The Jagiellonian University

Our conference will be organized by our team at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

The Jagiellonian University is the oldest higher education institution in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe. It was founded on 12 May 1364. The Jubilee year 2014 marked the 650th anniversary of this remarkable event. Since its very beginning, the Jagiellonian University has been an international institution. Poles, Ruthenians, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Germans, Czechs, the Swiss, the English, the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, Italians, and even Tatars studied here in the old days.

The Jagiellonian University comprises 16 Faculties, where nearly 4 thousand academic staff conduct research and provide education to over 40 thousand students, within the framework of more than 80 different fields of study. The eminent researchers and state-of-the-art infrastructure make the JU one of the leading Polish scientific institutions, collaborating with major academic centres from all over the world.

Here is a Youtube video about the city and the university:

Krakow, Poland
One of the first ten UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world

Krakow was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading centers of Polish academic, economic, cultural and artistic life. Cited as one of Europe's most beautiful cities, its Old Town was declared one of the ten first UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world.

The former capital city of Poland, Krakow was a town with public, cultural and commercial  activities concentrated around the Europe's largest Market Square and also one of the oldest university quarters in Europe.

To participate in the conference is a great opportunity to see this wonderful old city famous in the world.

You can even have a virtual 3D tour of the city: