660 Years of Scholarly Legacy: Birth of the Jagiellonian University

May 12 marks a historic milestone for education and scholarship in Poland! On this day in 1364, King Casimir the Great signed the foundation act for the "studium generale," laying the cornerstone for what would become the illustrious Kraków Academy, later known as the Jagiellonian University.

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Happy Birthday Mikolaj Kopernik

This Sunday February 19 the world will stop to observe the 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicholaus Copernicus - the Polish astronomer who stopped the Sun and moved the Earth as our Polish saying goes!

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Mikolaj Kopernik

On May 24 we mark the 478 anniversary of the death of Mikolaj Kopernik.

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