Collegium Invisibile is an academic society

Learned society

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline/profession, as well a group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies,...

 in Poland, founded in 1995, that affiliates outstanding Polish students with distinguished scholars in accordance with the idea of liberal education

Liberal education

A Liberal education is a system or course of education suitable for the cultivation of a free human being. It is based on the medieval concept of the liberal arts or, more commonly now, the liberalism of the Age of Enlightenment...

. The association aims at offering young scholars the opportunity to participate in original research projects as well as exclusive individual master-student cooperation through the tutorial system

Tutorial

A tutorial is one method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process. More interactive and specific than a book or a lecture; a tutorial seeks to teach by example and supply the information to complete a certain task....

 based on methods used in the Oxbridge

Oxbridge

Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in England, and the term is now used to refer to them collectively, often with implications of perceived superior social status...

 universities.

Collegium has its roots in the tradition of the 18th century Collegium Nobilium

Collegium Nobilium

-Olomouc:Following the Thirty Years' War, the education in Moravia was firmly in the hands of Jesuits. Moravian nobility were keen to expand the range of areas taught at the University of Olomouc beyond just theology and philosophy. Despite opposition from the Jesuits, the Emperor Leopold I...

, an elite high-school founded in 1740, one of the predecessors of Warsaw University. Traditionally, the Rector of the University is ex officio the Chairman of the Science Board of the Collegium.

Each year about twenty Polish students who have succeeded in passing a stringent admission procedure are granted membership of Collegium and thus receive an opportunity to follow an individually chosen path of academic study.

Tutors

Students choose scholars with whom they would like cooperate. The scholars are then invited to become fellows of the Collegium.

The list of fellows includes names such as Leszek Balcerowicz

Leszek Balcerowicz

Leszek Balcerowicz is a Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland and Deputy Prime Minister in Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government...

 and Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

Hanna Beata Gronkiewicz-Waltz is a Polish liberal-conservative politician who has been the Mayor of Warsaw since 2 December 2006. She is the first woman to ever hold this position....

 (former Finance Ministers) in the field of economics, Bronisław Geremek and Andrzej Olechowski

Andrzej Olechowski

Andrzej Marian Olechowski is a Polish politician. He was one of the co-founders of conservative liberal party Civic Platform in 2001 with Maciej Płażyński and Donald Tusk...

 (former Ministers of Foreign Affairs) in the field of European studies, as well as eminent phililologists, philosophers and lawyers (e.g. Aleksander Gieysztor, Jan Błoński, Jerzy Kłoczowski, Monika Kostera

Monika Kostera

Monika Kostera is an organization theorist, known for her contributions to postmodern business studies, myths, storytelling and narrative analysis in anthropology of organization....

, Andrzej Koźmiński

Andrzej Koźmiński

Andrzej K. Koźmiński - a professor of management, the founder of Kozminski University , 1993-2011 the rector of this school, and currently its president....

, Ryszard Legutko

Ryszard Legutko

Ryszard Antoni Legutko , born 24 December 1949. Polish philosopher and politician. Professor of philosophy at the Jagellonian University in Kraków, specializing in ancientphilosophy and political theory....

, Philippe Lejeune, Zbigniew Pełczyński OBE, Wojciech Roszkowski

Wojciech Roszkowski

Wojciech Roszkowski is a Polish economist and politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodeship with the Law and Justice, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.Roszkowski is a substitute for the Committee on...

, Marek Safjan, Marek Siemek

Marek Siemek

Marek Jan Siemek was a Polish philosopher and historian of German transcendental philosophy...

, Paweł Śpiewak, Józef Tischner

Józef Tischner

Józef Stanisław Tischner was an eminent Polish priest and philosopher. The first chaplain of the trade union, "Solidarity" , he was an exceptional moral authority and one of the most admired figures in Poland, both during and after the anti-communist uprising.Tischner was born in Stary Sącz to a...

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