Psychologist and educator, creator of the moderation theory of development (2004) and personal advantage in old age (2007). His main fields of scientific interest are: social gerontology, especially special geragogy and gerontological lexicography, and personality psychology, especially the psychological problems of worldview, the psychology of religion and thanatopsychology. Professor at the University of Lower Silesia DSW in Wroclaw. Member of Scientific Boards of journals: "Educational Transactional Analysis", "Social Contexts", "Labor et Educatio", "Disability and Rehabilitation", "Paideia", "Social Pedagogy", "Senior Policy" and "Psychogeriatrics Poland", as well as the series "Czech-Polish-Slovak Studies in Andragogy and Social Gerontology" and "Exlibris Library of Social Gerontology". He is a member of the Expert Council of the Institute of Senior Policy in Warsaw, and on the recommendation of LAB 60+ he was a member of the Wrocław Council of Seniors (2019-2023). He has been awarded, among others, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Merito de Wratislavia Medal - Meritorious for Wroclaw (2023). He is a five-time winner of individual awards from the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, and the distinction of the Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy for innovative activities in the field of dissemination of knowledge on the aging of Polish society, he also received the honorary title of "Friend of Seniors" (2016). For his long-standing lexicographic activities in the field of gerontology and for his scientific editing of the Encyclopedia of Old Age, Aging and Disability, he received a silver medal and an honorable mention at the International Senior Fair in Kielce (2019). Major compact works: Man in the face of old age. Sketches from social gerontology. Warsaw: "InterArt", 1995, new edition Katowice: Wyd. Nauk. "Silesia", 1999, Dictionary of social gerontology. Warsaw: Wyd. Akad. "Żak", 2001; Lexicon of gerontology. Kraków: Ofic. Wyd. "Impuls", 2007, 4th ed. 2019; Crossing the "streak of cienia". Sketches from gerontology and thanatology. Katowice: Wyd. Nauk. "Silesia", 2009 2nd ed. 2013; Between faith and doubt. Introduction to the psychology of religion. Kraków: Ofic. Wyd. "Impuls", 2012, and (in print) Between awakening and falling asleep. Sketches from gerontology and thanatology Katowice: Wyd. Nauk. "Silesia," 2023.

A researcher at the Faculty of Architecture (the Gdańsk University of Technology) since 1989. An architect, a Director of the Center for Universal Design, the first Polish research and development center implementing the objectives of the concept of universal design in the physical environment, products and services. An expert for the design of the space available for people with disabilities and the elderly. The author of more than 70 different publications concerning design for all and ecology and sustainable development, including the monograph Projektowanie otoczenia dla osób niewidomych. Pozawzrokowa percepcja przestrzeni (eng. The Environment Design for Blind People. Beside the Visual Perception of Space.) The creator utility patterns concerning support of visually impaired people in public space including Touch-sensitive pictograms for escape routes. The auditor of accessibility of facilities and public spaces. The author of accessibility standards of public spaces for Gdansk City (2012) and Gdynia City (2013). He is the first ‘Access Officer’ in Poland, appointed to this position in 2014 by the local government of Gdynia City. The creator of the educational program Designing of Common Space since 2004 at the Faculty of Architecture, the Gdańsk University of Technology and in the cities of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. The initiator of the project Shared Space-Common Cause (2016) and the project workshops Universal design - how to live together, not next to each other (since 2014) - the aim is to change the quality of people’s lives with limited mobility and the perception of residential area and public spaces. The Member of the Commission of Experts for Pepole with Disabilities by the Ombudsman. He is a collaborator of many non-governmental organizations working for people with disabilities. As the expert of ON Inclusion 14-20 Group he works to implement the concept of universal design in the framework of EU programs (EFSI). The Member of the Working Group of the National Smart Specialisation operating at the Ministry of Economy. An adherer of consistent implementation the records of the ONZ Convention according to the rights of people with disabilities into the Polish legal system. For more than a decade he is a consistent promoter of the idea of ​​universal design - he was awarded the Gdynia without barriers Medal in 2013. The social worker, interested in the environment for people with disabilities. Among the group of his friends he has many who have some physical problems or limitations but he always treats them as equal partners in his rojects activities.

A Professor at the University of Silesia. He defended Master’s thesis in 1981 at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Silesia. He achieved his Doctoral thesis entitled: Stworzenie osobowości społecznej zarys teorii osobowości społecznych (eng. Social Creation of Personality an Outline of Social Theories of Personality) at the University of Silesia, the Faculty of Social Science in 1989 under the guidance of prof. Władysław Jacher, PhD DSc. His postdoctoral dissertation entitled: Social and Cultural Capital of the Young Intelligentsia and the Demands Towards the Market was defended at the University of Silesia in 2003. Prof. Adam Bartoszek was a leader in many projects, for instance: Architects and Sociologists subproject in PolSenior in 2007-2010 (http://polsenior.iimcb.gov.pl/), Prosumer Society - Prosumer Power Engineering in 2015-2016 (www.pros.us.edu.pl). In addition, he held a leadership role in the MNiSW grant The activation and the decline of the human capital in the local environment. - educational and professional mobility for the quality of life in peripheral cities (2008-2010), as well as the grant of the EU Diagnosis of social issues and the monitoring of the politics for activation of the human resources in Katowice (2011-2012). Prof. Adam Bartoszek is a Member in the Polish Sociological Association, the Polish Gerontology Association, Polish Academy of Science Department in Katowice and the Committee For Study About Future The Upper Silesia Region and the Scientific Committee dealing with the future of the Upper Silesia region. He is interested in sociology of the organization and the management, the theory of the social structures, sociology of the social capital and the social personality. He is also engaged in the theory of market research and public opinion polling and survey's research methodology.

Prof. Elżbieta Niezabitowska, PhD DSc. Eng. Arch. was an employee at the Faculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology in the years 1973 - 2015. Over the period 2000-2014 she acted as a head of the Department of Design Strategies and New Technologies in Architecture. Her scientific output consists of more than 170 publications, including 10 compact publications. She is a co-author of the monograph entitled: Środowisko zamieszkania polskich seniorów w badaniach interdyscyplinarnych. Studia przypadków na wybranych przykładach z 2013 r., (eng. Living Environment of Polish Seniors in the Interdisciplinary Studies. Case Studies of the Selected Examples of 2013). An important publication made by Mrs. Professor for the development of science is the author's academic handbook entitled: Metody i techniki badawcze w architekturze, (eng. Methods and Research Techniques in Architecture) - the first Polish textbook concering this subject. Prof. Elżbieta Niezabitowska’s scientific passion is to assess the quality of architecture based on research POE (Post-Occupancy-Evaluation), she used it in her own research studies but also in scientific grants and doctoral theses because she was a thesis supervisor and an academic lecturer. Her works concern architectural objects, for instance: office buildings, hospitals, housing, universities, homes for the elderly, as well as the issue of an intelligent building and efficiency of energy. For a few years she has focused on the research relating to hospitals and nursing homes for the elderly. Prof. Elżbieta Niezabitowska participated in eight internships abroad. She was a supervisor of four research grants, one of her own KBN. Moreover, she was a leader of the Polish-German European project financed by the Polish-German Foundation in favour of Science (2010-21). The project was accomplished in a collaboration with the Helmholtz Institute in Leipzig in 2011-2012. She also participated as a performer in six other national grants, the most important was participation in the interdisciplinary grant of the KBN PolSenior in the role of a co-contractor in architectural research.