Informacje praktyczne

 

First days at CAMK and legal matters

• Search for accommodation, hints from our guide may be useful
• Register your residence address and get the PESEL number
  • application form
• Take care about health insurance, read information about healthcare in Poland
• Apply for insurance via National Health Fund (NFZ)
  • guide on signing up for health insurance via NFZ
  • application, and instruction on completeing the application form
  • EHIC application, and instruction on completeing the application form
• Legalize your stay
  • apply for temporary residence permit (guide for non-EU students)
  • application form, non-EU students, pdf
  • register your stay in Poland (guide for EU students)
  • application form, EU students, pdf
• Learn about important legal matters and everyday matters of PhD student by studying our glossary

 

 

Student matters

• Contact to PhD Students Council at CAMK PAN: samorzad@camk.edu.pl
• Contact to doctoral school administration at CAMK PAN: phdstudies@camk.edu.pl
• Grants and grant funding agencies
  • National Science Center, Preludium (pre-doctoral grants), Etiuda (doctoral scholarships)
  • National Agency for Academic Exchange, Iwanowska program
  • Foundation for Polish Science, START programme
  • Ministry of Education and Science, scholarships for outstanding young researchers
  • prize of Prime Minster for outstanding doctoral dissertation
• website of PhD Students Council of the Polish Academy of Sciences (pl)
• website of National Representation of PhD Candidates (pl)
• e-doktorant portal (pl)
• Go! Poland - a web service for foreign students by NAWA
• Science in Poland, a service of the Polish Press Agency

 

Useful books and booklets in English

 

• Studying in Poland, publication by NAWA (pdf)
• Education system in Poland
  • detailed description, publication by NAWA (pdf)
  • summary of higher education system, (NAWA website)
  • The law on higher education and science, in English (pdf)
• Social Security in Poland, publication by ZUS (pdf)
  • four-language dictionary of terms related to social security

 

 

Everyday life in Poland and in Warsaw

• Warsaw public transportation
  • a step by step guide to Warsaw public transportation
  • tickets, Warsaw city card, timetables
  • live route for 108 and 167
  • find your way through Warsaw with jakdojade.pl
• Warsaw insider
• inyour pocket: Warsaw
• Rail connections in Poland
• Weather forecast for Warsaw

 

Watch our movie about everyday life in our institute and to learn about Warsaw, Toruń and Poland.

 

Relax in and around Warsaw

• Warsaw Tourist information
  • download brochures in English
  • overview of museums in Warsaw
• Warsaw Public Bike, Veturilo
• Copernicus Science Center
• The Royal Castle, Museum
• The Royal Lazienki Museum
• Palac and Gardens and Wilanów - King Jan III Sobieski Museum
• National Museum
• Warsaw Uprising Museum
• Botanical Garden of the Warsaw University (at the Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory)
• Botanical Garden of the PAS in Powsin
• Kampinoski National Park
• Kayaking in Warsaw
• Ideas for vacations in Poland:
  • Polish Tourism Organisation
  • Poland on lonely planet
  • Poland on tripadvisor

 

 

 

Updates and corrections: send requests to phdstudies@camk.edu.pl