Prof. Zdzisław Mach from the Jagiellonian University with the Ambassador of Poland to Portugal Prof. Bronisław Misztal.

From March 11 to 14, the Futuralia educational fair is held in Lisbon. The stands of 13 Polish universities, including the Jagiellonian University, as well as the programme "Study in Poland" are located in the centre of the exhibition. Their representatives want to encourage young people from Portugal and Brazil to study in Poland.

According to the Polish Ambassador to Portugal Prof. Bronisław Misztal, the number of Portuguese enrolling on full-time study programmes in Poland has grown very rapidly during the last six years. Nearly 300 students from Portugal became students of Polish higher education institutions in 2014.

Waldemar Siwiński, the President of Perspektywy Foundation, expressed hope that active promotion of Polish academic institutions can also encourage youths from other former Portuguese colonies to study in Poland soon. He pointed out that currently there are about 40 thousand international students in Poland. At the moment, the majority of them comes from Ukraine and Belarus. However, it is the Portuguese, along with the Spanish and Turks, who are the fastest growing group of foreigners studying in Poland. He added that there were only 23 such students from Portugal in the academic year 2009/2010.

Futuralia is the largest international educational fair in Portugal. The event was officially opened by the Portuguese Minister of Education and Science Nuno Crato.

Source of the Polish version: naukawpolsce.pap.pl