The Republic of Poland is located in central Europe, bordering Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. Warsaw is Poland's capital and largest city, located on the Vistula River. Poland is divided into 16 provinces, with major cities including Krakow, Gdansk, Lódz, Katowice, Poznan, Szczecin, and Wroclaw. The flag of Poland consists of two horizontal stripes, a white stripe above a red stripe. The złoty is Poland's currency. Most Poles are members of the Roman Catholic Church. Sosnowiec is an industrial city in southern Poland with over 225,000 inhabitants and several university

1. Beata Panuszewska
POLAND

2. The Republic of Poland is located in central
Europe.
It borders on
Germany in the
west, the Czech
and Slovak
Republics in the
south, Lithuania,
Belarus and
Ukraine in the
east, while its
northern border is
delimited by the

3. WARSAW is Poland's
capital and the largest city.
It is located
upon the longest Polish
River, the Vistula.
Poland is divided
into 16 provinces.
The major Polish cities include Krakow,
Gdansk, Lódz, Katowice, Poznan, Szczecin
and Wroclaw.

4. EMBLEM AND FLAG
The flag of Poland consists of two horizontal stripes of
equal width, the upper one white and the lower one
red.
The two colors are defined in the Polish constitution as
the national colors. The coat of arms of Poland is an
image
of a crowned white eagle in a red field.

5. CURRENCY
The złoty
meaning
"golden", is the
currency of
Poland and it is
subdivided into
100 groszy.

6. Most Poles, approximately 89%, are
members of the Roman Catholic
Church what makes Poland one of the
most devoutly religious countries in
Europe.
JOHN PAUL II ,
sometimes called
John Paul the Great,
reigned as Pope of
the Catholic Church
from 1978 until his
death in 2005

7. SOSNOWIEC is a city located in the
south of Poland. It is a county capital, a
mining and industrial region with about
225,202 inhabitants.

8. Sosnowiec is a city of knowledge, with important
educational infrastructures for more than 13 000
of people. Sosnowiec houses the departments
of several universities: the University of Silesia,
Silesian Medical Academy, the Technical
University
of Silesia and the Teachers College of Foreign

9. What to see in Sosnowiec?

10. The Complex of Electronics
and Informatics Schools
Courses:
 electronics technician
 informatics technician
 teleinformatics technician
Specializations:
 computer systems and nets
 computer equipment repair and maintenance
 computer technique and audio-visual devices
 industrial electronics and automatics
 computer graphic design and multimedia
 internet applications
 and others..

12. International projects