WE WON! Faculty Success: PLN 750,000 to Create a New International double-degree bachelor program
We are pleased to announce that our Faculty has achieved a major success in the competition of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, “NAWA KATAMARAN 2025 – development and implementation of international study programmes.” The project prepared and submitted by our Faculty has been awarded PLN 750,000 in funding under Path A, dedicated to the creation of new international study programmes.
The grant has been awarded for the project aimed at designing and establishing a joint first-cycle degree programme entitled “Digital Law, AI and Cybersecurity Governance,” to be implemented by the University of Gdańsk in cooperation with Tashkent State University of Law in Uzbekistan. The project will be carried out over a period of 18 months.
The winning project documentation was prepared by a team composed of Dr Michał Miłosz, Prof. Edvardas Juchnevičius, and Prof. Marcin M. Wiszowaty.
The planned programme will be a modern, English-taught Bachelor’s degree programme, with law as its leading discipline. Its curriculum will focus on some of the most important challenges of the contemporary world: digital law, the regulation of artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity governance. The programme is intended to combine the perspective of European Union law with selected regulations and practices from other jurisdictions, offering students a unique, comparative, and international legal education.
The programme is to be delivered in English and based on a mobility model, under which part of the education will take place in Tashkent and part in Gdańsk. This will enable students to gain knowledge and experience in two different academic environments, while also becoming familiar with distinct legal systems and institutional cultures.
The project is significant not only from an educational perspective, but also from a strategic one. We believe that this new degree programme, devoted to issues that are both highly topical and fundamentally important for the modern state, economy, and society, will prove attractive to candidates from abroad, especially from Central Asia, but also from other parts of the world, including Poland. Its launch should make a substantial contribution to the further internationalisation of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk, which is of great importance both for the Faculty’s position in leading international rankings and for the development of lasting academic cooperation with foreign partners.
The new programme also aligns very clearly with the current development priorities of Uzbekistan. In the autumn of 2025, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev presented a vision of accelerated development in the fields of artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, and the systemic education of specialists equipped to function in the realities of a new technological era. In this context, the joint programme “Digital Law, AI and Cybersecurity Governance” appears as a particularly timely and forward-looking initiative, responding both to the needs of contemporary legal education and to broader strategic directions of development.
The project also strengthens the partnership between the University of Gdańsk and Tashkent State University of Law, opening new opportunities for cooperation in the areas of teaching, organisation, and research. In the longer term, it may become one of the most valuable international educational initiatives in the field of law and new technologies, artificial intelligence, and digital security, developed at the intersection of Europe and Central Asia.
This project will strengthen the internationalisation of our Faculty, deepen cooperation with our Uzbek partner, and help build a modern educational offer for students from Central Asia, Europe, and beyond.
We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to the Rector of Tashkent State University of Law, Prof. Bakhshillo Khodjaev, and the highest authorities of Tashkent State University of Law for their support and goodwill throughout the process. We are equally grateful to Prof. Said Gulyamov and Dr Anna Ubaydullaeva of Tashkent State University of Law for their valuable support during the preparation of the application, the documentation, and the market surveys.
This is yet another example of how the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk continues to develop a modern, ambitious, and international educational offer that responds to the challenges of the contemporary world and the needs of future generations of specialists.
