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Polish Academy of Sciences
Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) is a corporation of eminent scientists and plays the role of a research organization composed of 76 research institutes. 54 Members of PAS residing in Krakow form the Krakow Branch of PAS, where 11 research institutes and 13 research laboratories are located. These institutes employ more than 200 professors and about 2000 researchers. They represent sciences but also other disciplines like Institute of Botany, founded by Professor Szafer, the international authority in this field, who started a collection of plants’ specimen, now one of the largest in Europe, or Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals with rich zoological museum.
Krakow is one of the leading centres of teaching and learning, and is also the place of many different cultural activities. The role of PAS Krakow Branch is to stimulate new research activities and to serve as a platform for scientific discussions and exchange of ideas between scholars employed in many universities and research institutions situated in Krakow. These activities are run by scientific commissions of PAS, in which more than 1200 scholars participate and whose main task is integration of the Krakow scientific community and active promotion of interdisciplinary approach.
At present 32 commissions are working, representing following disciplines: archeology, ethnography, history, literature, economy and statistics, organization and management, pedagogics, slavistic studies, biology, building trade, electrical engineering, informatics and automatics, applied mechanics, metallurgy and foundry, ceramics, motorization, town planning and architecture, rural infrastructure, agriculture and forestry, history and philosophy of medicine, medical sciences, geodesy and environmental engineering, water management, geography, geology, mineralogy, ergonomics, social health, physical geography.
Commissions organize sessions and conferences to report and discuss the results of studies, which are then published in the journals edited by PAS Krakow Branch. As result of activities of Geographic Commission atlases of provinces of Krakow, Bielsko and Tarnów were printed and serve as a source of information for provincial administration. This commission initiated also a long term studies of the geographic environment of the City of Krakow and its socioeconomic problems. A publication was printed describing the transformations of natural environment and problems of development of the City of Krakow after 2nd World war. A study was also published on demographic and socioeconomic problems of Krakow province in the new administrative structure of Poland. Conclusions of the analysis of town-planning and architecture of Krakow, the revalorization of its architectural monuments, landscape planning, design of parks and gardens, were published in the “Files of Town –planning and Architecture” At present PAS Krakow Branch publishes about 20 periodicals and proceedings of the conferences organized by commissions. It is also the editor of a number of journals which have a broad international readership.
The PAS Krakow Branch is located in a 15th century house in the centre of the city and owns a conference centre in Mogilany, an old mansion with renaissance garden in the outskirts of the city.
Krakow is one of the leading centres of teaching and learning, and is also the place of many different cultural activities. The role of PAS Krakow Branch is to stimulate new research activities and to serve as a platform for scientific discussions and exchange of ideas between scholars employed in many universities and research institutions situated in Krakow. These activities are run by scientific commissions of PAS, in which more than 1200 scholars participate and whose main task is integration of the Krakow scientific community and active promotion of interdisciplinary approach.
At present 32 commissions are working, representing following disciplines: archeology, ethnography, history, literature, economy and statistics, organization and management, pedagogics, slavistic studies, biology, building trade, electrical engineering, informatics and automatics, applied mechanics, metallurgy and foundry, ceramics, motorization, town planning and architecture, rural infrastructure, agriculture and forestry, history and philosophy of medicine, medical sciences, geodesy and environmental engineering, water management, geography, geology, mineralogy, ergonomics, social health, physical geography.
Commissions organize sessions and conferences to report and discuss the results of studies, which are then published in the journals edited by PAS Krakow Branch. As result of activities of Geographic Commission atlases of provinces of Krakow, Bielsko and Tarnów were printed and serve as a source of information for provincial administration. This commission initiated also a long term studies of the geographic environment of the City of Krakow and its socioeconomic problems. A publication was printed describing the transformations of natural environment and problems of development of the City of Krakow after 2nd World war. A study was also published on demographic and socioeconomic problems of Krakow province in the new administrative structure of Poland. Conclusions of the analysis of town-planning and architecture of Krakow, the revalorization of its architectural monuments, landscape planning, design of parks and gardens, were published in the “Files of Town –planning and Architecture” At present PAS Krakow Branch publishes about 20 periodicals and proceedings of the conferences organized by commissions. It is also the editor of a number of journals which have a broad international readership.
The PAS Krakow Branch is located in a 15th century house in the centre of the city and owns a conference centre in Mogilany, an old mansion with renaissance garden in the outskirts of the city.
Information published at 26 May 2008
