Piotr Gajdka, an architecture graduate of the Silesian University of Technology, talks about an Erasmus exchange with École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Saint-Etienne in France. Listen to how to apply for a scholarship and the formalities involved, the differences in studying between Polish and French universities, and what it was like to study during the pandemic.
Piotr Gajdka
Piotr Gajdka is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. He also studied at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Saint-Etienne on a scholarship, followed by a professional internship at the Magma Architecture office led by Prof. Martin Ostermann and Lene Kleinheinz in Berlin. As a member of the student scientific circles anti-RAMA and Rokoko, he was involved in organizing technological workshops (modeling modelON and operating the archi_bomb milling machine) and realizing objects in a historical context. In 2019-2020 he was a member of the Self-Government of the Faculty of Architecture responsible for the preparation of cultural events aimed at the academic community. Co-author of the Monada project for which, together with Krzysztof Hendel, he was awarded first prize in the competition for the development of a spatial-architectural concept for the development of the Wild Beach on Paprocany in Tychy.
scope of the podcast
[0:01]
Introduction
[0:45]
Decision to go to Erasmus, choice of university
[1:51]
Filling out paperwork, application, scholarship
[2:53]
Educational differences between French and Polish universities
[3:56]
Studying during a pandemic
[5:09]
Student life
[5:55]
Impact of student exchange in the long term
From the podcast series titled: "All about education - the best universities".
