Dear Readers,

from 10th June to 21st June 2024 CINiBA will run an activity “During the night – here you can fight!”. The library will be open at this time until 22:00.

We invite students and pupils!

• Until 22:00 – free access, reading rooms, carrels
• Until 20:00 – circulation desk and warehouse
• Until 19:30 – orders for collections from the warehouse
  15.06.2024 (Saturday) – open from 10.00 to 18.00

CINiBA’s collections are available to everyone. Using on site is free and does not require a library card. The guest card for the use of the reading room is available at the circulation desk (level 0).

We would like to invite you to the spinPLACE Open Day which will be held on June 5, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the spinPLACE building at 5 Bankowa Street in Katowice.

The event aims to showcase the spinPLACE facility – the center of creativity and coworking as a unique, inspiring place, encourage the use of available spaces and benefit from the initiatives organized by the units concentrated in spinPLACE.

EVENT AGENDA:

• Meeting with an employer – an informational and recruitment meeting, within the framework of which participants will learn about current recruitment processes and the rules of applying for vacant positions – Katowice Provincial Police Headquarters on June 5, 2024, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Cafe Operative, spinPLACE building (Katowice, 5 Bankowa Street) – REGISTRATION.
• Meeting with an employer – an informational and recruitment meeting within the framework of which participants will learn about current recruitment processes and rules for applying for vacant positions – Homeland Security Agency on June 5, 2024, 11:30 – 12:30.
  Cafe Operative, spinPLACE building (Katowice, 5 Bankowa Street) – REGISTRATION.
• SpinUS workshop “Let’s play open cards” – about how to resolve conflicts on June 5, 2024, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Conference room A, spinPLACE building (Katowice, 5 Bankowa St.). More information about the workshop on the page – REGISTRATION.
• Andersen Law Firm training – “Tax Team – consultant, senior and manager in the tax advisory department – expectations vs. reality” June 5, 2024, 13.00 – 14.30. Conference room A, spinPLACE building (Katowice, 5 Bankowa St.). More information about the training can be found on the page – REGISTRATION.

Foreign training courses:

• Office of Economic Cooperation training “Social Innovation with Elements of Design Thinking” on June 5, 2024, 10:00 – 14:00 Scale-up, spinPLACE building (Katowice, 5 Bankowa Street). The training will be held in English. More information about the training – REGISTRATION.
• Career Bureau training – “Teamwork” during which the participant will learn how to work effectively in a group on June 5, 2024, 10.00 – 13.00 Scale-up, conference room B, spinPLACE building (Katowice, 5 Bankowa St.). The training will be held in English. More information about the training – REGISTRATION.

You are welcome!

Viadrinicum is an annual summer school at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), devoted to the countries of the Eastern Partnership and the larger context of Central and Eastern Europe. Building on the discussions around the notion of learning city during the last year’s edition, in 2024 the school focuse on urban space as the space for various (un)learning practices, activating different modes of knowing, sensing and being/becoming together.

It invites students, young researchers, civil society activists, artists and cultural workers to critically reflect upon the experiences of (un)learning as a vehicle of
urban transformation through constant re-imagining of the cityscape contours
and trajectories.

In a more practical sense, the school offers opportunities for applied experimentation in the setting of a participatory urban intervention engaging local communities in the heart of the German-Polish twin city Frankfurt (Oder)-Słubice.

This happens in the frame of three lab.workshops (Community.Lab, Doc.Lab, Planners.Lab), where the participants will be able to develop their own small
(team) projects with the assistance of facilitators from the respective fields. Besides that, the school‘s program features round tables with researchers from
the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS, Berlin), film screenings, public events, and Open Space sessions, where participants will have a chance to discuss their own academic, civic or cultural work.

Successful applicants will be able to receive a travel scholarship. Accommodation costs will be covered by the organizers.

You can apply if you meet the following requirements:

• You are a student, a PhD candidate, an NGO activist or an artist up to 35 y/o;
• You have a genuine interest in transsectoral and transdisciplinary approaches to the topics of the school;
• Your knowledge of English is sufficient to take an active part in discussions.

For more informations read this file.

The Cologne Summer School for European Legal Linguistics (CSS-ERL) will give you an opportunity to acquire an understanding of legal and linguistic aspects of the EU’s legislative process. To that end, you will examine a topical proposal for a legislative act of the European Parliament and the Council, using a transdisciplinary approach. In a supervised preparatory phase, you will familiarise yourself with the source material provided and, in small working groups, develop your own analyses, before attending the part of the course taught in person. Experienced practitioners from the EU institutions will provide you with specific background information about the legislative proposal and about their multilingual tasks. During the part of the course taught in person, you will draft (compromise) proposals in your small working groups, and present them to the plenary for discussion. The working language is English. After participating in the Summer School and submitting an essay, you will receive a certificate.

APPLICATION PROFILE

• Study Courses:
  -Law, from the 3rd semester on, especially binational degrees focus on International and European Law-European Legal Linguistics-General Linguistics-Translation Studies,
• Language Skills:
  – At least English (B2) and another EU officiallanguage,
  – German language skillsadvantageous for international students
• Intrest in:
  – the European Union, in particular EUlegislation,
  – International politics,
  – Comparative law and multilingual work,
• Application Documents:
  – letter of motivation,
  – CV with supporting documents,
  – language certificates (in one pdf-document).

Application deadline: April 30, 2024, email: css-erl@uni-koeln.de

The costs related to the CSS-ERL will be covered, except for the travel expenses.

A detailed schedule can be found at the following link: Cologne_Summer_School_for_European_Legal_Linguistic

Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Daily, a Polish legal and business daily newspaper, has published the 18th Ranking of Law Faculties. The USil Faculty of Law and Administration has been ranked 5th among all public universities in Poland, and 1st in the entire Silesian Voivodeship. The Faculty has also been ranked joint 4th with the University of Warsaw in terms of facilities preparing for legal training.

The ranking has taken into account the following categories: staff, quality and conditions of education, requirements for students, quality of graduates and pass rate of legal trainings.

The Ranking of Law Faculties is announced separately for public and private universities. Detailed information about the ranking on the website of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Daily.

USil Faculty of Law and Administration. Photo by University of Silesia Magazine

We are very pleased to announce that the Europa-Institut will be offering its third Global Classroom lecture with the topic “AI & Human Rights“. The lecture will be held online! Starts on May 2, 2024 from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

The concept of the Global Classroom is to bring together students and professors from Europe and other countries to teach and research in an international environment. The aim is to use the potential of digitalization for internationalization and hereby to enable joint scientific, “trans-European” work and to bring students from different regions of the world together to share their knowledge.

The lecture will be held as an open to all course for students of the LL.M. program “European and International Law” of the Europa-Institut within the framework of specialization area 5 (Human Rights). The event is also aimed at students from our international partner universities and in particular universities from the European university alliance Transform4Europe.

Content: 

The planned thematic blocks of the Global Classroom are:

• Introduction into AI and Human Rights – General Overview,  
• Automated Decision-Making, Discrimination of Algorithms (with a view to migration flow),
• The AI-Act and Human Rights, 
• How to protect privacy in a datafied society?
• Autonomous weapons systems in armed conflicts, 
• AI challenges in the field of intellectual property law.

An examination is planned at the end of the course. The course is recognized with 1.5 credit points. Furthermore a “Certificate of Participation” will be issued.

Here you will find the program with all the dates. Please register here.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 5th edition of the IP Case Law Conference to be held at the EUIPO headquarters and via the Zoom platform on April 29-30, 2024.

Given the tremendous success of the previous four editions in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, the EUIPO Boards of Appeals aims to bring together leading IP experts from multiple jurisdictions, representing a broad spectrum of professional interests.

The conference focuses on the key role of case law, navigating the latest legislative reforms in various areas of intellectual property. The conference coincides with the 30th anniversary of the EUIPO. It will also cover issues related to the diverse challenges of the high-tech environment, particularly in the field of trademarks and designs.

The conference brings together influential figures ranging from leading intellectual property officials, legislators and judges to academics and lawyers who engage in discussions in this field. Through expert panels, the conference aims to provide insights into the multifaceted world of intellectual property in our rapidly evolving technology-saturated society.

The language of the conference will be English with simultaneous translation into French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Anyone interested in attending the conference online is invited to register at this link until April 22, 2024.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the conference team at ipcaselawconference@euipo.europa.eu

The conference program is available in the file below: Case_Law_Conference_2024 

Dear Students,

You can find below information concerning studying at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), the University of Silesia partner. If you are interested, send a message to: monika.jagielska@us.edu.pl

We are pleased to inform you that our application system https://study.bfsu.edu.cn/member/login.do for Fall 2024 exchange students will be open from April 10 to May 15, 2024! Please note that our nomination deadline is May 15, and application deadline is May 31, 2024.

Applicant Qualifications:

1. Applicants’ home institutions must have student exchange agreements with BFSU, and the agreements must be still in force.
2. Applicants must be full-time degree students registered in the home institution. They should first gain recommendation from the home institution, which will then send the nomination form to BFSU.
3. In consideration of cultural exchange and mutual learning with other countries, applicants should in principle be foreign students without Chinese nationality.
4. In addition, applicants should also meet the general application requirements and the admission requirements of the applied major. For more information, please refer to our website https://osao.bfsu.edu.cn/info/1042/1957.htm.

Language Requirements:

While previous experience of the Chinese language is not necessarily required for the admittance to the exchange program at the School of Chinese Language and Culture, BFSU, incoming exchange students must acquire the Chinese proficiency HSK Level-5 with at least a mark of 180 if they wish to be enrolled in academic courses offered in Chinese, and English proficiency on par with IELTS 6.0 overall if they wish to be enrolled in academic courses offered in English.

Here comes some details you may encounter when going through application for Fall 2024 exchange. Please read it carefully before applying online!

• Passport
  If you need to RENEW it, please do it prior to application! Once you applied, your passport number can’t be changed. We are not responsible for any further visa queries if you change your passport number after application.
• Student Affirmations
  You need to sign it and submit online.
• Custody release form
  All students are required to fill it up and get it signed according to Chinese law. Your parents can be your guardian if they have jobs. You cannot be your own guardian.
• Study Duration
  There are 2 study duration options in BFSU, 1 semester or 1 year, please choose the one that suits your case.
• The guarantor in China
  In charge of you case is not necessarily a Chinese guarantor. While studying in China, you may run into something urgent. That is why and when we turn to your guarantor to help you out of trouble. If the guarantor is a Chinese or someone physically in China, we do appreciate. But, if such a person in China is not available, your parent, or some of your friends and relatives is also suitable as your guarantor.
• Recommendation letter
  For such a letter, you can either go to your professor or your home university’s Exchange Students Affairs Office. Usually, you can have their help.

Important!!! Application deadline: May 31, 2024. Kindly bear in mind that we shall not accept applications after the deadline.

The call for applications for the 9th edition of the All-European International Humanitarian and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition, which will take place in November 2024 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, is now open!

ABOUT THE COMPETITION:

This moot court competition is based on a Case Study which is carefully prepared by the organisers in cooperation with the ICRC and UNHCR and addresses the most pertinent and topical questions relating to international humanitarian and refugee law, drawing on the current crisis situations. It is designed to encourage students to study and understand the fundamental concepts of international humanitarian and refugee law by addressing concrete legal problems and practice their legal argumentation in front of experienced judges and panel members.

ORGANISER: Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS:

• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
• Slovenian Red Cross.

You can find the details of the Competition under the link below: https://www.pf.uni-lj.si/en/international-cooperation/all-european-international-humanitarian-and-refugee-law-moot-court-competition/

Interested candidates are invited to submit their CV (in English) and a motivation letter (in English) to Dominika Iwan-Sojka, PhD under the following e-mail: dominika.iwan@us.edu.pl

Selection criteria:

• Knowledge of English (minimum B2 level),
• Knowledge of Public international law,
• Interest in international humanitarian law and international refugee law will be an asset.

Deadline for submission is April 15th, 2024. Selected applicants will be invited for an interview based on their knowledge of public international law, including international humanitarian and refugee law.

The interviews will take place in the second half of April 2024. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Dominika Iwan-Sojka.