International cooperations, scholarships, internships in fashion houses

SAPU has been cooperating with foreign fashion schools and fashion-related institutions for many years.

FAMOUS GUESTS FROM ABROAD AND POLAND:
SAPU students have had the opportunity to participate in meetings and workshops with outstanding representatives of art and fashion: Jeanloup Sieff, Mark Bickerstaffe, Ernestine Ruben, Naomi Rosenblum, Martin Pegler, Mark Fast, Veronique Rouge, Tony Folan, Gary Baseman, Joanna Przetakiewicz, Maja Sablewska, Ewa Minge, Ilona Majer and Rafał Michalak (MMC), Malwina Wędzikowska, Anna Jatczak, Ewa Jagielska-Żak, Jerzy Antkowiak, Michał Zaczyński, Marcin Świderek, Harel, Krystyna Mazurówna, Jerzy Osika, Natasha Pavluchenko, Dorota Wróblewska.

SAPU’S INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS IN RECENT YEARS:
Academy of Design and Haute Couture in Valencia, Arts Thread in London, Vancouver Fashion Week in Canada, Arts of Fashion Foundation in the United States, Fashion Revolution, PETA, Buy Responsibly Foundation, Fairtrade, IBEFF – International Baltic Ethnic Fashion Festival in St. Petersburg, European Fashion Union in Milan, European Fashion Accelerator in Prague, Global Sustainable Fashion Week in Budapest, Kosice Fashion Week, Virus Fashion in Lithuania.
Under the Leonardo da Vinci programme, students went for 3- or 6-month stays in Germany or Spain. We hosted a group of students from Germany, Holland, Slovakia, Ukraine.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AT SAPU:
Since 2009, the School of Artistic Fashion Design has also been open to foreign students, for whom courses are taught in English. Every year about 100 people from outside Poland study at the school.

COOPERATING SCHOOLS IN RECENT YEARS
Donghua University in Shanghai, Budapest Metropolitan University, University of International Studies of Rome in Italy, Hannover Fahmod School of Fashion Design, Verona School of Fashion Design.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS AT FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES AND FASHION HOUSES

• Donghua University in China, three-month internship for Anna-Maria Zygmund and Anna Nowak-Curyło.
• Academy of Haute Couture „Koefia” in Rome, one-year scholarship for Magdalena Śmielak.
• New Academy of Fine Arts of Milan, scholarship for Anka Letycja Walicka.
• TEKO Design+Business School (Denmark), scholarship for Ewelina Kosmal.
• Academy of Design and Haute Couture in Valencia, half-year scholarship for: Małgorzata Grzywnowicz and Małgorzata Węgiel, Anna Parkitna, Bartosz Wcisło, Magdalena Wielgosz, Danuta Dąbrowska, Pat Guzik, Partycja Łach, Dorota Pietruszka, Anna Wendeker, Aneta Zielińska.
• Fyodo Golan Fashion House in London, internship for Dominika Syczyńska.
• Atelier John Galliano, three-month internship for Lucja Wojtala.
• Balenciagia Fashion House and Alexander McQuenna Fashion House, internship for Karolina Pięch.
• Atelier of Dawid Tomaszewski in Berlin, internship for Monika Jaworskeij.
• Atelier of master tailor Claude Bonucci in Cannes, France, internship for Michal Wojciak.
• St Martin’s College of Art, internship for Anna Ziemniak and Anka Letycja Walicka.
• Atelier of Joanna Błażejowksa in Paris, internship for Anka Letycja Walicka, Łukasz Stachowicz and Monika Szumińska Nemeth, Agnieszka Dydo, Sylwia Lisok, Aneta Czaplicka.
• Atelier Jean-Pierre Braganza, internship for Karolina Pięch.
• Atelier Jenny O (Osterhoudt), one and a half year internship for Malgorzata Fejkiel.
• Atelier Veronique Rouge in France, internship for Małgorzata Sikora.
• Arkadius Atelier in London, internship for Agnieszka Gajdzińska, Malgorzata Trojanowska.

Jeanloup Sieff with students and lecturers of the Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design

Gary Baseman’s lecture for the students of the Cracow chool of Art and Fashion Design