Krakow University of Economics
Kraków University of Economics—Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie, known as UEK—is one of Poland’s public economics universities, and it traces its origins to a commerce school opening in the mid-1920s. The institution opened its doors on October 1, 1925, as the College of Commerce (Wyższe Studium Handlowe), and it became UEK in 2007. Its mission is stated in Latin—“Rerum cognoscere causas et valorem”—framing education around understanding causes, values, and providing universal training. The university’s wartime story is also specific and severe. On 6 November 1939, during the Nazi Sonderaktion Krakau, professors were arrested—Arnold Bolland, Zygmunt Sarna, Walenty Winid, and Albin Żabiński among them—and buildings were seized while library materials were lost. After clandestine teaching, the school reopened in 1945, was nationalized in 1950, and renamed again in 1974 before taking its current name. …
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