"Equality in Diversity / Równość w Różnorodności" – debate as part of „Diverse & Equal” campaign

The Medical Univeristy of Gdańsk in cooperation with the Marshal’s Office of Pomorskie Voivodeship, the City of Gdańsk, the University of Gdańsk and the Fahrenheit Union of Universities in Gdańsk from the beginning of January 2023 has been implementing the second stage of the Culture of Respect campaign dedicated to equality and equal treatment in the broadest sense, and entitled Diverse & Equal.

As part of this campaign, an event was organised. The speakers of the debate, entitled Equality in Diversity / Równość w Różnorodności Students and Alumni of the MUG and our special Guest Mr. Andrzej Ziółkowski, traveller and author of the albums The Inward Moment – The Human Being and The Sacred” and „Universal Wisdom.

The event will take place on 6th of June 2023 at 4 p.m. in Auditorium Primum, Prof. Olgierd Narkiewicz Memorial Hall at Atheneum Gedanense Novum GUMed (al. Zwycięstwa 41/42, Gdańsk) and will be broadcast live on MUG’s YouTube channel. NA recording of the debate with English translation will be made available on University’s channel a few days later. The statements of the debate participants will be translated live by a Polish Sign Language interpreter.

The objectives of the debate is to bring diversity of our academic community to light and focus, inspire and reinforce positive attitude and appreciation of diversity in our academic community, and emphasize the need for equality and discuss our individual and collective actions to make it reality at the University and beyond.

We also wish to encourage the members of the academic community of the Medical University of Gdańsk to get involved and share their views, opinions, and ideas regarding equality and equal treatment in any context to the email address of the Culture of Respect campaign respect@gumed.edu.pl.