The meeting will take place as part of the 13th Polish-German Colloquium, whose theme is the social infrastructure of higher education in the age of digitalisation. It will begin on Wednesday, 6 July at 10:30 am in the Engineers' Factory Building at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (1/1 Stefanowskiego Street).
The main topic of the 1st panel will be the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on the direction of higher education and student services. It will be attended by Prof. Krzysztof Jóżwik, Rector of TUL, Matthias Anbuhl, Secretary General of Deutsches Studentenwerk, and representatives of student governments: Mateusz Grochowski, President of the Polish Students' Parliament, and Jannik Hellenkamp from the Board Council of Deutsches Studentenwerk and Achim Meyer auf der Heyde, President of the International Association for Student Affairs and Services. The Colloquium participants' exchange of views will be moderated by the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs of TUL - Assoc Prof. Witold Pawłowski.
Subsequent panels will be devoted to discussions on student services in a post-Covidian reality, issues of new digital forms of communication with the student community, the development of digital infrastructure to enhance social initiatives, the functioning of student residences and new directions in the development of European digital infrastructure, such as the European student ID card.
The presentation of examples of innovative projects and good practices of digitisation in the areas of accommodation, catering and administrative services, finance and student health, including mental health, emergencies and others promises to be interesting.