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What doom and gloom? Architects rejoice after 2020 sees them scoop up heap of international awards

Architects had reason to celebrate 2020 as a host of Polish building designs impressed judges and picked up an array of international awards. Press materials

TFN’s Blanka Konopka looks at the top five award-winning designs.

Online Polish classes for foreigners organised by Polish university

About 100 students from around the world will be learning about the Polish language and culture during the an online summer school organized by the University of Silesia in Cieszyn, southern Poland, in August.

Five Polish universities join European Universities Initiative

The European Commission announced on Thursday that five Polish universities have been added to the consortia of the European Universities Initiative.

Katowice boffins come first in space balloon comp

The brainbox team from the University of Silesia created their winning space capsules, which can be attached to stratospheric balloons, to research what impact the environment in space has on biological materials.

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
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Farmer spends seven years lovingly restoring crumbling old Czartoryski palace after ‘feeling sorry’ for it

Passing the abandoned palace in Lower Silesian every day on his way to work, crop farmer Józef Żałobniak eventually decided to buy the place and turn it into a hotel spa saying: “I wanted to save it for other people to enjoy. That was my dream.”

The first report:

  • President Duda sends congratulations to President Joe Biden
  • Poland's photovoltaic capacity exceeds 3.6 GW
  • EC confirms Polish aid programme for pandemic hit companies
  • Poland spends over EUR 88 million on child psychiatry in 2020
  • Inflation in Poland may return to around 3 pct - Monetary Council

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Moving on down the line: how a narrow-gauge railway staved off economic death to become the heart of a community

Still operating, the Pleszew line has embraced the future by becoming a cultural centre.

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