Polish student Aleksandra Pędraszewska has won the Undergraduate of the Year Award. This year’s winners were announced during the Award Ceremony, which took place on 24th April 2015 in London.
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Over 200 works by 135 Polish artists, including Jerzy Nowosielski and Jan Cybis, made their way to Skopje after the tragic earthquake of 1963. Half a century later, this hitherto unknown collection of Polish contemporary art can be seen in one place for the first time thanks to an online exhibition mounted at the Google Cultural Institute by Poland’s Foreign Ministry and Embassy in Skopje.
“It’s worth being decent,” used to say Professor Władysław Bartoszewski (19th February 1922- 24th April 2015), former foreign minister, historian, writer, activist of the Polish Underground State, and former prisoner at the Auschwitz German Nazi concentration camp.
On Saturday, May 9th, London will be overtaken by the Polish culture and tradition celebrations. It is when the second edition of the Lebara Days of Poland Festival will take place in one of the most recognisable places in the British capital, next to the Tower Bridge and the seat of the Mayor of London.
The event is held under Link to Poland’s media patronage.
This year almost 40 teams from twelve countries have a chance to compete in the second edition of the European Rover Challenge, an international competition of Mars robots which will take place in Podzamcze near Kielce. Among the competitors there are: the American Yale University, multiple laureates of the American edition of the competition from the Białystok University of Technology or the last year laureates of ERC from the Kielce University of Technology and the Cairo University. The competition will be judged by experts from the European Space Agency.
The event is held under Link to Poland’s media patronage.
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The 10th edition of Polish Cinema Days is now taking place in Ukrainian cities. The festival has been officially launched in Kyiv by Jerzy Stuhr, the event’s guest of honour. The retrospective was organized by the Polish Institute in Kyiv along with the Polish Consulates General in Odessa, Vinnytsia, Lutsk and Kharkiv.
The first meeting of the Polish Professional Women in the Netherlands took place on 17 April 2015 at the Bilderberg Garden Hotel in Amsterdam. The meeting was attended by nearly 30 Polish female professionals, social activists and business women.
“This is a symbolic day, a day when after many years an important medieval manuscript returns to a place it comes from. What’s also symbolic is that we can reach to our origins, and that we’ve managed to bring this document back to Plock together,” Minister Grzegorz Schetyna said during the handover ceremony of the Plock Pontifical.