About the Institute

The Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Environmental Protection, and Management was established on October 1, 2019, by a resolution of the Senate of the University of Rzeszów. It was created through the separation from the Faculty of Biology and Agriculture.
The Institute has been awarded a B+ scientific category, which entitles it to confer doctoral and post-doctoral (habilitation) degrees in the discipline of agriculture and horticulture.
Located on the Zalesie Campus (ul. Zelwerowicza and ul. Ćwiklińska), the Institute occupies a modern complex of buildings (D3, D7, D9, and the Aeropolis Laboratory), all equipped with cutting-edge research and teaching facilities. Additionally, it operates an Experimental Station in Krasne, where both staff and students conduct field research.
Currently, the Institute employs:
• 5 professors (full professors)
• 21 associate professors
• 31 assistant professors (PhD)
• 16 engineering and technical staff
• 2 employees at the Experimental Station
The Institute comprises ten departments:
• Department of Agroecology and Forest Utilization
• Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection
• Department of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology
• Department of Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Hydrology
• Department of Food and Agriculture Production Engineering
• Department of Nature Protection and Landscape Ecology
• Department of the Basis of Agriculture and Waste Management
• Department of Crop Production
• Department of Landscape Architecture
• Department of Biodiversity
The Institute educates several hundred students in both full-time and part-time programmes, offering first- and second-cycle degrees in:
• Agriculture
• Environmental Protection
• Renewable Energy Sources and Waste Management
• Landscape Architecture
• Agri-Food Logistics
Additionally, first-cycle studies are available in:
• Agroforestry
The Institute also offers postgraduate programmes in:
• Agriculture for graduates of non-agricultural higher education institutions
• Renewable Energy Sources and Waste Management

The Institute actively collaborates with businesses, industry, and local government units, and its staff participate in international research through programs such as Erasmus+, NAWA, and RID, conducting projects in countries including Croatia, Greece, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Slovakia, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary.
Long-standing scientific partnerships have been established with numerous institutions in Poland, including:
• University of Łódź
• Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
• University of Szczecin
• University of Life Sciences in Poznań
• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
• University of Agriculture in Kraków
• Jagiellonian University in Kraków
• University of Life Sciences in Lublin
• Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Lublin
• Warsaw University of Life Sciences (pl. Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, SGGW)
• Cracow University of Technology
…and internationally with:
• University of Granada (Spain)
• University of Oxford (UK)
• Meise Botanic Garden (Belgium)
• Dumlupinar University (Turkey)
• Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (Vietnam)
• University of Otago (New Zealand)