Przemysław Czarnek, the head of the Ministry of Education and Science emphasized: “We have achieved what many Poles had thought about for decades: an elite university, the Copernican Academy”. President Andrzej Duda signed the act establishing the Academy.

The goal of the Copernican Academy is to increase the competitiveness and recognition of Polish science in the world. The Academy will implement a program covering financing research, including awarding Copernican scholarships, Nicolaus Copernicus grants, supporting the Nicolaus Copernicus School, awarding Copernican awards and appointing ambassadors of the Copernican Academy.

“This is also a place where we will train future Polish elites as part of the Copernican School in the most vital areas and within such an elite system. We need elites, we need elite education, and that is what the Copernican Academy was designed for. It is also a platform for financing various research, for granting young scientists not only from Poland, but also from the Three Seas region as a part of joint research that we can conduct”, said the head of MEiN.

Together and structurally related to the Academy, the Nicolaus Copernicus Main School will be established. The institution will integrate functioning of the College of Astronomy and Life Sciences in Toruń, the College of Medical Sciences in Olsztyn, the College of Economics and Management in Warsaw, the College of Philosophy and Theology in Krakow and the College of Legal Sciences in Lublin.

Minister Czarnek noted that foreign scientists will be invited to six chambers (Astronomy and Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Medical Sciences, Economic Sciences and Management, Philosophy and Theology, the Chamber of Legal Sciences and the Chamber of Copernican Prize Laureates) operating within the Academy.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński