The Ministry of Science and Higher Education in cooperation with the National Center for Research and Development since 2017 runs one of the largest projects on higher education “University Integrated Programs”. A PLN billion was allocated for this purpose. The competition is implemented as part of three paths adapted to the size and potential of the university.

As part of the “Integrated University Programs” Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin handed symbolic checks to the Rectors of seven public universities in Krakow: Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Academy of Physical Education, Academy of Fine Arts, Jagiellonian University, Pedagogical University, University of Agriculture and Cracow University of Technology. In total, they received over PLN 121 million.

The two paths of the program are addressed to the largest universities and public and non-public high schools and PLN 605 million were distributed within these paths.

In March 2018, a competition under the first program path will be settled, where public and non-public institutions could participate if they educate at least 200 people and obtain a positive evaluation of the education of the State Accreditation Committee.
The aim of the “Integrated University Programs” project is to increase teaching excellence, improve cooperation between science and business, increase internationalization and change the organizational structure.

– These goals may result from specific developmental needs, may be a response to deficits that have been exposed by the new algorithm, may also help individual universities to position themselves in the context of the Act on Science and Higher Education, – emphasized Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin in May 2017, when he announced the start of the program.