Copernicus Festival
The Copernicus Festival is an event that bridges the worlds of culture and science. Its inaugural edition launched in 2014 under the theme "Revolutions," with subsequent years focusing on themes such as genius, beauty, emotions, chance, language, time, imagination, and information. Events organized around these themes aim to showcase the beauty and boundless potential of science while highlighting its inseparable connection to culture and exploring their mutual relationships. Each year, Copernicus offers a rich and engaging program featuring topics such as neuroscience, evolutionary biology, philosophy, physics, psychology, law, and literature. Over the course of seven festival days, participants can attend lectures, discussions, workshops, film screenings, and exhibitions.
The events cater to various audiences, including those just beginning their journey into science—children and younger students. For them, specific programs like Science of Reading and Lessons in Reading introduce concepts from cosmology, physics, and psychology through both academic and classic literature familiar to everyone.
Past festival guests have included notable figures such as Paul Bloom, Stefan Chwin, António Damásio, Paul Davies, Robert H. Frank, Michał Heller, Mark Miodownik, Jan Woleński, and Andrzej Zoll.
The Copernicus Festival is co-organized by the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Jagiellonian University, the Copernicus Center Foundation, the Tygodnik Powszechny Foundation, and the publisher of Tygodnik Powszechny.
Festival events are available on Spotify and the Copernicus Festival YouTube channel.
The Frontiers of Science
A series of meetings, also available on YouTube, where researchers and science communicators discuss the latest discoveries, studies, and theories in the scientific world. Topics from physics, cosmology, biology, and medicine, as well as archaeology, cognitive science, and anthropology, serve as starting points for the lectures. These sessions help users explore current theories and delve into the ever-expanding body of knowledge.
Do plants learn? How do you build a protein cage? What is dark energy? How can one become a cyborg? These and many other questions are answered on the Frontiers of Science portal.
Big Questions
Big Questions in Krakow is a popular science platform that seeks to answer some of the most fundamental questions in philosophy and science. With 85 hours of video and 35 hours of podcasts, it provides a knowledge base focused on core and intriguing topics. Understanding these topics helps explain the laws of nature, the essence of time and space, the workings of the mind, and the structure of language.