On November 4, 2003 in "Chatka Zaka" UMCS Academic Culture Centre
there was an inauguration of the third study year in the European College of Polish and Ukrainian Universities in Lublin.
Dr Ewa Rybałt, chancellor of ECPUU, prof. Marian Harasimiuk, rector of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University,
the rev. prof. Andrzej Szostek, rector of Catholic University of Lublin,
prof. Walerij Jarowyj and prof. Oleh Zakusyło from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
sat at the presidential table. Iwan Hrycak, general consul of Ukraine in Lublin, representatives of Orthodox Church in Lublin,
Stefan Batruch, the guardian of Lublin Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Academic Ministry,
the members of the Union of Ukrainians in Poland, representatitves of authorities,
professors and post-graduate students were also invited.
Speeches concerned the idea of united Europe, intercultural knowledge and understanding as well as integration.
The rector of Catholic University in Lublin stressed that "opening to the east would remain empty word if it wasn't mean
readiness to heavy, but necessary mutual cooperation".
While speaking about future polish-ukrainian university in Lublin (the initiative of Jerzy Giedroyc, the editor of "Paris Culture",
and Bohdan Osadczuk) prof. Andrzej Szostek appeal to patience.
Prof. Marian Harasimiuk, rector of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, reassure the students that in spite of "uncertain
juridical situation of College, they have guaranteed funds for scholarships till the end of study year".
Yaropolk Tymkiw from Lwiw represented College students in short speech made in good polish language.
During the inauguration the photo-exhibition by post-graduate student Magda Kamola was showed.
Photos represented scenes of paintings, landscapes, monuments of wooden architecture in particular from Huculszczyzna,
Lwiw and its neighbourhoods.
Folklore accent also had place during the inauguration. Oleksij Nahornyuk in hucul clothes played some melodies
using trombita, hollow wooden instument of herders, tuba made of fir and covered with birch rind, which length may reach 4 m,
used in ukrainian Carpathian Mts as well as in Slovenia and Hungary for transmitting of signals.
2003/2004 study year was opened by the lection of prof. Ryszard Szczygieł called
"Urbanization of Central-Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages".
At the end, academic chorus sang Gaudeamus.
In current study year there are 175 post-graduate students in ECPUU (77 students of the third year,
47 of the second, 51 of the first),
among them 143 from Ukraine, 21 from Poland, 6 from Byelorussia, and in one representative from Kazakhstan,
Lithuania, Moldavia, Russia and Slovenia.
Paulina Piasecka (ECPUU)
