The Anglo-American-Polish Association (AAPA)
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About us
The Anglo-American-Polish Association is a charity created in 1995 and registered in the UK and Poland. Dr Enid Mayberry is the founder and director. The AAPA is located in Sopot, a charming seaside spa in the north of Poland, together with Gdansk and Gdynia making the Tri-city area.
The AAPA aims are:
- the promotion of literary and cultural exchange between Poland and English-speaking countries,
- the promotion of work experience in English-speaking countries for Polish professionals, especially in the medical sphere
- the LIBRARY WITHIN A LIBRARY campaign to provide more books in English in Poland
The AAPA acts as a resource centre for people who wish to know more about English-speaking countries. Since 1998 the AAPA has been a British Studies Resource Centre of the British Council in Poland.
Since its inception the AAPA has helped more than thirty Polish professionals acquire work experience in English speaking countries.
Since 1998 the AAPA has offered courses in English to nurses in the Tri-city.
Since 1998 the AAPA has sent Polish nurses and other medical professionals for work experience in England. There are links with several English hospitals and plans for more. This joint effort has been aided by help from ROTARY. The principal link is with John Radcliff Hospital in Oxford.
The AAPA receives many books and periodicals in English from various sources. After inventorying them, the AAPA gives them to the Main Town Library in Sopot in whose building the charity is located. The charity has also sent over 5 thousand books to library in Złotów, which has been helped by ROTARY and the English Speaking Union, Oxfordshire branch.
When books are too specialized for the Main Town library, after consultation with the donor in question, the AAPA gives the books to institutions of higher learning in Poland. Thus, over fifteen hundred books have been donated to the Department of English of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, the Library of the Gdansk Regional Hospital, the Music and Fine Arts Academies of Gdansk as well as to the Departments of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Torun.
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Current projects
Library within a library
An English language library within the existing structure of the Main Library in Sopot
English courses for nurses
Specialized courses of English for nurses in the Tri-City.
British Studies Resource Centre
Video cassettes, books and periodicals providing information about the United Kingdom
Work in Progress
The AAPA is acting as the English editor of the work in progress: POLISH COMPOSERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, editor-in-chief, Professor Marek Podhajski
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How to contact us
Mailing address
The Anglo-American-Polish Association (AAPA)
Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna
Ul. Obroncow Westerplatte 16
81-706 Sopot
Poland
Phone number
00 48 58 551 70 62
Fax number
00 48 58 551 70 62 This is the quickest way of
contacting us!
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Our links
British Council in Poland andBritish Council main page
British Council in Poland and in the world
Nicholas Copernicus University in Torun - the University of the city of gingerbread and astronomers
English Speaking Union main page
ESU
- an organization promoting through English international understanding
English Speaking Union in Poland
English Speaking Union in Canada
Jagiellonian
University in Cracow - the oldest
university in
Main Town Library - the website of the Main Town Library in Sopot
Sopot Home Page - news from Sopot
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News
Sixth Work Shadow for A Polish Nurse at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England, June 2007
Fundacja w prasie - Alma Mater - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
