Polish-Japan academic and scientific cooperation is developing through joint engagement in innovation and knowledge exchange. Joint projects break cultural barriers by enriching educational experiences for both scholars and students. Poland and Japan are using their potential to promote cutting-edge research.

Polish and Japanese universities and scientific institutions cooperate intensively in the scientific and technological fields. A number of Polish universities (inter alia: Warsaw University of Technology, Akademia Gorniczo -Hutnicza, Szkola Glowna Handlowa) cooperates with universities in Japan on the basis of inter-university agreements. The agreements involve student exchanges and joint research projects. Unfortunately, the quota for visas (on both sides) issued under the Work & Travel agreement (since 2016) remains largely untapped.

Japonistic studies in Poland operate at several universities; in Warsaw (the oldest japonistic research centre dating back to 1919), Kraków, Poznań and Toruń. Japan is one of the most popular fields of study chosen by young people in Poland every year. Japan hosts the Polonistics of Tokyo University of International Studies (TUFS), which was established in 1991. It is the first and only polonistic department in Tokyo. NAWA awards 8 scholarships annually for TUFS students.

A symbol of scientific cooperation is the Polish-Japan Academy of Information Technology (PJAIT) (previously Polsko-Japonska Wyższa Szkoła Technik Komputerowych), which was established in 1994 in Warsaw following the agreement between the governments of the Republic of Poland and Japan. The university has been educating IT specialists for years and brings together every year an international community of students with new technologies, Japanese culture, design and new media. PJAIT is the best private IT university in Poland.

In Poland, the largest number of Japanese citizens are enrolled in major academic institutions, and there is a wide variety of fields of study chosen. The largest number of Japanese researchers are employed in Poland at the University of Warsaw. Japanese scientists based in Poland are the most likely to represent the area of science. The largest number of Japanese scholars’ publications are in the field of natural and medical sciences. There is still considerable potential for increasing exchanges of scientists, experts and students, and scientific research and publications between Poland and Japan.

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