Materials Research in Poland

K.J.KurzydLowski
Warsaw University of Technology, Deputy Chairman of the State
Committee for Scientific Research, Warsaw University of Technology,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 02-504 Warszawa,
Woloska 141, e-mail kjk@inmat.pw.edu.pl

Abstract
Research in materials science in Poland is curried out in a number of
institutes and universities. All research institutions in Poland are
evaluated every four years by the State Committee for Scientific
Research, KBN, which is a major research funding agency in Poland. The
recent evaluation exercise took place at the end of 2001. This
exercise has been carried out separately by 13 sub-committees, each of
them evaluating a specific field of science. The Materials Engineering
and Technology sub-committee reviewed over 40 research organizations
with majority representing research institutes supervised by the
Ministry of Economy. Out of these, 7 were ranked into the first
category - three industrial research institutes, one institute of the
Polish Academy of Sciences and three university departments.