The 11th LUMEN Conference 2025, held on 25–26 November and organized by PCG Academia, the Polish Rectors Foundation, and Times Higher Education, brought together numerous representatives of the academic community at the Jagiellonian University.

On October 20–21, 2025, the first joint meeting of the Polish–Ukrainian Platform of Vice-Rectors for Research was held in Warsaw. The event was organized as part of the project “Polish–Ukrainian Cooperation of Representative Institutions of Rectors for the improvement of university performance”, implemented by the Warsaw University of Technology with the financial support of the Ministry of Science.

We are pleased to invite you to the 11th International Conference “Leaders in University Management” (LUMEN 2025), organized by PCG Academia together with the Polish Rectors Foundation and Times Higher Education. The event will take place on November 25–26, 2025, at the Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

The project AGILE dedicated to academic resilience and the support of students and scholars with refugee and migration backgrounds was successfully completed in May 2025, after 30 months of implementation.The culmination of the activities was the award of the prestigious Erasmus+ Label for Good Practices by the French Erasmus+ National Agency. This recognition confirms the quality of the project’s results and the value of the partnership that made it possible.

We encourage you to review all the Reports prepared by FRP within the framework of the project “AGILE – Higher Education Resilience in Refugee Crises: Forging Social Inclusion through Capacity Building, Civic Engagement and Skills Recognition,” implemented under the Erasmus+ programme in the years 2022–2025.

The Polish Academia Emergency Response... report offers an in-depth analysis of how Poland’s academic community responded to the unprecedented influx of Ukrainian refugees following the outbreak of the full-scale war in February 2022. It covers the period 2022–2024 and presents legal adjustments, institutional support mechanisms, and the development of crisis management strategies implemented by Polish universities and research institutions.

How can European higher education institutions effectively support and integrate refugee students in times of crisis? Join our two-day virtual Symposium to explore the latest strategies, innovations, and collaborations shaping the future of inclusive education.

UP8 and UBM are organising a webinar on March 21st, from 5 to 6.30pm, with 4 representatives of Bridge diploma in 4 different French universities.The title of this webinar is: “Socio-academic language learning for the inclusion of refugee students in Higher Education Institutions: achievements, challenges, and future perspectives”

We are excited to invite you to "Collective Voices for Refugee Solutions," an interactive online crowdsourcing sprint designed to co-create innovative solutions for refugee integration in education, mental health, and entrepreneurship. This engaging event, hosted by Web2Learn for the AGILE EU-funded project, will take place on November 15th, from 09:00 am CET (10:00 Kyiv Time) and will run for 1.5 hours.

Webinar "Training and coaching for innovation and entrepreneurship skills of displaced and refugee academics." will take place online April 2, 2024, 13:00 -15:00 CET. This event is organized by University of Ljubljana, Slovenia as a vital part of the AGILE project.