Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie

Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie

ECTS INFORMATION PACKAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS PART 1 GENERAL INFORMATION

COSTS OF LIVING

The cost of living in Krakow will depend on your life-style, needs and habits. Kraków is neither excessively expensive nor very cheap. A student should be quite comfortable spending some 40 zł (app.11 EURO) per day for food.

The following approximate prices will give you an idea of the costs to expect.

Student dormitory accomodation
Place in a shared room (2-3 persons) in halls of residence: 260-300 PLN per person per month + additional bills (gas, electricity, water etc.).

Private accomodation
Costs for renting a room or a flat depend on its location and facilities provided. Please be aware that landlords usually ask for a deposit and that you have to pay for additional bills (gas, electricity, water etc.). Students are advised to formalise their agreements with landlords by signing a written agreement on rent after having carefully read and understood it. The Erasmus Student Network provides assistance with these matters (see section on ERASMUS).

Room in a shared flat: 300-800 PLN for rent per month

Bread (loaf): 2 PLN

1 kg cheese: 15 zł

1 kg ham/sausage: 20 zł

1 kg meat: 20 zł

1 kg fruit/vegetables: 2 zł

1 l juice: 3 zł

Tea: 3 zł

Coffee: 13 zł

Sugar: 2 zł

Beer: 3 zł

Hair shampoo: 10 zł

Soap: 5 zł

Toothpaste: 7 zł

Detergent: 6 zł

Book: 10 to 100 zł

CD: ca. 50 zł

pen, pencil, notebook : ca. 2 zł

Philharmonic tickets: c.a 12 PLN

In a pub
Tea: 2-10 PLN

ACCOMODATION

Head: Mrs.Barbara Czepiel

The dormitory is situated very close to the city center and Academy of Music main building. There are 146 places in 2, 3 and 4 persons rooms. Guest rooms also avalilable: 2 single and 1 double.

Place in a double room: ca. 300 zł (c.a 100 EURO) per person monthly + additional bills (gas, electricity, water, etc.). Advance reservation is necessary.

Charges:

Telephone: based on the billings.

30-072 Kraków

(012) 637 38 74

During the academic year, the Campus houses students from all Cracow’s universities. Its location relative to the city centre and to the university grounds is unquestionably one of the biggest advantages. All Students’ Dormitories have a free Internet and cable TV access. In addition, special telephone extension provides cost-free connections within the Campus as well as with all the AGH UST buildings.

Busses:

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  From the “Miasteczko Studenckie AGH” bus stop: 102, 103, 139, 159, 173, 501
  
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  From the „Kawiory” bus stop: 103, 139, 144, 159, 173, 194
  

Place in a double room: ca. 300 zł + additional bills (gas, electricity, etc.)

Three high standard double rooms with bathrooms:

Charge without breakfast (1 place/ 1 day): 115 PLN

Reservation contact:

Reservation contact:

The application for a Dormitory is available at the www.amuz.krakow.pl site (International Cooperation Centre /Erasmus

MEALS

You can also go to*Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia *(National Health care Fund)* *ul. */Batorego/ Street 24 *Info-line:  (0-12) 94-88 and pay for your *Individual Medical Insurance Card *in Poland. With this card you will have medical treatment for free. The cost is also about 100 to 200 zl FOR YOUR WHOLE PERIOD OF STAYING so it is worth.

If you are feeling really bad  you can either go to a doctor for a private visit:
A recommend this facility:
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Lekarska Spółdzielnia Pracy*

www.lsp.zaprasza.net

31-013 Krakow

tel. 012 422 88 21, 012 422 29 53

OR

After you go to Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia (National Health Fund) at Batorego Street WITH the insurance you can have free health care for example in SCANMED at Rakowicka Street or:

If you need to go to hospital call:

or
Emergency 999

Also for 24 h you can go to:

Hospitals:

Krakowski Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Jana Pawła II,

Szpital Miejski Specjalistyczny im. G. Narutowicza w Krakowie; Prądnicka 35-37; Tel: 012 416 24 36

Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Stefana Żeromskiego Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej w Krakowie; os. Na Skarpie 66; 012 644 01 44

Wojskowy Szpital Kliniczny z Polikliniką Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej w Krakowie; Wrocławska 1-3; Tel: 012 630 81 62

Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Ludwika Rydygiera w Krakowie; os. Złotej Jesieni 1; Tel: 012 646 80 00
Academic Medical Healhcare Center at. 27, Rakowicka Street provide healthcare and treatment for all insured students.
Each student arriving to Poland within the ERASMUS programme should bought medical insurance in his nation country for the whole period of staying.
Before arrival each student should have done detailed clinical examinations (chest’ X-rays included). One should present medical card filled in by physician in his mother country. After arriving to Poland in some cases it would be necessary to do another clinical examinations. In case of heavy disease student will be sent back to his mother country.
Importnant phone numbers
Emergency 112

Police 997

Ambulance 999

Fire Service 998

Municipal Police 986

Tourist information (12) 421 77 87

Airport Information + 48 801 055 000; + 48 12 295 58 00
Hospitals:
Krakowski Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Jana Pawła II,

Kraków, ul. Prądnicka 80, tel. 012 6142000

Szpital Miejski Specjalistyczny im. G. Narutowicza w Krakowie; Prądnicka 35-37; Tel: 012 416 24 36

Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Stefana Żeromskiego Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej w Krakowie; os. Na Skarpie 66; 012 644 01 44

Wojskowy Szpital Kliniczny z Polikliniką Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej w Krakowie; Wrocławska 1-3; Tel: 012 630 81 62

Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Ludwika Rydygiera w Krakowie; os. Złotej Jesieni 1; Tel: 012 646 80 00

(012) 94 88 ; (012) 29 88 386

From fixed phones:

FACILITIES FOR SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS

Music Academy in Krakow does not provide special services for disable students.

Polski Związek Niewidomych/Polish Blinds Associacion www.pzn.org.pl

Portal Osób Niepełnosprawnych/Internet Portal for Disabled www.niepełnosprawni.pl
Information for physically disabled tourists: + 48 800 53 33 35

INSURANCE

Each student coming to Poland as part of the ERASMUS programme must have a valid medical insurance purchased in his/her home country for the entire length of his/her stay in Poland or the European Health Insurance Card. Before coming to Poland, the student should take a detailed check-up (including a chest X-ray) and bring his/her medical record filled in by a doctor in the home country. Additional tests might be necessary in Poland. In case of severe illness, the student might be sent back to his/her country of residence.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships are available for Polish students only. Detailed information regarding scholarships are available on the Academy of Music in Kraków internet site at www.amuz.krakow.pl.

STUDY FACILITIES

The Main Library of the Academy of Music in Kraków is a collection of scores, book publications, musical periodicals. It also contains audio and audiovisual recordings on various media. The collection now includes some 50000 items and is still growing. The resources of the library will soon be accessible to teachers and students through a state-of-the-art computer cataloguing system. A well-appointed reading room and record library are also at the users’ disposal.

Students can also use the collection of the Library of the Institute of Musicology, Jagiellonian University:

Additional resources are available at the Public Library (ul. Rajska) and the Jagiellonian Library (Al. Słowackiego):

Jagiellonian Library

FIRST STEPS ON ARRIVAL

The Academy of Music must be notified in advance as to the exact date of arrival of the student (day, time, means of transport, place of arrival) so that our representative can meet the student to accompany him/her to the Academy. The student then must visit the SOCRATES/ERASMUS Coordinators’ office (room 410) for all information on his/her stay in Poland.

Z Przemyskiej na Akademię

Z Rostafińskiego na akademię + autobusy i tramwaje

Documentation required

Each student coming to study in Kraków within the ERASMUS programme must have completed his/her first year of study; he/she must have received a ERASMUS grant and a letter of agreement between the home and the host university. A valid passport is required. The student should also bring a list of courses taken before coming to Poland, a medical card and insurance.

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  his/her passport;
  
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  a filled-in application form (also available at the Polish Foreign Ministry website, www.msz.gov.pl/english/indexang.html);
  
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  passport photograph(s);
  
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  a letter from the host Polish university, stating that the named student will be enrolled as part of the Erasmus framework;
  
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  a letter from the student’s home university stating the amount of the grant received.
  

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  an extended visa (at least a fortnight before the expiry date of the initial visa); the extended visa becomes valid on the day of its issue and not on the date of the expiry of the original visa. The required documents include:
  
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    a letter from the Polish host university confirming his/her status as a student;
    
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    a confirmation of the address of residence;
    
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    a photocopy of his/her passport (including empty pages);
    
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    1 photograph,
    
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    confirmation of adequate subsistence means (e.g. included in the university’s statement of grants received);
    
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    a filled-in form (in Polish; instructions in other languages available). The new visa is issued free of charge.
    

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  a permission for limited stay and card of residence (at least 45 before visa expiry date). The required documents include:
  
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    a confirmation from the Polish host university;
    
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    a statement of subsistence means (no lower limit has been specified), a confirmation of the address of residence;
    
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    3 photographs;
    
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    2 photocopies of the entire passport;
    
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    2 application forms in Polish. 
    

The permission for limited stay is charged 300 PLN; the card of residence - 25 PLN. Applications have to be submitted in person at the Foreign Residents’ Department or other institution as stated by the local administrative centre.

Information about Kraków

K R A K Ó W

Wilhelm Feldman

Kraków’s Old Town – the seat of our Academy - is now its most representative part. This relatively small area is nowadays a living museum of architecture, painting, sculpture, and research, with its sixty major historical monuments, three hundred historical buildings, housing some two million items of artwork. The Old Town is far from being an exception here: historical monuments abound in other neighbourhoods of Kraków, such as Stradom, Kazimierz, Podgórze, and in its environs, Ojców, Wieliczka, Niepołomice, Tyniec, or Wiśnicz.

No wonder, then, that Kraków is a veritable Mecca for tourists. Its special place in Polish history attracts tourists from both Poland and abroad.

The main tourist route leads along the so-called Royal Way, from the Barbican and the Floriańska Gate through the Rynek, the city’s main square – with its Gothic Basilica of St. Mary, its Renaissance Cloth Hall and its Romanesque St. Wojciech’s, and then through Grodzka street – with its Baroque St. Peter and Paul’s and the severe Romanesque lines of St. Andrew’s – to the Wawel, once a royal castle, now a great museum with abundant collections (including the famed Flanders Tapestries, the Royal Treasury, the Armoury, the collection of Turkish tents or of porcelain). The Wawel Hill also houses the city’s Cathedral with tombs of Polish kings and Poland’s greatest bell, the Zygmunt, founded by King Zygmunt the Old in 1520.

The Royal Castle is also the venue of the “Wawel Nights” concert series, featuring eminent artists. Kraków’s nearby Philharmonic Hall is the place to listen to visiting and local artists and ensembles.

Kraków also hosts numerous festivals; those of music including Days of Organ Music, the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, the Music in Old Kraków or Jazz Juniors; other festivals include Kraków Days, various festivals, festivals of individual streets or the Juwenalia, a great three-day festival of university students. More importantly, Kraków has been honoured as one of the European Cities of Culture 2000, itself a series of festivals authored by major artistic figures of the city: literary, Nobel Prize winners Wisława Szymborska and Czesław Miłosz, AA winner, filmamker Andrzej Wajda and, last but not least, composer Krzysztof Penderecki, Professor of our Academy of Music.

Almost every street in Old Kraków houses a museum (a total of 30). These include the national Museum and its collections of Czapski, Matejko, Szołayski, and Czartoryski; other museums include those of History, Archaeology, Ethnography, or Natural Science.

Kraków is a perfect place for the study of history of Poland, culture, or art. Its numerous universities include Poland’s first university, the Jagiellonian (founded 1364), the Kraków Polytechnics, the Academy of Economics, the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, the Medical Academy (now part of the Jagiellonian University), the Pedagogical University, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Academy of Agriculture, the Academy of Physical Education, and the State Academy of Theatre.

Kraków’s numerous theatres include the Juliusz Słowacki, the Stary, the Bagatela, the Ludowy, the Groteska, the Krakowski Teatr Muzyczny, the STU, the Cricot 2. Cinemas abound.

Kraków also boasts of an ever expanding choice of restaurants, cafés and musical clubs, all maintaining their own and individual style, often located in the Old City’s numerous Gothic cellars. The most interesting eating and/or drinking places include Chłopskie Jadło, C.K.Dezerter, Corleone, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hawełka, Kurza stopka, El Paso, Ipanema, Paese, Chimera, Pod Aniołami, Cherubino, Cafe Camelot, Pod Chochołami, Black Gallery, Cafe Molier, Graffitti, Carmel Cafe, Dym, Młyn, Manekin, Papparazzi, Harris, U Louisa, Piec Art, Pod Baranami, Bambus, Troll and many, many more...

Despite its galaxy of historical monuments, Kraków is also a city of green. Nature can be found in the city’s numerous parks, including the Planty which encircles the Old Town, the Botanical Garden, the Strzelecki Park, the Wolski Forest, the Błonia, the parks of Bednarski, Jordan, or Krakowski.

Kraków is a place where history becomes legend and legend history. Most of its historical spots come together with a story: the Dragon’s Cave under the Wawel Hill, the legendary Prince Krak and his Princess Wanda, the tower’s of St’ Mary’s, the Bugle Call, the Kraków pigeons, etc.

CONSULATES

USEFUL AND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS

Medical Emergencies 999

Police 997

Fire Department 998

Municipal Police 986
INFORMATION:
Inquiries

- local 913

- long distance 911

Polish Railways (PKP) 9436

Bus Transport (PKS) 9316

Cultural Information 12 421 77 87

Health Care Information 12 422 05 11

Concert Hall ‘Florianka’
ul. Basztowa 8
31-134 Kraków
tel. (+ 48 12) 422 51 73

Main Concert Hall
Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie
ul. Św. Tomasza 43
31-027 Kraków
tel. (+ 48 12) 423 20 78, 422 04 55

Chamber Music Hall
Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie
ul. Św. Tomasza 43
31-027 Kraków
tel. (+ 48 12) 423 20 78, 422 04 55

ERASMUS STUDENT CHARTER

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  Your home and host universities to have an inter-institutional agreement.
  
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  The sending and receiving institutions to sign with you and before you leave a Learning/Training Agreement setting out the details of your planned activities abroad, including the credits to be achieved.
  
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  Not to have to pay fees to your host university for tuition, registration, examinations, access to laboratory and library facilities during your Erasmus studies.
  
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  Full academic recognition from your home university for satisfactorily completed activities during the Erasmus mobility period, in accordance with the Learning/Training Agreement.
  
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  To be given a transcript of records at the end of your activities abroad, covering the studies/work carried out and signed by your host institution/enterprise. This will record your results with the credits and grades achieved. If the placement was not part of the normal curricula, the period will at least be recorded in the Diploma Supplement.
  
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  to be treated and served by your host university in the same way as their home students.
  
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  to have access to the Erasmus University Charter and European Policy Statement of your home and host universities.
  
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  Your student grant or loan from your home country to be maintained while you are abroad.
  

As an Erasmus student, you are expected to:

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  Respect the rules and obligations of your Erasmus grant agreement with your home university or your National Agency.
  
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  Ensure that any changes to the Learning/Training Agreement are agreed in writing with both the home and host institutions immediately they occur.
  
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  Spend the full study/placement period as agreed at the host university/enterprise, including undergoing the relevant examinations or other forms of assessment, and respect its rules and regulations. Write a report on your Erasmus study/placement period abroad when you return and provide feedback if requested by your home university, the European Commission or the National Agency.
  

If you have a problem:

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  Identify the problem clearly and check your rights and obligations.
  
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  Contact your departmental coordinator for Erasmus and use the formal appeals procedure of your home university if necessary.
  

If you remain dissatisfied, contact your National Agency.