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Children's Academy with Erasmus+
On Thursday, 21st of November, the International Relations Department organized an event called Akademia Przedszkolaka (trans. Children’s Academy) with help from students from the Erasmus+ Programme about people from different parts of the World.
The subject of the meeting was the diversity of people on Earth. Since there are students and employees from 7 different countries staying at our University, it was possible to introduce each of them separately.
After singing the original anthem of the Children’s Academy, the staff explained the origins of people from different parts of the World. After the initial explanation, Spanish students introduced themselves and began teaching kids how to dance the ever popular “Macarena,” while students from Portugal showed some football tricks, which both boys and girls joined on stage. There was some time to showcase Italy with its love for pizza and pasta, and afterwards everyone could play the Turkish game of cüce- deve (trans. Down-up) which is a popular recreation form for schoolchildren in Turkey. Yet another game was introduced by Milton Correa, a student from Portugal who originally comes from the Republic of The Gambia. The game was more of a race with an egg and a spoon, and children who were willing to participate had to be very careful during the transportation process. At last, no eggs were broken! Children also had a chance to learn a few words in Arabic thanks to Abdelhamid Mahamat, a student of Karabuk University in Turkey, who originates from Chad, a country in north-central Africa. Abdelhamid conducted his whole lesson in Polish, explaining how to pronounce phrases such as “how are you?” and “I’m good, and you?” in Arabic. At the end, after saying a few words about the United States, children could dance the English song “If you’re happy and you know it” with a Fulbright scholar Andrea Baumgartel, who is an Engllish teaching assistant at our University this academic year.
The purpose of the event was to show kindergarten students that – despite all differences related to our origin and language – we are all the same. As always, after the meeting, photographs were taken in a spirit of interaction between different groups of people. Thank you for joining us on this journey and see you next time! Goodbye!
Participate in the Erasmus+ Program!
On October 23rd, the International Relations Department organized the Erasmus+ Program Open Day. During the event, students and staff members were able to find out a lot about mobility options they can choose from. The department started the meeting by informing how to participate in the Erasmus+ Program, its advantages for these who will join, alongside with the quick overview of the procedures of choosing a university or an institution.
In the second part of the Erasmus+ Program Open Day, the audience experienced the presentations of Polish students who participated in the program. Two of our physiotherapy students who benefited from the program, talked about their stay in Athens where they were doing the training. They managed to explore Greece and brought some of their most precious memories with them back to Poland only to squeeze them into their presentation. Not only did Klaudia and Karolina talk about their experiences, but they also engaged the audience when they concluded their speech by claiming to have signed up for yet another mobility for this summer semester. Then, two of the Computer Sciences students showed the audience how they spent their semester abroad in Portugal. Karol and Hubert explained why they had decided to sign up for the program in the first place and they had hoped to experience during their mobility. They spent 5 months in the city of Braganca, and they are constantly benefiting from everything they learnt in the meantime.
During the next part of the meeting, the Erasmus+ students who are currently studying at our university spoke about their experiences and why they decided to participate in the program. The first presentation in English was showed by Abdelhamid Mahamat from Chad, who came to Poland from the Karabuk University in Turkey. Abdel briefed the audience with his journey to Łomża and spoke about the reasons for his decisions to seek discomfort in life. He promoted the Erasmus+ program and its benefits to the students present in the auditorium. After his speech, it was time for the last student to present what he had prepared for the meeting. Tiziano Pacifico, who is a student at the University of Molise in Italy and is currently staying at Lomza State University of Applied Sciences to complete a semester of his Computer Sciences studies.
To conclude the Erasmus+ Program Open Day, the International Relations Department reminded the students to participate in international studies and trainings available for them. Our university offers many beautiful destinations for students wanting to take part in the exchange program.
For more information, contact the International Relations Department. 1 Akademicka Street, B2.16 and B2.17 between 8:00-16:00.
Erasmus+? Ready, set, go!
Starting at the beginning of October, our University has been a host to foreign exchange students from the Erasmus+ Program. The total of 24 students from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Turkey will be staying in Lomza State University of Applied Sciences for the winter semester of 2019/2020.
Between October 1st and 3rd, our International Relations Department held the Adaptation Week, during which incoming students toured the campus site and caught a glimpse of the modern scientific and research infrastructure. They also found out about the functioning and the structure of the University. Students were introduced to their Department Erasmus+ Coordinators and had a chance to talk about their schedules.
Erasmus Students from this semester underwent The Polish Language Crash Course, where they learnt communication phrases and important expressions which may come in handy during their stay in Poland – a country which is entirely new for all of them. Afterwards, we could hear “dzień dobry” and “dziękuję bardzo” repeated constantly by our Students.
In order to conclude The Adaptation Week, the staff held an Official Integration Evening on October 3rd in the “Rubikon” Student House. Present were the Erasmus+ program beneficiaries from Poland, exchange students who will be attending the winter semester here in Lomza and the coordinators of the program from different faculties. Incoming students prepared multimedia presentations about their own universities, the culture and traditions of their home countries and regions. That segment allowed all of the participants to get to know each other better and integrate with one another. After the official part of the evening, we were able to discover hidden dancing talents of our new Students – in particular the traditional dance presented by our student of Computer Sciences from the University of Molise – Ticiano Pacifico, who danced his way through the local stories of Southern Italy. But Ticiano was not the only brave one, as his fellow Students from Portugal and Turkey showcased their dance skills through modern choreographies. The evening finished with the joint performance of the 90s hit song – Macarena.
We are wishing all the best to our new Students!
Medical Simulation Centre
Kubuś is two months old, and with symptoms of cough and dyspnea was admitted to a hospital. Besides the child is drowsy and depressed. Starting from October 2018 the boy will be looked after by the students of Nursing at Lomza State University of Applied Science. Kubuś is not human, it's an intelligent phantom. It can simulate illnesses and ailments.
The school has received a subsidy from the Ministry of Health of over two and a half million zlotys for the Monoprofile Medical Simulation Centre. Intelligent phantoms which simulate births, illnesses and ailments will make the teaching process more attractive.
Katarzyna is 26 years old, she came to the delivery room. During the childbirth, the baby's pulse disappears. Another hypothetical scenario for students, which in the realities of hospital happens every day.
- Students in the centre are going to work hard, in their case there will be no simulation of knowledge. In practice, in an emergency situation, they will have to react in accordance with their knowledge, skills and empathy, because the phantoms will also reflect human suffering, impatience, aggression resulting from, for example, the experience of extreme pain, - according to Joanna Chilińska, PhD, deputy dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at PWSIiP.
In the university's classrooms, which are modelled on hospital rooms, they will stay with sick children and adults. The director and five rooms, a specific scenario of a medical situation, which students do not know - this is how in practice nursing teaching will look at PWSIiP.
The students will have at least five percent of the practical classes at the Medical Simulation Centre. The students will start using it in October 2018.
Advancement in the ranking and a strong academic position
Third place is the promotion of Lomza State University of Applied Science by two positions as compared to last year. The school has reached a high, second in the ranking, the index of "scientific strength" (92.20). This is an extensive and the most important category, accounting for 35% of the weight of the whole ranking. It consists of data on the fields of study and postgraduate education offer, research staff and its development, publications and the so called citations, parametric evaluations of individual components of the school. PWSIiP has also ranked highly in the categories of "graduates in the labor market" and "learning conditions".
The educational portal "Perspektywy" has prepared its prestigious ranking for the 18th time. Its methodology was developed by the Committee headed by professor Michal Kleiber.