Rafal Pieprzyk, President of the Alumni Association, participated in the Belarus Exchange Alumni Reunion conference on October 11-12, 2024. Due to the political situation in Belarus, the conference was held in Lithuania, more precisely in Vilnius. It was organized by the American Council, which was supported by the Belarusian section of the US Embassy in Lithuania and the US-LT Alumni Association (Lithuanian Alumni Association). The conference was attended by Belarusian scholarship recipients who currently live in many European countries, including: Poland, Germany, Spain, Georgia and Lithuania.
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Alumni Integration Trip 2024 – Spała
The town of Spała, in the Łódź voivodeship, was the destination of this year’s integration trip for members of the Alumni Association.
Our reunion began on Friday evening, September 20, when Alumni successively came together for an evening barbecue prepared by the team of the “Ostoja” Formation and Retreat House in Spała. For some Alumni it was a meeting after a year of separation (we had seen each other on previous integration trips), and for some it was the first meeting. Integration took place until late at night, until we politely dispersed to our rooms.
Read MoreHoliday Remnants 2024
“Holiday Remnants” are becoming increasingly popular among the members of our Association. This year the initiatives appeared in the Świętokrzyskie, Silesian and Mazovian voivodeships.
Read MoreEstablishing cooperation with the Polonium Foundation
In July, the board of the Alumni Association signed a cooperation agreement with the Polonium Foundation.
Read MoreCelebration of the 248th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the US Consulate General in Krakow
The celebration took place at Fort Kleparz in Krakow. The artistic setting for the celebration was provided by the Topside Brass Band – the brass section of the U.S. Navy Band in Europe and Africa. There was plenty of traditional food, snacks and drinks and spirits. All in the American spirit.
Read MorePolish-Belarusian picnic in Warsaw
In a secluded spot, familiar to residents of one of the banks of the Vistula River capital, representatives of Polish and Belarusian American exchange programs met for a summer picnic on Saturday, June 29, 2024. The initiative was sponsored by American Councils Lithuania, bringing together the Belarusian refugee community. A dozen Warsaw Alumni with Vice President Dariusz Góra responded to the invitation and met with an equally large representation of Belarusians residing in Poland.
Read MoreInternational Conference: “US and EU Perspectives on ESG: Towards a Sustainable World or a Dangerous Utopia?”
In the last days of June (28-29), Krakow hosted the international conference “2nd US-CEE Connection Weekend: US and EU Perspectives on ESG: Towards a Sustainable World or a Dangerous Utopia?”, which was organized by the School of American Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration of Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the Columbus School of Law of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. The Alumni Association was the Honorary Patron of the event.
Read MoreMeeting of Polish and Belarusian Alumni in Krakow
It was a wonderful meeting of Polish and Belarusian Alumni of the US Department of State programs.
And it all started with the acquaintance of Rafal Pieprzyk – President of the Alumni Association with Vadzimir Zarankin, who was the tutor of Belarusian Alumni at the US Embassy in Minsk. We had the opportunity to meet during the workshop “Alumni Focused Strategy Seminar: Best Practices, Success Stories and Alumni Associations” organized by the US Embassy in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. We were there in September 2018.
Read MoreAnnual General Meeting
On June 22, 2024, the Annual General Meeting of the Alumni Association took place.
After a couple of years of conducting online deliberations, we returned to meet in the ‘real’. We met to summarize the activities of our Association in 2023. We did not give up on connecting online with people from outside Warsaw, so we had the opportunity to test, for the first time in the history of Alumni, conducting the meeting in hybrid form. And it worked !
Read MoreAlumni Carnival 2024
It’s for the third time that January and February were an active period in our community. Because it was the time of the “Alumni Carnival”, i.e. a series of regional Alumni meetings with lots of fun, interesting events and talking over coffee & tea, beer & wine (of choice).
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