Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan is one of the largest Polish universities, based in the city of Pozna in the west of the country. It has been named after the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz since 1955.
University Ranking
According to SJR, it was ranked 10th in Poland, and 440th in the world for the year 2021.
According to QS, it was ranked 4 in Poland, and ranked 801 in the world for the year 2020
According to THEWorld, it was ranked 13th in Poland, and 1001st in the world for the year 2020
University history:
The Poznan Association of Friends of Science played a major role in this process, which pushed the academic legacy forward during the period of the Polish partition up to the official re-establishment of the Poznan University proper, after the end of the First World War in 1919, founded after Poland regained its independence.
The University of Poznan prospered and was again forced to go to Earth and offer its services in a conspiracy during the Second World War under the name of the Secret University of the Western Lands (1940-1944).
Despite the Nazi German occupation, it was able to educate and produce more than 2,000 graduates with the help of about 300 academic teachers, risking their lives by offering university courses in the Polish language that became illegal during the war.
The modern era of the university begins with the giving of it the name of its new patron – Adam Mickiewicz.
In 2019, Adam Mickiewicz University celebrated its centenary with 3 other schools created as a result of the division of Poznan University into four independent higher educational institutions: Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poznan University of Medical Sciences (PUMS), Poznan University of Life Sciences (PULS). ) and Poznan University of Physical Education (PUPE).
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan is one of the best academic centers in Poland and a research university. The university’s reputation is influenced by the traditions, outstanding scholarly achievements of its faculty, attractive student education program and excellent accommodation facilities.
Teaching staff:
University President: Prof. Dr. Bogomita Kaniuska
Students: The university studies about 35,000 students, and more than 1,300 doctoral students.
Majors: There are 80 fields of study, over 200 majors
Campus :
Faculties:
The university campus includes 20 colleges:
Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies / Faculty of English / Faculty of Biology / Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology / Department of Chemistry / Faculty of Physics / Faculty of Philosophy / Department of History / Faculty of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management / Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences / Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science / Faculty of Science Politics and Journalism/ College of Arts and Sciences/ College of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences/ College of Modern Languages/ College of Sociology/ College of Law and Administration/ College of Theology/ College of Educational Studies.
Other branches:
Institute of European Culture in Gniezno
Collegium Polonikonervy Subets
College of Education and Arts in Kalisz
Adam . University Nadnotecki Institute
University’s library
Poznan University Library and the leading scientific library in Wielkopolska. It is a unit of a university that Adam Mickiewicz has been assigned to handle his scientific and educational tasks. It creates a space of knowledge collected and available in historical collections and the latest sources of information.
It strives in its activities to provide the optimum service to researchers, doctoral students and university students. While maintaining the character of a public library, it is a place that is easy to use, and an organization that is open to the needs of all those who wish to use its resources.
The University Library in Poznan uses modern means to dynamically organize access to knowledge and computing development. Performs educational activities that enhance the science and mission of the university. Professional service to readers is provided by professional librarians who systematically improve their qualifications.
The University Library in Poznan is open to cooperation with the scientific and cultural environment, and it initiates and implements activities that support building a knowledge society.
The official abbreviation for the University Library in Poznan is BUP.
Its history:
Between 1899 and 1902 AD, a late-Renaissance-style building was erected to meet the needs of Kaiser Wilhelm Bibliotheque; In 1902-1919, the Kaiser Wilhelm Bibliothek Book Collection was formed and the Library Cards Index was organized.
The Polish administration also acquired the Kaiser Wilhelm Bibliothek’s book collection (250,000 volumes) and began the process of Polonization of the Library’s collections to meet the needs of the Polish University established in Poznan.
In 1945 AD, the university library activity resumed and, as part of the work of securing abandoned and abandoned book collections, about 750,000 volumes. The influx of private collections, especially old prints and cartographic collections.
In 1981 AD, a separate set of prohibitions (publications prohibited from publication) were filtered and included in the main set of books available. The name “University Library” has also been referenced in place of the name “Adam Mickiewicz University Main Library” in use since 1945.
In 2002, the Jubilee of the Centenary of the University Library Building. The “Bibliotheca Magna Perennisque” medal awarded by the Polish Librarians Association, the “Good because Polish” certificate, and the honorary Hippolit statue.
In 2007, the “Library”, which is reviewed annually, was placed on the list of registered journals at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. A multimedia educational program was implemented for first-year students in the field of library training and placement test. Complete long-term training in the traditional format.
In 2012 and 2013 the University Library became a virtual institution thanks to online services and remote access to the library’s collections. Scan traditional card catalogs – now the digital DIGIT CARDS catalog and launch a multiple search engine full of AMU resources allowing quick searching and finding of available remote library resources.
In 2013, the University Library Educational Center was established – a modern e-learning platform for teaching libraries.
2016 transferred 460 thousand. Masonic collections from the palace in Cieto warehouses in Poznan, the library also acquired library status with the resources of the National Library, and a room was created for reading comics and newspapers.
2017 Implementation of the international system for the identification of authors of scientific papers ORCID for the staff of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.
Scientific Publisher
_ AMU Scientific Publisher is one of the largest and most important university publications in Poland. Its origins go back to 1920.
_ One of the most important university publications in Poland that promotes scientific achievements by publishing studies, journals, textbooks, texts and dictionaries.
_ The mission of the publishing house is to support the academic community, to promote Polish scientific achievements in the country and abroad and to create a good image of the university. During her activity, she received more than 130 awards, distinctions and nominations in prestigious competitions for publishers.
An average of 200 titles are published each year.
_ AMU Scientific Publishing House contributes to the dissemination of studies on a very large scale by publishing e-books that can be downloaded for free from anywhere in the world. The offer includes publications in various scientific fields – download e-books.
Research Centers at AMU
NanoBioMedical Center
The NanoBioMedical Center (CNBM) is an organizational unit of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, founded in partnership with the Medical University, University of Life Sciences and Poznan University of Technology. Work started in 2011.
The main objective of the CNBM is to conduct research and teaching activities in the field of nano sciences and nanotechnologies in an interdisciplinary approach at the doctoral and master’s levels. The interdisciplinary profile of CNBM’s activity is based on the combination of physical, chemical, biological, medical and materials sciences in nanotechnology.
Research issues conducted at CNBM include the full production and characterization of nanomaterials and the study of their potential in, among others, diagnostics and tissue engineering, targeted therapy, energy conversion and storage, catalysis, sensors, and nanoelectronics.
Greater Poland Center for Advanced Technologies
The Wielkopolska Center for Advanced Technologies in Poznan is a multidisciplinary center that brings together the best specialists in the exact, natural and technical sciences, focusing on new materials and biomaterials with multifaceted applications.
The essence of the interdisciplinary activities of this center is the development of original combinations of chemicals, biochemicals and agrochemicals (the so-called fine chemicals), as well as a new generation of biomaterials, nanomaterials and their precursors, and then the development of advanced technologies and biotechnology for their production for optoelectronics, medicine, pharmacology, agriculture and many other fields industry and other technology.
International cooperation
AMU is a member of the European Consortium of Universities EPICUR – the European Partnership for Unified Innovative Campus Regions. The consortium also includes the University of Strasbourg (France), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg (Germany), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), University of Alsace Hautes (France), Bodenkultur University Vienna (Austria), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ( Greece).
European Universities are alliances of higher education institutions from across the European Union that share a long-term strategy and promote European values and identity. The idea behind its creation is to significantly increase student and staff mobility and to support the quality, integration and competitiveness of European higher education.
University features:
The university is a center of knowledge where research and teaching overlap, and science is explored internationally, nationally and regionally. The university is constantly updating and expanding its research programs and teaching content, with a particular focus on its interdisciplinary nature.
Adam Mickiewicza University in Poznan is one of ten research universities in Poland, which means carrying out additional tasks, strongly focused on the development and internationalization of scientific research.
An increasing number of people are enrolling in postgraduate studies and training courses. A university diploma is becoming an increasingly desirable asset in the labor market.
AMU is one of the ten research universities in Poland, winner of the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” competition. This means additional funding for research.
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, in addition to extensive teaching and research facilities, has facilities of cultural and historical value, AMU Botanical Garden located in Pozna at ul. Dąbrowskiego, one of these facilities, is one of the most loved and most visited parks in Poznan.
As well as historical palaces (palace in Obrzycko, palace complex in Ciąże, palace and park complex in Gułtów) Adam Mickiewicz University, next to the University of Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University, is one of the largest and best higher education institutions in Poland.
