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MUS Campus in Szczecin
Campus
70-507 Szczecin, ul. Starzyńskiego 9
Campus Manager: Jolanta Nestorowicz +48 091 48 09 601
Head of Pasat: Joanna Zubel +48 091 48 09 604
Head of Korab: Barbara Kujawska +48 091 48 09 606
The campus is located near Waly Chrobrego where the main university building stands. Bounded by Szczerbcowa, Starzynski, Pobozny and Wawelska streets, the campus buildings are situated in the vicinity of beautiful Zeromski Park, not far from Plac Rodla, city’s major junction crisscrossed by tram and bus lines. Any part of Szczecin is within easy reach from here. It takes about five minutes to reach the main building in Waly Chrobrego from the halls of residence named Korab and Pasat.
The library, swimming pool, canteen, food and xerox shops are just at hand. KORAB and PASAT are eleven-story buildings. The double or triple berth rooms have standard equipment (bed, cupboard, table) with four rooms sharing a bathroom. There is a kitchen on each floor with an electric cooker and a washbasin. The free Internet is accessible in each room.
Student residents can also use:
• study rooms
• washing rooms with automatic washing machines,
• ironing rooms,
• leisure rooms for table tennis, aerobics or dance,
• TV rooms with cable TV access,
• deposit room.
Visitors to Szczecin are offered in KORAB and PASAT double and triple rooms with functional furniture, a TV and refrigerator. All students and visitors can feel safe and secure – the buildings are constantly monitored and fitted with a fire alarm system.
The student canteen, next to the halls of residence, serves meals from Monday to Friday.
There is also a self-service cafeteria offering basic food articles and ready-made dishes Students frequent the place to spend breaks between lectures over a cup of tea or coffee.
Apart from food serving facilities, the building in Szczerbcowa Street accommodates three spacious audio/video rooms - a typical lecture theatre with beautiful interior architecture; the two others can be combined by opening the movable partition wall. Equipped with all necessary conference facilities, the rooms can be hired for meetings, conferences and other official gatherings.
Marine Officers’ Training Centre
70-500 Szczecin, ul. Wały Chrobrego 1-2
tel.: +4809148 09 477, +4809143 39 171
faks: +4809148 09 489
e-mail: sdko@am.szczecin.pl
Director: Jerzy Białek, Master Mariner
The centre runs training courses for merchant and fishing fleets officers. The scope of training offered is as follows:
• qualification courses, preparing for exams at operational and management levels in deck and engine departments (watch officers, Master Mariner and Chief Engineer certificates),
• specialized courses, e.g. radio (GMDSS, VHF and related), radar equipment operator (e.g.ARPA), carriage of hazardous cargo HAZMAT and others,
• updating courses covering new regulations, new technologies and equipment, such as ECDIS use, new elements of slow speed diesel engine diagnosis, new welding methods, etc.
To date, more than 2000 seafarers have taken part in Master Mariner courses, while Chief Engineer courses have been attended by over 1800 ship’s engineers. Apart from Polish sailors, among participants are Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians and Russians.
The centre meets the requirements of the STCW Convention and instructions of the competent ministry on the training centre arrangements and holds the necessary certificates:
- quality management system ISO 9002 of 20 February 1998, granted by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance;
- recognition of a training centre No C-4\XI\98 issued by the Maritime Office in Szczecin;
- compliance of courses with the STCW’95 Convention - LR/WMC/001, issued by Warsash Maritime Centre and Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
Apart from being required for issuing certificates recognized by Polish and other maritime administrations, these documents express positive assessment by external institutions confirming that Szczecin-based Marine Officers Training Centre has adjusted its training arrangements to world standards of the STCW 78/95 Convention.
The centre co-operates with the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden. The centre aims to extend the collaboration with foreign shipowners.
Marine Rescue Training Centre
71-700 Szczecin, ul. Ludowa 7/8
tel.: +48 (091) 42 81 765, +48 (091) 42 80 125
fax: +48 (091) 42 81 767
e-mail: osrm@am.szczecin.pl
Director: Robert Czapla
The Centre (MRTC) is one of the largest and best-equipped Polish TRAINING establishments of this type. Being a member of the International Association for Safety and Survival Training (IASST) and having an accreditation of the Maritime Office in Szczecin, the Centre offers courses satisfying the International STCW 78/95 Convention.
The range of training courses, covering such areas as safety, rescue of life, protection of health and marine environment, aims at preparing trainees to respond in emergency and extreme situations. Theoretical classes are combined with practical field training in a basin 100 metres x 14 metres, where exercises are held for a certificate of training proficiency in survival craft and rescue boats and in fast rescue boats. Since June 2007 the Centre has been operating a unique facility for free fall boat drills.
MRTC’s convenient location next to the Odra River and Lake Dabie opens opportunities for students to practise sailing, rowing or to perform a variety of drills in life saving or environment protection, using SAR craft etc. All the equipment (fast rescue boats, life rafts, personal life saving appliances, fire fighting equipment) and the Centre’s facilities comply with the requirements of the International Maritime Organization.
The Marine Rescue Training Centre offers the following courses:
- training in tanker familiarization,
- advanced training in liquefied gas, chemical or oil tanker familiarization,
- elementary first aid,
- medical first aid,
- personal survival techniques,
- fire fighting (basic and advanced),
- personal safety and social responsibilities,
- proficiency in survival craft and rescue boats,
- proficiency in fast rescue boats,
- crowd management, passenger safety and safety for personnel providing direct services to passengers in passenger spaces on ro-ro passenger ships and others,
- crisis management, human behaviour and safety of passengers and cargo, hull integrity of ro-ro passenger ships and passenger ships other than ro-ro ships
- ADN expert for inland shipping.
The centre also runs courses required for the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facilities Security Code and SOLAS 74 Convention:
– ship security officer,
– port facility security officer,
and training for ratings in ship security. Certificates of course completion are recognized by administrations of a number of countries: Liberia, Vanuatu, Gibraltar, Cyprus, Marshall Islands.
Department of Foreign Languages
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The Department of Foreign Languages is an interfaculty unit where foreign languages (English and German) are taught to students of all faculties. The specific nature of international shipping requires from its participants a good command of English, the language used in trade, in various professional contexts. For navigators, a good knowledge of English is an absolute necessity, in particular within the scope of distress, safety and other urgent communication. The experienced staff of the Department are committed to apply the highest standards in their work of preparing the students for their future professional tasks. The Department personnel consists of nineteen teachers of English and one teacher of German. Ten senior lecturers, nine lecturers and one language instructor, a secretary and a technical engineer — all of them do their best to provide top quality training to our students.
The qualified staff have high teaching skills and some marine experience, which makes it easier for them to teach maritime English. Keeping in touch with colleagues from other maritime educational institutions, the teachers take every opportunity to exchange teaching ideas and methods at international conferences and workshops.
The Department has a wide variety of publications and materials for teaching maritime English, including handbooks, recordings and own teaching materials, such as textbooks and tests. The Department facilities include a reading room, where a wide selection of reference books, dictionaries and access to the Internet are available to the staff and students. First year students come from various educational backgrounds. To optimize the teaching, students are divided into groups on the basis of results of a placement test which they sit before the beginning of the academic year. The language instruction, divided into stages, follows the generally accepted standards with a focus on the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. According to the syllabus, students first master their general English, only to pass on to maritime English in various professional contexts during later years of their studies. The Department has language labs and classrooms equipped with modern teaching aids, for example authentic recordings of marine ship-to-ship and other types of communication. Out teachers, although successfully using modern technology and new teaching techniques, still continue to practice the traditional communicative approach, such as teacher – student and student – student interactions.
Tiring as some classes may be, students love those in the computer lab. They find the wide selection of self-study and testing materials an interesting diversion. There, they can test themselves and prepare for the final exam to be taken at the end of each academic year. Our successful graduates are well prepared for work in the English-speaking environment of the shipping industry.
Creative Work Home
Welcome to the beautiful Świnoujście
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You are reading the webpage of Creative Work Home of the Maritime University of Szczecin. Offering excellent conditions for the university staff to work on their scientific papers, articles and research subjects, the Home is in fact a perfect place for conferences, seminars or training sessions. Located in the sea resort Świnoujście, about 350 m from sandy beaches, the centre is open all year round to both organizations and private visitors.
You can come here to rest, organize a conference, seminar, or a social meeting.
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MAIN LIBRARY OF THE MARITIME UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN
70-507 Szczecin, ul. H. Pobożnego 11
tel.: +48 91 4809 704
e-mail: bgsekr@am.szczecin.pl
Director: Elżbieta Edelman
The Main Library contributes to MUS scientific, educational and research activities. It started its operation in 1969 when the maritime school of higher education was established, the predecessor of today’s Szczecin Maritime University. Since 1996 the Library is located in the building in Henryk Pobozny Street. Its fifth floor houses a number of library units, such as publication collection and processing unit, lending room, reading rooms with book collections, magazines and scientific information. There is also a multimedia reading room with twelve computer desks offering the Internet access. Opened in 2005 thanks to EU funds for regional development, it was a response to increased demand for electronic sources of information and on-line access to databases. The sixth floor accommodates most of library book resources kept on movable shelves facilitating their retrieval.
The Library attempts at collecting books and other publications that are searched for by students, researchers and course participants as well as students and teachers of other academic institutes in Szczecin interested in maritime subjects. The library, with its 124 thousand books, 7 950 Polish and foreign magazine volumes and around 24 400 special items (Polish and foreign standards, instruction manuals and scientific research works) has a rich collection of IMO documents, supported by the IMO VEGA database, putting readers’ needs at their fingertips.
The Library also provides access to other databases: single stand access to LEX OMEGA, PRAWO OCHRONY SRODOWISKA (Environment Protection Law), IMO VEGA, while within the University’s network PROQUEST, SCIENCE DIRECT, WORTAL MORSKI and IMO Extranet Document System are available.
The Library staff prepare and make available their own databases: KART contains bibliographic descriptions of articles from Polish magazines collected by the Library, DOROBEK database records scientific works of SMU scientists, while PRACE database comprises undergraduate and Master’s theses of SMU students. Besides, in collaboration with other research libraries, SMU’s librarians create BazTech database with the contents of Polish scientific-technical magazines.
The Szczecin Maritime University Library uses a computer-aided library system SOWA and single-station SOWA2 system for recording scientific achievements of university’s research staff. All collection items are placed in the computer catalogue that can be used on the spot. Besides, books and other items collected at the Library can be searched for at its web site: http://bg.am.szczecin.pl .