Basic information

• This call offers two summer/winter school for doctoral students of the Doctoral School of Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST) in summer semester 2021/2022.
• Summer/winter school should include 30 hours of lectures in English given by 5 foreign lecturers and each lecturer should deliver 6 hours of lectures. In addition to 30 hours of lectures, the summer/winter school may include other activities, e.g., a poster session of participants, additional workshops
• The following participants may attend the summer/winter school:
  • up to 20 doctoral students of the WUST Doctoral School;
  • up to 20 doctoral students from outside the WUST Doctoral School.
• Participants of the summer/winter school will not be charged for attendance. Participants from outside WUST must pay their travel and accommodation costs themselves.
• Financial support for the organisation of a summer/winter school includes:
  • Remuneration for the lecturer for preparing and delivering a 6-hour lecture as part of the summer/winter school in the amount of PLN 9 000 (PLN 1 500 per one hour of course). The amount of remuneration is reduced in accordance with applicable law (i.e. taxes) and the regulations of WUST.
  • Funds for providing the catering for school participants (coffee break and lunch each day, one gala dinner).
• The application should be submitted by an employee of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology referred to as the “school chair”.
• The School Chair:
  • supports the Dean's Office of the Doctoral School in contacts with the lecturers;
  • is responsible for booking the appropriate lecture rooms or in the case of online lectures providing links and technical information enabling participation in the lectures;
  • is responsible for the preparation and maintenance of the summer/winter school website;
  • is responsible for the recruitment of school participants in accordance with the rules developed by the Doctoral School Council and available on the InterDocSchool website.
• The school chair or another person indicated by him/her, hereinafter referred to as the attendant, is responsible for assisting the lecturers during their stay at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. After the school is completed, the attendant obtains his remuneration. The amount of remuneration for the attendant for assisting one lecturer is PLN 800 (gross/gross salary).
• The application submission deadline is 20 December 2021.

More details can be found in the regulations (English, Polish).

Submission procedure

The application with required attachments should be sent by head of proposed school to email address: interdocschool@pwr.edu.pl. The application should be sent as two pdf files: one pdf as a scan of the application with the required signatures, and second pdf as the application without signatures. We kindly ask you to send the scan as a pdf file, documents in the form of photos or image files will not be accepted.

The required attachments are (for each lecturer of the summer/winter school):

• CV of the the lecturer.
• The initial declaration stating that the lecturer is ready to elaborate and deliver the lecture during the school.

Deadlines

• The application submission deadline is 20 December 2021.
• Competition results will be announced till 21 January 2021.
• The summer/winter school granted in this call should be conducted in the summer semester 2021/2022, i.e., in period 1 March 2022 – 30 September 2022.

Application evaluation criteria

The applications will be evaluated by a three-person committee consisting of members of the Doctoral School Council. The committee awards points on a scale of 0-10 for each criterion. The final result is a weighted sum taking into account the weights applied to individual criteria. The best applications (with the highest ranking) will be awarded.