As the Vice-rector for HR and Finance (formerly - the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism) Tadeusz Wallas said, Adam Mickiewicz University is among three top universities in Poland. There is an educational program on journalism and social communications at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism. Within this program, six specialties were opened: "Journalism", "Internet marketing", "Sports journalism and management in sport", "New media", "Advertising and promotion" and "Management and communication in business".

The studies for the bachelor’s degree last six semesters, for the master’s degree - four semesters. The faculty is located in one of the newly built buildings, which are designed to give students and lecturers a lot of light and space for communication, work, and recreation. In addition to lecture rooms, there is a TV studio, a radio studio, a library (where there are places for people with impaired vision and closed mini-cabinets for those who are eager to work in full silence). The lecturers of the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism Tomasz Branca, Bartosz Gordetskiy and Jędrzej Skrzypczak organized an eventful three-day program. On the first day, the participants of the project were shown TV and radio studios, computer laboratories. The technical expert of the faculty described the equipment and software used during the studies, in particular, told about the drone shooting organization in detail.

Postgraduate students explained the peculiarities of teaching television and radio journalism at their university. For example, students study television journalism in three stages. In their first year, students learn to behave in front of the camera (they get used to being on camera), in the second year they learn to work on the other side of the camera (shooting, montage, etc.), and in the third year, they develop full-fledged TV shows.

The second day was devoted to communication with students. It began with the Oxford debate "Journalist? Media worker? Who should be a graduate of modern journalistic studies?" held by UAM students in front of the international audience of DESTIN participants. As Bartosz Gordetskiy noted, an Oxford debate is one of the important methods of learning and teaching, as it allows perfecting the skills of sorting out arguments, viewing a situation in various ways, and sharing ideas and experiences among students of different years and specialties, postgraduate students, and teachers.

Afterward, the project participants met the representatives of student media (TV channels, radio stations, newspapers). There are two student TV channels "Academic courier" and "Flash", a radio station "Meteor", printed editions "A very university journal", a newspaper "Fenestra", and an Internet-newspaper "Sic!” at the faculty. These media are at the disposal of students’ editorial staff: students choose their personnel, define lines of responsibility in the editorial office, editorial policy, and themes. The editorial offices have mentor teachers who can give recommendations, but students make their own decisions (learn to be responsible). If necessary, they refer to senior colleagues – professional journalists from Polish mass media. There are over 50 people in every editorial office.

In some of them – about 200. As students told, everyone has a different motivation: some perfect journalistic skills, the others just have a good time, but in addition, students receive rating points for their bursary for the work in the editorial office. On the same day, a meeting of the guests with the Vice-rector Tadeusz Wallas was held, who noted in particular that today the university focuses on the training of non-classical journalists and media workers. The difference is that media professionals know technologies and can make an informational product for various purposes (journalism, advertising, public relations). This orientation was caused by the rate of changes in the world, particularly in the media market. A graduate should have skills that will allow finding his place in the conditions of changeable modernity. A conference, devoted to journalism education in the conditions of changeable modernity ("liquid modernity" by Z. Bauman), was held by the Polish organizers on the third day to exchange knowledge and ideas among the members of DESTIN and UAM.

Julia Kozyr, Senior Lecturer, the Department of Journalism and Philology