University of Warsaw

University of Warsaw, the Project leader, is one of the biggest and best higher education institutions in Poland. It is one of Poland’s biggest employers with more than 7 thousand employees, including almost 4 thousand academic teachers, it has nearly 50 thousand students and more than 3 thousand postgraduate students. The University of Warsaw is engaged in more than 1500 research projects funded from national and international grant programmes, including the most prestigious ERC grants.

The University takes care to engage in scientific cooperation with the industrial and business world - for instance, through its Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer, which works to facilitate commercialisation of scientific research results. University of Warsaw has carried out one of the largest commercialisation of scientific research in Poland - the value of contracts executed exceeded USD 600 million (the team, consisting, among others, of employees of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, was awarded the Commercial Prize of the President of the Republic of Poland for this achievement). Every year, employees of the University of Warsaw submit several dozen patent applications.

  • In international rankings, the University of Warsaw usually occupies the highest positions among all Polish universities, and in the best-known Shanghai Ranking, it has been ranked first among Poland’s educational institutions for years. One of the factors, which contribute to such high ranking position of the University of Warsaw is the strong publication record of the Faculty of Physics, which is to house the research infrastructure developed as a result of the NLPQT project: in the recent years, the Faculty employees have published 600 to 700 original scientific reports annually. This reflects the truly global level of research conducted and its related directly to the exceptionally high level of competences of the Faculty staff. In the most recent institutional assessment of the State Accreditation Committee (2012), the Faculty received a distinguishing mark, and in the assessment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2017), it achieved the highest category A+. Currently, the Faculty is in the course of implementation of almost 120 research and development projects.