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Chapter III - FINANCES

1. Factual Information

Pursuant to the Act of Higher Education the University receives fmancial assets from national budget to be allocated for academic teaching, education of the academic Staff, research activities necessary for teaching operations and maintenance of the University. The above fmancial assets received from the Ministry of Higher Education are to a large degree insufficient. In addition University is subsidised by the Committee for Research Projects to carry out statutory activities, teaching its own research and research projects (grants).

Division of assets within the University is madę in accordance with resolution of University Senate on the rules of fmancing the research and teaching units at the Wrocław University Environmental and Life Sciences.

Pursuant to this Resolution the assets from the Ministry of Higher Education are allocated to maintain:

-    the University as a whole - especially for generał overhead expenditures, energy, water-sewage service, other service, security of property, purchasing;

-    inter-faculty units - Library, Academic Laboratory, Publishing House, Sports Hall, Computer Centre, social and cultural activities of students;

-    research teaching units of the University - Faculties

The basis for the division of the budget subsidy and its allocation to individual faculties is an algorithm established by the Ministry of Higher Education which is in force a given year. The algorithm takes into account the level of employment of academic teachers, number of students, number of assistants, cost-absorptive coefficient for the major of a faculty.

The faculty allocates the received amounts for:

-    gross remuneration with surcharges (social insurance, wealfare benefit fund) for academic teachers and employees who are not teachers but who conduct teaching activity,

-    utilization and repairs of instruments and equipment used in teaching,

-    costs of scientific publications, costs of student’s practice, cost of teaching materials,

-    cost of fumishing for the research-teaching unit rooms,

staff education related costs (research training, doctoral and habilitation scholarships, doctoral studies, education supplementary courses, reviews),

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