By Bartek Walczak 2008

Institute of Political Science and Journalism

Adam Mickiewicz University

Collegium Polonicum

European Studies

European University Viadrina

Collegium Polonicum – an example of European cooperation

The Collegium Polonicum is a cross-border, academic institution which was jointly brought into being and is being maintained by the European University Viadrina and the Adam Mickiewicz University. Against the background of an expanding Europe, it will develop into an academic and cultural meeting place between Poland and Germany open to teachers and students from all over Europe.

Just 50 meters from the border bridge in Slubice and located at a place which offers ideal spatial and organizational conditions for a cross-border teaching and research institution, a modern building, the biggest single investment in Polish higher education this decade. The client, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, has undertaken this huge project in order to create, in cooperation with the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) the place of work of the Collegium Polonicum. The European University Viadrina is only a few hundred meters away as the crow flies. In the future - students, teachers, trainers and trainees will be able to attend lectures and courses on both sides of the border on one day. For the 5,100 students based here already (60% Germans, 30% Poles, 10% other nationalities) who live either in Frankfurt or in Slubice, the border has long since ceased to exist.

.Through the Collegium Polonicum, Słubice (19.000 inhabitants), and Frankfurt-on-Oder (66.000 inhabitants), the German „Gateway to the East” will move even closer together.

Partner universities

The Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznan was founded in 1919 and, with over 54,000 students, it is one oft he famous universities in Poland today. It has 13 faculties divided into 38 courses of study and 180 specializations. Over 2,600 lecturers work at the university. Contacts with about 130 partner universities play a major role.

The European University Viadrina (EUV) was founded in 1991. It aims to act as a bridge between Eastern and Western Europe, especially between Germany and Poland. The Viadrina has three faculties divided into five courses of study. The Modem Languages Center and the extensive modem library play a major role as well as the three research institutes -the Interdisciplinary Center of Ethics, the Frankfurt Institute of Transformation Studies and the Heinrich von Kleist Institute of Literature and Politics.

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