As the only university in Central Europe, the Kozminski University in Warsaw participates in an international consortium for refugee scientists including nearly 50 educational institutions from all over the world.

The consortium includes Carnegie Mellon, McGill, Northwestern, Columbia and Yale universities – a total of nearly 50 famous educational institutions from around the world. The creation of an international network of universities that provide shelter and the possibility of further work for scientists, forced to emigrate from their countries and home institutions, was initiated by The New School in New York.

The New School has a long and beautiful tradition of welcoming persecuted scientists forced into exile because of their beliefs, respect for freedom and refusal to cooperate with the home regimes. The first group of over a hundred refugees appeared in this university after 1933; they were refugees from Nazi Germany. Refugee scholars created The New School as a significant center of social research for which the university is famous to this day.

The Refugee Researcher Program includes free access to library resources and webinars, the ability to continue their own research, and participation in classroom seminars at The New School for all international asylum seekers who have found refuge at host universities. The main idea of this initiative is respect for freedom in every area of human activity, with particular emphasis on freedom in science and research.

The Kozminski University is today supporting scientists from war-torn Ukraine, and it previously accepted refugee students from totalitarian countries granting them scholarships.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński