AKADEMIA WSB

description of organisation

WSB University (WSB) is a private (non-profit) HEI operated on Polish market since 1995. According to national rank, WSB is 1st private Polish university outside Warsaw. WSB has 5 branches in South Poland (in Cracow and on Polish-Czech-Slovak border). WSB teaches around 10 000 students from 80 countries on BA, MA and PhD programmes. In the framework of various forms of the non-formal training, it educates 4000 people.

Main disciplines of research and education:
• Management and Economics,
• Education (Pedagogy),
• Security,
• Engineering (ICT included),
• Health Sciences.

Main fields of activities:
• Social and Educational Innovations,
• Sustainable Development,
• Security,
• Responsible Citizneship.

WSB works in wide international networks of clusters, enterprises, HEIs, research centers, NGOs, local authorities, schools and innovative communities as makerspaces or hubs.

WSB runs:
• Social Innovation HUB,
• Academic Career Office,
• School of Foreign Languages,
• Children's Universities,
• Third Age Universities,
• Research Institute on Territorial and Inter-Organizational Cooperation,
• Centre for Quality and Innovation,
• Technology Transfer Center,
• Center of Modern Methods and Technologies,
• Science Development Department,
• The United Nations Club and more.

Target groups of WSB activities are:
-Students,
- Local communities,
- Polish, Czech and Slovak citizens,
- People with fewer opportunities,
- Seniors,
- Children,
- Ukrainian Migrants.