With the start of September, students all over Poland rushed to school. Similarly, the school year
began in the UK, where Polish schools such as Saturday Schools run by the Polish Educational
Society (Polska Macierz Szkolna) provide young people of Polish descent with the opportunity to
acquaint themselves with history and language of their parents' homeland.
The history of the Polish Educational Society dates back as far as World War II and today the
institution has some hundred schools under its patronage, offering education as well as organizing
quizzes on Poland, publishing periodicals, running bookshops and preparing teaching aids for
Polish students and teachers. Naturally, Saturday Schools give extra-curricular classes that
complement the British curriculum. They teach Polish language, history, geography, singing,
religion and folk dances.
Warsaw Academy representatives took part in minorities festival in Chisinau Moldova organized on the Day of Minorities on Sunday 18th of September.
Polish minority is very active in Moldova. It is estimated to be more than 200 thousand Moldovians with the Polish roots. The population of Moldova is very active and mobile. It is estimated that more than 20% of the whole population lives, works and opens business activities in European Union countries.
After long discussion with president of The Polish Promotional Programme Foundation Krzysztof Przybył we managed to convince him to support our project and we signed the Agreement of Cooperation in Promotion of E-bridge project. The Polish Promotional Programme Foundation is very huge organizations with a couple thousand of members both physical and legal persons. They are really interested in development of European cooperation by supporting mobility especially among young people and senior citizens.
Seminar Mobility of graduates on the European labour market took place in Warsaw at Łazarski University on Friday 22nd of July 2011 with participation of the representatives of Ministry of Regional Development, Ministry of Education and Leonardo da Vinci programme representatives. More than 50 participants were present during the seminar.
A couple of days ago on July 1st Poland started the period of the Presidency of European Union, lasting for 6 months. Poland would like to pay a special attention to the most essential problems facing European Union and find solutions for further development.
Among the most essential achievements in the integration process of European Union is quoted Schengen Agreement started in 1985. The basic target of this agreement was abolishment of frontier control in all the European Union member countries. Poland entered in so called Schengen area in 2007. The target of this agreement seems to be carried out with a real success, but the process seems to be slowed recently and even going in the opposite direction.
