12/08/2026
📅 10 August 2026 | Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland 🇵🇱, Politechnika Gdańska.
It was a great pleasure to teach a group of students from Shanghai Institute of Technology 🇨🇳 during the Summer School.
It becomes a space for exchange, reflection, dialogue, creativity and discovering new perspectives.
🚀 Workshop 1: “Managing a Contemporary Career Based on Future-Oriented Competencies:
🔹 Which competencies are important today — and which will become even more important in the future?
🔹 What opportunities and challenges do young people face when entering the labour market?
🔹 What skills, attitudes and resources support employability and professional development?
🔹 What kind of support can help us at different stages of our professional journey?
We also discussed career opportunities and challenges in the Chinese labour market and reflected on how young people can prepare themselves to successfully enter the labour market and consciously develop their professional pathways.
A particularly important part of the workshop was career .
🌏 Workshop 2: “What Connects Us Across Our Different Cultures"?
Students reflected on the experiences, values, strengths and cultural backgrounds that shape their identities.
And I think this is one of the most beautiful aspects of international education:
Different cultures can teach us different ways of seeing the world — while reminding us how much we have in common. 🌍
Today’s students will build their careers in increasingly international, multicultural and digitally connected environments.
They will need not only professional knowledge, but also:
🌱 self-awareness
🧠 critical thinking
🔄 adaptability
💬 communication skills
🌍 intercultural competence
💡 creativity
🤝 collaboration
🚀 future-oriented competencies
❤️ openness to different perspectives
This is why I believe in interactive and experiential education.
The goal is not simply for students to leave with more information.
The goal is for them to leave with new questions, new perspectives, greater self-awareness and ideas they can actually use in their personal and professional lives.
For me, the greatest value of teaching is seeing students become more curious about themselves, their possibilities and their future.
Because education has no borders.
Careers have no borders.
And neither should opportunities for students to learn, grow, explore their potential and shape their future. ✨