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The meeting of the NAWA Council with participation of the newly appointed chairman of the NAWA Council

An open meeting of the NAWA Council was held at the seat of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) on 4 June 2020.


The NAWA Council meeting, which was held partly remotely, was attended by: Prof. Wojciech Maksymowicz, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education, Dr. Grażyna Żebrowska, Director General of NAWA, and Przemysław Skrodzki, Director of the Department of International Cooperation in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The meeting was opened by the newly appointed chairman of the NAWA Council, Prof. Tomasz Pietrzykowski, professor of the University of Silesia in Katowice.


‘The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange has new tasks to fulfil and further development of the institution is necessary,’ said Prof. Wojciech Maksymowicz, Deputy Minister of Science, introducing the newly appointed members of the NAWA Council who represent the minister in charge of higher education and science, i.e. Prof. Tomasz Pietrzykowski, Chairman of the NAWA Council, and Prof. Tadeusz Faustyn Krzemiński. The Minister introduced also the new deputy chairman of the Council, Prof. Marcin Krawczyński, who is a representative of the Main Council for Science and Tertiary Education (Prof. Krawczyński previously acted as a member of the NAWA Council), and Karolina Pawłowska, the new representative of the minister responsible for public finances.

Wojciech Maksymowicz wished the NAWA Council fruitful work and emphasised that he hoped for good cooperation in furthering the internationalisation of higher education and science.New members of the NAWA Council were appointed by the Minister of Science and Higher Education on 21 May 2020. On 3 June 2020, Prof. Wojciech Maksymowicz met with the new members of the NAWA Council who are representatives of the minister in charge of higher education and science in the seat of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education MNiSW.

During the meeting, Prof. Maksymowicz discussed, among other things, the opportunities for the Agency. ‘The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange faces serious challenges. All institutions in our country have to change the way they operate in order to adapt to epidemiological requirements, which are dynamic and often change. This is a unique challenge in the case of international exchange. Therefore, a very close cooperation between the NAWA Council and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is essential,’ said Prof. Maksymowicz.

 

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