Meeting with the delegation of the University of Silesia

On Thursday, April 6, 2023, the ARTS Institute welcomed a delegation from the University of Katowice, in the presence of Alain Trouillet, Vice-President for Training and International Relations of the Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Étienne. 
As a founding member of the European alliance Transform4Europe, the multidisciplinary University of Katowice brings together 21,000 students registered in 8 faculties and 83 programs. It is located in the Silesia region of Poland and spread over four campuses.

The delegation was composed of:

• Dariusz LASKA - Vice-Chancellor for Development and Cooperation with Economics at the University of Silesia;
• Katarzyna MARCOL - Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences;
• Magdalena SZYNDLER -  Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences for Science and Artistic Creativity, Director of the Institute of Musical Arts;
• Adrian ROBAK - Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences;
• Stefan LECHWAR - Director of the Institute of Plastic Arts, Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences;
• Robert PYKA - Director of the House of the City of Saint-Etienne in Katowice and Professor of Sociology at the University of Silesia;
• Jacek NOWAK - Deputy Director of the Office for Cooperation with Economics, University of Silesia.

These members could discover the missions and activities of the ARTS Institute presented by Zoé Schweitzer, co-director of the institute. Conversely, they were given the opportunity to present the specificities and projects of the Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences which is located in Cieszyn, 80 km south of Katowice, on the border with the Czech Republic.

Constructive and enriching, this meeting made it possible to identify many points of convergence between the two institutions, a promising source of multiple collaboration opportunities.

^{Meeting - April 6, 2023 - Saint-Étienne}

To go further

Download the presentation powerpoint of the Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences and the Institute of Fine Arts within it.

Visit the website of the Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences of the University of Silesia.