Intercultural Communication & Cultural Adaptation Workshop for International UW Employees!

Part of Welcome Point’s activities dedicated to international staff is organised within a programme of the Ministry of Education and Science called “Excellence Initiative – Research University” (IDUB).

The programme gives the University of Warsaw opportunities to raise the level of quality in scientific activity and education and, as a result, to increase the international prestige of the University. Welcome Point coordinates two initiatives under the IDUB programme:

• Support of the relocation process of employees from abroad by introducing solutions facilitating involvement of new foreign employee to work at UW and preparation to stay in Poland

• Support for the relocation process of employees from abroad by preparing the University of Warsaw academic community and administrative infrastructure for hosting employees from abroad

Below you can find every Welcome Point event that was financed from this source:

Social bonding activities

• Improve at IMPROVE: 2nd edition of integration meetings for UW employees (March – May 2025)
• Become a Pro at Impro – improvisation workshops for UW employees, (November 2024 – January 2025)
• Warsaw guided walk: Exploring the 1920s and 1930s, October 2024

Polish language courses

• Polish Language Courses for UW international staff (April – June 2025)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff (January – March 2025)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff (October – December 2024)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff (April – June 2024)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff (January – March 2024)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff (October – December 2023)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff (April – June 2023)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff (January – March 2023)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff (October – December 2022)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff  (April – June 2022)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff (January – March 2022)
• Polish Language Course for UW international staff (October – December 2021)
• Intensive Polish Language Course for UW international staff (August 2021)

Welcome Meetings

• Welcome Meeting for new international UW employees (October 2024)
• Welcome Meeting for new international UW employees (January 2024)
• Welcome Meeting for new international UW employees & Campus Walk (October 2023)

Onboarding at UW – workshops and courses

• Introduction to academic culture at UW (November 2024)
• Intercultural communication and cultural adaptation at UW (May 2024)
• Introduction to the USOSweb (November 2023)
• Intercultural communication and cultural adaptation at UW (November 2023)
• Introduction to academic culture at UW (November 2023)
• UW starter kit workshop – online training (November 2022)
• Introduction to the USOSweb – online training (November 2022)
• Introduction to the USOSweb – online training (January 2022)
• Onboarding for international staff – practical training on the structure and culture of the University of Warsaw (November 2021)

Courses on life in Poland

• Tax Consultations for International UW Employees (March/April 2024)
• Polish Personal Income Taxes – online training (February 2024)
• Tax Consultations for International UW Employees (April 2023)
• Polish Personal Income Taxes – online training (March 2023)
• Legalisation of stay in Poland – training for UW Employees (March 2023)
• Polish Personal Income Taxes for International Employees – online course (March 2022)
• Poland and Poles – Cultural Orientation Training (November 2021)