About me

About me

As long as I can recall, painting, drawing, or sketching always came easily to me, but I never pursued them. I only came into contact with professional painting in 2012 at Color Spa in Sopot, which was conducted by Agnieszka Olędzka. At that time, I was completing my post-doctoral study and I thought that the moment had come to take up my passion again. A friend from work invited me to the first meeting, and that is how my serious painting began. The result was my first modest exhibition in 2013.

I went back to painting in 2019, when I was Vice-Rector for IT and International Relations. At that time, one of my responsibilities was to direct the SEA EU project and to organize everything from the formal start of the project on 1 October 2019. Many people worked on the project. Step by step they built up a team, participated in meetings, and set out operational goals. Beginnings were not easy, but we went forward, and every completed stage brought considerable satisfaction.

SEA EU Maritime Universities
in the Paintings of Aneta Oniszczuk-Jastrząbek, Gdańsk 2022

Still today I am inspired by contemporary painting, which employs various techniques and at the basis of which are abstraction and minimalism. My pictures are really stories of experiences. So my intention is not to reproduce reality as it is, but as I see it. They are subjective interpretations. It is also hard to find in my paintings any one specific style of painting, since I do not have any one school that I model myself on. Meetings with Beata Polak-Pela have had a great influence on my way of perceiving reality as a painter. I am grateful to her for conversations about painting during many hours of meetings over coffee. To use a metaphor, I could say that Beata has guided my paint-brush.

Dawn comes after each dark

Paintings depicting the Baltic Sea at night and during the day were put up for the Lions Club Gdynia charity auction. January 6 their author – Deputy Chancellor for. Informatization, Communication and Promotion UG dr hab. Eng. Aneta Oniszczuk-Jastrząbek, prof. UG – presented her works during the charity New Year’s Eve Concert at Bis at the Musical Theater of Danuta Baduszkowa in Gdynia.

Aneta Iwona Oniszczuk-Jastrząbek was born on 14 November 1974. She is a professor of economics at the University of Gdańsk. She specializes in competition, entrepreneurship, business innovation, and the social responsibility of business with special reference to the maritime economy. She is author and co-author of monographs on the role of entrepreneurship in competitiveness within firms and in maritime policy. She has taken part and takes part in many EU and international academic programmes, including: the EU Framework Programme TRANSFORUM (2012–2014); the Interreg South Baltic programme – SEAPLANSPACE (2018–2020); the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme – COMBINE (2019); the European University project “European University of the Seas” – SEA EUU (2019–2022); and the NAWA PROM 2 project, involving international scholarship exchange of doctoral students and academic staff (2019–2020), Horizn Europe – CRISTAL (2022–2025). She is a member of academic associations: the Polish Logistics Association and the Polish Economics Society. She is a recipient of a bronze Medal for Long Service (2011) and a medal from the National Commission for Education (2015). She combines her academic work with practical service, and has held many administrative positions at the University of Gdańsk over many years.

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In 1997, she was awarded an undergraduate degree in management and marketing in the maritime economy from the Faculty of Ocean Engineering and Ship Technology of the Technical University of Gdańsk, and a year later took her master’s degree in management in the faculty of Economics and Management at the Technical University of Gdańsk. From the beginning, her career has been linked with the University of Gdańsk; in 1999, she was employed in the Institute of Mariime Transport and Trade of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Gdańsk. Here she obtained further degrees: a doctorate in 2003, and then in 2015 a post-doctoral degree (habilitacja) in economics in the field of management.

She combines her academic work with administrative duties both in the UG Economics Faculty and in university-wide structures. From 1999 to 2005, she was Vice-President for Finance in a firm active in the maritime economy, and between 2004 and 2005, she was Vice-Rector for Student Affairs at the Gdańsk College of Humanities in Gdańsk. From 2016, she has been head of the Department of Global Economy in the Institute of Maritime Transport and Trade, Faculty of Economics, University of Gdańsk. From 2016 to 2019, she was Director of the Institute and mentor of the Student Business Club.

Since 2019, she is head of the Department of Maritime Transport and Trade. In the years 2019–2020, she held the position of Vice-Rector for IT and International Relations and Promotion. At that time, she was also put in charge of the SEA EU project, which began its formal operations on 1 October 2019. This project had a considerable influence not just on her daily administrative duties, but was also a source of many positive emotional experiences, which went on to stimulate her own artistic project – a plan to paint a picture of each city in which a SEA EU partner university is located.

After taking on further administrative duties – since 2020, she has been a member of the board of directors of the International Centre for IT, between 2020 and 2021, she was Director of the Centre for Communications and Promotion at the University of Gdańsk, and since 2021 she has been Vice-Chancellor for IT, Communications, and Promotion at the University of Gdańsk – she ceased to manage SEA EU in Gdańsk, but she has continued her artistic plans connected with the programme. Its result is the exhibition “SEA EU by the Sea: The SEA EU Maritime Universities in the Paintings of Aneta Oniszczuk-Jastrząbek.”