Zagraniczne stacje naukowe i ich znaczenie dla nauki polskiej

The article presents a historic and present description of foreign academic stations of Polish Academy of Sciences. These are – chronologically – stations in Paris, Rome and Vienna, Historical Research Centre in Berlin, Academic Station of Polish Academy of Sciences in Moscow and Science Promotion Bureau PolSCA in Brussels. For a more precise description the stations were showed in a wider historic and present-day context of other Polish and foreign posts of that kind. While presenting in general each of the mentioned centres of Polish Academy of Sciences, and particularly the Paris station, the author points out that despite different problems, the stations still develop and are essential. A more detailed description of the Paris centre – the oldest Polish academic station abroad – is to reveal a difficult and complicated process of arising such posts, and the process, which is additionally influenced by political context that occurred as a result of World War I, gaining the independent Polish State, World War II, the Polish People's Republic period. Having depicted all foreign stations of Polish Academy of Sciences, the author inquires about their status in Polish science, their mission, ways of managing and financing, about their future.