Poland’s oldest university is preparing to move more classes online and considering holding in-person teaching only from Monday to Thursday due to the soaring costs of energy. The Jagiellonian University (UJ), ranked as Poland’s second best, is facing a 700% increase in electricity costs in 2023 after its current contract expires with state-owned supplier Tauron at the end of this year. It says it would have to pay 182 million zloty (€37.66 million) next year, compared to around 27 million zloty annually now. Those costs would “put the functioning of the university in question for the first time”, says its rector, Jacek Popiel, quoted by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
