• Accreditation type: Erasmus Charter for Higher Education ERAPLUS-ECHE
• Accreditation reference: PL WARSZAW01
• Legal representative Title: Professor Gender: Male First Name: Sambor Family Name: GRUCZA Department : – Position: Vice-Rector for Cooperation and Human Resources E-mail: prorektor.wspolpraca@adm.uw.edu.pl Telephone 1: +48 22 55 20 443
• Contact Person (Dane osoby odpowiedzialnej za realizację projektu przez jednostkę organizacyjną UW).

 „Background and Experience”

Please briefly present the partner organisation – University od Warsaw (propozycja BWZ)

Founded in 1816, the University of Warsaw (UW) is Poland’s largest and most prestigious university. It is a public higher education institution that is research-oriented and mobility-friendly. From its inception, UW has played a significant role in the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural life of Poland. According to international rankings, it is the best university in Poland and one of the leading institutions in this region of Europe.

In addition, UW holds very good positions in comparative evaluations of the quality of education, in particular study programmes, such as the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking and Eduniversal Best Masters and MBA Worldwide.

QS World University Rankings 2024: UW is ranked 262nd globally, which is an improvement of 22 positions from the previous year. It is ranked 110th in Europe and remains the top university in Poland.

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024: UW has been evaluated in 25 subjects, with the highest rankings in Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Linguistics, and Modern Languages.

UW occupies the first place in the national academic rankings. Its faculties hold national and international accreditations, such as EQUIS, AMBA, AASBI; it has created 24 spin-off companies. UW was awarded the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education and the HR Excellence in Research title by the European Commission.

The UW community comprised 36 300 students and 1742 doctoral candidates, including 3662 foreigners. Diplomas were awarded to 8120 graduates.

UW employs 8090 people, including 4054 academic teachers (more than 520 professors).

UW is a member of the 4EU+ European University Alliance which is a transnational strategic association of Charles University in Prague, Heidelberg University, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, Sorbonne University in Paris, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Geneva, the University of Milan, and the University of Warsaw. The 4EU+ Alliance has one vision: to create one comprehensive research-intensive European University through a new quality of cooperation in teaching, education, research and administration. UW is a member of almost 100 international research networks, including: European University Association (EUA), Network of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA), European University Foundation (EUF), Central Europe Leuven Strategic Alliance (CELSA), Heads of University Management & Administration Network in Europe (HUMANE), Magna Charta Observatory of Fundamental University Values and Rights, Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA).

UW participates in the “Excellence initiative – research university (2020-2026), organized by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science and aims to develop research in five priority areas: (1) Science for the Planet, (2) Beyond Micro and Macro Worlds,(3) The Challenge of Petabytes, (4) The Humanities. (5) Responding to Global Challenges.

The UW encompasses 25 faculties and over 30 independent teaching and research units; offers 42 English-language programmes. The scholars participate in over 1600 projects financed by national or international research programmes, such as EU framework programmes, European Science Foundation, European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research, European Molecular Biology Organization. The UW cooperates with over 1000 international and domestic partners. UW is the most active and successful university in Poland in terms of participation in European Union programs which is demonstrated by the following selected data:

1. works together with over 380 international entities from 74 countries under direct bilateral cooperation agreements (in 2022, 112 agreements were concluded or renewed).
2. 1668 scholarship holders took part in the Erasmus+ mobility programme in the academic year 2022/2023.
3. 3 ongoing projects with third countries not associated to the Programme Erasmus+ including partners from Asia, Latin America, USA and Canada,
4. approx. 25 ongoing Strategic Partnerships & Capacity Building projects since 2020.
5. within Erasmus Mundus Joint Master there are 4 projects, such as MERGED and M3EP.
6. within Erasmus Mundus Design Measures there are 2 projects.
7. In 2023, under Horizon Europe, grant contracts were signed and 26 new projects of about €12 million.
8. The researchers from UW won 13 ERC grants that were worth nearly €20 million. The grants that are conducted at UW constitute over 36% of the total ERC grants in Poland.

What are the activities and experience of the partner organisation in the areas relevant for this project? What are the skills and/or expertise of key persons involved in this project? Wypełnia osoba odpowiedzialna za realizację projektu przez jednostkę organizacyjną UW.