The beginning of an academic year is an important event not only for the academic community, but also for the university’s local partners. SWPS University — Campus in Wrocław will hold its 2025/2026 Academic Year Opening Carmony on October 8, 2025. We are looking forward to hosting special guests from the Wrocław’s academic community, our academic and administrative staff, but most of all our students. Join us to celebrate another year of learning and discoveries.
Academic year opening ceremony
The ceremony will take place on October 8, 2025, at 11:00, SWPS University — Campus in Wrocław, Ostrowskiego 30b, in the W. Stern Lecture Hall (room no. 45).
Agenda:
- National anthem*
- Gaudeamus Igitur*
- Deans’ opening address delivered by Professor Tomasz Grzyb, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology in Wrocław and Professor Igor Borkowski, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Communication in Wrocław.
- Speeches by representatives of the student and doctoral student governments
- Announcement of departmental and Very Important Student (VIS) awards
- Student Matriculation Ceremony
- Opening lecture: Linguistic signifiers of mass imagination, by Professor Jan Miodek
- Gaude Mater Polonia*
*Musical performances by the Medici Cantantes Choir of the Wrocław Medical University.
During the Opening Ceremony this year, we will also unveil a statue of a humble lab rat to honor all animals that contributed their lives to science.