The main goal of CB POB Material Science and Engineering is to expand the capacity and increase the scientific potential, scientific level, and research/apparatus facilities of teams conducting research in the areas of POB_TM.

Specific goals

Scientific and research activity

• Raising the level and increasing research and publication activity.
• Adding new topics related to materials technologies and joining interdisciplinary projects to research topics.
• Development of selected research areas: nanomaterials, additive technologies, in particular 3D printing, functional materials, and biomaterials.
• Increasing the number of patented inventions with high application potential.
• Development of research infrastructure and optimisation of its use.
• Development of research potential, including supporting the development of young scientific staff and acquiring the best scientists from Poland and the world.
• Intensification of cooperation/contacts of POB_TM with competent scientific councils of disciplines and doctoral schools.
• Supporting initiatives related to cooperation with industry and intensifying knowledge transfer – science – industry.
• Support for scientific cooperation with foreign countries and scientific exchanges of experience and thought in the international environment.
• Integration of the PW environment, from different faculties, around selected research areas (scientific and informational) – networking of competencies within the POB_TM.

Education

• Popularisation of the subject of POB_TM among students and doctoral students and in society.
• Educating young scientific staff, engaging students in POB projects – building competences.
• Acquiring the most talented candidates for studies and doctoral schools, also from abroad, and developing talent management mechanisms.

Promotion

• Popularisation of scientific achievements outside PW - informing stakeholders about the most important achievements of the university's activities in the field of materials technologies.

Main actions to achieve the goals

Actions providing financial support

• The Visiting Researcher competition. Conducting a competition for the position of researcher for scientists from abroad with extensive achievements to conduct activities related to the preparation of applications in international projects. One-year contract with the possibility of extension.
• Organisation of competitions for research grants, addressed to experienced and young, promising scientists, conducive to initiating high-risk projects with a high degree of originality.
• Organisation of competitions for "small" grants in the area of POB_TM for students, student research groups, and doctoral students.
• Financial support for the purchase of (unique) research equipment needed for work as part of POB_TM.
• Financing promotional activities conducted in the society.
• Supporting the activities of consolidated inter-faculty research centres with the most innovative and future-oriented topics, e.g. 3D printing and nanomaterials.

Activities supporting the exchange of scientific ideas and the promotion of activities of POB_TM

• Scientific seminars on POB_TM delivered by PW employees, scientists from other scientific institutions, including from abroad, and industry representatives, organised jointly with the competent RND and doctoral schools.
• A website where an up-to-date list of activities and achievements of POB_TM will be available.

Organisational support activities

• Support for faculties in launching new programmes of study and specialisations in the fields related to POB_TM.
• Exchange of scientific ideas and critical analysis of ideas and current directions in scientific research between POB_TM and competent RNDs and scientific societies.

Expected outcomes

Scientific and research activity

• Increase in the number of publications in prestigious journals and the number of citations.
• Increasing the number of patents (including international patents).
• Increasing the involvement of young researchers in research.
• Providing PW teams working in the area of POB_TM with new (unique) equipment and increasing the use of PW research equipment by various scientific teams.
• Increasing the recognition and reputation of the university in the field of materials technologies.

Scientific cooperation

• Increase the number of projects with industry and externally funded, including EU projects.
• Integration of the academic community operating in the field of POB_TM and increasing the "critical research mass", also within the framework of the created inter-faculty research centres.
• Increasing the number of scientific contacts and agreements with foreign scientific institutions with knowledge, experience, and/or equipment complementary to PW.
• Increasing the international exchange of scientific staff within the topics of POB_TM, both the number of outgoing and incoming scientists.

Education

• Increasing the number of candidates for PW studies and Doctoral Schools within the topics of POB_TM.
• Raising the awareness of students and doctoral students with the possibility of implementing research projects, diploma and doctoral theses within the POB_TM.