Scandinavian Day at the MUG

4.06.2019

We celebrated yet another world culture day. This time in was dedicated to Scandinavia and took place on the 4th June at the MUG. Traditional Scandinavian fika, a meeting with coffee and sweets, awaited the gathered guests.

The participants of the event could try their hand at speaking Scandinavian. There was a short language lesson (Swedish and Danish), which turned out to be a lot of fun, because despite the similarity in the written language, the pronunciation is completely different.

The guest of honor of the event was prof. Maria Sibińska, director of the Institute of Scandinavian Studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Gdańsk.

A lecture on the most important Scandinavian customs, elements of culture, companies and inventions, as well as well-known people, were led by Dominika Bartnik-Światek and Barbara Kuczmarska, assistants at the Institute of Scandinavian Philology Faculty of the University of Gdańsk.

Among the special guests of the event were Dr Marta Huskova – Head of the Department of the Ph.D. Study and Foreign Affairs and Dana Basařová – Erasmus officer, Department of Ph.D. Study and Foreign Affairs. The both visited the MUG with the Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine in Prague.

The meeting was also attended by the dean of the Faculty of Medicine, prof. Maria Dudziak, as well as prof. Michał Żmijewski, deputy dean of the Faculty of Medicine.

What is notable is that the Scandinavians constitute the first largest group of foreign students in our University. Currently, 1/3 of all Swedes studying in Poland are studying at the MUG and thus, we are jokingly called the Swedish tycoon.