Business and Education Forum at the Silesian University of Technology
On May twelfth, 2026, the Business and Education Forum was held at the Student Creativity Centre of the Silesian University of Technology. The occasion introduced collectively representatives of universities, public administration, and enterprises, changing into an area for dialogue about the challenges of the fashionable labour market and the instructions of growth of fashionable schooling.
The point of interest of the discussion board was the dialogue panel “Science – Business – Education,” throughout which contributors debated the have to adapt examine applications to dynamically altering employers’ expectations and on strengthening cooperation between academia and trade.
The panellists included consultants representing the public sector, science, and key enterprises. The following spoke in the debate: Anna Kwaśniewska (Director of the Education Department of the Marshal’s Office of the Silesian Voivodeship), Olga Nowak (Member of the Management Board of DB Cargo Polska S.A.), Zdzisław Mrówka (Director, Intel), Piotr Wojtas (proprietor, CNP-EMAG), Edyta Dziedzic-Mania (Małro Projekt), Dr Eng. Andreas Glenz (President of the Management Board of PREVAC) and representatives of TAURON Dystrybucja S.A. – Dorota Piórkowska and Agnieszka Indyka. The tutorial perspective was offered by Dr Eng. Tomasz Grychowski and Prof. Beata Orlińska, director of the College of Studies at the Silesian University of Technology). The panel was chaired by Iwona Flanczewska-Rogalska, a press officer of the Silesian University of Technology.
During the dialogue, the rising significance of sensible, design and twin schooling was emphasised, which permits college students to achieve skilled expertise already at the stage of research, and even earlier, in main and secondary faculties, the place the shaping of pursuits of younger individuals begins. The panellists identified that engineering pursuits might be inbuilt younger kids, which ends up in better information and interprets into the willingness to undertake technical research in the future.
The talks additionally involved the competences of the future, the have to develop interdisciplinary abilities and construct lasting relations between universities and corporations working in the area. The contributors agreed that shut cooperation between the world of science and enterprise is essential for the efficient preparation of graduates to the challenges of fashionable financial system.
The Forum additionally created a chance to trade experiences and current good practices in the subject of cooperation between enterprises and universities.
Edyta Dziedzic-Mania from Małro Projekt had little question that inviting college students to internships permits an adolescent to realistically put together for future work, familiarizes them with challenges, signifies doable paths of growth in a given occupation.
Zbigniew Mrówka added that the firm, which cooperates with the college, financing laboratories, patronizing fields of examine and profiling topics in order that they train what is required for particular positions in particular corporations, facilitates the course of of buying human sources.
– In 2023, we joined the course of of educating consultants in the subject of electronics and laptop science, and it really works nice. The graduate who involves us has primary information, and doable
deficiencies is ready to rapidly make up for, however we shouldn’t have to show or profile them from scratch.
The occasion highlighted the function of the Silesian University of Technology as a college actively responding to the wants of the socio-economic setting and supporting the growth of competences equivalent to the necessities of the labour market. This includes not solely educating college students but in addition graduates and individuals already current on the labour market who want to teach or change their trade.
– Lifelong studying is now not a forecast, however an actual want. We see from numerous reviews that sure professions will disappear or are already disappearing, new ones will likely be created, and in people who stay, new expertise will likely be required. Therefore, rising one’s competences will likely be vital. As the Silesian University of Technology, we need to be part of on this course of – introduced Prof. Dr Hab. Eng. Anna Chrobok, Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Education at the Silesian University of Technology
Changes in the labour market are brought on by technological progress, digitization, and automation of many industrial processes, but in addition by demographic state of affairs or local weather change. In response to those challenges, first initiatives are created to construct new competences or complement previous ones.
An initiative at the Silesian University of Technology, which is to help individuals of all ages in enhancing their {qualifications}, is to launch the so-called micro-trainings.
– As half of the actions supported by the Poland’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, Silesian University of Technology introduces a brand new customary of schooling in the kind of 14 specialised micro-workshops. This initiative goes past the theoretical framework, providing sensible help in the course of of intensive industrial transformation of the area. The workshops are open – they’re addressed not solely to the tutorial neighborhood, however to all these desirous about enhancing their competences, together with staff of Silesian enterprises. The program covers key points for the fashionable financial system, akin to digital transformation, inexperienced applied sciences, vitality effectivity, innovation administration, and management competences – defined Prof. Dr Hab. Eng. Beata Orlińska, director of the College of Studies at the Silesian University of Technology.
Classes, held in May and June 2026, will likely be carried out in a range of types: from basic lectures and laboratories to inspiring examine visits, with every course overlaying a complete of 15 educating hours. Each course will finish with a particular micro certificates, developed in shut cooperation with regional enterprise.
The Business and Education Forum and the group of trainings are held with the help of the Marshal’s Office of the Silesian Voivodeship as half of the challenge entitled: “Building a system of coordination and monitoring of regional activities for vocational training, higher education and lifelong learning, including adult learning”, applied as half of the funding A3.1.1 of the Poland’s Recovery and Resilience Plan.
– Young individuals, particularly from the so-called Alpha technology, will change professions many instances of their lives. We can not now decide the tempo of these modifications, however lifelong studying will likely be one of the most necessary foundations for the growth and transformation of the area, not solely financial but in addition demographic in the Silesian Voivodeship. That is why we need to work with the Silesian University of Technology in a particular manner and be concerned in
selling schooling at all ages – mentioned Anna Kwaśniewska, Director of the Education Department, Marshal’s Office of the Silesian Voivodeship.
The on-line recruitment course of is simply starting.
The associate of the Education Day of the Silesian University of Technology was the Katowice Special Economic Zone.