ERASMUS STUDENTS GUIDE

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1 STATE HIGHER VOCATIONAL SCHOOL IN NOWY SACZ Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Nowym Sączu ERASMUS STUDENTS GUIDE Welcome to the State Higher Vocational School in Nowy Sacz Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Nowym Sączu (PWSZ) is a state college established by polish government order on June 16, 1998 as one of the first schools of this type in Poland. It is located in the charming town Nowy Sacz, in the beautiful and mountainous area of South Poland. The PWSZ students can find their specialization among the subjects offered by the six PWSZ Institutes (faculties): - Institute of Economics - Institute of Foreign Languages - Institute of Pedagogy - Institute of Engineering - Institute of Physical Education - Institute of Nursing Full-time studies at State Higher Vocational School in Nowy Sacz are free. PWSZ also offers weekend study programs, as well as postgraduate studies. After 3 years the graduates are awarded either a licentiate diploma (Bachelor of Arts degree) or after 3,5 years - an engineering diploma (Bachelor of Science degree). Graduates may then work in their chosen profession as well as pursue master degree studies and post-graduate studies. From 2012 university offers also studies on the 2 nd level (Master) in field of Management and Production Engineering. 1

2 MAIN ADDRESS OF UNIVERSITY Poland, Nowy Sacz, Staszica Street 1 International relations office: room website: briw@pwsz-ns.edu.pl tel.: , , fax: UNIVERSITY IN NUMBERS Undergraduate majors (bachelor and engineer): 11 Undergraduate specialties: 33 Master's degree programs: 1 Master's specialties: 2 Number of students: 5000 Number of graduates: Number of university teachers and administrative staff: 440 UNIVERSITY LIBRARY al. Wolności 40, tel.: Opening hours: RENTAL: Monday-Friday: ; Saturday: ; READING: Monday: ; Tuesday-Friday: ; Saturday: Reading has 30 places for individual work, 10 computers, including 2 rooms for disabled guests and 1 magnifier for the visually impaired. It is also possible to use a Wi-Fi access and a scanner. Users have free access to the library, which can be used on site. The reading is always one copy of the book position, which is no longer available for rental. 2

3 INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS and INSTITUTE OF NURSING (Jagiellońska Str. 61) INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES (Kochanowskiego Str. 44) INSTITUTE OF PEDAGOGY (Chruślicka Str. 6) 3

4 INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING (Zamenhofa Str. 1A) INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION (Kościuszki Str. 2) UNIVERSITY SPORT BASE ul. Kościuszki 2, Nowy Sącz (Instytut Kultury Fizycznej) tel , The sports facilities are available to all students with prior reservation (personal or telephone) and the presentation of a valid student ID. Hours of availability of swimming pools and other facilities are given on the website. The educational and sports complex include: teaching building of specialized laboratories, sports hall athletics with the tunnel area 3192 square meters and a fitness room, outdoor multi-purpose fields, a full-size football pitch with artificial grass and athletics stadium with facilities. The university operates the Academic Sports Association, which can include every student to pursue a passion for sports and one of the 11 sections of sports: football, volleyball, handball, basketball, futsal, swimming, aikido, aerobics, gymnastics, tennis, table tennis. 4

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6 ACCOMMODATION Student Dormitory is located at Długosza 1 Street, tel In order to reserve a place in a dormitory student must indicate in the application the option of a desire reservation. The dorm is located in the city center, so the great advantage of its location is its proximity to all the Institutes of the University: 5-15 minutes walking distance. The dormitory can accommodate about 176 students in modern rooms 1 -, 2 - and 3-persons, which are furnished and equipped with private bathrooms and free Wi-Fi. The building also has rooms for disabled guests. The dorm also has a communal kitchen, TV room, as well as ramps for the disabled and an elevator. Monthly fee per person is about: a three-bed room: 260 zł; a two-bed room: 300 zł; a one-bed room: 340 zł. There is a bar offering cheap student breakfast, lunch and dinner. Next to the dorm is a large shopping center "Europa II" and selfservice grocery stores. Private settled academic: Jana Pawła II 16, tel , LANGUAGES COURSES International relations office cooperates with Scientific Circle "Lingwista" in the Institute of Foreign Languages, organized by the Polish language course for foreigners, and various social events. Students can take also some other languages courses, the offer is on website 6

7 ACADEMIC CALENDAR June 30 October 1 October 9 November 1 November 11 December 24 January 3 January 27 February 16 February 16 December 15 February 17 April May 1 4 May 16 May June 15 June 19 June September Winter semester 2013/14 Erasmus application deadline for winter semester First day of classes for the winter semester Official ceremony of beginning new academic year Summer semestr 2013/14 All Saints (religious holiday) National Holiday Christmas Holiday - no classes Examination period Final term for passing all exams Erasmus application deadline for summer semester First day of classes Easter Holiday - no classes National and religious Holiday University Holiday Juvenalia - Students Holiday (party and concerts) Last day of classes for the summer semester Religious Holiday (Corpus Christi) Examination period Allowance term for passing all exams 7

8 CITY OF NOWY SACZ Nowy Sącz was founded on 8 November 1292 by the Bohemian king Wenceslaus II, on the site of an earlier village named Kamienica. The city is located at the confluence of the Kamienica River into the Dunajec, about 20 km north of the Slovak border, in the Sądecka Valley (Kotlina Sądecka) at an altitude of 381 m (1, ft). It is surrounded by ranges of the eastern Outer Western Carpathian Mountains: Beskid Sądecki to the south, Beskid Wyspowy to the west, Beskid Niski to the southeast, and the foothills of Pogórze Rożnowskie to the north. The geological basis is Carpathian flysch an undifferentiated grey-banded sandstone with alluvial sediment from the Dunajec, Poprad, and Kamienica rivers in the valley basin. The climate is temperate, with an average annual rainfall of about 700 millimetres. Nowy Sącz is the governmental seat of powiat nowosądecki (county or governmental district) part of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Województwo Małopolskie since Between 1975 and 1998 it was the provincial seat of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship. Before that and during the Second Polish Republic Nowy Sącz was a county seat in the Kraków Voivodeship. In 1951 it became a town with the rights of a county. It is the historic and tourist center of Sądecczyzna, the Sądecki district. 8

9 The town has many historic features, including: One of the largest marketplaces in Europe, after Kraków, the largest market in Poland. The late 19th century Ratusz (city hall) is centered in the square. Saint Margaret's basilica, Bazylika kolegiacka Św. Małgorzaty (15th century). The coat of arms shows St. Margaret and a dragon; her name day is July 20 A 15th-century house Dom Gotycki containing a regional museum A gothic Franciscan church. The Great Synagogue, dating from 1746, now the Galeria Dawna Synagoga, a gallery with some historical displays. There is a memorial tablet on the front in Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Across the Kamienica River is the Jewish cemetery. Saint Roch, a church of wooden construction from the 15th century, in the Dąbrówka district. The old cemetery chapel St. Helen's Church is another example. The partially restored ruins of a mediæval Royal Castle from the 14th century during the reign of Kazimierz the Great. It was destroyed in 1945 at the end of World War II when it was used as a German ammunition store and was the site of mass executions. There are also the remains of the city walls nearby. An open air museum or skansen (Sądecki Park Etnograficzny), containing a village of relocated authentic structures recreating indigenous architecture, customs, and folk culture from the region. Of particular note are the wooden churches, including an Orthodox church and the Roma (Gypsy) village. Stary Sącz (Old Sącz) 10 km to the south, founded in 1163 but smaller than Nowy (New) Sącz, has a charming cobbled market square, with a convent of Poor Clares to the east. There are also several routes emphasizing wooden churches in the region of note. 9

10 HOSPITAL AND TREATMENT Emergency calls Ambulance: 999, 112 Police: 997, 112 Fire service: 998, 112 City police: 986 Emergency no: 112 when you re calling from mobile. Hospital Emergency Ward in Nowy Sacz ul. Młyńska 5, Nowy Sącz, tel.: , Public Hospital ul. Śniadeckich 10, tel , Public clinic - Obwód Lecznictwa Kolejowego ul. Batorego 77, tel , Dentistry: - Denticulus: ul. Sucharskiego 1a tel: or ul. Nawojowska 3, tel: Specialized Dental Center sp o.o., ul. Żółkiewskiego 23, tel Gynecology: - Centrum Ginekologiczno - Położnicze, ul. Nawojowska 3, tel MEDICOR s.c., ul. Długosza 45, tel Police Headquarters in Nowy Sacz ul. Grottgera 50, Nowy Sącz, tel.: , , nowy-sacz.policja.gov.pl Municipal Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Nowy Sacz ul. Witosa 69, Nowy Sącz, tel.: , Municipal Police Headquarters in Nowy Sacz ul. Lwowska 71, Nowy Sącz, tel.: , Volunteer Mountain Rescue Service tel.: 985 or: , Tatra Voluntary Rescue tel.: or: , 10

11 TRANSPORT The easiest and cheapest way to move around Nowy Sacz is to use the public bus transport MPK. A single ticket for student costs 1,25 zł, 24-hours ticket costs 4 zł available for purchase at the kiosk on the street. You can buy a ticket from the bus driver, but it is a little more expensive. A monthly ticket costs 37 zł and is available at ticket office: ul. Kolejowa. You will find more information and the current timetables at the website There are many private companies of which you can try: - TAXI Nowy Sącz TRÓJKI tel Radio Taxi Expres tel or You can travel by PKS buses: Dworzec Autobusowy: pl. Dąbrowskiego 2 Information: , Private Buses (to Krakow): - Szwagropol line - Voyager line In Poland you can travel by train: or plane the closest airports are in: - Krakow Balice - Katowice Pyrzowice - Warszawa ENTERTAINMENT - Sokół ciemna, ul. Długosza 3 English-language movies are usually played on the original language with subtitles - Klub Level, ul. Zdrojowa 32 - Klub Maska, disco, Pl. Dąbrowskiego 2A - UFO bilard club, ul. Radziecka 19 - ATOM Pub, bilard, bowling, Grodzka 5 SHOPPING - Real shopping center, ul Gorzkowska 32, - Galeria Sandecja and Carrefour, ul. Węgierska 170, - Galeria Gołąbkowice and Tesco, ul. Prażmowskiego, Lidl, ul. Lwowska 125 and ul. Łukasińskiego 13 - Biedronka many self-service shops in the city FOOD Restauracja Pod Wierzbą, ul. 1 Pułku Strzelców Podhalańskich 2 Restauracja Ratuszowa, ul. Rynek 1 BOHEMA - restaurant, pub, cafe, ul. Rynek 13 Mexican Restaurant, ul. Szwedzka 4 STAR Döner Kebab and Pizza, ul. Szwedzka 1 Oriental Restaurant Mekong, ul. Lwowska 140 McDonald. al. Piłsudskiego 6 11

12 REGIONAL CULTURE Sądecki Ethnographic Park aiming to reproduce as closely as possible the old village Sącz, trying to present the construction, daily life and other aspects of all population groups forming Sądecczyzny culture, understood as a whole, geographical, historical, economic and cultural. Galician Town is a subsidiary Sądecki Ethnographic Park. Reconstruction of the building portion includes a small-town market square and the frontage of more than a dozen houses. The town brings the atmosphere of small towns in the former province of the Austro- Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. TOURISM The mountainous country around Nowy Sącz is also popular with tourists, hikers and skiers, especially the Beskid Sądecki mountains (part of the Carpathians), of which the highest peak is Radziejowa (1,262 m (4, ft) above sea level). Nearby popular mountain resorts include Krynica-Zdrój and Piwniczna-Zdrój ("Zdrój" means "health spa"). 15 km north of Nowy Sącz is Jezioro Rożnowskie, a reservoir (22 km long, covering an area of 16 km², and a capacity of 193,000,000 m³), with many dachas and camping sites. Also to the north is Ciężkowicko-Rożnowski National Park. 12

13 In the surrounding area you can enjoy the great sport opportunities (stations and ski lifts, cross-country skiing, ice skating, parks, cars, go-karts, paintball, bowling tennis courts, swimming pools and outdoor swimming pools, horse stables). In his free time, students organize trips for hiking trails in the Beskid Sadecki and in the Tatra mountains visiting Zakopane, Krakow - the former Polish capital city, Wieliczka - a unique salt mine (UNECSO) or many castles, palaces and museums, such Oswiecim - the museum of the former concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau. 13