CENTRAL ANTI-CORRUPTION BUREAU always in the interest of Poland Control of the CBA at the Lublin Maria Curie-Skłodowska University - News

On 24 October 2019, the Regional Office of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau in Lublin initiated a control at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin. It is related to the implementation of the project entitled "Ecotech-Complex - human, environment, production" financed under the Innovative Economy Operational Programme 2007-2013, Priority Axis R&D Infrastructure, Action Development of centers with high research potential.

As part of the project, from 23 July 2008 to 31 December 2015, for the amount of over PLN 145 million in Lublin at Głęboka Str. 39, with an area of 11,072 m2, a research infrastructure facility called the Ecotech-Complex Center was built, equipped with modern research equipment.

The project constitutes a joint initiative of the 5 most important units conducting scientific and research activity in the Lublin and Podkarpackie voivodships, i.e. UMCS in Lublin, the Medical University in Lublin, the Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences based in Lublin, Rzeszów University of Technology and the University of Rzeszów. The main goal of the establishment of the Center was to create unique conditions for conducting scientific research and providing world-class research services. The research was to be carried out by interdisciplinary, highly qualified scientific teams based on the latest scientific and research equipment. PLN 32 million – this was the cost of the purchase of a high field magnetic resonance scanner with 7 Tesla magnetic field inductance for advanced brain research and imaging of other anatomical areas throughout the body. It is the only device of this type in Poland, one of the few in Europe.

The planned date of completing the control is 23 January 2020.