Overview of the Main Activities

The programme is designed for undergraduate students, doctoral students and teaching assistants from all departments and all Polish universities and colleges. Grant-holders leave for academic centres they select in order to study or do archive or library research or pursue academic contacts. PNTA grants accommodation, a monthly stipend and assistance from the Society's representative (usually the former German grant-holder). Besides, a three-day Polish-German seminar is organized during the semester for all grant-holders. The programme was offered in the years 1993-99, with the support of the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and Stefan Batory Foundation, and was immensely popular. 10 to 20 scholarships were awarded per semester (altogether, some 80 semester-long scholarships and 40 monthly library research stays were awarded in the duration of the programme). Grant-holders were mostly young people, largely prospective or current academics, who did not limit themselves to their academic activity, but were open to all kind of Polish-German contacts.
Note: Due to the lack of financial resources the programme has currently been suspended.

The programme is aimed at German undergraduate students of all levels and graduates of all German universities and colleges. It has been offered since 1994 with the support of the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and co-organized by PROLOG Language School in Cracow. Grant-holders may study in any Polish academic centre, but Polish language courses are organized for them only in Cracow. A three-day long Polish-German seminar for all grant-holders as well as day trips and meetings with Polish students are offered as part of this programme. 12 to 18 scholarships are awarded each semester. By January 2001 we had invited over 160 grant-holders to Cracow.
Note: Due to the lack of financial resources the programme was suspended as of January 2001.

Facing the growing interest in the Polish language, PNTA has been organizing intensive two-week-long courses in the Polish language and culture since February 1997. They are mainly designed for students, but more and more frequently they are attended by professionals or retired people. The courses are co-organized by PROLOG Language School in Cracow. They take place twice a year during the winter and summer semester breaks at German universities (February-April and August-October).

Since 1995, PNTA has edited the "Pontes" information bulletin which contains reports on the completed programmes, comments of students about their research stays and information on the planned programmes. Up to January 2001, eight issues of the bulletin had been published. The bulletin is distributed among members and former PTNA grant holders and helps us keep in touch with them. Besides it is also available to all interested parties in the Society's office.

In addition, PNTA organizes many smaller-scale events: seminars, conferences, cultural events, lectures. For example, in May 1998 a research trip to Berlin was organized for students of architecture while in September 1999 a two-day-long conference was organized on "Polish-German academic and cultural relations in the 20th century and the perspectives for the future."

PNTA is open to new ideas, contacts, new forms of activity and is happy to cooperate with students and graduates from Poland and from abroad.

Im Winter und Frühling 2007 sinken unsere Preise!

Die Kursgebühr umfasst den Sprachunterricht, die Unterbringung (in einem Doppelzimmer) und fast alle Veranstaltungen, die im Rahmen unseres kulturellen Programms angeboten werden.

In der Kursgebbühr sind nicht inbegriffen: Reisekosten, Krankenversicherung, Verpflegung, Bankkosten. Es ist sehr wichtig, dass Sie eine Auslandskrankenversicherung abschließen, bzw. sich vergewissern, ob Ihre Versicherung für ärztliche Hilfe und Krankenhausbehandlung auch in Polnisch in Polen gilt.

Der unten stehenden Tabelle entnehmen Sie die Kurs- und Unterbringungspreise: