[en] Full text: The year 2003 was a consecutive period of a regular activity of the Heavy Ion Laboratory. The Cyclotron was delivering the heavy ion beams ranging from ¹¹B to ⁴⁰Ar to ten different experiments during more than 2000 hours. A few teams were able to finalize their previous years data collection by papers published in high-ranked journals. Other teams published in the proceedings of the international conferences their invited talks or oral contributions. Thirteen publication in ISI listed journals appeared last year basing on the data obtained using Warsaw machine. A similar number was published by the Laboratory staff using external facilities. The modest technical upgrades presented in this Report were achieved almost with no cost above the salaries. The 15 % decrease of the previous years running subvention from the Ministry of Science and Informatics accompanied by a consecutive refusal to fund the new ECR ion source makes the status of the Laboratory as the nuclear physics center in a very precarious position. The situation looks much more promising with the new project: the creation of an interdisciplinary Laboratory - the Warsaw Positron Emission Tomography Centre, launched by the Heavy Ion Laboratory and the Nuclear Medicine Department at the Clinical Hospital of the Warsaw Academy of Medicine in 2001. In 2003 the Warsaw Consortium for PET Collaboration (WCPC) was created and presently it takes an active role in the project preparation. The WCPC will dispose of a single radiopharmaceuticals production unit located at HIL and equipped with a commercial proton/deuteron cyclotron, chemical units and quality control laboratory. The PET CT, PET or adapted SPECT scanners will be successively located in the Warsaw hospital centers, starting with the medical unit closest (500 m) to the radiopharmaceutical production place. The participation in the WCPC of numerous University and Academy of Sciences units will promote the Warsaw Centre activity in research and education area. The planned purchase of the micro-PET, animal scanner will substantially help in this activity. In 2003 a proposal was submitted to the Technical Co-operation Programme of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for a partial support of the Warsaw PET Centre equipment purchase and activity. This proposal got a strong support and written promises of the local financial contribution from Ministry of Sciences and Informatics and Ministry of Health. It is hoped that the Warsaw PET Centre will begin its diagnostic, research and educational activity in 2006. Starting from this time the Laboratory with its well trained team will operate two cyclotrons, one for research, the another one for radioisotope production. (author)