A welcome meeting was held at the Wóycicki Campus for 52 foreign Erasmus+ students from 12 countries who will study at UKSW in the winter semester of the academic year 2024-2025.
– Welcome to the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. We are proud that you have chosen our University from among many others – said Aleksandra Zając, Director of the International Relations Department, welcoming the Erasmus+ students. – The tour of the Wóycicki Campus will be preceded by presentations, during which you will receive the necessary information about studying at UKSW, legalizing your stay in Poland, and planned events. In case of any questions or concerns, please contact our Welcome Center, which supports foreign guests in the process adapting to our university and life in Poland.
The Welcome Centre has been operating at UKSW since September 2023. It is responsible for organizing the stay of foreign students, doctoral students, and academic staff at our University. International guests and students at UKSW can count on help in dealing with administrative and accommodation matters. The Welcome Centre staff also handle initiatives related to the integration of foreigners into the academic community. In the near future, the Welcome Centre will organize adaptation workshops for newly arrived students on Polish culture, including traditions, as well as the Polish language.
First Steps at UKSW
Erasmus Student Network UKSW is part of the Erasmus Student Network International, an international association that connects 42 countries. For seventeen years, it has been supporting foreign students at our university, helping them settle in at our university and, more broadly, in Warsaw. It organizes cultural events, joint outings, and trips.
– We are looking forward to welcoming Erasmus+ students – said Magdalena Pernal, a student at the UKSW Faculty of Law and Administration and chair of the Erasmus Student Network UKSW. – Everyone who signs up for the “Buddy” project will receive a mentor, one of twenty-five student volunteers from our university.
“Buddy” will be the first guide, “a friendly soul” for our guests, thanks to whom they will feel more at ease.
Fernanda from Portugal will study psychology at our university. She came to UKSW encouraged by the opinions of friends who had studied in Warsaw as part of the Erasmus+ program.
Aleksandra from Romania is at UKSW for the second time. A history student researching Polish-Romanian relations in the Middle Ages, she became so attached to Poland and Poles that, after her first stay in our country, she established contact with the Polish diaspora in Romania and learned Polish. Today, as part of the Erasmus+ program, she returns for her Master’s studies at the Faculty of History.
Frida from Germany will study political science. Studying at UKSW was her first choice. Our University immediately seemed friendly to her, its “human dimension” encouraging her, and the relatively small group of Erasmus students will allow her to make closer acquaintances.
Anna from Italy, who will study Early Childhood Education as part of the Erasmus+ program, came to UKSW thanks to a recommendation from her sister, a student at our university, who was impressed by the high expertise and commitment of our lecturers.
52 students from 12 countries
– We are very happy about growing interest in studying at our university – said Rev. Professor Ryszard Sadowski, PhD, Dsc, Associate Professor, Vice-Rector for Science and International Cooperation. – In the upcoming academic year, our university will host 45% more international students than last year. For the first time, students from Mexico and Georgia have come to us as part of Erasmus+ KA171, which is the best proof of the development of our cooperation with universities outside the European Union.
At UKSW, 52 students from 12 countries are studying in the 2024/2025 winter semester as part of the Erasmus+ program. They come from Italy, Portugal, Spain, Türkiye, Germany, Georgia, France, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Romania, Ukraine, and Slovakia. They are present at the Faculty of Law and Administration, the Faculty of Educations, the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences – the School of Exact Sciences, the Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Christian Philosophy, and the Faculty of Medical Science – Collegium Medicum. The largest group of students will study at the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences.
Erasmus+ is an educational exchange program within the European Union. Students have the opportunity to travel abroad for part of their studies to a partner university. They can also complete an internship or a postgraduate internship in a foreign enterprise, research institute, laboratory, or organization. Students in at least the second year of first-cycle studies, the second year of long cycle studies, the first year of second-cycle studies, and participants in the Doctoral School may take part in the recruitment.
04 October 2024
