Polish Underground Laboratory Consortium “UL-PL”
In April 2025, an agreement was signed to establish the Polish Underground Laboratory Consortium “UL-PL”. The signatories of the agreement are the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Otwock-Świerk, the Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, KGHM CUPRUM Sp. z o.o. – Research and Development Center in Wrocław, the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and the University of Silesia in Katowice, which is the coordinator of the Consortium. The Consortium aims to build the first deep (several hundred meters below the surface) interdisciplinary underground laboratory in Poland, where scientific research will be carried out, requiring a low background of natural radiation and specialist education, as well as the use of the laboratory infrastructure for the evaluation and calibration of scientific and control-measurement equipment by domestic and foreign institutions and economic entities. The tasks of the Consortium will be carried out through participation in domestic and international projects. At the University of Silesia, the work of the UL-PL Consortium is led by Dr. Katarzyna Szkliniarz and Prof. Jan Kisiel from the Institute of Physics of the Faculty of Science and Technology.
