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I year 2025/26 – first formalities

23 09 2025

Dear Doctoral Students,

We welcome you among the doctoral students of the Doctoral School of Humanities (SDNH)!

The inauguration of the Academic Year 2025/2026 at the University of Warsaw Doctoral Schools will take place on October 3 at 2.00 pm – more information [LINK]

We encourage you to participate in the onboarding programme “Good Start”, which will take place on 1–3 October 2025 (more information – LINK).”

Information meeting (online – ZOOM) – more info soon. You will receive the link by e-mail the day before the meeting.

Below you will find the information you need at the beginning of your education at SDNH.

The oath

According to the School’s Rules and Regulations, you acquire your rights as a doctoral student when you take the following oath:

“I solemnly swear that I will persistently pursue the acquisition of knowledge and the development of my personality, that I will respect academic laws and customs, and that I will take care of the dignity and honour of a doctoral student at the University of Warsaw with my entire conduct”.

According to the decision of the Director of SDNH, prof. Monika Rekowska, the date for taking the oath is 1 October 2025. Taking the oath must be confirmed in the USOSweb system (screen available after logging in) between 1 and 31 October 2025. In the event of failure to take the oath, the doctoral student may be removed from the list of doctoral students.

Doctoral Students’ ID CARDS

We are making every effort to make your Doctoral Students’ ID cards ready for collection as soon as possible. The ID cards for all the new students and doctoral students are being printed now, therefore it takes some time to finalize the process.

You are invited to collect ID cards from 25 September 2025. Enrolment via the calendar applies [LINK].

Medical Examination

In accordance with the Minister of Health Regulation (Official Journal of Laws of 2019, item 1651) doctoral students of the doctoral schools shall undergo periodic medical examination.

For that purpose you should:

  1. Collect the referral for medical examination at the Doctoral School Secretary’s Office. Please make an appointment with the School Secretariat via the calendar [LINK]  from September 25, 2025
  2. If necessary, make an appointment with your supervisor in order to obtain the list of factors harmful to your health on your referral.
  3. Schedule a visit at Centermed (a health centre) (referral is valid for one month from the date of issue, which means that you have to come to the clinic with the referral during this time to book an appointment).
     CenterMed clinics where you can get the examination:

– Krakowskie Przedmieście 24/26 – UW Central Campus,

– Waryńskiego 10A – Metro Politechnika, near the Riviera club.

Phone number for CenterMed Warsaw dedicated to UW: 22 592 48 10

  1. Submit a certificate issued by a Centermed doctor to the Doctoral School Secretary’s Office (or send a scan to phd.nh@uw.edu.pl).

Email address registered in the domain uw.edu.pl

According to the UW Rector’s Order No. 279 of 10 December 2020 on electronic mail of the University of Warsaw:
Every employee, doctoral student and student of the University is obliged to possess and use University electronic mail on an ongoing basis, including receiving messages. In matters related to the University’s business where the use of electronic mail is necessary, users are required to use only University electronic mail. Correspondence of an employee, student or doctoral student of the University sent from an electronic address other than the University electronic mail shall be left unacknowledged.

Doctoral students who already have an address in the @student.uw.edu.pl domain do not have to set a new account. However, if you do wish to possess an account in the @uw.edu.pl domain you should visit the MojeKonto website: [LINK] . Please send information about your email address in the UW domain to: phd.nh@uw.edu.pl. Any change of email address must be sent to the School Secretariat.

To log in to, for example, MojeKonto [LINK] from outside the UW network, you may need to use a VPN connection. Detailed information can be found on the website [LINK].

At the same time, we would like to inform you that the e-mail address intended for you to contact the School staff is phd.nh@uw.edu.pl.

Scholarship

The doctoral scholarship amounts to 4242,00 PLN (approximately 3764 PLN net). It is paid app. on the 17th of each month. The first payment in the new academic year is scheduled for 17 October.

The doctoral scholarship shall be paid upon submission by the doctoral student of a declaration that they do not hold a doctoral degree, together with indication of an individual bank account in PLN to which the doctoral scholarship shall be transferred. You are asked to sign it during your visit to the Secretary’s Office.

Courses – Ist semester

Registration for 1st semester classes (University Pedagogy) is planned to take place between 25 September, 20:01, and 5 October 2025, 23:59 via the USOS system.

More information was received by email.

Welcome Point

We encourage you to visit the Welcome Point UW website: [LINK].

Information about legalization of stay in Poland: [LINK]                                                                 

SDNH website

We encourage you to follow our website [LINK], where we regularly publish all the necessary information regarding education at the Doctoral School of Humanities, as well as the School’s profile on social media: [LINK].

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