Equality education in numbers

The University of Warsaw offers equality courses and workshops for employees, students, and doctoral candidates, which deepen their understanding of stereotypes, discrimination, and the consequences of their impact in the academic environment. Participants learn tools for responding to instances of discrimination, techniques for promoting equality, and support procedures and practices—for example, in the context of sexual harassment and mobbing.

The courses are primarily available online, often leading to a certificate, and are offered as OGUN courses or as training for UW staff. A detailed description of the equality classes on offer can be found here.

Since 2022, the training offering has been systematically expanded, including through the development of an English-language version and pilot implementations in of Ukrainian-language version, which enabled access for members of the UW international community.

Over 28,211 students took part in online training for students at the University of Warsaw, of which 5,370 completed online training in English and 140 in Ukrainian. The statistics cover the academic years 2019 to 2024 and the winter semester of the 2024/2025 academic year.

Equality Course

Since 2019, 19,750 people have participated in the Equality Course.
A total of 14,981 participants have participated in the Polish-language version (first classes in 2019/2020).
A total of 4,772 participants have participated in the English-language version (first classes in 2020/2021).
A total of 97 participants have participated in the Ukrainian-language version (first classes in 2022/2023).

Counteracting Sexual Harassment at the University

Since its initial (2021/2022), a total of 5,129 people have participated in the “Counteracting Sexual Harassment” course (Polish version).
The English version (implemented in the 2024/25 semester) attracted 698 participants, and the Ukrainian version attracted 35.
The total number of participants in all language versions of the “Counteracting Harassment” course is 5,862.

Workplace Harassment – Prevention, Recognition, and Response

The first implementation of this module took place in the 2022/2023 academic year, with a pilot program for 100 participants. Since then, a total of 2,011 people have participated in courses on this topic (Polish and Ukrainian versions):

Polish version: 2,003 participants,
Ukrainian version: 8 participants (2022/23).

Discrimination, Conformism, and Resistance – The History and Memory of the Ghetto Bench and Other Forms of Exclusion within Universities

The course launched in 2022/23, with a total of 498 participants to date (100 in 2022/23 and 398 in 2024/25).