Polish Office in Taipei

Today, Poland has started its one-year Chairmanship at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Thus, our country is assuming a greater role in shaping security and stabilisation on the European continent in the spirit of the Helsinki Final Act, whose 50th anniversary we will be celebrating in 2025.

Poland has fully opened its borders with other EU countries. However, the borders with non-EU countries remain closed. Starting from 28th of December 2020 Polish Government imposed quarantine requirements for certain categories of travelers.

Mr. Cyryl Kozaczewski, a career diplomat and former ambassador to Japan, has assumed the function of the new Director of the Polish Office in Taipei.

Polish Office in Taipei participated in one of the most popular travel fairs in Asia - "International Travel Fair" - organised in Taipei on 5-8 November 2021. The stand of the Polish Office in Taipei was visited by several hundred people, including the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen.

The second outdoor recital of Frédéric Chopin’s masterpieces, performed by Dr. Kamil Tokarski on the occasion of the Polish Independence Day, ended with a standing ovation. The recital was organised by the Polish Office in Taipei in cooperation with the Taipei City Government.

As a gesture of solidarity in the face of vaccine shortages and risks posed by new coronavirus variants, Poland will hand over 400,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Taiwan. This makes Poland Taiwan’s third largest vaccine donor, after the US and Japan.

The charging fees issues for educational services by public universities are regulated in the Act of 20 July 2018, Law on Higher Education and Science, and in the case of non-public universities, they result from the internal regulations of these universities.

The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA has launched a new platform, “Research in Poland”.

On May 6, we Polish Office in Taipei had a pleasure to host representatives of the Taiwanese administration, the diplomatic corps and selected representatives of business, media, NGOs, the world of science and art, and the Polish community at the national reception on the occasion of the 3rd May Constitution Day.