It should be noted that the National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” is the only higher education institution in Poltava where Polish is taught as a second foreign language. The university provides ample opportunities for students to participate in academic exchanges and scholarship programs offered by Polish partners.
The Polish language and culture summer school from the National Agency for Academic Exchanges (NAWA) is a great opportunity for young people of the Poltava Polytechnic to gain new quality knowledge, communicate with students from all over the world, and travel.
The program is open to students who are already learning the Polish language and who wish to start learning it. Scholarship holders of the program are selected based on the results of an annual competition, in order to participate in which it is necessary to fill out a questionnaire on the website of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchanges.
This year, students of the National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” continued their traditional annual participation in Summer Schools of Polish Language and Culture, organized by Polish universities with the support of the NAWA National Agency for Academic Exchanges (Republic of Poland).
In particular, in July, Albina Tkachenko, a third-year Polish learning student of the specialty 014 “Secondary Education” of the Faculty of Philology, Psychology and Pedagogy, completed a language intensive at the University of Silesia and even successfully passed a mini-competition on knowledge of Polish spelling.
“I successfully completed courses in Polish language and literature! Polish language classes at our university helped me communicate freely with teachers and other program participants from different parts of the world. Together with the rest of the participants, we participated in cool and interesting quizzes, created innovative projects, and prepared presentations in Polish.
For my active participation in the program, I was given textbooks for learning the Polish language, dictionaries and fiction. I’ll share the result of my own work during the month – I successfully passed a mini-competition on knowledge of Polish spelling, as a result of which I received Polish-language educational e-books, which are very useful for independent work. For me, this is a great opportunity to communicate with native speakers, which motivated me to continue studying the Polish language,” – said the student.
The significant results of the qualitative mastery of the Polish language as a second foreign language at the Poltava Polytechnic were also shared by Mariia Pashko, a fourth-year student of the specialty 292 “International Economic Relations”, who had the unique opportunity to take a Polish language and culture course at the University of Silesia during the August.
“I am very grateful to our university and the NAWA National Agency for Academic Exchanges for this opportunity. In addition to daily intensive training, the stay program was full of various cultural and artistic events as well as trips to the famous places of southern Poland. As part of the program, I took one-week sign language courses, watched films in Polish, attended social discos and concerts of Polish singers, went on excursions to Cieszyn, Katowice, Auschwitz, Vistula, and Krakow,” – happily says Mariia.
According to the Head of the Department of General Linguistics and Foreign Languages of the National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor Alla Bolotnikova, the Ukrainian-Polish language centre of the Poltava Polytechnic – the only one in the Poltava region operates with the aim of attracting those receiving higher education to study the Polish language, culture and traditions. Today, more than 300 students study Polish as a second or third foreign language at the Centre.
“Thanks to the acquired knowledge of the Polish language, more than a hundred university students have already participated in short-term and long-term academic exchange programs, Summer and Winter schools of the Polish language and culture, visiting tours to Poland, as well as in international conferences and cultural events,” – commented the scientist.
It should be recalled that international relations students began studying under the Erasmus+ program at the Austrian University of Fachhochshule des BFI Wien, Polytechnic students talked about the peculiarities of studying at the Vilnius College, after the Romanian university, the second-year student went to the Austrian one and talked about the peculiarities of studying at the university of applied sciences.
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