The three-day event focuses on integration, dialogue and strengthening ties within the global Polish community.
Organised by the Wspólnota Polska Association with support from the Polish Senate, Polonia Camp is aimed at young adults aged 18 to 30 who live outside Poland but identify with Polish heritage and wish to nurture their national identity.
'Poland unites us'
“The heart of the young Polish diaspora today beats in Warsaw,” said Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Speaker of the Senate, the upper house of the Polish parliament, at the opening ceremony on Thursday.
"Polonia Camp 2025, the first major meeting of young Poles from around the world, has begun," she added, addressing attendees. "Three days of integration, discussions and strengthening bonds. Poland unites us."
Kidawa-Błońska said the initiative was designed to give young people with Polish roots the opportunity to meet in their ancestral homeland, connect with one another, and consider building their futures in or with Poland.
🇵🇱 OFICJALNA INAUGURACJA POLONIA CAMP 2025. Dlaczego to ważne wydarzenie tłumaczy Marszałek Senatu RP Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, która objęła spotkanie młodej Polonii honorowym patronatem. Dlaczego Polonia Camp jest ważny? Jest ważny dlatego, że na świecie żyje 20 milionów Polaków. Jedni urodzili się w Polsce, inni już w innych krajach, ale ważne, żeby czuli wspólnotę. Jeżeli nie zainwestujemy w młodych ludzi, jeżeli nie przekonamy ich, że Polska jest wspaniałym krajem, jeżeli oni nie zobaczą, jak tu wygląda życie, jeżeli nie poznają się, nie zobaczą, ilu ich jest na całym świecie, będzie trudno o nowych liderów polonijnych, a my ich bardzo potrzebujemy. Potrzebujemy naszych młodych ambasadorów. A przez młodych ludzi, przez formę edukacji, zabawy, zdobywania przyjaźni robić to chyba najłatwiej. To było oczekiwanie Polaków za granicą i Polonii. I takie było nasze marzenie, żeby tutaj się wszyscy spotkali. Polonijna Agencja Informacyjna - patron medialny Polonia Camp 2025 dla Stowarzyszenia "Wspólnota Polska" - głównego organizatora przedsięwzięcia.
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"Even if those dreams don’t come true, we want you to be our best ambassadors around the world. Poland needs all of you," she told the gathering.
She encouraged participants to form lasting friendships, build networks and bring their global experiences to help shape a better Poland.
"Poland is wonderful, but with your contributions, it can be even better," she said.
Workshops, panels, special guests
Polonia Camp 2025 features a packed program of workshops, themed panel discussions and meetings with special guests from politics, culture and sports. Speakers include Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.
Participants will engage with business leaders including Honorata Hencel of Boeing, humanitarian and social campaigner Jurek Owsiak, linguist Jerzy Bralczyk, kickboxing champion Iwona Guzowska, and Otylia Jędrzejczak, the multiple Olympic medalist who now heads the Polish Swimming Association.
They will also have a chance to meet literary figures such as Michał Rusinek, longtime secretary to Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisława Szymborska, war correspondent Wojciech Jagielski and columnist Agata Passent.
Culinary workshops will be led by popular chef Kuba Kuroń, while sports activities will be guided by Olympian Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik.
Filip Czernicki, CEO of the Central Communication Port, will outline Poland’s vision for the future of transport, and football referee Szymon Marciniak will give a talk followed by a match with attendees.
Andżelika Borys, head of the Union of Poles in Belarus, noted that young people from Belarus were also taking part in the camp.
Meanwhile, no participants from Russia were admitted, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
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Source: Poloniacamp.eu/IAR/PAP
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