - notifying to candidates via e-mail about the date and place of interviews to the e-mail addresses provided in the IRK system.
• September 4-6, 2024 - interviews with candidates.
• September 9, 2024 - notification of candidates about the recruitment results.
• September 10-13, 2024 - submitting the required documents by candidates qualified for admission and enrolment on the list of PhD students..
• September 16, 2024 - notifying candidates on the reserve list about their eligibility for admission.
• September 17-20, 2024 - submitting the required documents from candidates qualified for admission by the reserve list and enrolment on the list of PhD students.
• September 30, 2024 - deadline for publication of the results of the admission procedure on the IEDS website.

Scholarship

The amount of the stipend is 5000 PLN gross for the first 42 months of training in the doctoral school will be financed from the funds for the project 2023/50/E/ST10/00432 entitled Improving the palaeoseismological record by multi-method analysis of cave deformation tested in different Hellenid tectonic regimes, directed by Dr. Jacek Szczygiel, Prof. UŚ, and consists of a doctoral stipend in accordance with Art. 209 of the Law on Higher Education and Science of 20 July 2018 and a research stipend.

In the remaining 6 months of training at the doctoral school, a doctoral student without a doctoral degree shall receive a doctoral scholarship in accordance with Art. 209 of the Act of 20 July 2018. Law on Higher Education and Science.