Adam Nowak
Undersecretary of State
secretariat
phone: +48 22 623 15 14
e-mail: sekretariat.nowak@minrol.gov.pl
Competences
1. specifies tasks to be performed and supervises their performance in matters within the remit of the Innovation, Digital Affairs and Knowledge Transfer Department (except for tasks related to supervision over the activities of research institutes), the Technical Assistance Department and the Strategy and Development Department, in particular ones concerning:
- innovation, digitisation and knowledge transfer in the area of agriculture, rural development, agricultural markets and fisheries,
- research and scientific cooperation,
- agricultural advisory services,
- support under the financial instruments of the Rural Development Programme for 2014–2020 and the Strategic Plan for the Common Agricultural Policy for 2023–2027,
- technical assistance under the Rural Development Programme for 2014–2020, the Operational Programme “Fisheries and the Sea” for 2014–2020, the Strategic Plan for the Common Agricultural Policy for 2023-2027 and the European Funds for Fisheries for 2021-2027 programme,
- coordination of the preparation and monitoring of national development strategies,
- coordination of work on the implementation, updating and monitoring of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and the National Reform Programme,
- coordination of the Ministry’s participation in the preparation of programmes implementing the 2021-2027 Partnership Agreement,
- analysing the impact of EU and national policies on the implementation of the 2030 Strategy for the Sustainable Development of Rural Areas, Agriculture and Fisheries;
2. supervises the activity of:
- Agricultural Advisory Centre in Brwinów,
- voivodeship agricultural advisory centers.
Biography
Born on 2 March 1990 in Pajęczno in the Łódzkie Voivodeship.
Social and agricultural activist, graduate of the Main School of Fire Service in Warsaw, the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics in Warsaw, and the international exchange programme of Texas A&M University, USA.
In 2021-2023, Deputy President of the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA).
In 2018-2023, President of the Board of the Polish Rural Youth Association, coordinating educational and vocational projects addressed to young people from rural areas.
Coordinator and expert in EU affairs. In 2021-23, member of the Civil Dialogue Group – expert in civil dialogue groups at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development in the field of international aspects of agriculture, greening and direct payments.
Member of the Polish People’s Party, where he serves as Secretary of the Supreme Council.
Volunteer firefighter, Deputy President of the Main Board of the Association of Volunteer Fire Brigades of the Republic of Poland, involved in preserving the memory of the activities of the Peasant Battalions, as part of cooperation with the National Association of Soldiers of Peasant Battalions and the Museum of the History of the Polish Peasant Movement.