Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin has signed a regulation on scientific disciplines. Among 44 scientific and 3 artistic disiciplines, astronomy was also included.

Although astronomy was included in physical sciences in the OECD classification that we used as a model, we decided to meet the demands of the academic community – said Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin. At no stage, let alone at the stage of implementing the Constitution for Science and the publication of subsequent executive acts, we do not forget about scientists for whom, but also with whom we are realizing this reform of higher education and science in Poland – he added.

According to the Ministry of Science, the new division of disciplines was developed primarily for the needs of conducting a fair assessment of the quality of scientific activities. Until now, within the evaluation, mainly faculties have been set up for assessment. Usually, they were not comparable in terms of the scope of the research. Evaluation in the new system is subject to scientific activity of the entire university in particular disciplines.