Golden Engineer titles were awarded on February 28 in the headquarters of the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations-NOT. We are pleased to inform that the president of the Education Foundation "Perspektywy" Waldemar Siwiński was awarded the title of Honorary Golden Engineer 2018.

On January 29, the winners of the first edition of the Academic Internationalization Star / Internationalization Stars were awarded. The mission of the Award is to promote people with outstanding achievements in the internationalization of Polish universities. The award is granted jointly by Polish institutions and organizations involved in supporting the internationalization of Polish universities.

Aigerim Balkhashbayeva from Kazakhstan (SWPS University), Safoura Reza from Afghanistan / France (Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences), Włodzimierz Lewoniewski from Belarus (Poznan University of Economics), Justyna Pordzik from Germany (Warsaw Medical University), Snehalbhai Patel from India (Silesian University of Technology) ) and Yasser Faraj from Saudi Arabia (Medical University of Silesia) are the winners of the eighth edition of the Competition for the Best Foreign Student in Poland INTERSTUDENT. The ceremony of awarding the prizes took place on January 29 during the evening gala as part of the conference "Foreign students in Poland 2018", which took place at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.

On October 2, 2017 Waldemar Siwinski, President of Education Foundation Perspektywy, was honored a degree honoris causa. The official ceremony took place at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The Doctorate honoris causa was awarded to Mr. Siwinski in recognition of his career in the academic and scientific fields, and of his special link with the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Research universities, initiatives of excellence, international and national rankings, accreditations, innovativeness of higher education were the most important topics of the the second conference "Polish universities in the global perspective - Rankings and strategic management of a university ", held on November 27-28 in Warsaw. Over 160 participants from Poland and abroad took part in it. The honorary patronage over the conference, organized jointly by Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (CRASP), Polish Accreditation Committee (PKA) and Perspektywy Education Foundation, was taken by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin.