Ms Marika Knapp's bachelor's thesis, written under the supervision of dr Katarzyna Pastuszak at the UG Artistic Institutions Management Faculty, won first place in the Project Master 2022 competition in the bachelor's thesis category.

The award ceremony took place on October 19 at the Warsaw School of Economics. On the same day, Ms Marika Knapp presented her thesis as part of the PM Education 2022 Seminar. The title of the awarded bachelor's thesis was 'Art therapy for the busy - analysis of an animation project Gdańsk visually with particular emphasis on the art and media section'.

The Project Master competition is a nationwide competition for the best bachelor's/engineering, master's, doctoral and postgraduate thesis in the field of project management organised by IPMA Poland and the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Management at the University of Szczecin. The Competition's Jury includes 20 lecturers and experts in project management from the most important Polish academic centres.

The victory of the UG student is a great success and an extraordinary distinction. Congratulations. 

From a review by dr Katarzyna Pastuszak, supervisor:

The thesis entitled 'Art therapy for the busy - an analysis of the animation project Gdańsk visually with particular emphasis on the artistic and media part' is a report on the realisation of the animation project summarised with a vernissage at the Orunia Station of the Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture. The bachelor's project presented in the thesis is an interesting and innovative example of enabling access to artistic activity for various groups of recipients in the era of post-pandemics and social tensions resulting from the current geopolitical situation. Particularly valuable is the theoretical introduction, in which the author presents the Gdańsk project visually in the context of the condition of culture in the 21st century and the situation of a post-pandemic man.