The visit was organized at the invitation of the European University for the purpose of Mr. Wais participating in the lectures and reports devoted to the city of Wroclaw and the “year of Polish self-government”.
The visit was organized at the invitation of the European University for the purpose of Mr. Wais participating in the lectures and reports devoted to the city of Wroclaw and the “year of Polish self-government”.
On September 28 a meeting of I.O. Lonsky, First Vice Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg, with J. Wais and L. Morawska-Uhryn, Acting Consul General of the Republic of Poland in St. Petersburg, took place in Smolny. In the course of the meeting the parties discussed issues pertaining to the bilateral cooperation with Lower Silesian Voivodeship, the 25-anniversary of Polish self-government as well as the possibility of St. Petersburg participating in the events within “Wroclaw – the European Capital of Culture 2016”.
The following promising areas of cooperation were outlined at the meeting: investments, development of technology parks, promotion of innovative technologies, cooperation in the areas of culture, small and medium-sized business, preservation of cultural heritage, education, sport, higher education and tourism.
An agreement on studying the experience of Euro-2012 was reached in the light of the Football World Cup to be held in Russia in 2018.
The Polish party expressed their interest in promoting learning of the Russian language in Poland along with facilitating scientific contacts between Russian and Polish universities (The University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw University of Economics, and Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences).
A decision to arrange information sharing and expand the scope of academic and cultural cooperation by involving regional non-governmental organizations was also reached at the meeting.
The guest from Poland supported the idea of organizing a teleconference between our cities and said that Wroclaw was called “The Polish Venice”, “the city of 100 bridges” and “the city of students”.
Background information: for over 10 years Mr. Wais has been coordinating international public and cultural projects of the city of Wroclaw; the projects receive additional funding from the European Union.