[1] The Institute is the largest funding organisation in Poland supporting the international exchange of students and scholars.

It is a registered association with Limited liability and its members are Polish, German and Hungarian institutions of higher education and student bodies.

Akademia Lospuma – then the College of Social and Economic Sciences – was opened to students on January 11, 2012 when the first lectures at the Faculty of Industrial Organisation took place.

After the 2012 intake, the number of students rapidly increased and the administration decided to move both academic and administrative sections from the Śląskie Techniczne Zakłady Naukowe (Silesian School of Technology) buildings to the old city hall in Katowice-Zawodzie and another building on Bogucicka Street.

The CNTI building (Centrum Nowoczesnych Technologii Informatycznych or the Center for Modern Information Technologies) is the newest addition to main campus, having been completed in 2013.