The University of Warsaw is offering an unpaid 76-hour intensive Polish language course online for international employees. The course is aimed at learning basic communication skills that might be useful during working and living in Poland. Participants of the course will explore at the elementary level essential phrases, eg. how to buy a ticket, order a coffee or lunch, how to find your way around UW and dealing with basic affairs and phrases…

Over 360 000 scientific articles from nearly 1 400 journals and mobile versions of books in Open Access – t hese resources are gathered in the largest scientific database in Poland with full-text publications – the Library of Science. The Library of Science project is led by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computer Modelling at the University of Warsaw as a part of the Open Science Platform. The new version of the library pro…

RI-URBANS project, in which UW scientists are involved, received funding in the European Commission’s call “European Research Infrastructures capacities and services to address European Green Deal challenges (LC-GD-9-1-2020)”. The European Green Deal is a plan to make the EU’s economy sustainable. It aims to: Boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean and circular economy, Restore biodiversity and cut pollution. Prof….

…9, he participated in Poland’s Round Table Talks. A few months later, Prof. Samsonowicz became minister of education in Tadeusz Mazowiecki’s cabinet – the first government led by a non-communist since World War II.     Henryk Samsonowicz began studying history in 1947. He had an opportunity to learn from the greatest representatives of discipline: Marian Małowist, Witold Kula, Aleksandr Gieysztor, Tadeusz Manteuffel, and St…

On 9th June, Welcome Point organises an online meeting on the legalisation of stay in Poland. During the webinar, participants will learn the most important legal aspects regarding their residence in Poland during their studies and after graduation. The application deadline is 2nd June.   The legalisation of stay in Poland during studies and other legal aspects are the most frequent topics discussed by international students and…

Heidelberg University offers an online self-study course on research-based learning. The self-paced workshop is open to doctoral candidates and academics of 4EU+ member universities, including the University of Warsaw. On 21st May and 4th June, the Digital Open Hour will be held. This workshop is devoted to academic teachers of all disciplines as well as instructional designers and educational developers. It is a self-paced course that takes…

…ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge 2020-2021. UW students won gold in Machine Learning “Language Exam (LE) Challenge” and bronze in PRESTO application. WT was one of seven international teams that took part in the competition’s final virtually and in this online category scored first place in benchmark tests twice: HPL with 21.78 TFlops and HPCG with 619.75 GFlops. The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge is the world’s largest supercomputing hac…

…unusual circumstances, cooking was one of the ways to break away from reality. As of November, UW students could send their favourite recipes, adding anecdotes and interesting stories related to their preparation. Participants were also invited to an online culinary workshop, during which they learned how to prepare simple and healthy meals and had a good time together. The culinary publication “Student Cookbook” is the result of…

…aces, that will begin at the turn of May and June 2021.   The programme is dedicated to those who have not been vaccinated yet. It aims to build a safe place for working and studying regardless of age (one general condition needs to be fulfilled – people aged 18 and over).   UW is planning to run the University Vaccination Point in collaboration with CenterMed that offers occupational medicine services.   The overall medical s…

The University of Warsaw offers over 100 study programmes in humanities, social, exact and natural sciences, as well as interdisciplinary ones. There are also degree programmes entirely conducted in English. This year, prospective students may choose from two new study programmes in English: Machine Learning, and Religions of Asia and Africa: Buddhism, Islam and Others. Admissions for the first-cycle study programmes (undergraduate) and…