Warsaw University of Technology with NAWA funding for academic cooperation with Ukraine

Prof Jan Słyk (left) signs an agreement with NAWA Director Dr Dawid Kostecki.
Photo by Piotr Szczepański.

The funding could be received only by Polish universities cooperating in alliances of European universities within 'European Universities Initiative'. These are international partnerships of universities that are intended to become the universities of the future, enabling students to combine their studies in several countries through innovative forms of education, and university staff to cooperate systemically with foreign partner universities. We will develop academic cooperation with National Technical University of Ukraine in Kyiv and Lviv Polytechnic National University, which are associated partners of the ENHANCE Alliance (ENHANCE Network Partners). In November 2022, ETH Zurich, Delft University of Technology and Gdansk University of Technology joined ENHANCE.

The project proposal was prepared by the Centre for International Cooperation in collaboration with the faculties and the Foreign Language Centre at WUT. The project will be implemented in 2023, with a budget of 992 750 PLN. As part of the NAWA project, we are planning the participation of researchers and students from Lviv and Kyiv Technical Universities in study visits, internships, summer and winter schools, as well as conferences and language courses organised at Warsaw University of Technology, and the development of teaching materials with the participation of academic teachers from both Ukrainian technical universities .

"Warsaw University of Technology is carrying out many activities for the benefit of the Ukrainian community. After the outbreak of the war, we launched a special recruitment system to enable Ukrainian students to continue their studies at our University. We will also continue our cooperation with Ukrainian universities in the ENHANCE Alliance and in the NAWA project. "– said Prof. Jan Słyk.

The NAWA project is a follow-up of the 'Solidarity with Ukraine' programme, under which Warsaw University of Technology has allocated 530 000 PLN from NAWA to pay scholarships to 53 students.

The event was attended by Dr Tomasz Rzymkowski – Secretary of State at the Ministry of Education and Science, Dr Dawid Kostecki – Director of NAWA and vice-rectors of Warsaw universities which are members of 'European Universities' alliances: Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw School of Economics and Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Grzegorz Robak, Director of the Centre for International Cooperation, was also present.

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Standing from left: Dr Tomasz Rzymkowski, Prof. Jan Słyk, Grzegorz Robak, Dr Dawid Kostecki.
Photo: Piotr Szczepański