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In mid-November of the current year, Eliseo Fuentes-Martínez, a doctoral candidate at the University of Alicante (supervisors: Prof. Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza and Dr Antonio Ríos-Vila), joined dr Grzegorz Joachimiak, head of the Centre for Digital Musicology at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Wrocław, beginning a research stay devoted to joint work on the development of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) tools for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century handwritten lute tablatures. The project is being carried out in collaboration with MA Marianna Siatkowska, a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Musicology, University of Wrocław (supervisors: prof. Remigiusz Pośpiech and dr Grzegorz Joachimiak), and constitutes a continuation and further development of dr Joachimiak’s research concept, which has now gained the support of a music informatics specialist from one of the world’s leading centres for OMR research on musical sources.

Direct contact with a Mentor, the opportunity to ask questions, time for reflection, and space to share doubts and plans – this is precisely what the Mentoring Programme run by the Academic Careers Office is about.

Thirty-three research groups, six awards with a total value of PLN 13,000, and countless activities, exhibits, mini-games, quizzes and attractions – all of this could be experienced on 4 December, when the everyday greyness and autumn drizzle were swept away by the largest and most colourful event dedicated to the student research groups of the University of Wrocław: the Scientific Associations Fair.

One of the three projects to receive funding in the latest edition of the Weave-UNISONO call is „Przygotowanie generatorów Monte Carlo do przyszłych eksperymentów z oscylacjami neutrin: modelowanie oddziaływań w zakresie energii kilkuset MeV (ST 2)”. The project is led on behalf of the University of Wrocław by prof. dr hab. Jan Sobczyk from the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, and on behalf of Ghent University by prof. Natalie Jachowicz.

On 11-12 December, the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław will host the conference Usłysz. Zrozum. Reaguj. Prawne i psychologiczne aspekty przemocy.

Three disciplines from UWr can be found in the 2025 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), published on the 18th of November. Mathematics was placed the highest: 201-300 place in the world. Psychology and physics were also highly rated, with respectively 301-400 and 401-500 places in the world.

Certified first aid training sessions have begun at the University of Wrocław. In October and November, 500 members of staff will receive training.

Adam Mickiewicz Secondary School No. III in Wrocław and the University of Wrocław are beginning an official cooperation, which will open new possibilities for students’ development. It is yet another proof that science and education go hand in hand in our city, and that the academic potential of the university connects with the passion and ambition of youth.

Our expert on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

We asked professor Ewa Marcinkowska from the Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Wrocław – an expert conducting research at the interface of haematology and immunology, focusing on therapies inducing the maturation of blasts in acute myeloid leukaemia – to explain what the immune system is all about and why research into it is so demanding and multifaceted.

On 6 October, dr Chris Franco from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (Portugal) will give a lecture at the Faculty of Chemistry. Dr Franco’s visit is part of the Visiting Professors programme organised by the IDUB Office of the University of Wrocław. The lecture entitled Blueprints of Bioactivity: From Structures to Antimicrobial Resistance will begin at 10:15 a.m. in room IIEF. The event is organised by the Department of Inorganic Chemistry (dr Sabina Jaros).

The Second University Debate under the patronage of the Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. dr hab. Robert Olkiewicz, the following people took part in the debate: