XXXI Reporting Forum of Research Institutes

On 26 June 2023, the XXXI Reporting Forum of Research Institutes was held at the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Kajetany.

The Railway Research Institute, was represented by Director Andrzej Massel, DSC, PhD and Dr Renata Barcikowska, the Head of Project Coordination and International Cooperation Unit.

The meeting discussed and summarised the Science for Society Congress, which was co-organised by the General Council of Research Institutes (RGIB) under the chairmanship of Professor Henryk Skarżyński. In the later part of the meeting, the activities of the Council in 2022 were summarised. Dr Renata Barcikowska, as Chair of the RGIB Audit Committee, who presented the Committee's position on the activities of the RGIB for the period from June 2022 to June 2023. There was also a discussion on the future of research institutes in Poland. An expert report was presented entitled "Research institutes’ performance in the evaluation of the quality of scientific activity conducted in 2011 and 2022 - analysis and comparison". The expert opinion was delivered by Leszek Stypułkowski from Index Copernicus - President of the Board, CEO, Head of Research and Development.