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From 24th to 27th September 2012, the II European Congress of mall and Medium – Size Enterprises will take place in Katowice. During this year’s edition a Swiss-Polish panel will be organized for the first time.

The topic of the panel will be “Why Switzerland? Experience of Polish enterpreneurs in Switzerland.”

The panel will be held on 25.09.2012 at 1.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. in Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library, ul. Bankowa 11a.

Detailed information can be found on the official website of the Congress.

September 7th, 2012 through September 28th, 2012.
Vernissage on September 7th, 2012 at 19.00 hrs.

On behalf of Center for Culture Promotion we are pleased to announce the show of contemporary art of Jaroslaw Betlej. The opening reception takes place with our Gallery at 2 Podskarbinska Str., Warsaw. The exhibition is curated by Marcin Kokoszko, Gallery Curator of the Center for Culture Promotion.

Jaroslaw Betlej creates paintings full of emotions and fairy tale visions in a form of oil collages basing upon the Artist’s experiences, conclusions and realizations gathered. His works build a new approach to painting art on the edge of dreams and reality, creating curiosity for variety of elements with a narrative focus at the same time. Jaroslaw Betlej entitled himself his author style “Polaroidism”. His art is filled by symbols in different presentation perspectives, and being rich in colors creates stories which do not allow to pass by and which do arouse interest, providing moods of unspoken secrets. His works reflect stories consisting of personal emotions, which are also by the artist himself presented in a lyric form as art stories written an unusual way – some of them stay directly related with paintings, some do not – in an English blog “At the moment of Creation”, which the artist adapt also himself into two languages in the blogs “W chwili tworzenia” as well as „Im Augenblick der Schöpfung”.

The creation of Jaroslaw Betlej’s painting as well as lyric arts is accompanied by focusing on own emotions, without any political or provocative transmission of his thoughts and soul conditions. The Artist born and grown up in Cracow comments; “Although from my home I took a conservative culture and values, I am going to create on the highest level of freedom and independence. Therefore my paintings and lyric stories are filled by forms without any pattern or defined stereotypes. And the colors? The colors come to me themselves”. During the vernissage the artist will read out one of his stories from his blog and will present the oil work representing that.

Jaroslaw Betlej (’65) is an artist, a copywriter, a photographer, a conceptualist, a traveler. He graduated a Visualization at the Academy for Marketing Communications in Düsseldorf. After residences in Cracow, London, Düsseldorf, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Cadaques, now he lives and works in Warsaw.

This year the Artist has had an individual exhibition at the Castle Holligen in Swiss Bern, participated in a group exhibition at the Jeffrey Leder Gallery in New York as the Finalist of international competition won at this gallery, and in the last year he enjoyed three individual and two group exhibitions in Warsaw. His works are within private collections and two of them with the collection of Polish History of Peasants’ Movement. In 2010 at the beginning of his artistic career Jaroslaw Betlej had two individual exhibitions of his own artistic group Kerajaga in Warsaw and won as a Finalist the international curatorial competition of the Institute of Contemporary Art in New Jersey, USA.
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Z wielką przyjemnością informujemy Państwa, że rok 2012 jest dla Diners Club Polska rokiem jubileuszowym, ponieważ obchodzimy 15-lecie naszej obecności na rynku polskim.

Z tej okazji dla członków Polsko-Szwajcarskiej Izby Gospodarczej Diners Club Polska przygotował specjalną ofertę Programu Kart Firmowych, skierowanego zarówno do korporacji jak i małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw.

Chefs de cuisine of Polonia Palace and Embassy of Ukraine invite to Strauss Restaurant for the Ukrainian specialities. The Honorary Patronage of Prof. Marta Malska, the wife of the Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland.

Below you will find an invitation and menu to download.

Invitation

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Report “Public finances in Poland during the crisis” summarizing the years 2008-2011 and presenting strategy for next years.

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From 14th till 16th of September 2012 the city of Rzeszów – the capital of innovation – is going to host a new international event under the name “Alpine – Carpathian Forum of Cooperation”. The event, which is organized by the Association of the Carpathian Euroregion Poland, will inaugurate cooperation between Podkarpackie and Switzerland as well as other Alpine countries.
The “Alpine – Carpathian Forum of Cooperation” is a new fair and conference event which is organized in the Rzeszów Regional Sport and Exhibition Centre “Podpromie” on the days of 14th – 16th September 2012. It is organized under the project “Alpine – Carpathian Cooperation Bridge” supported by a grant from Switzerland through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union.
The aim of this international event is to promote cooperation between Carpathian and Alpine nations, mainly between Podkarpacie and Switzerland – the European areas which are, on the one hand, different in level of development, but on the other hand similar when it comes to their potential. The Forum will bring closer environmental, tourism and economic advantages as well as cultural heritage of Switzerland and other Alpine states and will promote the wealth and potential of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship as well as other regions which are parts of the Carpathian Euroregion and also Poland.
Among exhibitors there will be innovative companies, organizations and institutions presenting their values and also investment opportunities of the regions, tourism attractions as well as local producers and manufacturers who will show with pride their handicrafts and traditional, local or regional delicacies. Two opposite poles will meet together: modernity and tradition, that will be accompanied by regions promotion. The fair will be accompanied by panel discussions, debates, numerous presentations and exhibitions which will favour business contacts establishment, experience and good practices exchange. The “Alpine – Carpathian Forum of Cooperation” will be a unique occasion to present and promote, on international stage, both innovative and regional companies and will inaugurate their cooperation with highly developed countries of the Western Europe. In these days, Rzeszów will be an ideal place for searching some new business contacts, cooperation opportunities and economic exchange as well as binding partnerships between Polish and European entities.
We cordially invite companies of different branches, including regional, local and ecological producers, that are flagships of their regions, that want to present and promote themselves and their regions to take part in the fair. Participation in the event is free – the organizer (Association of the Carpathian Euroregion Poland) provides booth space (12 m2) with exhibition stands and equipment and accommodation with a full board. Exhibitor shall cover only costs of transportation.
Companies and institutions that would like to present their offers during the fair are asked to fill in and send the registration form to the e-mail address: etrzeciak@alp-carp.com or by fax to +48 17 852 08 94.

The Museum of Warsaw Rising and Fotoplastikon Warszawski invite to the exhibition of three-dimensional photos of Switzerland of 1960s. from the collection of Fotoplastikon, which will be open to visitors from 26th April 2012, Tuesday to Saturday at 10:00 – 18:00 in Fotoplastikon Warszawski in Al. Jerozolimskie 51.

The exhibition will be held under the auspices of the Embassy of Switzerland in Poland.

Stereoscopic journey of unknown photographer shows Switzerland of 1960s. In the fourty-seven pictures the author captured the beauty of towns’ architecture, their inhabitants, combined with alpine landscapes, lakes and rivers, at which the most canton cities of Switzerland are located: Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne or Bern. The pictures present among others: the famous Clock Tower in Bern, the ruins of Roman amphitheater in Avenches, the promenade at Reuss river in Lucerne and the narrow streets of Lausanne around the St. Laurent Church. The photos make up an interesting picture of Switzerland of 1960s. You can see the above mentioned pictures and many other in Fotoplastikon Warszawski from 26th April 2012.

”Privatisation Plan for 2012-2013” (further referred to as Privatisation Plan) presents main privatisation policy specifications and a list of entities with Treasury shares which have been selected to undergo privatisation process. The Minister in charge of the privatisation is Minister of Treasury. Privatisation Plan includes not only the companies under the supervision of the Minister of Treasury but also those supervised by other Ministers.

Privatisation activities in 2012-2013 will concern 300 companies, including:

• 279 supervised by the Minister of Treasury,
• 15 supervised by the Minister of National Defence,
• 4 supervised by the Minister of Economy,
• 2 supervised by the Minister of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy