university of warsaw

UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW


• the largest and one of the best universities in Poland

• flexible comprehensive university - humanities, natural and pure sciences, social sciences outreaching technical and medical universities

• recognized by prestigious international rankings such as the Academic Ranking of World Universities (AKA Shanghai Ranking), the QS Top Universities, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the CHE Excellence Group 2010 (subjects: chemistry, physics)

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UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI

STRATEGIC AIMS

• strong research teams with high international standing

• mobility of the students and academic staff; foreign students and lecturers

• quality of education• comprehensiveness – many

programmes of studies and research fields, adapted to the needs of the labour market and innovative economics and the civic society

• active international collaboration in research and teaching

• gaining funds from various sources


Dynamic, quality-based development

•modernisation and revitalisation•new infrastructure•new investments •campuses integration•country-based new projects


more than 61 000 students including: almost 33 000 full time students almost 19 000 part-time studentsmore than 6500 postgraduate studentsmore than 3000 Ph.D. students

more than 6300 academic staff, including: almost 3300 academic teachers(more than 830 professors)

THE UNIVERSITY IN FIGURES

The University collaborates with ca 1200 foreign institutions, including 390 partnerships within the boundaries of more than 1000 Erasmus agreements and 200 partners from 52 countries within the boundaries of university agreements on direct collaboration.In 2011 more than 7000 students, doctoral students and UW employees went abroad for short-term studies or to lecture. At that time there were ca 5100 foreign visitors at the University of Warsaw.There are also ca 1000 participants (mainly from Eastern Europe as well as Sweden and Germany) of long-term degree studies.

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RESEARCH AND SCIENCE

• leading research centre in Poland

• almost 3000 research topics in 2011

• membership in 43 consortiums and scientific networks

• ca 120 projects in 6. and 7. EU Framework Programme

• participation in 6 projects conduced within the framework of the NMF and 24 undertakings financed by such organisations as, e.g.,: NATO, Howard Hughes Foundation, Welcome Trust, COST, European Science Foundation, European Molecular Biology Organisation

• new interdisciplinary research centres

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RESEARCH AND SCIENCE

The University is a member of 43 consortiums and scientific networks. These are, i.a.,

Optoelectronic Materials and Photonic Structures Laboratory

The National Cyclotron Laboratory (experimental research in low energy nuclear physics)

Pro-Stat (PROtein Selectively Triggering Apoptosis in Tumor cells): PROtein Selectively Triggering Apoptosis in Tumor cells

National Consortium for Hadron Radiotherapy Centre for Research on European Pleistocene

Fauna Centre for Preclinical Research and

Technology

The FOUNDATION FOR POLISH SCIENCE (FNP)

AWARDSThe POLISH NOBEL PRIZE 2011 prof. Tomasz Giaro (Faculty of Law and Administration), for interdisciplinary analysis of the categories of truth in the doctrines of law from antiquity to the present

The POLISH NOBEL PRIZE 2010professor Tadeusz Krygowski (Faculty of Chemistry), for creating the method of quantitative determination of aromaticity of chemical compounds

DISCOVERY of 2011

A team of astronomers including researchers from the international PLANET project and the University of Warsaw Observatory based Polish OGLE survey led by prof. Andrzej Udalski has announced results of statistical studies on, how common extrasolar planets are in the Milky Way.

, published in Nature, 473, pp. 349-352.

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UW is one of the academic centres which has made a great use of the opportunities offered to Poland by its

membership in the European Union.

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R&D: CePT Consortium

consortium of 10 institutions: University of Warsaw, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw Technical University and 7 Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences

a centre for bio-medical research: interdisciplinary basic research, development of diagnostic and therapeutic methods (civilisation diseases, aging)

modern equipment for rapid technological progress and reaching a critical mass comparable to leading European centres

combining efforts of various scientific centres and fields of science

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R&D: CENTRE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

• the campus of mathematical, natural and experimental sciences

• Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, Mathematics, and Informatics as well as the cyclotron in one place

• in the vicinity: the PAS institutes (biochemistry, biophysics, physiology, genetics), the Warsaw Medical Universitythe project is financed mainly from the EU structural funds

• supra-regional importance

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CENTRE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

The CeNT building will have lecture rooms and laboratories for students and Ph.D.

students of biology, chemistry,

biotechnology,informatics, and studies onenvironmental protection.

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R&D: CENTRE OF BIOLOGICAL

AND CHEMICAL SCIENCESCENT III will include:

• 133 modern laboratories in which research will be carried out on, i.a., new sources of energy, radiopharmaceuticals, active techniques and substances in medicine and cosmetology and on natural environment monitoring

• the Expert Analytical Centrer conducting investigations in criminology, archaeometry, environmental protection, functional food technology and pro-health research.

• more than 500 pieces of research equipment i.a., an animaIPET scanner, high-efficiency chromatography columns, diffractometres, CD, Raman, IR, and UV spectrometers, sequenators, cyclers, etc.

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CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS: SEAT of the FACULTIES OF MODERN LANGUAGES

AND OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

laboratories, language learning rooms, conference halls, computer laboratories

completely adapted for the needs of disabled people

a centre for 12 thousand of students, Ph.D. students and academic workers

STUDY PROGRAMMES IN ENGLISH

Long cycle (MA level)- Warsaw International Studies in Psychology

I cycle (BA level)

- American Studies- Archaeology- International Relations - Philosophy of Being, Cognition and Values


II cycle (MA level)

- American Studies- Archaeology

- Chemistry - Environmental Management- Environmental Protection (Erasmus Mundus)- International Business Program - International Economics- International Relations- Philosophy of Being, Cognition and Values- Political Science- Quantitative Finance


III cycle (PhD level)

- From Simple Molecules to Nanostructured and Bioactive Materials- Fundamental Problems of Quantum Gravity and Quantum Field Theory- Mathematical Methods in Natural Sciences- Nano and Bio Science- Practical Approximation Algorithms (PAAl) – studies in Rome - The Traditions of Mediterranean Humanism and the Challenges of Our Times: the Frontiers of Humanity - Towards Advanced Functional Materials and Novel Devices

MBA studies- Executive MBA

- International MBA Programme

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UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW LIBRARY

University of Warsaw Library, located on the bank of the Vistula, has one of the three largest collections of scientific and academic books in Poland.

• books 1 897 474 volumes

• journals 686 277 volumes• special collections: 392 125 volumes

Altogether: 2 975 876 volumes

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The architecture of the University Library itself draws crowds of tourists and inhabitants of Warsaw.

More info: www.uw.edu.pl

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