In the academic year of 2011/12 The Institute of Knowledge Society together with the Polish Rectors Foundation reactivated the cycle of national Seminars for doctoral students "The role of higher education in the development of knowledge society". The idea of the continuation of this seminar was born as a result of numerous initiative of students and additionally due to the introduction of the new academic discipline in social science - public policy. The Institute of Knowledge Society will continue these seminars in the academic year of 2012/2013.
The assembly of the Founders of the Polish Rectors Foundation and the Institute of Knowledge Society was held on the 19th of September 2012 at the Polish Rectors Foundation in Warsaw.
Professor Jerzy Woźnicki has been reelected as the President of the Organisation and Legalisation Committee and as the member of CRASP Presidium. CRASP is the strategic partner of the Polish Rectors Foundation.
From the 8th to the 14th of July 2012 there was organised by the Polish Rectors Foundation the XII School of Strategic Management for Rectors, who have been elected for the term of office 2012-2016. The co-organizer of this school was the Institute of Knowledge Society. Meetings and lectures took place in Ossa Congress & Spa hotel near Rawa Mazowiecka. The project was realized in compliance with the guidelines of the Program of Permanent Projects of competence building of staff responsible for administering and/or managing higher education institutions.
On July 13th, 2012 the Anniversary ceremony of the Polish Rectors Foundation took place in Ossa Congress & Spa hotel near Rawa Mazowiecka. During this event the President of the Polish Rectors Foundation, Professor Jerzy Woźnicki awarded the recipients, who highly contributed to the development of the Polish Rectors Foundation during its first decade, by giving them the commemorative statues of PRF, medals PROPTER MERITA, Rectors Laurels and Managerial Laurel PRF.
From the 22nd to the 24th of June 2012 r. Professor Jerzy Woźnicki, the President of Polish Rectors Foundation participated in a conference in Bydgoszcz entitled "Performance model of doctoral studies. One year after the new act has been adopted", which was organised by the National Representation of Doctoral Students. During this conference he delivered a lecture about the vision of doctoral studies in the light of the new act.
On June 15th, 2012 Professor Jerzy Woźnicki participated in the XII Plenary Assembly of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities (CRPU) in Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce.
From the 27th to the 31st of May 2012 the XI School of Strategic Management of Polish Rectors Foundation dedicated to Chancellors and Bursars/Financal Directors took place in the Congress Centre hotel Krasicki in Lidzbark Warmiński. The project was realized in compliance with the guidelines of the Program of Permanent Projects of competence building of staff responsible for administering and/or managing HEIs.
From the 25th to the 26th of May 2012 there were the Plenary Assembly of the Conference of Rectors of Academic School in Poland along with the celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the CRASP.
From the 19th to the 21st of April 2012, Professor Jerzy Woźnicki, the President of the Polish Rectors Foundation, participated as a panelist in an international conference entitled "Higher Education in Ukraine: Internationalization, Reform, Innovation" organized by the Institute of International Education - Fulbright Program in Ukraine in Kiev.
