GENERAL ASSUMPTIONS OF THE EUROPEAN CREDIT TRANSFER SYSTEM (ECTS) 

The European Credit Transfer System [ECTS] is a set of procedures prepared by the European Commission to ensure that studies at domestic and foreign institutions are recognised under the programme of a student's sending institution. The European Commission promotes the co-operation between institutions with regard to student exchange. 

The European Credit Transfer System has been successfully implemented at many institutions in Poland and Western Europe. Its essential goal is to establish legal and organisational regulations on the organisation of studies in order students who want to study or continue their studies abroad could do that.

ECTS is to bring about benefits not only to students leaving to study abroad, but it also allows for the exchange of students between Polish institutions that have already implemented ECTS. ECTS allows foreign students to study at Polish institutions. 

The purpose of ECTS, being a part of the Socrates-Erasmus programme, is to unify the manner of studying in Europe by the way of the full recognition of the period of study abroad and in Poland. 

It has been prepared and implemented at the Powiślański College in Kwidzyn in order to improve student exchange with foreign institutions. 

This guide presents, inter alia, the plan of studies and descriptions of courses offered at a given institution, including respective ECTS credits.