…d and creative exchange programmes (blended forms) for students and staff (academic and administrative). One of the main goals of the collaboration is to equip the graduates with competences and critical skills necessary for functioning in a complex, mobile, heterogeneous, multicultural, multilingual and digitalized world.   API project started on1st December and will be carried out until 30th November 2020. For the realisation of API, UW received…

…he University of Warsaw are granted to individuals in recognition of their scientific work and contribution to the university or to society. Prof. Janusz Jurczak is the 220th honorary doctor of UW.   The awarded researcher was born in 1941 in Stryj (today’s western Ukraine). His family moved to Warsaw. In 1964, he graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology. Six years later, he obtained his PhD degree in the Institute of Organic Chemistry o…

…also representatives of localcommunities, including speakers of Wymysiöeryś, Lemko, Kashubian in Poland, and representatives of the Isle of Man and Guernsey, speakers of Basque, Sámi in Finland and Norway, and Nahuatl in Mexico. The researchers organise workshops and capacity-building events. They support local initiatives aimed at preserving cultural and linguistic diversity of a given region, as well as co-organising cultural events….

…ents.   5. University’s Integrated Development Programme (ZIP) On 2nd April, the University of Warsaw commenced the ZIP programme. It aims to improve, the quality of teaching, enrich doctoral study programmes, develop skills of students and employees as well as modernise the system of administration. The programme will continue until 31st 2022.   6. Awards for academic teachers In November, Dr. Danuta Solecka from the Faculty of Biology, Dr. Agata…

…cts (GRAS 2023), which included seven scientific disciplines taught at the university. Mathematics and Physics were ranked 101-150 worldwide. Read more about the international position and the quality of education at UW   The candidates are offered: over 300 programmes of 1st, 2nd and long cycle – uniform Master’s studies in Polish in the humanities, social, exact and natural sciences, as well as numerous interdisciplinary programmes which combine…

…of Warsaw. Its participants will try to explore controversies and find common ground on how to engage and empower students and teachers in developing their learning and teaching. More specifically, drawing on the work of the EUA thematic peer groups in 2018, participants will be invited to: reflect on how to facilitate better learning in European universities through institutional promotion of active learning; support for teachers to develop thei…

…osystem. By connecting consumers with businesses, start-ups, researchers and students from around Europe, EIT Food supports innovative and economically sustainable initiatives which improve health, access to quality food, and environment. It comprises 50 partners across 13 countries including, among others, the University of Warsaw, University of Cambridge, Technical University of Munich, Autonomous University of Madrid, companies such as Robert B…

…mitochondrion, and the second at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (2016) where she continued her research on anaerobic protists.   The 2018 grantees will establish one laboratory each in the Czech Republic and Portugal, three in Poland and five in Turkey. Besides Dr. Anna Karnkowska, two more Poles were awarded: Dr. Michał Szymański from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of…

…l property. Moreover, it helps researchers to obtain grants and external funding.   On 27th November, the UW authorities, UTTC directors, members of UW corporate spin-offs, researchers, and representatives of business attended the ceremony of 20th anniversary of the University Technology Transfer Centre establishment. The event was a great opportunity to discuss challenges which Polish universities need to face if they want to strengthen collabora…

…the innovative educational materials, tools and techniques, their implementation, evaluation and sustainability measures. API project will start on 1st December and last until 20th November 2020. UW received approx. 214 000 EUR for that project.   See the full list of selected universities…