Puola Suomessa

The Minister of Foreign Affairs announces a contest for the best foreign language publication promoting the history of Poland and the best Polish language publication on the history of Polish diplomacy. The contest welcomes works which were published in 2019. Historians can submit their works until 31 August 2020.

Polish companies have long-term experience in working for nuclear energy as well as nuclear research centers functioning in the field of nuclear energy.

Despite the pandemic, the difficult situation and restrictions in many countries where Poles and people of Polish origin live and work, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs would like to address the needs of our compatriots – especially children and youth – who wish to keep in touch with our national culture, history and literature.

Seventy five years after the end of the Second World War, we pay tribute to its victims. We remember the indomitable struggle of the Polish nation against Nazi Germany throughout the conflict in Europe, lasting from September 1939 to May 1945.

Adopted on 3 May 1791 in Warsaw by the Sejm of the Polish Republic (later known as the Great Sejm), the Polish Constitution was Europe’s first and the world’s second modern constitution.

Due to the state of epidemic threat, NAWA has extended the call for applications for Poland My First Choice Scholarship Programme until 30th of April 2020.

Suuri puolalainen säveltäjä ja kapellimestari Krzysztof Penderecki kuoli sunnuntaina, 29 maaliskuuta 2020. Hänen teoksissaan yhdistyi perinne ja innovaatio. Pitkäaikainen ystävyys suomalaisen virtuoosin sellistin Arto Noraksen kanssa on vaikuttanut monien Pendereckin teosten luomiseen. Haluamme julkaista Arto Noraksen muistokirje jossa hän kiroittaa kahden taiteilijan ystävyydestä ja yhteistyöstä.

Read a piece by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki published in "La Repubblica" on 11th of April 2020.

On 10 April 2010, a special TU-154M plane with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and the First Lady Maria Kaczyńska on board took off from Warsaw to Smolensk. On that very day the members of the official delegation were to participate in the ceremonies taking place in the Katyn War Cemetery, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the crime committed there. The aircraft carried 96 people, including members of the highest state authorities, representatives of various social circles and religious denominations, high-ranking military commanders and the plane’s crew. All the flight passengers died in the air disaster which took place during landing at the airport near Smolensk.

After three weeks of intense efforts to return Polish citizens to their homeland, the #LOTdoDomu programme was completed on Sunday, 5 April 2020. As part of this initiative, in just 22 days, the Polish LOT airlines organised 388 special charter flights which brought over 55,000 people safely home.