Dr Magdalena Łągiewska from the Faculty of Law and Administration UG will head the Confucius Institute at UG.
To introduce the language and culture of the Middle Kingdom, the Chinese State Bureau for the International Promotion of the Chinese Language (abbreviated as Hanban) has set up a network of non-profit organisations called Confucius Institutes, after the great Chinese sage.
The Confucius Institute at UG has been operating since September 2015. Their main goal is to promote the Chinese language and Chinese culture, both among local schools and among the entire community of a given region. The institutes organise language courses and cultural workshops, as well as lectures, academic seminars and training for Chinese language teachers. The Institutes are also responsible for organising state examinations in Chinese (HSK, BCT, YCT) and awarding Confucian Scholarships. They also promote Chinese art by organising exhibitions, film reviews and lectures.
From March 17, 2021, the Confucius Institute at UG will be headed by dr Magdalena Łągiewska, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public International Law at UG's Faculty of Law, Dean's Plenipotentiary for Cooperation with China, Research Associate in the research grant China, Law and Development funded by the European Research Council (ERC) at the University of Oxford. She obtained her first doctoral degree in law at UG in 2017. (dissertation entitled 'Subjective rights in the legal system of the People's Republic of China'), and her second doctoral degree in law at East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai in 2020, specialising in international commercial arbitration (dissertation in Chinese entitled 'Effectiveness of an arbitration agreement in Chinese and Polish law: a comparative legal study'). She gained practical experience during her internship at the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC). She is also a graduate of international economic relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Gdańsk (specialisation: international finance and banking) and a scholarship holder of Shanghai International Studies University (Belt and Road Countries Project) and China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing.
Interview with dr Magdalena Łągiewska in For you Polish Radio entitled 'Between East and West: Shanghai. Metropolis of the future.'