1. University of Silesia in Katowice www.us.edu.pl

2. University of Silesia in Katowice Poland Upper Silesia 6 cities of the region: Katowice, Sosnowiec, Cieszyn, Chorzów, Rybnik, Jastrzębie Zdrój Poland Upper Silesia region Jastrzębie Zdrój

3. www.us.edu.pl University of Silesia in Katowice one of the largest universities in Poland almost 40,000 intramural and extramural students, postgraduate and PhD students undertaking 47 undergraduate and postgraduate courses, with almost 130 majors (all courses recognized by the European Credit Transfer and Acceptance System (ECTS)) over 2,000 research workers

4. www.us.edu.pl University of Silesia in Katowice Faculties & interdisciplinary units 1.Faculty of Fine Arts and Music 2.Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection 3.Faculty of Computer Science and Materials Science 4.Faculty of Earth Sciences 5.Faculty of Ethnology and Educational Studies 6.Faculty of Law and Administration 7.Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 8.Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology 9.Faculty of Philology 10.Faculty of Radio and Television 11.Faculty of Social Sciences 12.Faculty of Theology 13.Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities 14.Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences 15.International School of Political Science 16.School of Management 17.School of Polish Language and Culture

5. www.us.edu.pl University of Silesia in Katowice Fields of study Bachelor’s degree & Master’s degree programmes Postgraduate and Doctoral studies Administration Biology Biotechnology Chemistry Fine arts education Music education Education in technology and informatics Econophysics Ethnology Philology (Classics, English, German, Polish, Roman, Slavic, East Slavic) Philosophy Physics Medical Physics Geography Geology Geophysics Graphics History History of Art Library and Information Science Computer Science Computer Science Engineering Biomedical Engineering Materials Engineering Cultural Studies Mathematics Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities Inter-Faculty Studies Programme in Mathematics and Natural Sciences Family Studies Environmental Protection Film and Television Production Pedagogy Political Sciences Social Work Law Psychology Cinematography, Directing and Art Photography Film and Television Directing Sociology Theology Management

6. www.us.edu.pl University of Silesia in Katowice Internationalization - a priority for the University of Silesia active cooperation with international institutions bilateral agreements on academic and research cooperation with universities from approximately 40 countries participation in international education and research projects

7. University of Silesia FACULTY OF EARTH SCIENCES www.wnoz.us.edu.pl/

8. University of Silesia FACULTY OF EARTH SCIENCES www.wnoz.us.edu.pl/

9. University of Silesia FACULTY OF EARTH SCIENCES GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF GEOCHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY AND PETROGRAPHY www.kgmip.wnoz.us.edu.pl/ GEOGRAPHY GEOPHYSICS Research activities: ● mineralogy and petrography of the Tatra Mts, Sudety Mts, and Upper Silesia ● radioactive minerals as analogues for the radioactive waste forms ● physics of minerals ● organic matter and trace elements in minerals and rocks ● mineralogy of atmospheric dust from Upper Silesia

10. University of Silesia FACULTY OF EARTH SCIENCES GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL GEOLOGY http://kgp.wnoz.us.edu.pl/ Research activities: ● geodynamics of platforms in Poland and in neighbouring countries ● the Quaternary paleomorphology of central Poland ● dynamics of clastic and carbonate sedimentation ● geotectonics and exodynamics

11. University of Silesia FACULTY OF EARTH SCIENCES GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED GEOLOGY http://kgs.wnoz.us.edu.pl/ Research activities: ● prospecting, investigation and documentation of deposits ● protection of deposits and environment in mining areas ● tectonophysics and investigation of the processes of rocks destruction ● mining seismology, seismoacoustics and microseismology ● geophysical investigation of pollutant migration in groundwater and soil ● application of geophysics to archeology

12. University of Silesia FACULTY OF EARTH SCIENCES GEOLOGY OTHER INDEPENDENT UNITS SECTION OF HYDROGEOLOGY AND ENGINEERING GEOLOGY http://khgi.wnoz.us.edu.pl/ Research activities: ● hydrogeological and sozological mapping ● management of groundwater resources in mining areas ● protection and monitoring of grounwater quality in Upper Silesia ● regional hydrogeological characterisation of the Upper Silesia massif ● hydrochemical zonation in sedimentary basins

13. University of Silesia FACULTY OF EARTH SCIENCES GEOLOGY SECTION OF STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEONTOLOGY http://www.zsp.wnoz.us.edu.pl/ Research activities: ● Late Paleozoic miospores and acritarchs in Poland ● palynological studies in the Upper Silesia area ● faunal successions in Devonian, Carboniferous and Triassic of southern Poland ● taxonomy of selected groups of fossils (conodonts, brachiopods, corals, ammonites, gastropods, echinoderms) ● paleoecology and biogeography of faunal communities in Paleozoic and Mesozoic, mostly in Devonian and Cretaceous ● integrated ecosystem analysis of geological events, as exemplified by late Devonian mass extinction

14. University of Silesia FACULTY OF EARTH SCIENCES Research projects:  Ground Coupled Heat Pumps of High Technology (GROUNDHIT) – 5 EU Framework Programme; realization period: 2003-2008; US – partner;  Redevelopment of European Mining Areas into Sustainable Communities by Integrating Supply and Demand Side based on Low Exergy Principles (REMINING-LOWEX) – 6 EU FP; realization period: 2007-2012; US – partner;  Governance of Shrinkage within a European Context (SHRINK SMART) – 7 EU FP; realization period: 2009-2012; US – partner;  Projections of the Cryospheric Contribution to Sea-level Rise (ice2sea) – 7 EU FP; realization period: 2008-2012; US – partner;

15. University of Silesia FACULTY OF EARTH SCIENCES  Hypogene Caves Morphology – Europe/Australia Comparison (HYPOCAVE) – 7 EU FP; realization period: 2010-2013; US – coordinator;  Improvement of Coal Carbonization through the Optimization of Fuel in Coking Coal Blends (RATIO-COAL) – The Research Fund for Coal and Steel; realization period: 2010-2013; US – coordinator;  Innovative Carbon Products for Substituting Coke on BF Operation (INNOCARB) – The Research Fund for Coal and Steel; realization period: 2010-2013; US – partner.

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