On November 22 Collegium Civitas hosted a delegation of academics representing Marmara University (Marmara Üniversitesi), Istanbul, Türkiye. The meeting was an opportunity to strengthen academic cooperation and relations in regard to the field of teaching and research as well as student and faculty exchange under the Erasmus+ programme.

In November 2022 Dr Wioletta Małota, Head of the International Business programme, Collegium Civitas visited ILERI University in Lyon under the EU funded Erasmus+ programme. Dr Małota was involved in numerous teaching activities at ILERI.

Collegium Civitas joined the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), an initiative of the European University Association (EUA). Dr Katarzyna Iwińska, Vice-Rector for Scientific Research will be representing our university during the Constitutive Assembly of CoARA early December.

We invite you to read the paper by Collegium Civitas academics Dr. Kerry Longhurst, Dr. Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska and Mrs. Katarzyna Skiert-Andrzejuk “International Higher Education as Foreign Policy: Comparing the Strategies of the EU, China, and Russia Towards Central Asia.” International higher education has become an increasingly prominent element of some states’ policies towards other countries as a flank to traditional foreign policy.

Social Changes in Focus is a project by Collegium Civitas in cooperation with pro science. It aims at promoting science and expertise gathered by Collegium Civitas experts. Follow us on Twitter!

The Collegium Civitas Buddy Program in cooperation with the Student Council and the International Relations Department invites Collegium Civitas students to the (OFFLINE) Q&A Seminar “Russian Invasion of Ukraine (10 months later) - Q&A Seminar for Collegium Civitas Students”. The seminar will take place on Thursday 24th November at 18:30 in lecture hall D.

In this special issue of “Zoon Politikon“ (14/2023), we would like to invite you to reflect on this multifaceted, amorphous, and ubiquitous (as the Covid pandemic seems to have emphatically demonstrated) emotion. We encourage the submission of articles.

In 1977 the General Assembly called for the annual observation of November 29 as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. To commemorate the Solidarity Day the Center for Research on Social and Economic Risks, in cooperation with the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Poland, organized a panel discussion attended by Ambassador Dr. Amal Jadou, Deputy Minister of MFA Palestine, and the Palestinian Ambassador to Poland, Dr. Mahmoud Khalifa.

Following the incident in the Polish village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine please be assured that Collegium Civitas authorities are monitoring the situation closely. We express our sincerest condolences to the families of the victims – two Polish citizens.  We are following the official statements and we are waiting for the results of the investigation. However, the experts assess (incl. security experts from our university) it was a tragic incident not an attack. Furthermore, the international reaction to the incident showed how strong Polish alliance is with NATO and the EU.

On November 5-6 the Fair of Polish universities took place in London, in the Polish Social and Cultural Association POSK. The event was organized by the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London.