The current series of workshops for teachers, focusing on preparing pupils for GCSE and A-level Polish examinations, will conclude this Wednesday. In November, the Unit will launch a new programme, coordinated by Dr Dorota Hrycak-Krzyżanowska, entitled “Education for the Future: AI, Immersive Educational Games and Digital Art in the Humanities Classroom.”
The workshops will be practical, giving participants tools and lesson plans they can use in the classroom, online and in hybrid teaching. The programme will include four modules:
AI and the Hybrid Learner:Bringing Language, Literature and History Lessons to Life – designing engaging lesson plans, interactive maps, visual materials and short writing activities.
Immersive Educational Games and Digital Stories: Humanities in Motion – creating mini-games, digital narratives, urban and museum trails, and simple AR and VR activities.
Video Poems, Haiku and Digital Art:Creative Language and Art Lessons – combining language, literature, music and imagery through video poems, digital collages and short films.
Safe and Inclusive AI in Schools: Ethics, Relationships and Pupil Wellbeing – using AI and immersive technologies responsibly, promoting digital safety and designing activities for learners with diverse needs.
The first workshop in the new programme will take place on 10 November 2026 at 6:30 p.m. Registration opens on 15 October. Places are limited.
Join us for the opening of an exhibition on sharenting: what happens to the photos of children we post online. Friday 9 October 2026, 8 pm, POSK Gallery. Free entry.
Today a child’s first photograph often goes online before the child is even born. First steps, the first day at school, birthdays and holidays follow. Each picture is shared out of love. Together, however, they create a child’s digital biography, written before the child could say “yes” or “no”.
The Polish University Abroad warmly invites you to “Who’s Watching? Childhood Online”, an exhibition presented as part of GUARDIAN Week. It shows what ordinary posts reveal about a child, who can see them, and how to share more safely. The exhibition does not judge parents; it invites a moment of reflection before pressing “Share”. It contains no photographs of children’s faces.
Visitors will find a mirror asking “Did you ask me first?”, a wall of fictional posts, a timeline of a child’s digital footprint, drawings and words from children taking part in our research, and a comparison of law and practice in the UK, Poland, Czechia and Kenya. A film, an anti-sharenting campaign and practical tips for parents, grandparents and teachers complete the exhibition.
The exhibition is part of GUARDIAN – “Growing online: how to protect our children in the digital world?” (Horizon Europe, MSCA Staff Exchanges), an international research project involving universities in Poland, Czechia, the United Kingdom and Kenya. It is curated by Dr Agnieszka Szajner, Principal Investigator of the GUARDIAN project at PUNO.
· Opening: Friday, 9 October 2026, 8 pm
· Exhibition open: 9-15 October 2026
· Venue: POSK Gallery, 238-246 King Street, London W6 0RF
· Free entry
The participation of the Polish University Abroad (PUNO) in the GUARDIAN project is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee (grant number EP/X038572/1). GUARDIAN: HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, Grant Agreement No. 101182798.
Emergent Dots: (Co)Laboratory of Hybrid Creative Diffractions is a nomadic, co-curated exhibition by partners in the CAPHE project: the Polish University Abroad in London (PUNO), the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL), the Greek organisation Narratologies, and the Polish Society for Aesthetics (PTE).
CAPHE (Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environments) is an international research and artistic project exploring how art, digital technologies and community-based practices create new forms of participation across physical and virtual spaces.
Organised by PUNO in London, the exhibition presents individual and collaborative artistic, educational and research work developed in hybrid environments. The works engage with storytelling, augmented reality, videopoetry, cultural identity, hybrid methods and arts-based education. The motif of threads and the loom guides visitors through the exhibition, evoking connections between disciplines, places and participants. Visitors are invited not only to view the works, but also to leave their own associations, traces and stories, becoming part of an evolving collective narrative.
The exhibition opens on Sunday, 27 September 2026, from 11:00 to 16:00 at POSK Gallery in London, and will run until 3 October 2026.
Wishing you a joyful and peaceful Easter. May this special time bring you rest from everyday duties and the rush of daily life.
May it be filled with warmth, reflection, and meaningful moments spent with your loved ones. Wishing you kindness, harmony, and happiness throughout the holiday season.
“The Partisans” were in the 1960s a very influential political group within the communist party and state apparatus in Poland. Led by Mieczysław Moczar, the minister of interior and leader of the veterans` associations (during the WW II he was a famous commander of the communist resistance), they founded a dynamic political movement which strongly influenced not only politics, but also mass-media and culture. Their ideology based on nationalism, anti-Semitism and exploitation of Polish history – especially its non-communist aspects which helped attract followers from outside the ruling party. “The Partisans” undertook the most far-reaching attempt to shape the Polish model of national communism and were often compared by contemporary observers and analysts with parallel developments in Romania.
Paweł Machcewicz is a historian, professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. From 2008 to 2017, he was the founding director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. He has taught at the Warsaw University and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and was director of research and education at the Institute of National Remembrance in 2000-2006.
His main areas of research are the Second World War, the Cold War and communist regimes in East-Central Europe. His many books include: Rebellious Satellite. Poland 1956 (Woodrow Wilson Center-Stanford University Press, Washington DC-Stanford, 2009); Poland`s War on Radio Free Europe 1950-1989 (Woodrow Wilson Center-Stanford University Press, Washington DC-Stanford, 2014); The War That Never Ends. The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk (De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2019); Wina, kara, polityka. Rozliczenia ze zbrodniami II wojny światowej (with Andrzej Paczkowski; Znak, Kraków 2021); Narodowy komunizm po polsku. „Partyzanci” Moczara (Krytyka Polityczna, Warszawa 2025).
