INTERSTUDENT 2015 - waiting for candidates

3.12.2015

Increasing number of international students choose Poland as their education destination. Currently this group numbers over 50 000. They have become an integral part of the Polish academic environment. The INTERSTUDENT competition is the first initiative fully focused on the international student community in Poland.

The competition is aimed at international students in Poland at the Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level. Both foreign nationals and students with dual citizenship are eligible. Candidates should be active in such fields as culture, social life, ecology or sports and promote multicultural ideas among their peers. They are also expected to be in a good academic standing.

In prevoius year the Polish universities nominated 120 candidates for the INTERSTUDENT contest including students from Ukraine, Belarus, India, Albania, China, Haiti, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Israel, Italy, Russia, USA, Canada, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal, Pakistan, Romania, Serbia, Japan, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Uzbekistan.

Candidates for INTERSTUDENT 2015 contest can be sumbitted by professors, tutors, university authorities, international offices, student governments, as well as candidate’s colleagues.

The results of the INTERSTUDENT 2015 contest will be announced in Gdansk on January 21, 2015 at the annual conference “Foreign Students in Poland 2016” in Medical University of Gdańsk. In 2015 Gabrielle Karpinsky, students of Medical University Gdańsk won the prestigious Interstudent contest in the master degree category.