Until 2023, National Agency for Academic Exchange will finance projects under the STER 2020 to strengthen the internationalization of doctoral schools.

Interdisciplinary doctoral schools, which replaced doctoral studies, have been operating in higher education since the previous academic year. One of the aspects of their activity include foreign contacts. The “STER – Internationalization of doctoral schools” program is addressed to units that run such schools.

Projects selected under the 2020 call for proposals for the STER program will be implemented by the end of December 2023. This year’s beneficiaries of the program include: Jagiellonian University in Kraków, University of Wrocław, AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Gdańsk University of Technology, Łódź University of Technology, Silesian University of Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the Medical University of Poznań and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Their projects will be co-financed in the total amount of approx. PLN 20 million.