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Orientation Session

The 10-day Orientation Session, organized and led by the Department of International Polish Studies, is intended to introduce Fellows to the country of their research stay: Poland. This preamble is presented in academic and cultural terms. The Fellows follow a programme of an inaugural lecture to officially start the year-long Scholarship Programme, interdisciplinary seminars, meetings with local politicians and representatives of NGOs, and study excursions.

It is in this way that the large multicultural group of Fellows come to be better acquainted with the historical, cultural, political, and economic make-up of Poland before commencing their own independent scholarly projects on a Poland-related topic of their choice.