History of PJAIT

The Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw was established in 1994 under agreements between the governments of Poland and Japan. As one of the best private universities in Poland, it has been educating specialists in the fields of computer science, management, cultural studies, interior design, art and graphic design for years.

PJAIT It occupies leading positions in prestigious rankings and is recognized by students, lecturers and the media alike. The university has its own unit in Gdansk, where it conducts studies at the Faculty of Computer Science and the Faculty of New Media Arts, and in Bytom. The Bytom branch of PJAIT has for years had a Research and Development Center, where new technologies and science meet business, medicine and the military. In addition, PJAIT offers students postgraduate studies, an MBA for the IT industry, preparatory courses and online courses. 

The Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology is a technical academy that places strong emphasis in its educational offer on the development of new technologies and their application in various areas. Regardless of the study programmes and specialisations pursued, students also learn about Japanese culture, language, and customs. One of the fields of study offered by the academy is Japanese Culture. PJAIT is also the only examination centre in Poland for the JLPT – Japanese-Language Proficiency Test. 

There are many foreigners studying at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. In 2022, according to data from the Student's Office, we had students from as many as 74 countries! We are happy that young people from all over the world choose to study in the middle of Europe, right at our University!

1994

By a decision of the Minister of Education, PJWSTK was entered in the register of higher education institutions under number 51 and was granted the right to confer the title of computer science engineer. Students of PJWSTK are entitled to the same rights as students of state universities, in particular to discounts on public transportation, free health care and deferment of military service.

1997

PJWSTK has become an official examination center of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examinations Board (LCCIEB).

1998

PJWSTK has been granted the right to confer the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science.

2000

Under the auspices of JICA, an IT training center for Central and Eastern European countries - the Third Country Trainning Program - has begun operations.

In October, the university launched the first CISCO Networking Academy in Poland.

2012 – On February 22, 2012, the Rector of PJWSTK, dr hab. Jerzy Paweł Nowacki, received the medal "For Services to the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music" from the hands of the Rector of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, prof. Stanisław Moryto.

Participation of our Faculty of Information Technology graduate – Jacek Czech – in the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

In the 2012 University Ranking prepared by the Perspektywy magazine and Rzeczpospolita daily, the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology took 1st place among private technical universities in the country. In the overall ranking of all public and private technical universities, the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology outperformed, among others, the Universities of Technology in Częstochowa, Opole, Białystok, Rzeszów, Lublin, and Kielce. In the ranking of all private Master's degree universities in Poland, the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology took 3rd place. In the IT category of fields of study, the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology ranked 8th in the country, outperforming, among others, the Jagiellonian University, the University of Wrocław, the University of Silesia, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, as well as the Universities of Technology in Łódź, Białystok, Częstochowa, and Kraków.

Launch of the EBL e-book rental service.

Graphic design student at the Faculty of New Media Arts, Ms. Zuzanna Szyszak, won at the 21st Yach Film Polish Music Video Festival! Her music video for the song "Pożegnanie małego wojownika" by the band Czesław Śpiewa won in the "Animation" category. "Yach" is the most prestigious music video award in Poland, granted since 1989.

2013 – The Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology launched new doctoral studies in the area of Social Informatics.

Two teams from the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology took part in the national finals of the 11th edition of the Imagine Cup 2013 competition, competing to represent Poland in the world finals in St. Petersburg.

Nokia honored Michał Tomaszewski, a lecturer at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, with the Nokia Developer Champion title, awarded to the most active supervisors of Nokia developer technologies.

PJAIT took 2nd place among private higher education academies in Poland. These are the results of this year's edition of the Higher Education Ranking prepared by the educational magazine Perspektywy and the daily Rzeczpospolita, moving up from 3rd to 2nd place compared to last year's results. PJAIT is also the best private technical academy in Poland. In the overall ranking of technical academies, it outperformed, among others, over a dozen public technical universities.

PJAIT took 1st place among all private academic academies in the country in the scientific ranking of Polish academic academies prepared by Polityka, which compared all academic academies in Poland in terms of the quality of conducted science, scientific research, etc. In the general ranking, PJAIT outperformed many state higher education schools. In the same ranking, taking into account the division into specializations, PJAIT was the only private technical academy. Here, too, it proved better than several public academies.

2014 – The Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology received the authorization to confer the doctoral degree in technical sciences in the discipline of mechanics.

In the ranking by Wprost weekly, the academy took second place among non-state academies and fifth overall as the academy most valued by employers. The ranking is based on a survey conducted among the 500 largest companies in Poland.

The LevelUP team from the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (PJWSTK) took second place in the national finals of Imagine Cup 2014, in the Innovation category. Students from the Faculty of Computer Science at PJWSTK: Dawid Cieślak, Kamil Kowalski, Andrzej Kowalczuk, Kuba Rejnhard presented the TapBooks project - a platform for books containing multimedia content created for the education sector. The platform, on which books are created by and for users, includes three components: the so-called WebPlatform, the part on which all user contacts and content are collected; Book Builder, a Windows 8 application for creating books; and Book Reader, a reading application. The team was supervised by Dr. Michal Tomaszewski of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology.

On October 24, the academy changed its name to PJAIT. This change is associated with the academy obtaining the right to confer the doctoral degree in technical sciences in two scientific disciplines.

2015 – Dawid Cieślak, a PJAIT student, won the world finals of a competition (co-organised by Huawei) for the most innovative mobile application, defeating European and Asian competition.

In the Perspektywy magazine ranking, the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology took 1st place among all non-public technical academies in the country. In the "Employer Preferences" category, PJAIT gathered the highest scores among all non-public higher education institutions. This means that graduates of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology are rated very highly on the job market. PJAIT also achieved a high position in the "IT Fields" category. The academy was placed in the top ten in the country.

PJAIT students took 2nd place at the LubCode Hackathon
The ELITARNI team consisting of Maciej Kozłowski, Jakub Sikora, Wojtek Szczepański, and Adam Uklański took 2nd place in the Lublin LubCode Hackathon. Our 1st-year Computer Science students prepared an application for reporting acts of damage and vandalism to the City Hall.

The Government of Japan has awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon to Professor Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska, a lecturer at the Faculty of Japanese Culture at PJAIT. Professor Pałasz-Rutkowska is considered one of the leading Polish Japanologists. The results of her research, including the history of Japan and Japanese-Polish relations, have been published in numerous books and articles. She has also made a significant contribution to the promotion of Japanese-Polish academic exchange, actively developing contacts with Japanese universities through joint research, articles, and guest lectures. The Order of the Rising Sun is awarded to civilians for special services to Japan.

A lecturer at our university, an outstanding designer of children's books – Jan Bajtlik, received the award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for his children's book designs and his previous educational activities for children. Jan Bajtlik teaches classes in the basics of visual communication and editing with students of the English-language New Media Arts program and supervises the group preparing their diploma theses.

In November 2015, the Educational Consortium was established at the main headquarters of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw. Following the example of major American universities, Polish higher education institutions will jointly prepare and offer open online courses. The founding members of the consortium are: the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (leader), Kozminski University, WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza, and the West Pomeranian Business School in Szczecin.

Two PJAIT students, Ms. Julia Potocka (a 3rd-year Bachelor's degree student in graphic design) and Mr. Dawid Cieślak (a 4th-year engineering student in computer science), received the scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements for the 2015/2016 academic year.

PJAIT has opened a Research and Development Centre (CBR PJAIT) at its Bytom branch. The centre offers interactive access from anywhere in the country to its suite of advanced motion analysis and synthesis laboratories within a shareconomy model. Drawing on global experience, CBR PJAIT offers cooperation and the sharing of experience, hardware, and software resources, enabling innovative and interdisciplinary research in the acquisition, analysis, and synthesis of human motion, the dissemination of results in renowned international journals, and development work leading to the introduction of innovative products to the market. CBR offers access to the following laboratories, among others: Human Motion Lab (HML), Human Facial Modelling Lab (HFML), Human Microexpression Lab (HMX), Human Seeing Lab (HSL), Wearable Technology Lab (WTL), and Human Dynamics and Multimodal Interaction Lab (HDMI). 

2016 - Dr. Bogdan Księżopolski, a researcher at the Department of Computer Networks at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, has received the 2015 Lublin Science Prize, known as the Lublin Nobel Prize. The awarded work is a monograph "Multilevel Modeling of Secure System in QoP-ML" presenting a multilevel analysis of the security of information systems using a special Quality-of-Protection Modelling Language (QoP-ML) created by the author. The proposed language makes it possible, among other things, to create more effective, safer and cheaper systems in terms of network security.

Professor dr hab. Marcin Giżycki received the "Award for Outstanding Contributions to Animation Studies for 2016". This is an extremely prestigious award for an outstanding contribution to animation studies. The award ceremony took place during the World Festival of Animated Film Animafest in Zagreb in June.

In April, the Multimodal Research Laboratory (HCO-WLB) was opened at the University, accessible to all interested entities, including business entities and research centers. The laboratory was established thanks to support provided by the Mazovian Unit for Implementing EU Programmes, as a result of the project "Heterogeneous Cloud Computing as a Multimodal Research Laboratory (HCO-WLB)" co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund under the Regional Operational Programme of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship 2007-2013.

In April, an exhibition was also held to mark the tenth anniversary of Prof. Marian Nowiński serving as the Dean of the Faculty of New Media Arts.

At the end of April, the third edition of the Element Talks conference took place in Warsaw, with PJAIT as a partner. It is one of the largest conferences dedicated to the work and business activity of a designer.

In June, an exhibition of posters by Dean Prof. Marian Nowiński took place at the Schody Gallery on Nowy Świat.

In the Perspektywy Ranking results announced in June, PJAIT took 1st place among non-public technical academies in the country. It also achieved a high position in the general ranking of technical universities. In the Ranking of Non-Public Master's Universities, PJAIT took 3rd place. The academy has been ranked among the top three non-public higher education institutions in Poland for many years. The Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology was also among the top ten universities in the country in the "IT Fields" category. It also achieved a high position in the "Employer Preferences" category.

In July, an exhibition of works by students of the Faculty of New Media Arts titled "Action Animation" opened at the Warsaw Uprising Museum. The students created animated comics inspired by interviews with insurgents from the Oral History Archive of the Warsaw Uprising Museum. The works were created under the supervision of Dr. Piotr Nowiński, M.Sc. Eng. Rafał Masłyk, and M.Sc. Mateusz Szewczyk in the Multimedia Comic Book and Mobile Platform Games Studio.

At the end of September, the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology organized the ATypI conference, a non-profit organization bringing together typographers, calligraphers, and book designers from all over the world. "ATypI 2016 Convergence begins" marks the 60th anniversary of the organization and a breakthrough in the development of fonts. During the three-day conference, Variable Fonts technology was presented. At the conference, in addition to font developers from Microsoft, Adobe, and Google, our graduate Kaja Słojewska, who works on lettering in Canada on a daily basis, also gave a speech.

On October 21-22, the Laughter Conference took place, with the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology as its main co-organizer. A series of workshops, public events, and a two-day conference were all dedicated to the role of a sense of humor in communication, problem-solving, and conflict resolution in the Age of Robots. The entire event was held at the headquarters of the National Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw.

PJAIT lecturer Mr. Jan Bajtlik won ORO/GOLD at the International Poster Biennial in Ecuador in the category: Categoria A (Cartel Comercial) for a poster designed for an author exhibition in New York, and won a silver medal for the poster "Pinocchio" in the cultural posters category (category A) at the International Poster Biennial in Mexico.

On November 24, the International Student Festival of Moving Typography "Motyf 2016" began in Mainz at the partner institution Hochschule für Gestaltung New Media Institute and Gutenberg Museum. The Motyf Festival is a global event initiated in 2013 by students of our academy. The festival is attended by students from Germany, Belgium, and 12 PJAIT students, as well as lecturers from the USA, New Zealand, and several European countries. The theme of this year's festival was the heritage of world philosophy and poetry interpreted through new media techniques. Works by students from all over the world were presented. The participation of Polish students was made possible thanks to a grant from the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, and PJAIT lecturers were able to participate in this event thanks to the Erasmus program.

Painting exhibition by Piotr Nowiński at the Kazimierz Center for Culture, Promotion, and Tourism at 12 Lubelska St. in Kazimierz Dolny.

In December, an exhibition of posters by Wojciech Domagalski – assistant in the Printmaking Studio at the Faculty of New Media Arts – was held in the space under the railway viaduct near Warsaw Powiśle station.

Three of our students: Paloma Kałuzińska – Faculty of New Media Arts (Polish-language program), Marta Myszewska – Faculty of New Media Arts (English-language program), and Mariusz Tkaczyk – Faculty of Information Management received annual scholarships from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements for the 2016/2017 academic year.

2017 – On March 2, a Cooperation Agreement was signed between the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons (PFRON) and the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. The agreement aims, among other things, to increase the employment of people with disabilities, prepare and implement the "barrier-free studies" program, prepare alternative forms of educational materials, and develop and implement a program supporting the IT education of disabled high school and technical school students.

In April, PJAIT and the Poster Museum in Wilanów organized a series of events under the umbrella of the initiative "Women's Rights are Human Rights". The project was initiated by the Dean of the Faculty of New Media Arts, Professor Ewa Satalecka, and renowned designer, curator, and retired lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Professor Elizabeth Resnick. The exhibition project titled "Women's Rights are Human Rights" was dedicated to the phenomenon of engaged posters on a global scale. Graphic design and the organization of exhibitions, workshops, and lectures were undertaken by master's student Marta Myszewska.

In May, the Medium Gallery at the Faculty of New Media Arts of PJAIT in Warsaw presented the works of Józef Wilkoń, an outstanding Polish illustrator, painter, sculptor, and poster artist. The exhibition featured some of the latest graphic works by the artist, who, after years of mastering traditional graphic techniques, has turned towards contemporary digital graphics.

Also in May, at the DAP Gallery at 11a Mazowiecka St. in Warsaw, an exhibition by Prof. Andrzej Kalina titled "my POLISH journey" took place, presenting graphics and graphic installations from the period 1980–2017.

The interactive diploma project by a graduate of the Faculty of New Media Arts, Ms. Aleksandra Stodulska, was presented in the main program of the WRO 2017 International Media Art Biennale, which is one of the most important reviews of new media art in Europe. The diploma project titled "Lazy Eye", implemented in the Multimedia Studio, was shown at the Spontaneous Impulses exhibition.

Prof. Daniel Szczechura, a lecturer at the 2D Animation Studio of the Faculty of New Media Arts, received the main Dragon of Dragons award at the Krakow Film Festival. This award is presented for an exceptional contribution to the development of world cinematography.

In June, the 17th edition of the Virtual University VU'2017 conference took place at PJAIT. The conference is held under an agreement between four universities: Warsaw University of Technology, the University of Warsaw, the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, and the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. The conference addresses the most important issues in e-education across all areas and models.

In June, the Central Commission for Degrees and Titles granted the Faculty of New Media Arts at PJAIT the right to confer doctoral degrees in the field of fine arts. Thus, the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology became the first private academy with such rights. Currently, PJAIT holds the right to confer doctoral degrees in three scientific disciplines (computer science, mechanics, and fine arts) as well as a postdoctoral (habilitated doctor) degree in the discipline of computer science.

In July, the TYPE DIRECTORS CLUB exhibition took place, with PJAIT as a partner. The exhibition featured the best typographic projects and typeface designs from around the world. Type Directors Club is a professional non-profit organization whose mission is the typographic education of the international community of visual communication designers.

In November, the NINJA PJAIT team took part in the e-sports championship "Academic Championships of Poland" and took third place.

Once again, a student from the Faculty of New Media Arts (English-language program, master's degree studies) – Marta Myszewska received an annual scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements for the 2017/2018 academic year.

2018 – In January, PJAIT gained open access to the Applied Science & Technology Source database. This is a comprehensive full-text database covering the full spectrum of applied sciences and computer science. It presents accumulated knowledge on the challenges of traditional engineering and provides research materials on the consequences of applying new technologies. The subject area of the database covers many fields of applied sciences, ranging from acoustics and aeronautics through robotics, biomedical engineering, neural networks, to nuclear engineering.

At the end of January, students of the Faculty of New Media Arts flew to Paris to present the project "Places en Relation" at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, which houses the Museum of Modern Art. The venture was part of the "Civic City" initiative, bringing together designers, architects, graphic designers, and students from 10 universities around the world.

On April 24, the Scientific Council of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with PJAIT, established a new interdisciplinary doctoral program – digital humanities. The research and educational collaboration between literary scholars and computer scientists aims to modernize humanities education by grounding it in digital technologies. At the same time, it provides computer scientists with knowledge of the latest trends in literature, linguistics, and cultural studies, particularly regarding the contemporary development of digital research.

In April, PJAIT announced the establishment of a new Inter-University Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program - Psychology & Informatics, conducted in English jointly with SWPS University of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Participants in the MISD-PI study will learn both the currents present in traditional psychology and the latest techniques for collecting, analyzing and modeling data, including big data.

At the end of May, the "Perspektywy" Educational Foundation announced its annual university ranking. PJAIT ranked fourth among private universities. The creators of the ranking took into account criteria such as academic efficiency, scientific potential, graduates' situation on the job market, internationalization, prestige, innovation, and study conditions.

In June, lecturer Dr. Wojciech Domagalski received a Silver Medal at the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw. In the open competition "Niepodległa" ("Independent"), out of 848 submissions, 84 works by 78 artists from 18 countries were qualified for the competition. The competition was organized to mark the centenary of Poland regaining independence in 2018 and analogous anniversaries in other countries of the region.

2019 – Two students of graphic design at the Faculty of New Media Arts at PJAIT received the scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements for the 2018/2019 academic year. The scholarship recipients were: Ms. Zuzanna Rawa and Mr. Aleksander Małachowski.

On February 21, the opening of the "Gyubal Wahazar" exhibition took place to celebrate the 34th birthday of the Witkacy Theatre in Zakopane, prepared in cooperation with the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. A team of students from the Faculty of New Media Arts presented a project for a book, costumes, theater designs, and animations. The book "Gyubal Wahazar", created as a result of typography classes conducted for 1st-year multimedia communication students in English, was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the New York Type Directors Club (2018) and received a distinction from PTWK (2018). The Gyubal Wahazar project, initiated by Małgorzata Sady and Marek Średniawa, was led by dr hab. Ewa Satalecka, Dean of the Faculty of New Media Arts.

On March 14-16, the PJAIT Career Fair took place, during which students could meet specialists from various industries and boost their professional career development.

Master's degree students in the Faculty of Computer Science: Mr. Kamil Dzieniszewski and Mr. Kacper Mordalski, together with the We Make Buttons team, took third place in the PEKAO Coders competition. The students worked on data from POS and GOV terminals, looking for benefits for consumers, businesses and Bank Pekao SA.

From April 8 to 12, Japanese Week took place, co-organized by the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. The program included a series of workshops "Future Text. Japanese art of information", lectures organized at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, and a "Round Table Meeting" discussion with specialists from, among others, the School of Visual Arts NYC, ShanghaiTech University at the Public Library of the Capital City of Warsaw - Main Library of the Mazovian Voivodeship.

During the 11th Biennale of Student Graphics in Poznań, Ms. Agnieszka Warcaba won the Dean's Award of the Faculty of Arts of UMCS in Lublin. The awarded works were created in the Printmaking Studio of Prof. Andrzej Kalina as part of the subject New Techniques in Printmaking.

On April 12-13, the BrainCode hackathon "From offline to online" by Allegro took place. Four students and graduates of PJAIT won 1st place by developing a tool that allows for the creation of regular subscription orders.

dr hab. Jerzy Pawel Nowacki, Rector of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, received the statuette of the 70th anniversary of Polish Informatics. It was awarded by the Polish Informatics Society. Dr. hab. Jerzy Pawel Nowacki , professor of PJAIT, has been Rector of PJATK since 1994. For more than 20 years he was associated with the Institute of Fundamental Technological Problems of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He belongs to dozens of international symposia, mainly in Poland, Japan and Sweden. He is a member of the editorial committees of the Journal of Technical Physics and the International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics in Materials. He teaches in the Department of Applied Computer Science at PJATK.

PJAIT became the patron of the international conference "Impact'19", which took place in Krakow on May 21-22. The theme of the conference was the future of innovative technologies.

On May 8, PJAIT joined the Museum Night event, presenting various aspects of Japanese culture and the application of new technologies.

The book "100 x Independence" published by the PJAIT Publishing House received an honorable mention in the "Most Beautiful Books of 2018" competition organized annually by the Polish Association of Book Publishers.

The winners of the Polish Graphic Design Awards include Jan Bajtlik, a lecturer at the Faculty of New Media Arts, and Maciej Połczyński, a student of the faculty. Jan Bajtlik received the award in the children's and youth book category for his publication "Ariadne's Thread". The committee also awarded the PJAIT lecturer two honorable mentions: for the animated poster "Pologne une révolution graphique" and the advertising and design illustration "Animapolis". The award in the jobbing typeface category went to Maciej Połczyński, creator of the Maruder typeface, which he prepared for the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.

In the ranking of non-public academies by the "Perspektywy" Educational Foundation, PJAIT took 4th place. The academy also ranked high in the computer science fields category and the employers' ranking. The "Perspektywy" Non-Public Academies Ranking takes into account 20 indicators based on criteria such as: prestige, graduates in the job market, scientific strength, study conditions, innovation, and internationalization of studies. The Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology is the best technical non-public academy. In the ranking of national non-public academies, it placed in the top five. The organizers of the "Perspektywy" ranking also prepared a classification by 68 fields of study. The PJAIT Faculty of Computer Science improved its result by five places compared to last year's ranking, taking 20th place. Considering academies rather than faculties, PJAIT ranks 10th in Poland in computer science education.

On July 1st, the Imperial Couple of Japan, Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princeess Kiko, visited the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology to meet with representatives of the University on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and Japan. The Imperial Couple met with the Rector of PJAIT, dr hab. Jerzy Paweł Nowacki, the Chancellor of PJAIT, the Vice-Rector, prof. Mitsuhiko Toho, as well as Ambassador Tsukasa Kawada and his wife. Their discussions focused on educational challenges, Polish-Japanese cooperation, and the job market for young people.

On July 30, an experimental exhibition titled "Reflection. I Am Probably Like You" opened at the Warsaw Uprising Museum. It was co-created by second-year computer science students at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology – Ms. Agnieszka Bursztynowska and Mr. Michał Jankowski.

In July, the nationwide Economic Tracking of Graduates system was updated with data for another cohort. PJAIT secured a top position regarding graduate earnings. In the field of technical sciences, graduates of PJAIT Bachelor's degree programs earned an average of PLN 5,549 per month, while Master's degree graduates earned PLN 7,741. In the national ranking for part-time Bachelor's degree studies in information management, graduates of the Faculty of Information Management took 1st place. In the Mazovia region, in the category of part-time Master's degree studies in computer science, PJAIT ranks 4th. This is the highest position among private higher education institutions.

In September, 3rd-year NeMA PJAIT students, Mr. Mateusz Król and Mr. Norbert Lisak, presented their original animation – a large-scale mapping projection – on the Lille City Hall in France. The PJAIT students represented Poland in a competition organized by the Mapping European Center.

The year 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of PJAIT and the 15th anniversary of the Faculty of New Media Arts. On this occasion, on October 18, the jubilee exhibition of students from the Artistic Printmaking Studio of Prof. Andrzej Kalina titled "Cold Basement" was opened at the Stara Prochownia Gallery in Warsaw. The exhibition summarized the didactic and artistic activity of the Studio and presented a selection of the most interesting student works created from 2009 to 2019. The exhibition was attended by academic teachers: Prof. Andrzej Kalina, Dr. Wojciech Domagalski, Dr. Piotr Żaczek.

In October, the next stage of construction began for the new PJAIT educational building at 86 Koszykowa Street in Warsaw.

In November, the PJAIT Research and Development Center in Bytom hosted a transdisciplinary hackathon organized in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. The event was dedicated to innovative XR (eXtended Reality) solutions for learning foreign languages, especially German. Members of the interinstitutional research group HASE (Human Aspects in Science and Engineering) supported the students with their experience, expert knowledge, and mentoring. The group consists of young scientists from PJAIT, the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, SWPS University, the Information Processing Centre, and the Warsaw University of Technology, who conduct joint research within a network of interactive innovative laboratories in the broad field of XR, including virtual and augmented reality (VR, AR) and voice interaction (VA).

In December, the Medium Gallery at the Faculty of New Media Arts of PJAIT in Warsaw organized an exhibition of works by prominent Japanese artists Ryousaku Miyasaka and Eri Suenaga.

The Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology has launched the #PJATK4Earth campaign, aimed at changing the daily habits of the University community to be more nature-friendly. To this end, actions have been introduced under the shared banner of #PJATK4Earth. One of the elements of this campaign is waste sorting. New waste bins have appeared on every floor of PJAIT buildings for: metals and plastics, paper, glass, biodegradable waste, and mixed waste. The bins are entirely ecological, made of cardboard, and the bags are biodegradable.

On December 12, a public mapping projection took place in Antwerp. It was created at the end of immersive animation workshops led by our lecturers: M.Sc. Olga Wroniewicz and M.Sc. Agata Moryto for students of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

2020 – On January 23, the Zamość Gallery hosted the opening of an exhibition by Elżbieta Gnyp, a PJAIT lecturer, presenting graphics inspired by nature and the poetry of Bolesław Leśmian.

In January, during a hackathon at the Google GDG DevFest conference in Lisbon, PJAIT students Mr. Robert Grochowski and Mr. Maciej Lis won 2nd place. They created an application that alerts drivers to approaching ambulances, fire engines, and police vehicles.

Students of the Faculty of New Media Arts at PJAIT, under the guidance of world-renowned designer Rudi Baur, co-created the exhibition "Présences typographiques, prėsences cartographiques" presented at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris.

In March, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic, the Rector of PJAIT decided to suspend classes and introduce a special operating mode for the University's units.

Students of the Faculty of New Media Arts, Ms. Yeva Morozova and Ms. Yuliia Negrych, have become finalists in the global design competition C-Idea!, which this year is held under the slogan "Smart life" in Taiwan.

In April, the PJAIT Open Day was held entirely online for the first time due to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic.

In April, Prof. Mitsuhiko Toho, co-founder and lecturer at PJAIT, was awarded the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Rays. This honor is awarded in recognition of outstanding services to the state or society.

In May, the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology organized the international THEM–US – illustration//animation workshop, during which open lectures were delivered by School of Visual Arts professors from New York: Jimm Calhoun and Steven Heller.

PJAIT lecturers Mr. Bartosz Witański and Ms. Olga Krupa won a bronze medal at the European Design Awards in the Signs & Display category.

Rafał Masłyk and Barbara Karpowicz, researchers and lecturers associated with the XR Lab and the Department of Multimedia at PJAIT, presented their game "Albert's Journey", which received recognition from the creators of the largest gaming platform, Steam. Its demo version was included in the summer Steam Game Festival 2020, which took place online from June 16 to 22.

PJAIT has once again found itself at the top of the "Perspektywy 2020" university ranking. The academy secured 4th place among all private universities in Poland. Among technical universities, the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology ranked 13th (moving up 5 places compared to 2019). It has once again become the undisputed leader among private technical universities. The computer science field of study (Master's degree) at PJAIT was rated 11th in the country (1st among private universities).

On October 23, the virtual conference IF – SOCIAL DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES took place, focusing on sustainable urban development. The Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology was a co-organizer of the event. During the conference, the importance of culture and social design in the debate on sustainable urban development was emphasized. Participants included Marek Prawda, representative of the European Commission, Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski, Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna Gerald Bast, as well as senior local government officials and academic leaders from Europe.

In November, we had the pleasure of presenting to you the first doctoral defense at the Faculty of New Media Arts at PJAIT. The defense was streamed online due to COVID restrictions. The protagonist of the defense was Ms. Karolina Kant, and she presented her doctoral dissertation entitled: "The Moving Image of Eternity". The main supervisor was dr hab. Tomasz Myjak, prof. PJAIT.

Works by students of the PJAIT Multimedia Studio were shown during the Patchlab Digital Art Festival.

History 2021–present

2021 – In January, the first international online conference at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, simultaneously interpreted from French into English, took place in the lobby of the new building A. The Night of Ideas "Proximity" is an event organized by the French Institute.

The winter exam session in 2021 consisted of further exams conducted entirely remotely, using IT tools that enable the verification of intended learning outcomes.

Students of the Integrated Multimedia Studio at PJAIT, under the guidance of Olga Wroniewicz, together with the teaching staff and administrative employees, are developing a unique site-specific light installation project. The Stream of MA project, referring to the Japanese concept of MA (space in between, the potential of emptiness) as well as stream and instantaneous connections strongly present in today's world, is a physical installation, a vessel that can receive animations transmitted to it from anywhere on Earth. In the first phase of the project, students of the Integrated Multimedia Studio (Emilia Ishizaka, Mateusz Król, Ludwika Białkowska, Nikita Mazurkevych, Natalia Dobrzańska) created both the spatial layout and original audiovisual compositions.

In March, Girls from PJAIT took part in the Girls to Polytechnics event. Female students from the Faculties of Computer Science, New Media Art, and Information Management represented PJAIT during an online conference. Our lecturer, Dominika Wnuk (Faculty of Computer Science), conducted a workshop introducing Python programming, which enjoyed immense popularity.

In April, we visited our Screen Printing studio. Few people know that such a studio operates at our academy, so we showcased the behind-the-scenes work of Natalia Łajszczak and her students.

At the end of April, PJAIT participated in the 24th Science Picnic organized by the Copernicus Science Centre.

On April 27, an author meeting was held with the creators of "Future Graphic Language"! This extraordinary publication was created as part of the FutureText artistic and research project, carried out between 2018 and 2021 thanks to a NAWA grant, and contains texts of lectures delivered during the symposium titled "Future Graphic Language", organized by PJAIT in cooperation with the University of Reading, the British Library, the University of Warsaw, and the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw in December 2019.

In May, open workshops were held as part of the Cross-culture Art and Design Festival, organized by PJAIT and the Faculty of New Media Arts. Special guests were: Fusako Kusunoki, Tama Art University (Tokyo) and Emilio Lonardo, Technical University of Milano.

On May 25, PJAIT organized a virtual sushi workshop. The event was a huge success and led to a second edition. Over 200 students took part in the virtual sushi workshop!

On June 10, PJAIT is slowly coming back to life!
The first Czech Innovation EXPO exhibition, which could be visited in person in the main building, was created in an Augmented Realities format.

ALO, the Academic High School at PJAIT, took 4th place in this year's nationwide LGBTQ+ School Ranking! Over 22,000 people from all over Poland evaluated their schools in terms of openness and the safety of LGBTQ+ students. The students answered 17 questions concerning the presence of non-heteronormative individuals, teachers' attitudes, and potential discrimination on school premises. The results were presented in the form of an interactive Equality Map.

June for AZS PJAIT is a triumph for the volleyball section! Following their promotion in 2019 from the 2nd to the 1st Jabłonowska League, the team defended their Tournament Champion title in the 2020 season! Congratulations to the team and coach Łukasz Łysiak!

Just before the exam session and thesis defenses, PJAIT organized online yoga workshops!

In August, the Hablab scientific club organized an integration event on the beach near the Poniatowski Bridge! We are glad that student life has returned to normal!

September is a month dedicated in a special way to the Deaf community. Together with the Zachęta Gallery, we recorded an unusual film about our Alumnus. Daniel Kotowski, a graduate of Interior Architecture at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, is a curator, artist, and performer who actively works for the Deaf.

On October 4, the Ceremonial Inauguration of the PJAIT Academic Year took place.