Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie

originally established in Paris (inauguration ceremony: 1st of December 1939) as Polski Uniwersytet za Granicą (Name auch: Polski Uniwersytet zagranicą) at the Biblioteka Polska in Paris; suspended in 1940: the fall of France in June 1940 interrupted the University activities after just two semesters, and the academic staff relocated to London. The British government, in cooperation with the Polish Government in London, created temporary Polish departments and academic schools at some British universities. The Polish Department of Medical Sciences was formed at the University of Edinburgh, the Polish Department of Law - in Oxford, the Polish School of Architecture - in Liverpool and the Polish University College - in London. These departments were governed by the decrees of the President of Poland issued in 1941 and 1944. The decrees laid legal foundations for the continuity of the University created in Paris. In 1949 these departments formed a re-activated Polish university under a slightly different name of PUNO (Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie - Polish University in Exile); established by temporary statute 9 Dec. 1949; formally founded 15 Dec. 1952; PUNO operated not only in England. Three overseas branches are particularly worth mentioning: the Department of Polish Emigration Biographies in France, now operating in London and Warsaw, the Fine Arts Department, known as Academia Polona Artium in Munich between 1982 and 2013; and the Chicago branch of PUNO operating from late 1970s to early 1990s