Doc. Ing. Silvia Ručinská, PhD., university professor, Vice-Rector for Internationalization, representing the Rector of UPJŠ, together with Prof. JUDr. Miroslav Štrkolc, PhD., Dean of the Faculty of Law of UPJŠ, welcomed representatives of the management of the Polish University of Rzeszów to the Rector’s Office of UPJŠ on 22 July 2025. prof. dr hab. n. med Adam Reich, Rector, and Dr hab. Józef Cebulski, prof. UR, Prof. UR, Vice-Rector for Finance and Development visited our university to discuss current cooperation between the institutions and its further development, particularly in the area of university internationalization and the mutual sharing of management solutions, as well as at the level of individual departments in the context of project submissions, mobility, and the organization of scientific events.
In the discussion, Rector Reich emphasized the importance of university competitiveness, to which Vice-Rector Ručinská responded as follows: “It is essential for universities to be able to respond to current global trends in education and research.” The discussion continued with a focus on the complexity of perceiving and evaluating the performance of individual scientific fields. Dean Štrkolec supported the idea of the need for a broader debate on the uniqueness of individual departments and scientific disciplines.
