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The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wrocław will be implementing the WEAVE UNISONO research grant in a trilateral cooperation between the German Research Foundation agency, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Polish National Science Centre agency.

Seven Wrocław research centres, including our University represented by Rector prof. Robert Olkiewicz, signed an agreement to consolidate activities in order to jointly build strong research and development facilities and strengthen the city’s position as a significant scientific centre. This is the first step towards a Wrocław centre of excellence.

An interuniversity team of scientists, including University of Wrocław biologist dr Katarzyna Kliś, presents in the journal Scientific Reports how air pollution affects human biological development.

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Dr hab. Tadeusz Radoń (1929–2025), associate professor, was one of the fifteen students of the founder of the Wrocław school of surface physics – prof. dr hab. Jan Niklibowiec. Together with professor Niklibowiec’s students – professor Ryszard Męclewski and professor Zbigniew Sidorski – he contributed to the creation of one of the world’s most important field emission centers.

Prof. Anna Pacześniak of the Institute of European Studies at the University of Wrocław has been nominated – as one of six people in the whole of the European Union – to the Committee of Independent Eminent Persons. This was announced on behalf of the Conference of Presidents by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.

We talk about synesthesia and synesthetics, smells, senses, colors and letters with dr Przemysław Staniewski from the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Wrocław. Dr Staniewski has been conducting research on linguistic synesthesia for several years now. In the academic year 2023/2024, he was a scholarship holder of the Studienbörse Germanistik, which is the result of cooperation between the Hermann Niermann Foundation and the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg.

Conducting scientific research, especially involving the analysis of the laws of a country as distant as Chile, is quite a challenge. Of course, thanks to new technologies, it is possible to complete many research tasks practically without leaving home, but the real value of scientific research is still the opportunity to share your research results with other experts in order to initiate discussion on a given legal problem – emphasises our PhD student Laura Słocka.

The UWr Institute of Political Science and the Robert Schuman Center at the European University Institute invite you to lectures on grant application writing and publishing in foreign scientific journals.

Psychological counselling takes place in the University’s Service Team for Support and Accessibility, which provides crisis support to all members of the UWr community.

The year 2025 will be a breakthrough for us – says dr Karol Kramarz, head of the Incubator of Scientific Excellence – Research Centre for DNA Repair and Replication at the Faculty of Biological Sciences of University of Wrocław, with whom we talk about the research successes of the Incubator and future plans.