About us

„Wilandt Institute” (WI) is an independent research organisation, conducting innovative scientific and educational projects, in order to raise the level and effectiveness in education. The WI activities focus on interdisciplinary research in the field of neurobiology, cognitive science, neuropsychology, pedagogy and psychology, propagating innovative educational solutions and conducting cultural activities. WI cooperates with specialists from Poland and internationally, aiming to develop innovative solutions for contemporary education. The Wilandt Institute is a continuation of almost a century-old family tradition, supporting education and learning as well as cultural life. The precursor of the activity was Maksymilian Wilandt, who in the twentieth century was involved in social and educational activities for children and adults.

Education

Education is one of the most important areas of our activities. Nowadays there are huge social and cultural changes and we can observe the following changes in education:

1. Changes of the keys competences, which currently are:

• communication in the mother tongue
• communication in foreign languages
• mathematical competences, basic scientific and technical competences
• IT competences
• Learning how to learn
• social and civic competences
• initiative and entrepreneurship
• cultural awareness and expression

2. The huge amount of information that we are exposed to every day requires the well developed skills such as data verification, analysis of sources and selection of valuable information.

3. Advances in biotechnology and modern imaging technologies used in medicine allow for rapid development of neurobiology and significantly improve our knowledge about how the brain learns.

Considering the above elements, we implement innovative solutions in education supported by reliable scientific research. To date, over 1500 educational research have been published, in which above 30 million students took part. It gives the opportunity to conduct evidence-based education. The analysis of data on effective education, emotional intelligence, social skills and creativity has l`ed us to research that points to the need to integrate education with music and artistic subjects. Therefore, we devote equally to neuroscience, music education as well as artistic and cultural education.j.