students. The campus comprises student clubs, a swimming pool with a gym and bowling alley, and sports fields. Student clubs: Academic Cultural Centre, Club STUDIO – one of the largest concert clubs in Poland Klub Zaścianek Klub Gwarek Klub Filutek History Efforts to establish the Mining Academy The efforts to establish a Polish mining school in Krakow and to appoint suitable teaching staff began in the second half of the 19th century and intensified when Galicia gained autonomy in 1860. This endeavour involved Polish engineers – miners and metallurgists, Galician representatives, and Krakow authorities. Concentrated diplomatic action was taken in Vienna to win the favour of the Austrian government. At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of prominent engineers and mining activists, led by engineer Jan Zarański, went to great lengths to obtain approval for establishing a higher education institution in Krakow to educate mining engineers. These efforts were successful, and on July 10, 1912, Krakow authorities received a permit to open an academy. 1913 – institution of the Mining Academy In April 1913, the Ministry of Civil Engineering in Vienna appointed the Organising Committee of the Mining Academy in Krakow, chaired by Professor Józef Morozewicz. The document that confirmed the establishment of a higher school of mining in Krakow was signed on May 31, 1913, by emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. The outbreak of World War I made it impossible to inaugurate the first academic year of the newly established academy in October 1914. The minutes from a conference at the President of Krakow, Juliusz Leo, contain a footnote related to the Mining Academy. A magistrate official, probably reorganising documents, wrote an additional note at the bottom of one of them that said: ‘Due to the outbreak of war, the Mining Academy was not opened, the whole matter being postponed to more peaceful times, 21st March 2015.’ 1919 – the opening of the academy When Poland regained its independence in 1918, the Organising Committee of the Mining Academy in Krakow recommenced its work. On April 8, 1919, the Council of Ministers put forward an official motion to establish and open the Mining Academy in Krakow. On May 1, 1919, the first six professors of the Mining Academy were appointed. On October 20, 1919, Józef Piłsudski officiated a celebratory inauguration of the Mining Academy in the main hall of the Jagiellonian University. Polish-Soviet War Students of the