Uniwersytety na rubieżach - Konteksty semantyczne, historyczne, naukowe i edukacyjne

Recent years have been a time of intensive work for female and male university staff, due to the conduct of scientific and artistic activities under the conditions of: firstly – numerous economic, socio-cultural changes being often unpredictable and violent ones because of a coronavirus pandemic, increased migrations; secondly – the criteria for the evaluation of scientific disciplines, to be finally settled in August 2022. The chapter aims at examining the scientific and artistic activities carried out at the frontier universities on the basis of data from the RAD-on System (pertaining to the period from 2017 to 2021). Borderland is understood as a specific and interesting area, which differs from many other, perhaps more stable and normalised ones. The universities were purposefully selected for examination. The key criteria were the possession of a statute of an academic university and a territorial location in the border area. The selected universities for analysis were: the University of Białystok, the University of Warmia and Mazury, the University of Szczecin, the University of Zielona Góra, the University of Opole, the University of Rzeszów. The issues that underwent analysis were the ones that involved scientific and artistic activities: patents and protection rights, publications, artistic achievements, projects, investments, information on research related to defence and security, evaluation of scientific activity, disciplines in which scientific activity is carried out, descriptions of the impact of scientific activity on the functioning of society and the economy.