During the meeting, the most significant challenges facing universities and their future development directions were discussed. Topics such as the well-being of academic communities and mental health prevention in the higher education and science system were also raised.

As institutions that prepare future specialists and scientists, universities have called for, among other things, an increase in state budget spending on science and higher education, as well as a change in regulations that limit their development.

The #KRASP Plenary Assembly elected 11 members of the Main Council for Science and Higher Education for the 2026-2029 term. Those elected include representatives of various fields of science, which is intended to ensure a broad perspective when making decisions concerning the higher education system:

• Professor Jacek Witkoś (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) – humanities;
• Professor Agnieszka Merkisz-Guranowska (Poznań University of Technology) – engineering and technical sciences;
• Professor Paweł Strumiłło, PhD (Łódź University of Technology) – engineering and technology;
• Professor Agnieszka Zimmermann, PhD (Gdańsk Medical University) – medical and health sciences;
• Professor Małgorzata Ożgo, PhD (West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin – ZUT) – field of agricultural sciences;
• Professor Szymon Cyfert, PhD (Poznań University of Economics) – field of social sciences;
• Professor Tomasz Grzyb (SWPS University) – social sciences;
• Professor Klaudiusz Baran (Fryderyk Chopin University of Music) – arts;
• Professor Marcin Jakub Pałys, PhD (University of Warsaw) – field of exact and natural sciences;
• Professor Wojciech Jan Zyzak, PhD (John Paul II Pontifical University in Kraków) – field of theology;
• Professor Romuald Zabielski, PhD (Warsaw University of Life Sciences) – field of veterinary sciences.

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