Coalition for Open Education and EBIB Association - the main organizers of Open Access Week in Poland, reported the following initiatives related to the celebration of Open Access Week in the country.

• Nicolaus Copernicus University Library and E-Learning Center of Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza - University of Science and Technology - will launch an Open Access - Open Science e-learning course for Polish scientific community developed by  Bożena Bednarek-Michalska and Karolina Grodecka with financial support from EIFL.
• Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza will release a national Open Access Week poster (editor: Karolina Grodecka), that will be reused by libraries all over the country. 
• Nicolaus Copernicus University will launch an e-learning course "Copyright for Librarians" translated and updated to the Polish legislation from online open curriculum on copyright law developed by EIFL jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Editors of Polish course: Beata Marek and Dr Monika Wałachowska.
• Poznan Foundation of Scientific Libraries will organized a seminar at the Poznan University of Medical Sciences (organized by prof. Miroslaw Górny).
• EBIB Association will publish a special issue of the Bulletin: EBIB Open Science and Open Education (Editor: Bożena Bednarek-Michalska).
• Pedagogical Library of Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Gorzowie will release a poster and leaflets about Open Acces Week and will organize workshops for students and librarians.
• The Library of the University of Łódź will host an Open Access (OA) meeting on October 28. Organizer: Aleksandra Brzozowska.
• The Library of the University of Łódź will host an Open Access (OA) meeting on October 28. Organizer: Aleksandra Brzozowska.
• The Library of the Politechnika Częstochowska will organized a seminar „Open Access is the key to transparency in the science” October 25-26.
• The Library of Politechnika Gdańska will organized open lecture for academics. Organizer - Magdalena Szuflita.

The organizers encourage other organizations in the country to take actions to promote Open Access to research outputs.

(Bożena Bednarek-Michalska, Polish version)