Scientific Activities

IPPT PAN being fully aware of the mutual opportunities and benefits resulting from the cooperation with other scientific institutions, concentrates its activity on establishing and strengthening ties between the Institute and Polish and foreign scientific communities. IPPT PAN partners with national and international institutions (including universities), research and development centres, organizations. The cooperation takes many different paths – we work under cooperation contracts, create consortiums, offer consulting services, provide expertise opinions, commissioned research, laboratorial testing, we also work under publications, patents, we educate and popularize science.

IPPT PAN scientific cooperation is aimed at the development of science, research, education, promotion of science and integration of the scientific community - all leading to the development of economy and industry. Integrated forces of individual achievements and competences of our partners provide the basis for attractive and innovative solutions and consequently lead to their implementation. This, in turn, increases the effectiveness in the use of public funds allocated to science.

IPPT PAN scientists receive and accept numerous invitations from foreign scientific institutions and they are guest-speakers at numerous seminars. Thus, the scientific cooperation often takes an informal and personal form. It is worth noting that a lot of valuable findings emerge as a result of such informal cooperation, without any biding contract.

Membership in famous Polish and foreign scientific associations and organizing committees of the most important world congresses and conferences, as well as their prestigious awards, reflects well on the recognition of our scientists’ academic achievements.

Cooperation – foreign scientific visitors at IPPT PAN

The inseparable part of the Institute’s strategy and internationalization is inviting academics from various scientific centres abroad. The aim of organising visits at IPPT PAN is to facilitate the exchange of scientific ideas, development of joint research, and they also help to deepen studies on particular research areas. The visits also facilitate cooperation on granted projects or publications and they enable academics to organize lectures, seminars, to develop experimental techniques, access laboratory apparatuses and our library resources.

Every year, our Institute is visited by dozens of foreign guests, many of whom are outstanding scientists of the most prestigious science centres from around the world. The Institute promotes such visits further, among its Polish scientific partners, so that the knowledge and experience of IPPT PAN renown visitors can parallelly serve researchers from other academic institutions, which, in turn, fosters the integration of the Polish scientific community.

Scientific visits at IPPT PAN are organized under:

• bilateral agreements,
• international research programmes, including those offered by the European Commission,
• international exchange programmes for students and researchers, such as NAWA, ERASMUS+, etc.
• scholarships and fellowships
• personal invitations

Selected programs:

• CANALETTO
• ITHAKA. The partnership brings together a total of 14 institutions from 7 countries from 3 continents:

The cooperation is based on existing scientific agreements with foreign institutions and other units with which we aim to extend the scope of our research. Funds for financing the projects have been granted to our Institute by the National Agency for Academic Exchange, as part of competitions in the International Academic Partnerships program. More: IPPT in the International Academic Partnerships program.

Selected visits:

• Professor Howard A. Stone has visited IPPT PAN
• Professor Alexander L. Yarin visiting IPPT PAN
• Prof. Felix Unger has visited IPPT PAN