Visit of academic staff from Norway within "Education Program - Component II"
In the second week of October, 2021, we hosted representatives of the academic staff from the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway: prof. dr hab. Barbara Gawrońska Pettersson, dr Susan Lynn Erdmann, dr Stephen Darren Dougherty, and dr Thorsten Päplow.
The visit of our guests comes a few weeks after our teachers visited the university in Norway as part of a joint Educational Programme funded from the EEA Grants. Professor Daniel Kalinowski from the Institute of Philology is the coordinator of the project at our university.
The visit of our international guests was filled with various activities. The scholars met with the Vice-Rector for Development and Cooperation, prof. Marek Łukasik, visited the Medical Simulation Centre, took part in the Seventh Edition of the Great Pomerania International Symposium, and held numerous talks about the development of further partnership and cooperation. The academics also spent a day sightseeing our town and its surroundings.
The Education Program, operated by the Polish National Agency (FRSE), was established under the intergovernmental agreement on the implementation of the EEA Financial Mechanism for 2014-2021, concluded between Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Poland.
The main objective of the Programme is to reduce economic disparities and resources in the area of European Economic Area. In the field of education, program activities aim to, inter alia, strengthen Poland and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
The total budget of the Education Program is over € 23 million, of which € 20 million comes from the EEA Grants, and the remaining financing from the government funding.
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