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The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki invites staff to 13th Erasmus Staff Training Week and 6th Library Staff Training Week which will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece from 14th till 18th of October 2024.

The main purpose of the event is to widen and strengthen the cooperation with partner institutions, share  different experiences on internationalization and facilitate networking establishment of new partnerships.

13th Erasmus Staff Training Week will include:

Workshops/presentations in:

• Blended Intensive Programmes: Good Practices & Challenges
• Quality Assurance and Erasmus+ course evaluation
• Student Mobility management: Good Practices
• Erasmus Without Paper (EWP) & Dashboard.       

6th Library Staff Training Week will include:

    Workshops/presentations in:

• Presentation of Library of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Reference Service
• "HEAL-Link Consortium: added values services for academics & researchers in Greece"
• Innovation in libraries
• Workshop (digitalization)
• Support Service for People With Disabilities
• Visit to the central and departmental libraries

Participants will be given the opportunity to exchange ideas about fostering student and staff mobility, present their home universities, explore and discuss special topics of interest.

Registration is already opened and lasts till 1st of July, 2024.

Participation Fee: 380 €

Detailed information about the event

The description and rules of the competition can be found here.

Submissions possible until May 27, 2024.

A total of 20,966 institutions were assessed, and those that placed at the top made the Global 2000 list. Leading the ranking, mirroring last year's standings, were: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University.

The ranking included 41 Polish universities and research centres, of which Jagiellonian University (386^th place), University of Warsaw (421^st) and AGH University of Science and Technology (637^th) received the highest marks.

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Universidade de Aveiro invites administrative staff to participate in International Staff Week, which will take place on June 17-21, 2024. 

This event will focus on “Intercultural Communication” and is a great networking opportunity to discuss the respect for all cultures, inclusion, integration and diversity, as well as to promote internationalization and strengthen international partnerships in a stimulating context.

The programme of the event

Registration is available via this form and is open until 31 May,2024.

In case of questions, contact the organiser via the following email address: staffmobility@ua.pt

We would like to thank all TUL employees and students for coming in crowds.

Sun, delicious food, sport, fun and, above all, lots of conversations about the international opportunities offered to all of us by our university and its partners. All this in the beautiful Klepacz Park.

We hope that we will see each other during second edition next year, in an even larger group, to meet interesting people who we often pass in a hurry on our campus.

The picnic, which was fully financed from the EU budget under the Erasmus+ programme, was opened by the director of ICC TUL and coordinator of the Erasmus+ programme at our university, Dr Eng. Dorota Piotrowska, TUL prof.

The "New Technologies for Women - Ukraine" scholarship programme is aimed at Ukrainian students, Ph.D. students, and graduates of secondary schools (starting technical studies in autumn 2024) who are in a difficult financial / life situation due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The program includes:

- 10-month financial scholarship in the amount of PLN 12,000 gross (paid in two tranches),

- technical and soft skills workshops with experts from Intel Technology Poland,

- career counseling sessions and participation in the Buddies mentoring Programme,

and free participation in Perspektywy Women in Tech 2025 - the biggest  STEM, Tech & IT event for women in Europe and Asia.

The "New Technologies for Women - Ukraine" programme is addressed at:

• Ukrainian students and Ph.D. students studying at Polish technical and university colleges in STEM fields (list of tech-universities),
• Ukrainian high school graduates, starting their studies in the field of STEM in the academic year 2024/2025,

with:

• communicative level of English,
• status of a student / doctoral student for the entire next academic year,
• certificate from the university confirming the status of a student / doctoral student.

Applications for the program are accepted until June 30th, 2024. Applicants will be informed about the results by 30th August 2024.

More about the program: https://www.stypendiadladziewczyn.pl/ukraine/

Recruitment for Fulbright Poland programme for a trip to the USA is underway. The scholarships are open to Polish citizens who wish to travel to the United States for research and/or teaching purposes and to pursue graduate studies.

Find out more at: https://fulbright.edu.pl/grants-for-polish-citizens/

The Fulbright programme is the largest academic and cultural exchange programme in the United States. In Poland, the Fulbright Programme has been running for 65 years and has over 5000 alumni, who often emphasise that it is a programme that simply changes lives.

The first edition of Mobility Picnic will take place on May 8, 2024 (Wednesday) between 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. in Klepacz Park on campus B of Lodz University of Technology (near the pond).T

During the event, you will not only have a nice time, but above all, you will make new friends and learn everything about TUL's offer in the field of foreign mobility.

In the programme:

• information stands of the Student Mobility Division, Staff Mobility Division, ECIU and Welcome Point
• games and competitions: giga jenga, egg race, wheel of fortune, badminton, boules, frisbee, three-person pants run, face painting
• something delicious: cotton candy, popcorn, ice cream, lemonade

and many more!

Event co-funded by the European Union.

Free entrance.

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International Cooperation Centre of Lodz University of Technology informs about the possibility of breach of personal data protection in connection with the possibility of access to unauthorized persons to information stored on the email address sao@info.p.lodz.pl. 

For this reason, students and employees of Lodz University of Technology, especially those communicating through the email address sao@info.p.lodz.pl are advised to be vigilant and cautious, including if one has a PESEL registration number setting up an account in the credit and business information system to monitor possible credit activity and ignoring unexpected messages urging any additional actions. 

Unauthorized persons who gained access to the sao@info.p.lodz.pl mailbox could theoretically retrieve phone numbers and e-mail addresses, and may try to use them to steal money using popular methods, such as "a pending package delivery" or "planned electricity shutdown." 

In addition, potentially there is the possibility of identity theft, however, at this point there is no evidence that unauthorized persons have obtained personal information of students and university employees. 

For additional questions and information regarding the breach of data protection stored at sao@info.p.lodz.pl, the Data Protection Officer of Lodz University of Technology can be contacted at phone number: 41 631 20 39 or iod@adm.p.lodz.pl. 

At the same time, we assure you that all corrective measures and procedures have been implemented to keep your data safe. 

In Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering TUL noted a significant progress and it was classified in the 351-400 range. In Chemical Engineering only 5 Polish HEIs were ranked, including TUL (401-430). In Materials Science our university was ranked in the 401-420 range and in Chemistry – between 601 and 650.

The 2024 edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject features 55 individual subjects across five broad subject areas. A total of nearly 1,600 educational institutions from 149 countries were ranked. The ranking considers five indicators - two reputation indicators (academic reputation and employer reputation), two bibliometric indicators (research citations per paper, H-index) and IRN-index, an indicator reflecting the university's ability to diversify the geography of their international research network by establishing sustainable research partnerships with other higher education institutions.  

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