**2. A multidisciplinary school – organizational background and curricula**

As teaching Biomedical Engineering requires specialists representing many different areas of research and different competences, it was impossible to select a staff on the basis of the individual personnel resources of one particular faculty. Therefore to teach biomedical engineering students, a Multidisciplinary School of Engineering in Biomedicine (MSIB – the acronym used in all Polish documents describing the aims and the scope of the school) was founded (fig. 3). Below you will find the general outline of the structure and main guidelines for the School (Wasilewska-Radwanska & Augustyniak, 2009).

Fig. 3. Rector of the AGH-UST, Professor Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, signs the MSIB foundation act (2005).
