Activities related to our University's international relations attract wide interest among all our colleagues within the Jagiellonian University as well as among our foreign partners. Very often, however, in trying to follow our busy schedules, we forget that well-edited and well-distributed information not only fully satisfies this expectation but may also inspire new initiatives, encouraging old ones, and thus has a creative character. And we have been asked quite frequently by our foreign partners for such information.
Moreover, we at the Jagiellonian University receive a number of such periodicals and newsletters from various distinguished universities and other academic institutions all over the world. Therefore, it is my great pleasure to introduce to you the first edition of such a "Newsletter" edited by the International Relations Centre of the Jagiellonian University. Naturally, our aim is to provide concise and hopefully well-written information on the huge number of activities in international relations going on at our University. We very much hope that this information will be widely distributed and welcomed in all places where there is a need for such material. In particular, we hope that we will be able to reach all our international partners, with whom we co-operate actively, very often for many, many years. We also address this material to the associations of our alumni in Chicago, in particular to the Corporation of the Jagiellonian University, which distributes information about our University to Polish communities in the USA. The first issue of our "Newsletter" nearly coincides with another of our University's initiatives in the American field. In co-operation with the State University SUNY at Buffalo, our long-standing sister-institution, we are opening the Polish Academic Information Centre, a kind of clearing-house, with the aim of serving the academic community all over the USA. We hope that our "Newsletter" will support the Centre, providing it with a regular amount of fresh information.
You are invited to learn more about this new activity in the following pages of this bulletin. Last but not least, I sincerely hope that our "newsletter" will have the inspiring, creative impact mentioned above. Perhaps it will help to attract new partners, and stimulate new projects which should wholly enrich the academic activity of the Jagiellonian University. I count on all our readers to share their comments and remarks with us. We encourage you to write, e-mail or fax any material which you feel would be of importance to our potential readers.
Thus, good luck to our "Newsletter" and many years of inspiring activity from
Prof. Dr. Marek Szymoñski Vice-Rector for International Relations Professor of Physics