Ceremonial session of the Regional Parliament
The highlight of the official celebrations of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodship holiday is the annual ceremonial session of the Regional Parliament. This year, it will take place on 9 June at 12:00 noon in the Władysław Raczkiewicz Hall (215) at the Marshal’s Office in Toruń. The session will be preceded by a Holy Mass celebrated for the inhabitants of the province at St. John’s Cathedral at 6 Kopernika Street in Toruń.
The ceremonial session of the Regional Parliament will be attended by regional councillors, the regional government and numerous invited guests, including parliamentarians, representatives of the clergy, other local governments, uniformed services and universities. The guests of Monday’s session will be centenarians from the region, elders honoured with the Marshal’s medal Unitas Durat Palatinatus Cuiaviano-Pomeraniensis.
The year 2025 has been designated in our voivodship as the Year of People of Science from Kujawsko-Pomorskie and the Year of Children and Youth of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship. These two patronages will be the leitmotif of the upcoming ceremony. The 35th anniversary of the rebirth of local government in Poland will also be symbolically celebrated.
The regional government will honour educators representing the largest academic centres in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodship for their outstanding scientific achievements and contribution to the improvement of educational and social conditions in our region: Prof. Beata Przyborowska from the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and Prof. Ryszard Gerlach from the Faculty of Pedagogy at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz.
For his outstanding achievements in the education of the younger generation, Waldemar Wąśniewski, Honorary Professor of Education and teacher at the Maria Konopnicka Secondary School No. 2 in Inowrocław, will be honoured and will give a lecture on ‘Working with gifted students’.
For the high quality of education and for conducting open, civic and conscious contemporary educational challenges, creating the foundations for a better future for our region, the Main Laska of the Sejmik Chairwoman will be awarded to: the University High School in Toruń, the Electronic Technical School No. 7 in Bydgoszcz and the Kujawy Region High School No. 1 in Włocławek.
Individual awards will also be given to the best scholarship holders in Kujawsko-Pomorskie. Among them will be the winners of ‘Prymus Kujaw i Pomorza Plus’, ‘Prymus Kujaw i Pomorza II’, ‘Zawodowe Talenty’, the nationwide ‘Zwolnienie z Teorii’ competition, and the winners of the Marshal’s sports and arts scholarship programmes.
The ceremony will be complemented by a musical performance by Małgorzata Manthey, a student of the Artur Rubinstein State Music School Complex in Bydgoszcz.
Established in 2008, the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship Day is celebrated on 7 June, the anniversary of the Pope’s pilgrimage to Kujawsko-Pomorskie. John Paul II visited our region twice: on 6 and 7 June 1991, he visited Włocławek, and on 7 June 1999, he made a pilgrimage to Bydgoszcz and Toruń.
A ceremonial session of the regional council, commemorating the Pope’s visits to our region, is held every year in one of the three capitals of the former voivodeships: Bydgoszcz, Toruń and Włocławek, which form the current Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodship. Last year, the session on the occasion of the Province Day was held in Bydgoszcz, and two years ago in Włocławek.
The online broadcast of the ceremony will be available on the regional council’s website in the Session Recordings tab.
Regional Parliament Office
4 June 2025