WELCOME TO THE WEST POMERANIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL IN SZCZECIN

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WELCOME TO THE WEST POMERANIAN BUSINESS
SCHOOLIN SZCZECIN
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The Mission of WPBS
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Mission statement of WPBS

• The West Pomeranian Business School is- a
  non-state institution of higher education
  operating on the basis of the Higher Education
  Act.
• - a non-profit institution all operating
  profits are allocated for further development of
  the School. - an institution autonomous in
  defining its mission statement, its objectives
  and priorities. - a School with a status of a
  free institution which is manifested in the
  freedom of scientific research and freedom of
  teaching. - institution guided by humanistic
  values which educates young people in the spirit
  of respect for mankind, patriotism, democracy,
  eco-development and responsibility for the future
  of the whole society and the country
• - Europe oriented institution.

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WPBS in the rankings of higher schools

• In the most important rankings of over 300
  private business schools in Poland ever since
  1998, WPBS has invariably been located in the top
  ten
• according to the WPROST magazine positions 4th
  to 16th
• in the POLITYKA magazine places 3th to 13th
• in the PROFIT magazine 6th place
• according to the BUSINESSMAN MAGAZINE 9th
  position
• according to HOME MARKET 9th place

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Authorities of WPBS
The Rector of the West Pomeranian Business School
Prof. Wojciech Olejniczak
The Vice Rector for Development Affairs Prof.
Aneta Zelek
The ChancellorJan Majewski, MSc
The Dean of The Economics and Social Sciences
Faculty Prof. Danuta Kopycinska
The Dean of the Management and Information
Technology Prof. Jan Karwowski
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Organisational structure of WPBS
Publishing House of WPBS
Department of International Cooperation
Department of Foreign Languages
International Business Studies
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Departments of WPBS

• Information Technology Department Head of the
  Department prof. Edward Kolbusz
• Quantitative Methods DepartmentHead of the
  Department prof. Stefan Grzesiak
• Finance and Accounting Department Head of the
  Department
• prof. Stanislaw Flejterski
• Marketing Department Head of the Department
  prof. Jan Karwowski
• Department of International Economic
  RelationsHead of the Department
• prof. Halina Nakonieczna-Kisiel
• Sociology Department Head of the Department
• prof. Jacek Leonski
• Quality Systems Department
• Head of the Department
• prof. Mariusz Jedlinski

• European Integration Department Head of the
  Department
• prof. Andrzej Glowacki
• Foreign Markets Department Head of the
  Department prof. Irena Rutkowska
• Department of Organisation and ManagementHead of
  the Department
• prof. Antoni Nowakowski
• Managerial Economy Department Head of the
  Department
• prof. Danuta Kopycinska
• Department of International BusinessHead of the
  Studies prof.. Aneta Zelek

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Educational Structure
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Faculty of Social Sciences
Students of the Faculty are free to choose one of
the two majors European Studies and Sociology.

• Sociology offers vocational studies in the
  following specialisations- Applied Sociology
• - Sociology of Organisations

• European Studies is conducted on Bachelor level,
  and offers the following specialisation -
  European Project Manager

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Faculty of Economics and Information Technology
Students of the Faculty are free to choose one of
the two majors Economy or Information
Technology with Econometrics.

• Economy offers the following specialised
  coursesHigher Vocational Studies (Bachelor)-
  Tourism Economics ,- International Business
  Studies,- Foreign Trade,- Services and
  Marketing,- Economic Informatics,- Finance and
  Accounting,- Real Estate Management.
• Information Technology with EconometricsVocatio
  nal Studies on Information Technology

• Complementary Master Studies with specialised
  courses on- Tourism Management,- International
  Business Studies,- International Economic
  Relations,- Managerial Economics,- Trade and
  MArketing,- Financial Advisory,- Human
  Resources Management,- Health Care Management.

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Business Development Centre
We develop the human potential for their own
successes in business
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Postgraduate Studies

• WPBS runs over 20 one-year courses of
  postgraduate studies.
• These, among others, are
• Business Management
• Quality Management
• Logistic Management
• Knowledge Management
• Finance Controlling
• Human Resources Management
• Corporate Management in the EU
• Tourism Management
• Psychology of Management
• Crisis Management
• Leader of European Cooperation
• Preparation and Management of European Projects
• Health Care Management
• Labour Legislation

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Executive MBA Programme

• For 6 years now we have been providing education
  for top-class managers during two-year
  postgraduate courses - Executive MBA, conducted
  in cooperation with British partners (Leeds
  University Business School and Abertay University
  in Dundee).
• MBA Program at the WPBS boasts an unconditioned
  accreditation of SEM FORUM

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Consulting and training

• WPBS offers professional training for managerial
  staff and work teams.
• Short courses, open programmes of specialist
  trainings in the field of
• Management
• Sales and Marketing
• Finance
• Training courses commissioned by companies and
  institutions
• Needs Analysis
• Adjustment Programs tailored to the needs of
  particular companies
• Date and place to be negotiated with the client
• Training evaluation

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Consulting and training

• We offer professional support for business
  organisations and institutions
• Support for development of organisations
• Financial analyses
• Personal counselling
• Applications, feasibility studies, business
  plans, EU projects analyses

• In the field of services for business WPBS has
  been awarded an accreditation of the National
  System of Services (KSU).

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Entrepreneurship Promotion

• The Department of Entrepreneurship Promotion,
  which operates within the Business Development
  Centre, is subdivided into
• The Office of Advisory Services For Small And
  Medium-Sized Enterprises
• Local Centres of Entrepreneurship Promotion
• Career Office
• Counselling Chamber

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Our activity for entrepreneurship support

• Businessmans guide is a cycle of Television
  programmes which are to promote
  entrepreneurship. The main objective is to
  popularise development of entrepreneurial
  attitudes in citizens of the West Pomeranian
  region through providing them with easily
  accessible knowledge. The programme is targeted
  at the unemployed.
• Businessmans guide is produced by the West
  Pomeranian Business School in cooperation with
  The 3rd Channel of Regional Television in
  Szczecin.
• Businessmans guide is co-financed by the Polish
  Agency For Enterprise Development within the
  project Grants for initiatives supporting
  Enterprise Development.

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Carreer Office in WPBS

• offers consulting, advisory and training services
  in the field of establishing and running an
  economic activity by graduates and students of
  higher schools
• organises internships, practical placements,
  national and foreign trainings that facilitate
  acquiring necessary professional experience to
  all graduates and students of higher education
• promotes the most promising graduates and
  students through, among others, compiling data
  bases with information on graduates
• cooperates with companies from the region of West
  Pomerania in the field of creating work places
  for higher education graduates.The Career
  Office was established with financial support
  from The Department of Labour Market Policy in
  the Ministry of Economy, Labour and Social Policy.

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Publishing House of the WPBS
Publishing House of the WPSB is a professional
publisher of specialist literature in the fields
of Economics and Management. There are several
tens of volumes already published (including
textbooks in foreign languages). The scientific
quarterly magazine Company and Market has been
a permanent editorial position for the past few
years.
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International Co-operation Department of the WPBS

• International Co-operation has always been one of
  the strategic priorities in the development of
  the School. WPBS cooperates with over a hundred
  of foreign universities. It carries out numerous
  international programmes and projects, e.g.
  Socrates Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Jean
  Monet, Phare, Tempus, etc.
• In the period of 1995 2007, WPBS managed or
  participated in 25 international projects the
  total value of which amounted to over EUR 10 mln.
• Owing to exchange programmes for students and
  teaching staff, our students can study in
  England, Denmark, Belgium and France.

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Significant international projects

• innovative teaching techniques, e-learning
  (projects WEB Education Bridge, Baltic Sea
  Virtual Campus),
• modern syllabi with international context
  (Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus Mundus)
• creating new learning specialisations (projects
  within Tempus, Jean Monnet),
• professional activation of students and graduates
  (projects Entrepreneurship Incubator, Career
  Office).

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Significant international projects

• By means of the Baltic Sea Virtual Campus
  project, in which WPBS is an active participant,
  without going out of the apartment students will
  be offered an opportunity of receiving a Master
  degree of 13 European universities.
• Newly created programme of the BSVC is an
  agreement of higher education institutions from
  Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania,
  Latvia, Russia and Poland. The project is
  financed by the European Commission within the
  INTERREG III programme. The agreement in this
  matter was signed by representatives of all the
  universities in Lund, Sweden.
• It is a completely new concept of studying and
  obtaining a university degree it is the student
  who is the most important person because he
  himself decides on the course of his studying.
  Student of the Baltic Sea Virtual Campus,
  according to his own individual needs and
  expectations, will be able to choose a university
  where he would like to attend courses in a given
  module.

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Significant international projects

• Entrepreneurship Incubator for students and
  graduates of higher schools in the west
  Pomeranian Business School in Szczecin. In the
  period of 1st November 2002 to 23rd May 2003 the
  West Pomeranian Business School in Szczecin in
  cooperation with Fachhochschule fur Technik
  Wirtschaft Berlin (FHTW) is managing a project
  Preparation of a project to establish a regional
  entrepreneurship incubator for students and
  graduates of higher education. The project is
  realised within the CBC Small Project Fund Poland
  Germany implemented by The Association of the
  Polish Municipalities in the Euroregion
  Pomerania.

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International Business Studies

• In October 2000, WPBS launched International
  Business Studies a specialised course on
  international business provided in English
• The course is addressed to both Polish and
  foreign students.
• International Business Studies is provided on
  Bachelor and Master levels.
• Only during this academic year we host over 100
  International students and over 80 Polish
  students, studying IBS.

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International students exchange

• Within the Socrates / Erasmus Programme our
  students can study for one or two semesters in
  our partner universities abroad
• England
• Belgium
• Denmark
• Germany

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Development plans

• All of the planned activities are part of the
  strategy of the WPBS for the nearest future.
  Success of the strategy is strictly dependent on
  common effort made by all our employees and on
  favourable external circumstances. We will do our
  utmost to - gain rights to grant PhD degree
  within the next 5-8 years,- adjust standards of
  the Schools performance to the ones binding in
  the European Union,- develop quality standards
  in the School including gaining accreditation of
  syllabi and the Quality Certificate ISO,
• - implement e-learning programmes available for
  wide public,
• - become a leader of regional development in the
  field of research, development projection and
  obtaining funds from the European Union

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WPBS a European School

• The West Pomeranian Business School is a member
  of numerous European associations and
  organisations including- University
  Association of Contemporary European Studies
  (UACES), http//www.uaces.org- European
  Distance E-learning Network (EDEN),
  http//www.eden.bme.hu- European Universities
  Continuing Education Network (EUCEN).
  http//www.eucen.org
• - Baltic Sea Network

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Students Organisations

• The Students Self Government
• Aiesec
• Erasmus Student Network
• Students Science Clubs Marketing, Organisation
  and Management, Capital Market, Sociology
• Chamber Choir of WPBS
• Academic Sports Club
• SF and Fantasy Fanclub
• Students Magazine

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We learn and have fun
Every year the WPBS traditionally celebrates its
anniversary. This year we are celebrating our
15th jubilee.
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Students periodical DLACZEGO (Why)

• The magazine was set up by one of our students
  Michal Lisiecki in 1998
• Katarzyna Gintrowska, another WPBS graduate,
  became the chief editor
• At present DLACZEGO is a unique, professional,
  country-wide periodical for students

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Educational infrastructure of the WPBS

• Educational infrastructure of the School
  comprises our own modernised premises in the
  school campus at Zolnierska street. The buildings
  are modern, well equipped and student-friendly.O
  ur material assets are also the following
  lecture halls and teaching rooms, computer
  laboratories, audiovisual rooms, language
  laboratories, library and reading room with
  Internet access, equipped with the latest issues
  of books and magazines in Polish, English and
  German, electronic reading room,
• free and unrestrained access to the Internet
  for each student (it is possible to connect to
  the Internet with a notebook), publishing
  house, cafeteria, gym, swimming pool and
  tennis court,
• parking for students, Distance Learning
  studio, rooms for student organisations and
  scientific clubs.

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LETS WIN TOGETHER !!!