PAS Scientific Centre in Vienna

Tasks

The tasks of the Centre are carried out in particular through the organisation of international conferences, lecture series and symposia, as well as the initiation and conduct of Polish-Austrian and pan-European research projects. A broad spectrum of sciences is represented at the Centre. Individual scientific lectures, cultural events and exhibitions are also offered.

Research

Currently, the Centre promotes research on multiculturalism, historical policy in Galicia and methods of historical transmission, especially in the context of younger audiences. In addition, in cooperation with the Lanckoroński Foundation, it implements the project ‘Young Researchers Take the Lead’ by hosting Lanckoroński programme grantees and providing them with a space to conduct and present their research to an Austrian audience both in the form of lectures at the Centre and the recording of short films promoting their work.

Other projects

The station also runs its own YouTube channel, where it makes available lectures, webinars and episodes of the science podcast ‘Struck by Science’, in which scientists from Austria and Poland are interviewed. The Vienna unit publishes numerous publications, either independently or in collaboration with partners and renowned scientific publishers. Among other things, it publishes materials from conferences and symposia, publications resulting from research projects and scientific papers from the publication series ‘PAN@Wien Working Papers’. In addition, in cooperation with the Historical Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin, the Centre publishes master theses honoured in the competition for the Scientific Prize of the Polish Ambassador in Berlin as part of the series ‘Berliner-Wiener Arbeitspapiere zu Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften’. It also has a library of approximately 16,000 volumes.