Jan Waligórski - Activity

The most important roles I have held are as follows:

since 2022 - Founder and Chair of the nationwide academic conference and project "Wirtualium";
since 2023 - Member of EduVRLab;
since 2022 - Member of Collegium Invisibile (since 2023 Member of the Audit Committee; since 2024 Grant Support Group Coordinator);
since 2025 - Founding Member of the Research Group HAIS: Human-AI Studies
since 2021 - Member of Academia Electronica;
since 2023 - Member of Program Committee & Reviewer for the "International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network";

In the past:

2021-2023 - Chairman of the Philosophy of Technology Section at KNSF UJ (students' organization);
2021-2022 - Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Scientific Conference "Cracow Cognitive Science Conference"

Wirtualium

The Founder and Chair of Nationwide Project "Wirtualium"

I am the founder and chairman of the "Wirtualium" project, which was inaugurated in 2022. Since the beginning of 2022, I have been involved in the coordination of the Wirtualium Nationwide Academic Conference. It is the first of its kind in Poland and one of the pioneers worldwide, being a scientific conference fully conducted within a virtual reality environment. Wirtualium is held in virtual auditoriums of Academia Electronica (metaverses: AltspaceVR, Spatial).

In 2022, Wirtualium received the title of Conference of the Year in the nationwide StRuNa competition. In 2023, the second edition of the conference "Wirtualium 2.0, featured an attendance of approximately 90-100 participants. By 2024, Wirtualium had evolved into a more extensive academic initiative focused on virtual reality, comprising both the Wirtualium conference and the virtual summer school for High School students.

Website: www.wirtualium.agh.edu.pl / https://sites.google.com/view/wirtualium/

Academic Workshops

I conduct academic workshops, and remain open to new proposals

Workshop: Digital Anthropology: On Becoming (Post)Human in the Era of Digital Technologies (Wioska Olimpijska 2024)

In 2024, I conducted a week-long workshop for outstanding high school students on the posthumanist perspective in digital anthropology.

Website: https://www.ci.edu.pl/wioska-olimpijska/

Workshop: Conference ABC - How to Organize, Finance, and Improve an Academic Conference

On March 26th, together with Wiktoria Morawska, we conducted a scientific workshop at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, focusing on the organization of scientific conferences.

Link: https://idub.umk.pl/wiadomosci/?id=33366

Workshop: The Cognitive Science Laboratory of Virtual Reality

(Wioska Olimpijska 2023)

In 2023, I had the great pleasure of leading a week-long scientific workshop titled "Cognitive Science Laboratory of Virtual Reality." In 2023, I served as the coordinator of this project.

Website: https://www.ci.edu.pl/wioska-olimpijska/

Workshop: How to Conduct Research in Virtual Reality? (Wioska Olimpijska 2022)

Wioska Olimpijska is a science camp for high-achieving high school students. In 2022, I lead a week-long scientific workshop titled "How to Conduct Research in Virtual Reality?".

Website: https://www.ci.edu.pl/wioska-olimpijska/

Popularization & Media (PL)

Mini-esej dla Topminds: "O przestrzeni, granicach i splątaniach" - o mentoringu z dr Katarzyną Bojarską

21.08.2025 r. | Link: https://topminds.pl/o-przestrzeni-granicach-i-splataniach/

Letnia Akademia VR - warsztaty w VR o VR dla szkół ponadpodstawowych

24.05.2024 r. | Link: https://www.wirtualium.agh.edu.pl/LAVR

Warsztaty otwarte "KOSMOS w wirtualnej rzeczywistości [Space Week AGH]"

22.05.2024 r. | Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/954177563073158

Wywiad dla BIS AGH "Cyfrowe światy już tu są – Rozmowa o konferencji Wirtualium"

16.05.2024 r. | Link: Link

Wywiad podczas JuweStream na temat VR i projektu Wirtualium

16.05.2024 r. | Link: https://cm.agh.edu.pl/juwestream24

Podcast Zsocjalizowani: "Społeczno-edukacyjny potencjał VR"

23.03.2024 r. | Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/30zwjgol55zpF9Yr4SdiEZ?si=TfoQFUjFTQivToDnTA9rTA

Wywiad dla UjotFM: "Czym jest Collegium Invisibile?"

On 9th March 2024, I, along with Piotrek Litwin, was invited to the UJOT FM radio live broadcast, during which we talked about Collegium Invisibile. https://ujot.fm/

Esej dla HolisticNews: "Molestowanie seksualne w metawersie. Czym naprawdę jest nowa forma cyberprzemocy?"

14.01.2024 r. | I wrote an article for the Holistic News in which I explain the complexity of the problem of sexual harassment in virtual reality https://holistic.news/molestowanie-seksualne-w-metawersie-czym-naprawde-jest-nowa-forma-cyberprzemocy/

Wywiad dla StrunaTV na temat "Wirtualium 1.0"

14.12.2022 r. | I and Liliana Kozak gave an interview for StrunaTV during the Struna 2022 award ceremony, in which we talked about the Wirtualium conference and the activities of the Section of Philosophy of Technology of KNSF UJ. YouTube: link

Wywiad dla Eurostudent: "Koła naukowe pomagają w rozwoju kariery"

2022 r. | I gave a brief interview for Eurostudent magazine, in which I discussed the benefits of participating in student science clubs from the perspective of students' future career development. Eurostudent: link