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Adv. Magdalena Stryja – Before her appointment as Rector, she served as Vice-Rector for Development and Cooperation from April 24, 2024, and since June 11, 2024, she had been authorized to perform the duties assigned to the position of Rector.
On September 26, 2024, she was officially appointed as the Rector of the University of Business and Applied Sciences “Varsovia.”
The Rector’s professional background demonstrates over two decades of commitment to higher education and, since 2015, to the Polish Bar and the District Bar Council in Katowice. During this time, she has held numerous positions, including Chair of the Science and Development Committee at The Bar Council in Katowice; Member of the Senate of the University of Silesia; Member of the Council of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia; Member of the Teaching Councils for the Law, Administration, Environmental Management, and Entrepreneurship programs; Member of the Faculty Committee for Education Quality; Organizational Director and Member of the Program Council of the 1st International Congress on Education Quality Katowice 2022; Author of the program for the 6th International Congress on Education and Vocational Training Gdańsk 2023; and Member of several university committees, including those for promotion, rankings, and Rector’s Awards.
She has held directorial positions in the areas of legal affairs and promotion at the National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme and the European Solidarity Corps. She also served as Director for Sustainable Development at WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Rector’s Coordinator for International Accreditations, Rector’s Coordinator for the Structural Adaptation of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia to the requirements of the Law on Higher Education and Science, Spokesperson for the National Agency Erasmus+, and Spokesperson for the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia.
She is a member of the Press Team at the Polish National Bar Council in Warsaw and a member of the European Ranking of Engineering Programs – EngiRank 2022 team, the first next-generation ranking of its kind. She has been a long-time member of the Dean’s College of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia, a member of the Just Transition research group at the University of Silesia, and part of the scientific team for the EU-funded project Train in Your Language: Multilingual Transnational Training in EU Civil and Commercial Law (TRAIL).
She is the first lawyer in Poland to be admitted to the international research organization Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), led by the University of Cambridge.
Since 2018, she has been a member of the Program Committee of the world’s largest legal and climate conference, Climate Law and Governance Day, organized by the University of Cambridge and CISDL. In this role, she has chaired Leadership Panels and expert sessions during UN Climate Summits (COP24, COP25, COP26, COP27, and COP28).
In 2020, she was honored with the World Legal Specialist Award for Climate Change presented by CISDL. She also received the Personality of the Year 2023 award from Dziennik Zachodni for her charitable and social engagement in Gliwice. In 2019, she was the main architect behind the University of Silesia’s success in receiving the Global Leadership Award for its contribution to the global discourse on the climate crisis, human rights, and health protection.
She is the author of publications on climate law and modern technologies, published by Springer, Nomos, Routledge, and Wolters Kluwer London. For more than 12 years, she has lectured in Labor Law and Social Security Law.
She has organized or co-organized over one hundred national and international congresses, conferences, charitable events, and exhibitions. Additionally, she has participated as a speaker, moderator, and host in numerous legal, climate, and medical conferences, congresses, and symposia in Poland and abroad.
She completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia and postgraduate studies at the University of Economics in Katowice in Research Project Management and Commercialization of Research Results.
As a social activist, she supports numerous charitable and community initiatives. Since 2018, she has been actively involved with the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP), performing and hosting the Final events in Gliwice in 2018–2025. She has also served three times as the main host of the social campaign More Power Against Violence, held under the patronage of the Mayor of Gliwice and local social welfare centers, and was the lead host of the charity concert City of Science for Ukraine, organized at the invitation of seven rectors of Silesian public universities.
A graduate of a secondary-level Music School in violin performance, she is also active as a musician, composer, lyricist, producer, and director of music videos and short promotional films. She has long supported the development of young people’s musical talents and served as a juror in competitions for young artists, including 50 Voices of the University of Silesia, Independent Music Review at Silesian Stadium, and Gliwice Rock Port.
All her artistic and charitable activities are carried out on a voluntary basis. The above list includes only selected examples of her professional and social engagement.
Rekrutacja na studia w Uczelni Biznesu i Nauk Stosowanych „Varsovia” w Warszawie, na kierunki rozpoczynające cykl kształcenia od semestru zimowego roku akademickiego 2025/2026 przebiega w ramowych terminach, które obejmują: