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More foreign students in Poland

Most popular among foreign students are Warsaw University (pictured) and the renowned Jagiellonian University in Kraków, southern Poland. Tomasz Gzell/PAP

The number of foreign students in Poland is growing steadily, this year around 85,000 foreigners are enrolled in Polish universities, concluded the participants in a Monday-launched "Foreign students in Poland 2020" conference in Łódź, central Poland.

Warsaw holds women's equality conference

To mark the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) held a conference on Wednesday on equal opportunities for women in public life.

President appeals for putting more emphasis on social services

Polish President Andrzej Duda said at Wednesday's conference, devoted do social politics, that in order to build the country in a way that meets the needs of citizens, far more attention must be paid to the social services.

Future of media discussed at Polish Press Agency conference

People, supported by modern technologies, are the future of media, said Minister of Digital Affairs Marek Zagorski during the 2nd Media of the Future conference, organised by the Polish Press Agency in cooperation with international experts, on Wednesday, in Warsaw.

PAP to hold Media of the Future conference

Experts from IESE Business School, the Poynter Institute journalism school and the global accountancy firm PwC, will meet in Warsaw on December 4 to debate the latest trends, innovations and business initiatives on the media market at the Media of the Future conference organised by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

University of Gdansk to host 2019 Global Law Deans' Forum

The Global Law Deans' Forum and the accompanying International Association of Law Schools (IALS) conference will be hosted in Poland for the first time in 2019, at the university of Gdansk in north Poland from September 18 to 22, the university has announced.

Katowice prepares for World Urban Forum

Southern Poland's industrial capital Katowice is getting ready to host the 2022 World Urban Forum (WUF), one of the biggest UN conferences.

Conference on climate and industry transformation held in Warsaw

A conference entitled People and Climate – Solidarity and Just Transition, a follow up to last December's UN climate summit hosted by the southern Polish city of Katowice, was held at Warsaw's Hilton Hotel on Wednesday.

US to host Middle East focused conference in Poland next month

The United States will hold a global conference in Poland devoted to the situation in the Middle East, especially in Iran, the US Department of State informed on Friday. The conference is scheduled on February 13-14.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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