10th Erasmus Staff Training Week at the Gdańsk Tech Library 2026

Dear Colleagues,

it is our pleasure to invite you to join our 10th Erasmus Staff Training Week at the Gdańsk Tech Library. Our staff week’s theme in 2026 will be “The university library as the heart of an academic community”. Our event will be organized in the Gdańsk Tech Library, Gdańsk, Poland, from 11th to 15th of May, 2026.

We would discuss the following topics:
• How to train and assist the faculty to teach information literacy in their courses – mission impossible?
• Faculty-librarian collaboration for developing information literacy of university students.
• Academic library users or non-users: students, faculty, staff?
• How do university libraries facilitate the acquisition of information to enhance the level of educational services at a university?
• Physical space of academic libraries – is it still relevant in the age of AI?
• Has the role of the university library changed over the years?
• Contemplating the Future for libraries as dynamic instruments of education and a central place for study and research
• The role of AI in library services (e.g. Ex Libris Primo library platform (search engine working within the Alma system) Research Assistant, 24/7 AI-Powered Chatbots/Assistants to assist library users with their queries, others).

We cordially invite all academic librarians to join us at Gdańsk University of Technology Library for our 10th International Staff Week 2026. Enclosed you will soon find the Erasmus Staff Week work and social program (please, note that this schedule is preliminary and subject to change).

Participants are supposed to prepare a 20-minute presentation on a subject fitting into this year’s theme; alternatively, they can give a presentation about the libraries they work at on everyday basis.

Enclosed (see the file attached below) you will soon find the Eramsus Staff Week work and social program (please, note that this schedule is preliminary and subject to change) and a mobility agreement template.

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ATTENTION: to register for the event you have to send us two documents: mobility agreement and cover letter.

IN MOBILITY AGREEMENT FORM use the following data for sending institution contact person, name and position: Dr. Anna Dąbrowska, Director of the Gdańsk University of Technology Library, anna.zygma@pg.edu.pl, +48 58 347 25 75. You can use the MOBILITY AGREEMENT FORM attached below or the form prepared and required by your institution. Please, send the signed MOBILITY AGREEMENT to Urszula Szybowska - urszula.szybowska@pg.edu.pl.

Please, send your cover letter explaining why you would be interested in participating in the Staff Week at our library to Urszula Szybowska, e-mail: ursszybo@pg.edu.pl. Send your presentation no later than 30.04.2026 via  e-mail to ursszybo@pg.edu.pl. REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW - mobility agreements will be processed on a "First Come, ​First served" basis. 

The event can be organised with the minimum number of participants (4 persons) and the maximum number of 20 participants final approval of participants' application will be as soon as on the 30th of April, 2026.

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Would you like to have a glance at our university? Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q6CMTo1xJI

Mobility Agreements will be processed on a “First Come, First Served” basis. 

>>> REGISTRATION - registration is on a first-come-first served

We are looking forward to see you in the Gdańsk Tech Library!

Best regards,

Erasmus Team

at Gdańsk University of Technology Library

* Participation in the International Staff Week at GUT Library is free of charge. The participants cover their travel, accommodation and other kinds of costs from the Erasmus+ funds awarded by their home. The participant shall have adequate insurance coverage. It is the responsibility of the sending institution of the participant to ensure that the participant is aware of health insurance issues.  

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