Research at AMU

The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań carries out its fundamental and unchanging missionwhich is to conduct research, educate students and new academic staff on the basis of research as well as to exercise its social responsibilities. The University is inherently associated with science practiced under unhampered freedom and the search for truth.

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań was one of the winners of the 2019 "Excellence Initiative - Research University" competition organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Its aim was to identify and support Polish universities that can effectively compete with the best academic centres in Europe and the world.


Apart from teaching, research is the most vital sphere of activity of the University, one determining its potential. Research is carried out in 20 faculties, departments, institutes, and interdisciplinary university centres.


Our Priority Research Areas are Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Materials Science, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Computer Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences.