NJUsletter ISSN: 1689-037X TWO PRESIDENTIAL VISITS 69 SPRING/ SUMMER RECTORIAL ELECTIONS 2020 IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY Faculty of Law and Administration Faculty of Philosophy Faculty of History Faculty of Philology Faculty of Polish Studies Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty of Chemistry Faculty of Biology Faculty of Geography and Geology Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology Faculty of Management and Social Communication Faculty of International and Political Studies Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Pharmacy Faculty of Health Sciences Founded in 1364 3 16 faculties campuses 35,922 students, including 4,743 international, over 90 nationalities PhD students Each = 2,000 students = International students 2,356 94 158 8,342 study specialities employees, including programmes 4,509 academics USOS data as of 31.07.2020 In this issue... UNIVERSITY NEWS 2 French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Jagiellonian University Editor: 4 Education means being a complete person JU International 2 Relations Office – Maltese President lecturing at JU 4 6 New JU authorities © Dział Współpracy 7 100th Anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s Międzynarodowej UJ, 2020 birth Publications Officer: FEATURES Agnieszka Kołodziejska-Skrobek 9 JU in touch with the world 10 Coimbra Group 3-Minute Thesis Language consultant: 11 UNA.TEN Maja Nowak-Bończa 6 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Design: Dział Współpracy 14 UNA EUROPA 1Europe kick-off meeting Międzynarodowej UJ 16 International Students 2020 Gala 17 Polish-Brazilian botanical co-operation Translation: 19 DIGIPASS in Amsterdam Agnieszka Kołodziejska-Skrobek 20 From an ex-native speaker: On Becoming Polish 11 Edited in Poland by: Towarzystwo Słowaków STUDENT LIFE w Polsce www.tsp.org.pl 21 Bonjour – Hi. My Canadian experience en français Newsletter is published 23 A research visit to the Cambodian three times a year – in spring, Institute for Cooperation and Peace summer and autumn. 26 Studying on the volcanic Island JEJU www.dwm.uj.edu.pl/newsletter 17 28 UNA Europa Workshop in Paris All information in this ? magazine is for informational NEW PERSPECTIVES purposes only and is, to the best of our knowledge, 29 ISAD becomes a Partner correct at the time of going to press. of New International Programme FRONT COVER: Anna Wojnar ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS /President Macron delivering 30 30 Those who make it happen a guest lecture in Collegium Novum/ Izabela Krajewska /screenshots from one IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 of UNA.TEN via MS Teams project meetings/ 31 Practices at Coimbra Group Universities in response to the COVID-19 ISSN: 1689-037X on-line (as an attachment) Wojnar VIVE LA POLOGNE! VIVE LA FRANCE! VIVE L’EUROPE! French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Jagiellonian University A. Agnieszka Kołodziejska-Skrobek of building a common Europe, he spoke about the challenges that International Relations Office would await young generations. At first, President Macron thanked Rector Nowak for his uesday, 4 February 2020, 12 p.m. It was rainy and chilly, not words of welcome. He mentioned being extremely happy about unusual for a winter’s day in Poland, but a very memorable his visit to Kraków, Poland’s former capital and to the Jagiellonian date for the entire Jagiellonian University community. The University that has been the soul of Poland for many centuries and TJU Rector Professor Wojciech Nowak gave a very warm welcome to educated such universal figures as Nicolaus Copernicus and Karol the special guest, the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Wojtyła, the late Pope John Paul II. The French President stressed Macron with his first visit to the Jagiellonian University. This a deep-rooted friendship between France and Poland, which has meeting was part of the official two-day visit of the French head of not stopped growing since the 11th century, when Saint Stanislaus, state to Poland, and the most important point in the presidential the patron saint of Poland, chose to go and study at the Sorbonne agenda in Kraków was delivering a guest lecture entitled ‘Poland before coming back as a canon and then bishop of Krakow, the and France in Europe’ (La Pologne et la France en Europe) before capital of the kings in those times. students and academics of the JU, on European co-operation and President Macron referred to the year 1400 and the reform of values in the Collegium Novum Assembly Hall. the University of Kraków, inspired by the Sorbonne and desired by Before arriving the University campus, the French President King Władysław II Jagiełło as well as the significant co-operation also visited the Wawel Royal Castle and the Wawel Cathedral. Monsieur le Recteur, Mesdames, Messieurs les Ministres, Mesdames, Messieurs Koprowski les Ambassadeurs, Mesdames et Messieurs les Consuls, Chers A. professeurs, Chers étudiants, Mesdames, Messieurs. Dzien dobry, bardzo się cieszę, że jestem dzisiaj z Państwem w Krakowie /Good morning, I am very happy to be here with you today in Kraków/ said the President of France in Polish. His speech covered multiple topics that ranged from Europe’s common history, shared values by the French and Polish, identity, climate change and energy policy. Drawing special attention to the need 2 SPRING-SUMMER 2020/69 UNIVERSITY NEWS In the JU Rector’s Office – President Meeting with the JU Governance Emmanuel Macron making a signature in the JU Guest Book Wojnar A. through the years and ages between these two universities. Nowadays his lecture with the words “Vive la Pologne! Vive la France! Vive the Jagiellonian University and the Sorbonne are linked by a new l’Europe!” alliance UNA Europa* that will create the European university. Later that afternoon President Macron met the JU Rector President Macron expressed his confidence about renewing the Prof. Wojciech Nowak and the JU governance. This meeting and universities’ historical ties and spearheading a contemporary the preceding guest lecture were the final points of his first official ambition for a Europe of knowledge and youth. presidential visit to Poland and to the Jagiellonian University. In his speech, the French President invoked the hundreds of *UNA Europa Alliance. The University Alliance Europe years of friendship between Poland and France. “For a thousand formally established in Kraków on 1 February 2019 between years of European history, our states have never been at war with the seven leading European universities, i.e. Université Paris 1 each other. We are deeply connected by our share convictions Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), and love of freedom. It is no coincidence that it was in France Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (Italy), University that many Poles found their second home”, said Emmanuel of Edinburgh (Great Britain), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Macron, mentioning Polish historical figures such as Adam (Belgium), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and the Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Frédéric Chopin, Maria Skłodowska- Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). Following one year Curie, and Adam Zagajewski. He stressed that the 20th century was of intense collaboration between the UNA Europa partners and totally different for Poland than for most European countries. Due demonstrating their long-term commitment, the association was to the disruption caused by the violent Nazi German occupation created to ensure the success and sustainability of the alliance. On throughout World War II and the later Soviet regime, Poland was 4 October 2019 UNA Europa welcomed a prestigious new partner a victim and suffered immense losses in its population. Nonetheless, – Helsingin Yliopisto (Finland). in France and in Europe, the Polish nation is a truly European UNA Europa Alliance was created in response to the President nation with achievements in the pursuit of peace, well-illustrated Macron’s first initiatives as president i.e. the idea of establishing several by the Nobel Prizes awarded to its citizens. European Universities, composed of a number of higher education “Europe is not just a market, but first and foremost institutions from at least three EU members. The aim of the initiative a political and peace project. Promoting European identity would be to ensure the highest standards of education, to integrate EU and values is not a marginal, but indeed an existential aspect members and to build a stronger European cultural identity. of it. Distancing ourselves from shared cultural and ideological Nowadays, UNA Europe aims to create a unique mode of co- values is a mistake that will lead to conflicts, and without unity, operation involving joint research, educational programmes and the European Union will not be able to continue its mission.”, working for the benefit of both local and European communities. said the French President. Endeavors undertaken within the UNA Europa framework Delivering the lecture at the Jagiellonian University President will include inventing new forms of education directed to both Macron also talked about the future of Europe. “The young university students and the general population, conducting generation of Europeans will face three great challenges: security, interdisciplinary research in a truly international environment climate change, and education. We will be able to overcome them with the use of member universities’ infrastructure and developing only if we are strong, united and unanimous. The European Union innovative