2020 | Building Peace through Heritage
The staff of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences include clinicians and educators with experience gained over the years . The University systematically develops cooperation with Krakow ’ s hospitals and chosen medical institutions in the region , which make facilities for practical clinical teaching .
The University constantly expands didactic facilities to teach medical specializations . In 2019 the modern Mono-disciplinary Medical Simulation Centre equipped with technologically advanced patient simulators and medical equipment as well as the audio-video system to register simulation sessions – the project was financed by the European Union . The centre is used to educate future nurses . Currently , within the EU project “ Building clinical skills in the simulating conditions ”, the new Multidisciplinary Medical Simulation Centre is being created , in which the students from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences are also going to be taught with medical simulation methods . Nowadays the process of equipping the faculty with modern equipment at the amount of 13 million PLN is in progress . Next year the new building is going to be opened for the use of medical specializations , in which apart from didactic rooms there are going to be specialist laboratories do conduct research .
The students of architecture have interesting possibilities of development . They study in master classes conducted by active architects with world recognised work . Here , it is worth mentioning that the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts of AFMKU has an EU notification , providing the recognition of the diploma in the EU states . Professor Krzysztof Ingarden , the dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts of AFMKU , and at the same time the Honorary Consul of Japan in Krakow , signed the agreement with the office of Kengo Kuma & Associates in November 2019 , starting the program “ Kengo Kuma Student Award .” The best graduate of the faculty is going to get a possibility to undergo a 3-6-month paid internship in the office of KKA in Tokyo . The award is to be given annually . The goal of the award is to promote the highest architectonic educational and professional standards , as well as to develop and strengthen intercultural cooperation between Poland and Japan . The program starts in autumn 2020 .
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University has been proud of internationalization for years . As of 31.12.2019 , 2,033 foreigners studied at the Krakow University . Most of them are found at the Faculty of Law , Administration and International Relations . These persons mainly came from Ukraine . In total the University hosts the representatives from 46 countries .
Table 4 - Number of foreigners at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University , as of the end of 2019
Country
Faculty
Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts
Faculty of Psychology and Humanities
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Faculty of Management and Social Communication
Faculty of Security Studies
Faculty of Law , Administration and International Relations
Angola 3 3 Armenia 1 1 Austria 1 1 2 Azerbaijan 1 4 5 Bangladesh 1 1 Belgium 1 1 Belarus 1 18 4 13 36 Brazil 1 2 3
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Total
1 + 1
195