According to a report by the Łukasiewicz Research Network, the Silesian University of Technology, with more than 270 implementation doctorates, is ranked first in the country. The sixth programme is in progress and the first doctoral students have already defended their dissertations.

The aim and assumption of the implementation doctorate programme is to create conditions for the development of cooperation between institutions of higher education, science and the socio-economic environment, carried out within the framework of doctoral schools. The programme consists of training doctoral students in cooperation with the entrepreneurs or other entities that employ them. The results are technological implementations developed by doctoral students.

So far, 66 universities from 21 Polish cities have participated in the programme. The majority of implementation doctorates (63.7 %) concern engineering and technical sciences. At the Silesian University of Technology, implementation doctorates are carried out in almost all scientific disciplines and account for around 40 % of all doctorates.

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