The conference “Formula for Success in Language Learning and Education” is organized on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Polish science in Wroclaw and is a very important event for the academic community of our city.

After World War II and the surrender of Festung Breslau, the history of German higher education came to an end in this region. In May 1945 a scientific and cultural group, consisting mainly of professors and academics from the Lviv Polytechnic and the John Casimir University in Lviv, arrived in Wrocław. They became the creators and organizers of the work of the first Polish university. These included the rector of the Lviv Polytechnic, Professor Edward Sucharda, and Professor Kazimierz Idaszewski.

On August 24, 1945, the former German universities were transformed into Polish state-run academic institutions. Initially, the Technical University and the University of Wrocław were established as one university, with one rector, senate and administration, six non-technical faculties: Law and Administration, Humanities, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Medicine with Pharmaceutical Department, Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture with Horticultural Department and 4 technical faculties: Chemistry, Mechanics and Energy, Construction as well as Metallurgy and Mining.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s Wrocław became an academic city, where several higher education institutions were already operating, following the separation of individual faculties from the first Polish university in Wrocław. At first, in 1949, the Medical Academy, now under the name of Wrocław Medical University, became independent, later giving rise to the present University School of Physical Education. In 1950, two other university faculties joined to establish the Higher School of Agriculture, then transformed into the Agricultural Academy, and eventually into Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. In the academic year 1951/1952 Wrocław University of Technology and the University of Wrocław became autonomous universities.

Today, Wrocław University of Science and Technology and the University of Wrocław continue the traditions of these distinguished Polish universities, maintain close contacts with Ukrainian universities in Lviv and form a pillar of the academic environment of Wrocław, achieving noticeable successes in scientific research and didactic activity in Poland and abroad.

Therefore, the choice of the conference topic is by no means accidental. Success, both in the research process and in teaching, is however a relative and multidimensional concept. The conference organizers raise various questions to themselves and prospective conference participants, e.g. What elements contribute to success in learning and teaching foreign languages? Is academic teacher’s success also a student’s success? Can success be treated as a factor motivating for further learning or as the main objective in the didactic process? The aim of the conference is to search for answers to the above questions, to try to identify factors determining success and conditions for success as well as exchange experiences of conference participants from different academic centres and countries in achieving professional success.

We invite academic teachers, linguists, glottodidacticians, educators and representatives of other scientific disciplines to participate in the conference.

Conference Scientific Committee