Summary The aim of this study is to recognize the external conditions for establishing cooperative relations between public higher education institutions. At the same time, these conditions constitute the context in which a cooperative relation is or is not established. The article points out that establishing such relations is intentional. It is the external conditions (context) and benefits of adjusting to them that are of key importance for their creation and, in the long run, foe their maintenance. The study focuses on the possibilities of cooperation between public higher education institutions in the legal form of a federation. The study was based on the results of reviewing the literature and current legal acts regulating the higher education system in Poland.

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公立高等教育机构之间的合作关系：其创建过程的背景性质

总结这项研究的目的是认识到公立高等教育机构之间建立合作关系的外部条件。同时，这些条件构成建立或不建立合作关系的环境。文章指出建立这种关系是有意的。外部条件（上下文）和适应它们的好处对于它们的创建以及从长远来看对他们的维护至关重要。该研究着眼于以联邦法律形式进行公立高等教育机构之间合作的可能性。这项研究是基于对波兰的文献以及规范波兰高等教育系统的现行法律法规进行审查的结果。