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Lecturers from Ilia State University at the University Centre for Languages visit
Ilia State University lecturers (Tbilisi, Georgia), Ms. Keti R. Janjibukhashvili (Team Leader/ Academic English/ EFL Teacher; MA in Education Management), Ms. Ana Laitadze (General English/EFL Teacher; MA in Linguistics; PhD in Public Administration ), Ms. Inga Koniashvili (Academic English/EFL Teacher; PhD in Social Sciences, Mass Communication and Journalism), and Ms. Mariana Mentesashvili (General English/EFL Teacher), visited us on a KA171 training mobility on online language teaching between 12-16th November 2024.
GUESTS FROM TIBILISI VISIT TORUŃ
From 4 to 8 November 2024, UCJO was visited by participants of the LEnthusiasts Virtual Language Club from Georgia.
Chinese Language at the University Center for Foreign Languages
The free Chinese language course at the University Centre for Foreign Languages, taught by native speaker Tan Dinghua, is proving to be a popular choice among students at Nicolaus Copernicus University.
YUFE - Ukraine Seminar: Lifelong Learning in the Times of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) - 17-19.09.2024, UUCFL, NCU
The NCU University Centre for Foreign Languages is hosting the YUFE-Ukraine Seminar: Lifelong Learning in the Times of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity). The seminar focuses on the challenges and importance of lifelong learning in difficult times as well as on individual needs of partner universities in Ukraine and across Europe.
YUFE - Ukraine Seminar: LLL in the Times of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity)
We would like to invite you to the YUFE - Ukraine Seminar: LLL in the Times of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) to be held in Toruń, Poland.
We will contact you with further details very soon.
ANOTHER VISIT TO IBSU
From 10 to 14 June 2024, Kamila Szczepanowska, M.A., visited the IBSU Law School in Tbilisi. This is another visit during which the COIL mini language project, which took place in the second semester of 2023/2024, was summed up.
International Conference on the Future of Teaching and Education
From April 26 to 28, 2024,the eighth edition of International Conference on the Future of Teaching and Education was held in Madrid . The conference is organized by the Global Knowledge Sharing association, bringing together scientists, academicians, governmental and non-governmental institutions.
A Showcase of Legal Debates
The 2nd International Student Conference, hosted by Masaryk University and Nicolaus Copernicus University, marked another successful gathering of legal minds.
Panel Discussion on Platform Work
On 22 April, 2024, under the auspices of UCJO, the second virtual discussion panel of the LEnthusiasts Language Club was held with the participation of Polish and Georgian law students from the Nicolaus Copernicus University and the International Black Sea University.
MEETING OF THE MANAGEMENT TEAMS OF THE UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE CENTRES ‘FOR-UNI’
On 19 April 2024 another meeting of the Management Teams of University Language Centres ‘FOR-UNI’ took place.
In the Heat of Debate!
Join us for the 2nd Student Hybrid Conference co-hosted by Nicolaus Copernicus University and Masaryk University.
Toruń Meets Brno: 2nd International Student Conference
Join us for the 2nd edition of the hybrid conference, co-hosted by Masaryk University and Nicolaus Copernicus University.
ARCTIC MADNESS
From February 26th to March 2nd, 2024, Ms. Joanna Ososińska-Ciechomska and Ms. Ewa Kowalska conducted classes which were part of the course titled "Arctic Madness – Sustainability in Entrepreneurship," organized by Oulu University of Applied Sciences (OAMK) in Finland as part of the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Erasmus+.
LEGAL WEBINAR FOR LANGUAGE CLUB
On Friday 22 March 2024 at 12:00 Katarzyna Jachimowicz, PhD from the NCU Faculty of Law and Administration run a webinar on:
Implementation of EU Directives into a Domestic Legal System,
for participants of the international mini project of a Student Language Club.
Cooperation beyond borders
Exchanging curricula, systems and ways of teaching English for Specific Purposes and establishing international contacts - these are the aims of the YUFE - Ukraine ESP Contact Seminar, which took place from 5 to 7 December at NCU's University Centre for Foreign Languages.
Successful International Collaboration on Legal Podcasts Yields Valuable Skills for Students
We are delighted to announce the successful completion of a groundbreaking collaboration between students of Public Administration at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and students of Law at Masaryk University in Brno implemented in 2023/24.
IBSU- International Black Sea University
On October 23-27, 2023, a group of UCJO lecturers, as part of the Erasmus+ mobility program, visited Tbilisi at the invitation of the partner Faculty of Economic Sciences at the International Black Sea University.
Erasmus in Georgia
From October 16 to 20, 2023, UCJO staff (Karolina Wisniewska and Jacek Wełniak, MA - English language, and Lukasz Piotrowski, MA - Russian language) visited the Akaki Tsereteli State University in Kutaisi, Georgia, as part of the Erasmus+ mobility program.
International Student Projects
From October 30 to November 3, 2023, Agnieszka Pawlikowska, representing the University Language for Foreign Languages, visited Brno as part of the "Staff Mobility for Teaching" grant within the Erasmus+ program.
Visit at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
On October 16-20, 2023 Joanna Ososińska-Ciechomska from the University Center for Foreign Languages visited the Language Center at Carlos III University of Madrid - a YUFE partner university under the KA107 Erasmus+ grant.
Sorbonne Nouvelle in the autumn
From 9 to 13 October 2023, Anna Hućko, had the opportunity to visit Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, NCU's partner in the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) alliance.
English for Entrepreneurship – a blended intensive language course. Erasmus+ BIP programme
From 24 to 28 July, the University Centre for Foreign Languages (UCJO) hosted students from YUFE partner universities in Antwerp, Rijeka and Cyprus, as well as students of the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, who took part in the onsite part of the blended intensive language course entitled:"English for Entrepreneurship", implemented as part of the+ BIP program.
Visit to Epoka University in Tirana
From May 8th to 12th, 2023, the teachers from the University Language Center (Uniwersyteckie Centrum Języków Obcych - UCJO) - Katarzyna Gałka, Ewa Kowalska, Hanna Łysiak, and Joanna Ososińska-Ciechomska, visited Epoka University in Albania (https://www.epoka.edu.al/home) as part of the KA107 Erasmus+ grant.
A visit to Tbilisi
From 26.03 to 01.04, Jacek Wełniak, M.A., from UCJO, paid a visit to Ilia State University in Tbilisi as part of Erasmus+ teacher mobility.
Visit in Nikosia
The cooperation with the Language Centre of the University of Cyprus started together with the BIP Language Project entitled: English for Entrepreneurship, co-funded by the European Union.
Learning a Foreign Language with YUFE
A foreign language course: English for Entrepreneurship, dedicated to students of business and legal programmes,
has recently started in the NCU University Centre of Foreign Languages.
YUFE at CEL/ELC Forum in Sevilla, 1-2 December 2022
Four members of the YUFE Language Centres subgroup (WP3-LC) attended the 2022 CEL/ELC Forum on ‘Languages in European University Alliances: challenges and issues’: Christine Engelen, University of Antwerp (Belgium), Lauri Tolkki, University of Eastern Finland (Finland), Friederike Weiss, University of Bremen (Germany) and Joanna Wińska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). The conference was organised by a Faculty of Philology at the University of Sevilla on 1 and 2 December 2022 at the University of Sevilla, Spain.
Legal Issues in Business - Podcasting Project
From 10-14 October 2022, a representative of the NCU Foreign Languages Centre, Agnieszka Pawlikowska, visited Masaryk University in Brno (https://www.muni.cz/en) as part of the KA103 Erasmus+ grant.
YUFE Seminar in University of Antwerp
Between the 9th and 11th of May 2022, the University of Antwerp (Belgium) hosted the first physical meeting of the representatives of the language centres in the YUFE consortium.