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Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences

1st year 2025/2026 formalities

Dear Doctoral Students,

we welcome you among the doctoral students of the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences (SDNSP).

Inauguration
We kindly invite you for the ceremony of the Inauguration of the Academic Year 2025/2026 in the Doctoral Schools which will take place on Friday the 3th October at 2 p.m. in the Old Library Hall at Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28. Inauguration lecture “Interdyscyplinarność a dobre życie” will be given by dr Ivan Dimitrijević („Artes Liberales” Faculty).

With regard to the beginning of your education in our Doctoral School, it is necessary to complete certain formalities (details below).

Oath
According to the School’s Regulations, you acquire your rights as a doctoral student when you take the following oath:

“I solemnly swear that I will persistently pursue the acquisition of knowledge and the development of my personality, that I will respect academic laws and customs, and that I will take care of the dignity and honour of a doctoral student at the University of Warsaw with my entire conduct”.

According to the decision of the Director of SDNSP, prof. Michał K. Cyrański, the date for taking the oath is 1 October 2025. Taking the oath must be confirmed in the USOSweb system (screen available after logging in) between 1 and 31 October 2025. In the event of failure to take the oath the doctoral student may be removed from the list of doctoral students.

Doctoral Students’ ID CARDS
You can collect your ID cards in the Doctoral School’s office.

Medical Examination
In accordance with the Minister of Health Regulation (Official Journal of Laws of 2019, item 1651) doctoral students of the doctoral schools shall undergo periodic medical examination.

For that purpose you should:

  1. Collect the referral for medical examination at the Doctoral School Secretary’s Office.
  2. If necessary, make an appointment with your supervisor in order to obtain the list of factors harmful to your health on your referral.
  3. Schedule a visit at Centermed (a health centre) (referral is valid for 3 months from the date of issue, which means that you have to come to the clinic with the referral during this time).
  4. Submit a certificate issued by a Centermed doctor to the Doctoral School Secretary’s Office (or send a scan to szkola.nsip@uw.edu.pl).

ORCID
As a doctoral student you need to have an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). ORCID allows you to be identified, e.g. in the case of scientific publications. Please generate your number at:[LINK].

Email address registered in the domain uw.edu.pl
We would like to remind you that according to the UW Rector’s Order No. 279 of 10 December 2020 on electronic mail of the University of Warsaw:

Every employee, doctoral student and student of the University is obliged to possess and use University electronic mail on an ongoing basis, including receiving messages. In matters related to the University’s business where the use of electronic mail is necessary, users are required to use only University electronic mail. Correspondence of an employee, student or doctoral student of the University sent from an electronic address other than the University electronic mail shall be left unacknowledged.

Doctoral students who already have an address in the @student.uw.edu.pl domain do not have to set a new account. Nevertheless, if you do wish to possess an acount in the @uw.edu.pl domain you should visit the website: LINK. Please send information about your email address in the UW domain to: szkola.nsip@uw.edu.pl.

Information on creating an account can be found here: LINK.

At the same time, we would like to inform you that the e-mail address intended for you to contact the School staff is szkola.nsip@uw.edu.pl.

Scholarship
The doctoral scholarship amounts to 4242 PLN gross (about 3764 PLN net). It is paid app. on the 17th of each month. The first payment in the new academic year is scheduled for 17 October 2025. The doctoral scholarship shall be paid upon submission by the doctoral student of a declaration that they do not hold a doctoral degree, together with indication of an individual bank account in PLN to which the doctoral scholarship shall be transferred. You are asked to sign it during your visit to the secretary’s office.

USOS
Your data has already been entered to the USOS system. First-time doctoral students students at the University of Warsaw log in using their IRK system password. In case of difficulties with logging in (the need to change the password) please contact the Office.

USOSweb: LINK.

1 year classes
Collective information on the programme of study:

New programme of study – short version LINK
Programme of study M.2023.17.U.211 (uw.edu.pl)

The entry concerning the classes (“News” section): LINK

Website
We encourage you to follow our website https://szkolydoktorskie.uw.edu.pl/en/sdnsip-2/ regularly, where we publish all the necessary information about education at the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences.

Appointment Calendar:  SDNSP Calendar