Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences

Contactul. W. Bojarskiego 1, 87-100 Toruń
tel.: +48 56 611 33 21
e-mail: ast@umk.pl

Recruitment 2025/2026

1. Recruitment Process – Schedule

Recruitment Stage (for promoters) Dates
Announcement of project call until 11.04.2025
Submission of projects to the School Director until 9.05.2025
Selection of projects by the School Director in consultation with the School Council 12.05-20.05.2025
Announcement of selected doctoral projects and public notification (on the School’s website) until 26.05.2025
Recruitment stage (for candidates) Dates
Registration in the IRK system 10-25.06.2025 (11:59 pm)
Submission of documents by candidates to the School (please send scans to ast@umk.pl, full list of documents -> list of documents). Accepted candidates will be asked to provide original documents in person. Incomplete documents will not be considered. 16.06–4.07.2025 (3:00 pm)
Appointment of examination committees by the Chairman of the Recruitment Committee by 5.07.2025
Qualification interviews with candidates – each candidate will receive an email invitation for the interview 7.07-21.07.2025
Announcement of recruitment results in the IRK system by 23.07.2025
Applications for reconsideration 23.07-28.07.2025
Entry on the list of doctoral students 1.10.2025

NEW! Project proposal forms 2025: Propozycja projektu PL (28 KB) / PhD project proposal (28 KB)

Senate Resolution on the Recruitment Rules for Candidates to the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (461 KB)

Regulation No. 49 of the Rector of Nicolaus Copernicus University concerning the limit of basic scholarship places and the schedule of the recruitment process at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in the academic year 2025/2026 (430 KB)

US.13.2021 – zał. 1 (185 KB)

US.13.2021 – zał. 2 (184 KB)

2. Grant-based recruitment

For the project manager – templates for letters related to the opening of a grant recruitment (funded from external sources):