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With over 500 universities around the world hooked in, Wojciech Podobas says his Student Coin could be the next big cryptocurrency

STC founder and CEO Wojciech Podobas says that “in thirty years tokens will be as mainstream as Facebook profiles, everyone will have their own personal token.” Kalbar/TFN

Student Coin (STC), aimed at revolutionizing the way students make a living and gain occupational experience while still studying, is now operating in over 500 universities around the world including MIT, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge and could be the next Facebook of cryptocurrencies, says its founder.

Pole among candidates for Nobel Prize in physics

Professor Artur Ekert, a Pole working at Oxford University, is considered to be one of the candidates for this year’s Nobel Prize in physics, the Swedish TT News Agency has reported, citing the rankings of the American company Clarivate Analytics.

Oarsome! Kraków lad to set the pace at Oxford-Cambridge boat race

The Boat Race is one of the oldest sporting events in the world, attracting up to 250,000 members of the public as well as Oxbridge students and alumni to the banks of Thames, with tens of millions of others watching it on TV.

Brainy Beata bags chief economist slot at EBRD, becoming first woman EVER to hold the job

Beata Javorcik comes to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development having worked at the World Bank in Washington DC. She also has a PhD in Economics from Yale University and is the first woman in history to hold the title of Statutory Professorship in Economics at the University of Oxford.

Oxford becomes partner city of Wrocław

Cooperation including in the fields of education, sport, culture and protection of historical sites is foreseen in a partnership agreement signed by Oxford and Wrocław (southwestern Poland).

Viral IT girl uses her talents to boost Pakistan’s tourism

Oxford-educated Polish vlogger Ewa Zubek (a.k.a. Eva Zu Beck) once took a fledgling start-up to 10m monthly visitors. She now hopes to do the same with Pakistan by showing her hundreds of thousands of online fans the country’s delights

Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
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’.

The first report:

  • Opposition presents pandemic aid programme
  • Ruling Law and Justice continues to have highest voter support - poll
  • Belarus protests Enduring Soldiers commemoration in east Poland
  • Poland’s Świątek wins Adelaide International tennis tournament
  • PM presents National Recovery Plan

Exclusive

‘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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