With nearly 22,000 students, 11 faculties, 2 research agencies and 1,800 academic staff members, the University of Gdańsk is the largest institution of higher education in the Pomeranian region of Poland. It offers opportunities to study in 89 different fields, with more than 270 specializations.
The Department of Business Informatics (BI) at the University of Gdańsk conducts research and provides education in Business Informatics at the Bachelor’s, Master’s, Post-Diploma, and Doctoral levels. For 20 years, the Department has been running the Pomeranian Regional Academy Cisco, training hundreds of computer network administrators whose professional skills are recognized through international Cisco certifications.
In terms of teaching, some of the Department’s academic manuals are bestsellers in Poland, such as the 896-page book Business Informatics: Theory and Applications (PWN, 2019, in Polish). This book was awarded the prize for the best informatics book of 2019 by the Polish Society for Informatics. The Department is also active internationally, organizing conferences such as the 10th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2002), titled “Information Systems and the Future of the Digital Economy,” the 7th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2008), the 8th International Conference of the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN 2009), and a series of events now rebranded as the EuroSymposium on Digital Transformation. Last two editions of this conference were organized as tracks of the AIS Information Systems Development Conference. Since 2004, the Department has been an associate partner of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) consortium.
In 2025, the track Digital Transformation at 33rd AIS Information Systems Development conference that was held in Belgrade on 3-5 September 2025 were co-chaired by two of the ERCIS members: Prof. Jörg Becker and Dr. Jacek Maślankowski.
