Objectives

1. Specific objectives for increasing the impact of the university’s research activity on the development of world science, especially in priority research areas with high development potential, in which the university plans to intensify its research activity.

• Integration of research within priority research areas.
• The increased research activity of the University’s academics and doctoral students.
• Increasing the count of publications in prestigious journals and their citation index, especially in priority research areas.
• Fostering innovation and technology transfer mechanisms.
• Increasing WUT’s participation in research grant programmes, especially international EU programmes.

2. Specific objectives for enhancing research collaboration with research institutions of high international reputation, especially in priority research areas.

• Strengthening WUT’s integration with top European HEIs.
• Increased international research exchange.
• Improvement of WUT’s international recognisability.

3. Specific objectives for improving quality of education provision for students and doctoral training, especially in fields of study and disciplines of science related to priority research areas, taking into account the need to include students and doctoral candidates in research activities and the need to compete effectively for the most talented applicants, including foreign ones, to study programmes and to doctoral schools. The objectives should also take into account the implementation of a talent management system.

• Adjustment of the education system to the model type for a research university.
• Increasing the level of internationalisation of education.
• Enhancement of the quality of doctoral education.

4. Specific objectives for devising and implementing comprehensive solutions for the professional development of the university’s staff, especially young scientists, in the meaning of Article 360(2) of the Law of 20 July 2018 on Higher Education and Science.

• Enhancing staff competences in terms of providing scientific supervision, innovative teaching and effective management.
• Making academic careers more attractive.

5. Specific objectives for improving the quality of university governance and management, including quality enhancing organisational changes.

• Strategic and organisational transformation in order to assist Excellence Strategy/ POBs.
• Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of administrative processes.