GLOSSARY OF TERMS

the procedure leading to an academic teacher taking up a higher post.

a staff member employed as: a senior certified curator (starszy kustosz dyplomowany), a senior certified documentalist (starszy dokumentalista dyplomowany), a library assistant (asystent biblioteczny), an assistant of scientific documentation and information (asystent dokumentacji i informacji naukowej), a certified curator (kustosz dyplomowany), certified documentalist (dokumentalista dyplomowany), a library adjunct (adiunkt biblioteczny), an adjunct of scientific documentation and information (adiunkt dokumentacji i informacji naukowej). Pursuant to the Act of 3 July 2018 Introductory Provisions of the Act – Law on Higher Education and Science and the provisions of the Statute of the University of Warsaw, the employees employed in the above positions shall remain employed in those positions until 30 September 2020. As of 1 October 2020 they shall become non-academic staff members employed respectively:

• senior certified curator – as a senior academic curator;
• a certified curator, certified library adjunct and a certified library assistant – as an academic curator.

the right to stand for and take office, mandate or function.

the right to vote.

according to § 56 section 1 of the Statute of the University of Warsaw, the persons holding managerial positions at the University are:

• the Vice-Rectors;
• heads of the organisational units of the University (faculties, colleges of studies, college of individual interdisciplinary studies, doctoral schools, university-wide organisational units);
• the deputy Deans for student affairs and the directors for teaching and learning in the case of organisational units of the University if such units organise and provide teaching and learning for students;
• the Chancellor – the head of university-wide administration;
• the Bursar – the chancellor’s deputy and the chief accountant of the University.

hours carried out in excess of the mandatory annual teaching load, for which additional remuneration is due.

a form of establishing the employment relationship with an academic teacher for a fixed or indefinite period of time, applicable until 30 September 2018 (until the Act of 20 July 2018 Law on Higher Education and Science shall enter into force). Employees employed at the University of Warsaw on 1 October 2018 on the basis of appointment remain employed in this form and for the period for which they were hired.

actions or behaviour concerning an employee or directed against an employee, consisting of persistent and long-term harassment or intimidation of an employee, causing an employee to underestimate their professional usefulness, causing or intended to cause humiliation or ridicule of an employee, isolating them or eliminating them from their team of co-workers.

Counteracting mobbing

on the basis of Ordinance No. 49 of the Rector of the University of Warsaw of 14 May 2018 on counteracting mobbing at the University of Warsaw (UW Monitor of 2018, item 140):

• any mobbing in the workplace is prohibited;
• relations between all members of the University of Warsaw community, including superiors and subordinates, shall be based on the principles of respect and tolerance, as well as respect for personal dignity
• heads of organisational units and direct superiors of employees counteract and respond to behaviour that has the features of mobbing;
• unfounded accusations of mobbing are prohibited and may also be the subject of proceedings regulated by this ordinance.

Further information can be found on the website.

an employee working in the research/teaching, research and teaching staff group.

academic teachers shall be subject to periodic review, in particular in respect of the due performance of the duties as referred to in §115 of the Act – Law on Higher Education and Science (shall take into account the review made at least once a year by students and doctoral students of the fulfilment of academic teacher’s obligations related to the teaching and learning process) and their compliance with regulations on copyright and associated rights, as well as on industrial property rights

Academic teachers shall be subject to periodic review:

• carried out at least once every four years;
• or at the Rector’s request;

The criteria for periodic review of particular groups of employees and types of positions, as well as the procedure and body entrusted to carry out the periodic review, shall be determined by the Rector after obtaining the opinion of the Senate, trade unions, student self-government body and doctoral student self-government body.

Types of university authorities:

• collegial bodies: the University Council, Senate, the academic councils of the academic disciplines and the Academic Council of the Areas of Study.
• the Rector: as a single-person authority of the University.
• the Electoral College: as the University’s electoral authority.

the mandatory annual teaching load of an academic teacher employed as a research/teaching staff member or a teaching staff member, determined proportionally to the working time (full-time employment). The annual teaching load of an academic teacher shall depend on the position held and shall be as follows:

• employed in the research/teaching staff group:
  • professor – 180 teaching hours;
  • university professor – 210 teaching hours;
  • visiting professor – 210 teaching hours;
  • assistant professor – 210 teaching hours;
  • senior assistant – 210 teaching hours;
  • assistant – 210 teaching hours;
• employed in the teaching staff group:
  • professor – 240 didactic hours
  • university professor – 270 teaching hours;
  • visiting lecturer – 270 teaching hours;
  • docent – 270 teaching hours;
  • assitant professor – 360 teaching hours;
  • senior assistant – 360 teaching hours;
  • assistant – 360 teaching hours;
  • lector – 540 teaching hours;
  • instructor – 540 teaching hours.

Collegial bodies at the University within the meaning of § 56 section 2 of the Statute of the University of Warsaw are:

• the University Council for Teaching and Learning;
• faculty councils;
• teaching and learning councils;
• councils of other organisational units of the University.

according to Article 120 of the Act – Law on Higher Education and Science of 2018, the university indicated in the employment contract based on the academic teacher’s statement; the condition for indicating the university as the primary place of work is full-time employment at the university. An academic teacher may have only one primary place of work at a time.

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

More information about data protection at the University of Warsaw can be found here.

is a higher education institution operating on the basis of the Act of 20 July 2018. – Law on Higher Education and Science (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668 as amended).