About the Faculty

About the Faculty

The Faculty of Informatics and Communication (from 1 October 2019 to 31 August 2021: the College of Informatics and Communication) was established on 29 January 2009.

The Faculty comprises research and teaching staff employed in 9 departments.

Mission of the Faculty of Informatics and Communication

The mission of the Faculty of Informatics and Communication is to develop and disseminate knowledge through research, education and implementation activities in the following areas:

• the application of modern information technologies and decision-making methods supporting organisational management,
• communication – particularly economic journalism – using new media and technologies,
• management of modern knowledge-based organisations founded on the rational use of advanced knowledge-processing technologies and communication both within organisations and in their relations with the external environment.

In pursuing the Faculty’s mission, its staff educate graduates distinguished by a high level of professionalism and professional ethics, capable of meeting the challenges of tomorrow in the era of a knowledge-based society and economy, an integrating Europe and a globalising world.

Vision of the Faculty of Informatics and Communication

A team of staff integrating knowledge from the fields of economics, computer science and the humanities, recognised within the European research and education area.

Research

The Faculty conducts research and provides education in a transdisciplinary area encompassing:

1. Computer science (in particular machine learning, data analytics, artificial intelligence and digital communication).
2. Social communication and media studies (in particular economic journalism, new media and marketing communication).
3. Management and quality sciences (operations research, in particular business informatics and marketing) and economics.

Faculty staff participate in projects co-financed by the European Union, the National Science Centre (NCN), as well as in University-funded research grants.

Teaching

Faculty staff teach mainly in the following degree programmes:

• Journalism and Social Communication;
• Informatics;
• Informatics and Econometrics.