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Power in Europe
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TISCHNER EUROPEAN UNIVERISTY
The Tischner European University was founded by ZNAK Publishing House in Krakow in February 2003. By creating the University which is expected to become a major institution of higher learning in Poland and in Europe we have demonstrated it is possible to overcome the apathy in Polish public life. We have successfully rallied enthusiastic support of all those who care about improving academic standarts in Poland and achieving educational and research excellence.
The Tischner European University has been established to answer the need. By combining what is the best in Polish and Western intellectual tradition with the best educational models developed at European and American universities it hopes to fill the gap in the Polish system of higher education and to create new standards of excellence in teaching and research that will benefit its graduates and the whole community.
Founders
Tischner European University was founded by ZNAK Publishing House - an institution which for the past 59 years has been a cultural landmark in Poland. It is also one of the most dynamic and prosperous publishing houses in Poland, combining commercial success with quality and integrity. Znak has published famous authors such as: St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, William Shakespeare, Alexis de Tocqueville, Friedrich Nietzsche and Georg W.F. Hegel, as well as contemporary writers: Pope John Paul II, Nobel Prize winners - Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska and Seamus Heaney, Joseph Brodsky, Norman Davies, Timothy Garton Ash, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Andrzej Wajda. Furthermore, Znak is a meeting place for various scientific, artistic, political and business circles, who for many years now have been a strong force/influential in intellectual and public life in Poland.
