INTERSTUDENT 2015: - waiting for candidates

Increasing number of international students choose Poland as their education destination. Currently this group numbers over 50 000. They have become an integral part of the Polish academic environment. The INTERSTUDENT competition is the first initiative fully focused on the international student community in Poland.

The competition is aimed at international students in Poland at the Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level. Both foreign nationals and students with dual citizenship are eligible. Candidates should be active in such fields as culture, social life, ecology or sports and promote multicultural ideas among their peers. They are also expected to be in a good academic standing.

In prevoius year the Polish universities nominated 120 candidates for the INTERSTUDENT contest including students from Ukraine, Belarus, India, Albania, China, Haiti, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Israel, Italy, Russia, USA, Canada, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal, Pakistan, Romania, Serbia, Japan, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Uzbekistan.

Candidates for INTERSTUDENT 2015 contest can be sumbitted by professors, tutors, university authorities, international offices, student governments, as well as candidate’s colleagues.

The results of the INTERSTUDENT 2015 contest will be announced in Gdansk on January 21, 2015 at the annual conference "Foreign Students in Poland 2016".

The INTERSTUDENT Competition is organized by Perspektywy Educational Foundation within "Study in Poland" programme.

Honorary Patronage: Professor Wiesław Banyś, President of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (CRASP).

Partners: Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (CRASP), Polish Students Parliament, Poland’s PhD Students Union (KRD).

For more information please visit www.studyinpoland.pl/interstudent