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CESAER meeting at the Warsaw University of Technology
On March 19, 2024, a meeting was held at the Warsaw University of Technology's expert group of CESAER ('Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research')
The meeting was chaired by Prof. Mariusz Malinowski - Vice-Rector for Research of the Warsaw University of Technology. During the meeting, WUT representatives involved in the work of CESAER association task forces summarised their activities over the past year and presented recommendations for further actions. The meeting was attended by Prof. Renata Walczak - Vice-Rector for the WUT Branch in Plock and WUT representative in the Human Resources Task Force as well as representatives of 7 other CESAER task forces: Prof. Mirosław Szyłak-Szydłowski - Task Force Sustainability, Dr. Krzysztof Bakuła and Małgorzata Płaszczyca - Task Force Benchmark, Prof. Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk - Task Force Innovation, Prof. Przemysław Kupidura - Task Force Learning and Teaching, Dr. Bartłomiej Skowron - Task Force Openness of Science & Technology, Prof. Robert Zajdler and Grzegorz Robak, Director of the Center for International Cooperation - Task Force Sustainable Funding, Anna Smulska - Task Force Institutional Liaison.
During the meeting, the experts discussed the main directions of the CI's activities in the CESAER project for 2024-2025, including issues such as:
- New European Bauhaus,
- introduction, together with COARA, of standards for evaluating the work of scientists,
- staff training,
- cooperation between CESAER universities in developing research, teaching and administrative staff,
- research on various applications of new key technologies, especially artificial intelligence,
- supporting the development of sustainable (regional) innovation ecosystems in and around S&T universities, including the impact on industry, and supporting European innovation policies, strategies (especially vis-à-vis EU institutions) and EU funding instruments,
- cooperation with ranking agencies,
- sustainability in teaching,
- open science and citizen science,
- strengthening cooperation with other universities in CESAER,
- supporting student and academic exchanges,
- supporting and collaborating in the development of interdisciplinary learning
The meeting also discussed key issues regarding the creation of the CESAER 2025+ strategy in the context of the planned PW activities and the organization of the CESAER 2025 Annual Meeting and the "Sustainable Funding" Task Force Meeting to be held in Warsaw in 2025.
The CESAER Association was established in 1990 and currently unites 58 leading universities, mainly polytechnics. Warsaw University of Technology has been a member of the association since 2005 as one of three Polish member universities. CESAER operates through working groups (task forces) that identify common problems, involve representatives of partner universities in the association's activities, facilitate the exchange of good practices and develop recommendations for the European Commission.
We encourage you to read an interview with Prof. Sylwia Sysko-Romanchuk, professor at the Faculty of Management of the Warsaw University of Technology, who has been an active member of the CESAER’s Task Force Innovation since 2020: HERE.
