4 March 2014 saw the visit by a delegation of Indian journalists and officials at the Jagiellonian University. The delegation, invited to Poland by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, consisted of: Ms. Ranjana Saxena, Associate Professor and Head of Slavonic and Finno-Ungrian Studies Department at the University of Delhi, Mr. Syed Mohammad Irfan, senior editor and journalist of Indian Government television channel that covers the proceedings of Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the Parliament of India), and Mr. Vijay Mehta, Chairman of Foreign Trade and Investment Committee and Chairman at Mefcom Capital Markets Ltd. The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs was represented by Dr Zuzanna Burska, First Secretary of the Polish Embassy in New Delhi, and Counsellor-Minister Piotr Opaliński, Deputy Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in New Delhi.

The guests met with the Rector of the Jagiellonian University, Prof. dr hab. med. Wojciech Nowak and Prof. dr hab. Bogdan Szlachta, Dean of the JU Faculty of International and Political Studies, which hosted the meeting. The Faculty was also represented by Rev. Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Kościelniak, Head of the Institute of the Middle and Far East and Dr hab. Cezary Galewicz, Head of the Department of Indian Studies.
The issues discussed at the meeting pertained to the broadly understood Polish-Indian collaboration, with special focus on the area of research and higher education. The academic authorities talked about the ongoing and future collaboration between the Jagiellonian University and the University of Delhi in the field of research, as well as student and staff exchange.
The visit marked the 60th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Poland and India.

Polish text by Renata Czekalska

Pictures by Anna Wojnar