Agnieszka DwojakMatras International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education

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Agnieszka Dwojak-MatrasInternational Institute
for the Study of Culture and Education

• University of Lower SilesiaAssociation for the
  Advancement of Education(DSWE TWP)in Wroclaw

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• History 1997 - 2005

• Students 368 - 6700
• Faculty 22 134
• (54 professors, 57 Ph.Ds)
• Departments 1 6
• Facilities 0 4 buildings

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• Academic Programs

Education (BA, MA, Ph.D.) Special Education (BA,
MA) International Relations (BA) Journalism
(BA)
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• Research

• Individual and
• group grants
• Seminars, conferences
• and summer schools for
• junior scholars
• Open lectures, seminars and conferences
• The University of Lower Silesia Press

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• International Programs

• European Union Programs
• (Socrates/Erasmus/Comenius/
• Grudtvig/Interreg IIIC)
• Bilateral Agreements (15)
• Membership in International
• Organizations (AEA-E, EUPRERA and ESREA)
• International Institute for the Study of Culture
  and Education

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IISCE is an interdepartmental academic and
research institute, founded in October 2003,
responds to the processes of transnational
integration with projects that increase
international mobility, intercultural
understanding and citizen participation through
education.The activities of the Institute are
build on the methodological principle that the
practitioners who are the target groups of our
actions (students, teachers, citizens of Wroclaw)
are active participants in the educational
process whose goals is to foster self-reflexive
thinking and citizen participation.

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• Our activities in IISCE
• research projects in education (children and
  adults, in formal and informal learning, in
  lifelong learning), anthropology, social
  communication and sociology,
• training workshops for students and teachers,
  language courses,
• public lectures,
• building of collaborative networks and consortia
  with foreign universities, organization of study
  programs for foreign students in the city of
  Wroclaw
• Hanse Passage projects

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• DSWE and the subject of ELLABO Elderly at the
  labour market
• Our Office of Career Services supports employment
  activities and preparedness of ULS students (at
  different age), promotes graduates at the labour
  market
• PROGRESS Academia for uneployed women of Lower
  Silesia
• New preproposal under Leonardo da Vinci
  programmme

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