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Why POLAND?

•    Poland is a fascinating country that serves as the geographical and cultural crossroads of Eastem and Western Europę. Located at the centre of the Northern European plain, Roland has been a place of exchange of goods and ideas between different regions of Europę and the world sińce the foundation of the first Polish stale in the 10th century.

Through its turbulent history its people have managed to maintain their national and cultural identity and today the country enjoys a crucial position as the largest in the Central and Eastern Europę and one of the most populous members of the European Union.

•    Poland has been a member of the European Union sińce 2004. It also joined the Schengen Area in 2007. As the result passport checks have been abolished on Poland's borders with Germany, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Lithuania. It practically means that people admitted to one of the countries of the Schengen Area can travel hassle-free between all of its States without internal land and sea border Controls, from Portugal to Poland and from Greece to Finland.

•    Thanks to its location, Poland occupies a special place in the European Union. Poland's border on the Bug river became the EU's eastern border. In the wider geographical and geopolitical sense Poland occupies a central position - it is situated between the East and West of Europę and between its Scandinavian North and the Bałkan South. Morę and morę foreign investment is being shifted to Poland from Western Europę, as well as from the US and Asia. Poland's geographic location facilitates logistics activities and forecasts indicate increase in the number of immigrants to the country.

• POlish higher education institutions paiticipate in international student exchange programmes and are