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Welcome Center
The Welcome Center provides ongoing, comprehensive support for international students.
It offers administrative, informational, and integration assistance to students arriving from abroad at the University.
The Center promotes internationalization by fostering positive relationships between students and staff, and encouraging exchanges about multicultural academic life.
These efforts help international students adapt to the new country and education system, while enriching the university community with intercultural openness.
Key Activities
- Delivering academic and organizational info to international students and staff, covering study programs, academic year structure and schedules, class timetables, social issues, and support services.
- Assisting with legal and formal matters like health insurance, visas, residence registration, accommodation procedures, and other administrative obligations associated with life in Poland.
- Running integration events such as workshops, trainings, info sessions, cultural activities, and joint initiatives for international and Polish students to aid adaptation, intercultural ties, and community building based on openness.
Buddy Program
The Buddy Program connects new international students with ULS students who become their "buddies" – a guide and friend for one or more international students. The goal is to help these students feel at home and support them in their transition to university life. It’s also a fantastic opportunity for cultural and linguistic exchange, benefiting everyone involved!
About Buddy Program
- Assist international students with administrative tasks and provide useful; information related to their arrival and stay at the University;
- Share your experiences as a student and introduce newcomers to student life at ULS;
- Help integrate new students into the ULS community and showcase the charm of Wrocław and the surrounding region.
- Any student of the University of Lower Silesia DSW can become a buddy!
- If you speak foreign languages, you’re especially welcome to join!
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Participation is voluntary and based on your individual availability and capacity.
If you become a Buddy, you should be on hand to greet your international student/s when they arrive. Usually, international students arrive during the following periods:
- Winter semester: beginning of October >>>Introducing day on Orientation Day for Erasmus students on 30.09.2024
- Summer semester: beginning of March >>>Introducing day on Orientation Day for Erasmus students on 19.02.2025
- you get to meet students from all over the world and experience the university’s international atmosphere;
- you can practice and improve your foreign language skills
- you build connections with students from our partner universities across Europe
- you can be part of making international students feel welcome in ULS
- you also receive guidance and support from us whenever you need it!
- pick up your international buddy from the train station, when he/she arrives;
- take a city tour: show them where to find the key spots in Wrocław;
- help them get familiar with the university: point out important places like the library, cafeteria, and the S47 building;
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assist with settling in: guide them on where to go out, where to shop, where to buy a SIM card, how to rent a bike or buy tickets, and how to find a doctor.
TO MAKE IT EVEN MORE ENJOYABLE, THE UNIVERSITY PROVIDES EACH OF YOU WITH A VOUCHER FOR YOUR HANGOUTS.
- contact: [email protected] with an e-mail title: ”Buddy Program-I want to join”
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contact us two moths before new semesters start
International Cooperation Team will invite you to assign you a BUDDY
If you have any questions
- call us: +48 639010160
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visit us: S55 room 18
International Cooperation Department / Erasmus+ Office
We kindly request well-considered applications, and in the event of cancellation, please forward the information to the Project Office at the indicated e-mail address: [email protected]
About the International Opportunities programs
The Welcome Center and Buddy Program were established as a result of the project entitled “Improving the quality of services for international students through the development potential of DSW,” co-financed by the European Social Fund under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development, for which the DSW University of Lower SIlesia received funding from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. Its continuation was made possible thanks to funding from the project “Strengthening the internationalization of students and education,” financed under the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange programme – Welcome to Poland (2022).
