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From 24 to 29 August 2025, the University of Wrocław hosted the European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy, EUCMOS 2025) was held at the University of Wrocław. It has been organised regularly since 1947 and has already been held twice in Poland: in 1977 in Wrocław and in 2004 in Krakow. The Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy is one of the most important international conferences on spectroscopy and its applications.

We spoke with the DFN coordinator at the University of Wrocław, dr Aleksandra Ziober, about this year’s festival theme and the events awaiting participants.

On 11-13 September 2025, the Institute of German Studies will host the 10th jubilee edition of the international scientific conference series ‘Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław’. The theme of the conference is: Quo vadis, germanistische Linguistik? – Aktuelle Fragestellungen und Forschungsfelder. The conference is organised by the Department of Applied Linguistics, the Department of German Language and the Linguistic Research Group of Germanists. The partners of the conference are the Adapa Foundation and the Atut Publishing House.

The Institute of Archaeology at the UWr Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, invites you on Friday, 5 September 2025, to two open lectures as part of the Visiting Professors programme, implemented under the Excellence Initiative – Research University project.

As part of the visiting professors programme implemented under the Initiative of Excellence – Research University project, the Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Wrocław will host Prof. Ben Boyd from Monash University (Australia).

Obesity is a global problem, but in Poland it is an especially important issue for consideration. Hence, Wroclaw Medical University introduces the health campaign raising awareness about obesity, which is supported by the University of Wrocław.

Applications are open until 31 August for the third edition of the IDUB Teaching Award. In this article, we present an interview about didactics in the administration field with the winner of the IDUB first edition teaching award – dr hab. Magdalena Tabernacka, prof. UWr from the Institute of Administrative Sciences. Prof. Tabernacka received IDUB teaching award also for co-authoring the publication “Europa, dialog i perspektywy młodych ludzi w zwierciadle wyników badań prowadzonych w projekcie GANESA”.

An international research team led by dr Łukasz Stachnik from the Institute of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Wrocław argues that valley glaciers may make an important contribution to the supply of nutrients to Arctic ecosystems. The team’s findings have been published in the journal Chemical Geology.

We announce that our University has been selected as the only Polish institution and one of just two European universities to participate in the prestigious Early Adopters Programme run by Clarivate Analytics.

Bartosz Rusin, our doctoral student, has been awarded the Arkadiusz Piekara Prize of the Polish Physical Society for his master’s thesis devoted to materials that may revolutionise superconducting technology.

The Institute of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences of the University of Wrocław is pleased to announce that on 13 October 2025, as part of the IDUB visiting professors programme, Prof. Melvin M. Vopson from the University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom).