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The University of Warsaw is the largest university in Poland and best research centre in the country. Its academic community comprises 7 300 employees, more than 45 000 undergraduate and graduate students and 3 000 doctoral students. Besides 21 faculties, UW has also 30 academic and research centres. A wide range of studies in humanities, social, exact as well as natural sciences, including 25 English-language programmes, is provided by UW. The University works together with 800 international partners.
Almost one-third of the UW budget, equal to 330 million euro, is devoted to research. In the present financial framework, UW scholars have won over 50 grants from the Horizon 2020 programme. Researchers from UW have received so far 14 grants from the most prestigious European competitions of the European Research Council (ERC). UW received the “HR Excellence in Research” award, conferred by the European Commission.
In 2016, the University of Warsaw celebrated the 200th anniversary of its foundation. This year saw the beginning of the realization of a multiannual development plan (2016-2025) financed by the Polish government. With this funding, it will be possible to develop UW faculties and centres of humanities and social sciences.
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