On 8 April 2025, the first meeting of the National Team for the Development of a Strategy for the Internationalisation of Polish Higher Education and Science was held at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
During the official ceremony, the appointments to the National Team for the Development of a Strategy for the Internationalisation of Polish Higher Education and Science were received:
1) Dr Katarzyna Maniszewska - Pro-rector for international cooperation at Collegium Civitas, representative of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Non-Public Universities.
Academic, specialising in security issues and international relations, expert on the internationalisation of higher education. Since 2018, she has been the pro-rector of the University Civitas (formerly: Collegium Civitas) for international cooperation.
Scholarship holder of the Kosciuszko Foundation (2024; George Washington University), director of the ‘Security and Society in the Information Age’ programme implemented in Poland for US students. Author of articles and analyses devoted to issues of internationalisation of higher education, as well as numerous scientific publications on international security threats.
Lectures at the Civitas University, the University of Białystok and guest lectures at institutions in Poland and abroad (including West Virginia University, Philippine Public Safety College and others). Expert of the European network EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation, member of the Council of the Educational Enterprise Foundation.
She was elected President of the Board of the Kosciuszko Foundation Scholars Association in 2025.
2) Dr hab. Anna Jurkowska-Zeidler, prof. UG - Pro-rector for Cooperation and Internationalisation of the University of Gdańsk, representative of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland.
Lawyer, Doctor of Laws, Professor at the University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Law and Administration, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gdańsk for Cooperation and Internationalisation.
Her research specialisation is financial market law and her research interests include financial market security and financial stability issues, both in the national, European and international dimension. She is vice-chancellor of the European University of the Seas - SEA-EU.
She is the first Chair of the University Internationalization Committee of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities.
3) Dr Anna Plater- Zyberk - Director of the Office for International Cooperation, Polish Academy of Sciences.
She is responsible for coordinating the Academy's bilateral and multilateral international programmes.
Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, she has coordinated the Academy's efforts to support the Ukrainian scientific community, including a more than $30 million programme in collaboration with the US NAS and the UK Royal Society. During the pandemic, she served as secretary of the COVID-19 Team, for which she and her team were honoured with the Academy's highest award, the Nicholas Copernicus Medal.
From 2011 to 2016, she created the first NCN International Cooperation Team, which she led in establishing the first NCN bilateral programmes (Beethoven), the first multilateral programmes like Era-Net and JPI (HERA, QuantERA, and others) and the first Polonez programme. She received her PhD in linguistics from Jagiellonian University after an internship at the Metaphor Lab in Amsterdam.
She also holds a European Master of Translation Studies and an MA in Anthropology and a BA in Cultural Management from Jagiellonian University.
In 2018, she was awarded the Japan Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research. In 2022, the US Department of State named her a Distinguished Humphrey Fellow and funded an internship at the Harvard Kennedy School.
4) Dr hab. Dominik Antonowicz - Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń - Head of the Department of Research on Science and Higher Education, representative of the General Council for Science and Higher Education.
He researches public policies in the field of higher education, international comparative research in education and the analysis of university regimes and governance.
He graduated from UMK (Sociology) and the University of Birmingham (Public Management), and worked at the Center of Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente and the Centro de Investigação de Políticas do Ensino Superior (CIPES) at the University of Porto (Portugal). He has held fellowships from the British Government (Chevening Scholar), the Foundation for Polish Science (‘Start’ and ‘Columbus’) and NAWA (Bekker).
Head of the Department of Research in Science and Higher Education at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
5) Dr Łukasz Gołota - Deputy Director General of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange.
Graduated in law and international relations from the University of Warsaw. He also studied for one semester at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
Doctor of Social Sciences, specialist in the field of international relations, associated with the University of Warsaw, where he is employed as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies. His work involved building an academic international network, and he held academic internships at, among others, Peking University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Laureate of the ‘Modern University’ programme implemented at the UW. ‘Visiting Professor’ at Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok. As part of his research and teaching duties, he participated in many international projects, visited, taught and gave seminars at more than 40 universities in Europe, Asia, North America, among others: Calcutta University (India), Daegu University (South Korea), Heidelberg University (Germany), Dublin City University (Ireland), Tec de Monterrey (Mexico), Sichuan University (China), Shanghai International Studies University, University of Hanoi (Vietnam), International Christian University (Japan), Northeastern Illionois University (USA), University of Catania (Italy), Istambul University (Turkey), Universita di Bologna (Italy), Vysoka Economicka Skola (Czech Republic) or Jawahral Nehru University (India). Author and manager of the project ‘Increase of EU's economic potential in relations with China’ implemented by a consortium of European universities under the ‘Transfer of innovations’ programme.
Participant in the project ‘Studies on Contemporary Poland and Central Europe at Asian Universities’, co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Involved in the development of English-language programmes at the UW.
He is an expert on the international trading system, international political economy and the Asia-Pacific area.
6) Łukasz Marczak - Representative of the Conference of Rectors of Public Vocational Universities.
Head of the Science Department for International Cooperation and Relations with the Environment, associate at the Stanislaw Staszic Academy of Applied Sciences in Piła.
The Director General of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, Dr Wojciech Karczewski, chairs the work of the Team.
