Security at Jagiellonian University premises

The halls of residence

Perhaps it is the first time you have lived away from home or the first time you have shared a room or a flat. Be aware and take some sensible precautions to stay safe:

  • Familiarize yourself with rules and regulations regarding your stay in the residence hall (especially regarding room keys, hosting a guest, overnight stay of a guest, emergency procedures, disciplinary action, your rights and obligations).

  • Remember to close the windows and lock the doors when leaving your accommodation. To protect your belongings lock your room whenever you leave even for a moment (e.g. to go to the kitchen or to borrow some sugar from your neighbour).

  • Report any suspicious activities or persons to the receptionist or the administrator.

  • Do not ignore emergency alarms. In case of the evacuation follow the commands of the rescue team leader. Unplug your electronic equipment, check the taps, close the windows, take your ID and the most important personal belongings and immediately leave the building. If possible, alert fellow students, but do not delay your evacuation. Provide the rescue team leader with any relevant information (injured students/ staff etc.). Doors MUST BE LEFT UNLOCKED in case of emergency/ evacuation! Do not use lifts in case of the fire alarm. Gather at the point indicated by the rescue team leader and remain there until you are told you are allowed to leave.

Failure to comply with the rules, including non-evacuation or late evacuation, may result in disciplinary action.

Remember that smoking is prohibited on the entire university premises, including students’ rooms, except the designated areas. According to Polish law, drinking alcohol (and even possessing it) is prohibited in the halls of residence.

 

Around the University Campus

  • Obey general safety rules.

  • Familiarize yourself with your rights and obligations (especially those regarding disciplinary actions, health and safety in labs/ classrooms etc.).

  • Ask your programme coordinator, ISMO Office and/ or Rector’s Proxy for Student Safety and Security, for help if you feel threatened or are affected by a crime.

  • Tell us what you think: once a year, during summer semester, we carry out a survey on students safety, security and discrimination within the Students’ Satisfaction Barometer. You will receive a link to the survey onto your JU mailbox. Help us to improve!

 

Disciplinary Liability of Students/ PhD students/ PhD candidates

  • According to the Law on Higher Education students shall be liable to disciplinary action before a disciplinary committee or a student disciplinary panel of the self-governing students’ union, hereinafter referred to as “the student disciplinary panel”, for any breach of the regulations in force in a higher education institution and any conduct considered to breach accepted ethical standards. Students may not be punished for the same act by both the student disciplinary panel and a disciplinary committee.

  • For more information and further details follow:

http://www.nauka.gov.pl/g2/oryginal/2013_05/ff45b4be7d6682f90d4755ddc6373a70.pdf

  • The examples of the above mentioned misconduct or breach of the regulations: cheating during exams, plagiarism (appropriation of the authorship of a significant portion or other elements of another person’s work), using violence, harassing other students/ staff, stalking, being an perpetrator (committing crimes or misdemeanours), vandalism.