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The Coimbra Group (Coimbra Group Universities) has just announced that it “has increased its membership to 42. On Friday, 13 June 2025, the General Assembly approved the applications of the University of Leeds (United Kingdom), Newcastle University (United Kingdom), and the University of Wrocław (Poland). These are institutions with an established international reputation,” reads the official statement.

An international online conference entitled “From Theory to Application. Wrocław Meetings on Computational and Experimental Sciences” will be held at the University of Wrocław from 24 to 26 June 2025. This will be the first edition of the event, organised by the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Wrocław. The conference will be interdisciplinary in nature and will focus on topics in theoretical and experimental chemistry, biochemistry, and physics — particularly in the context of practical applications.

This May marked the 80th anniversary of the capitulation of Festung Breslau and the end of the Second World War – and yet, the war still refuses to fade from memory.

The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Wrocław will have the honour of hosting two eminent scholars at the end of June as part of the Visiting Professors programme, implemented by the Initiative for Excellence – Research University (IDUB). Both professors will give open lectures, to which the entire academic community and all those interested in science are cordially invited.

Poland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union is drawing to a close. One of the final and significant events of this presidency was the European University Alliances Forum, held on 12–13 June at the Library of the University of Wrocław. The University of Wrocław hosted the Forum on behalf of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

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On Friday, 13 June 2025, a ceremony was held, during which 34 people were honoured with the ‘Wrocław Freedom’ badge for their activity in opposition before 1989.

Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wrocław moved to the second position in the XIX Ranking Studiów Prawniczych made by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. However, in the ‘staff’ category, the Faculty took first place in Poland!

On 9 June 2025, the University of Wrocław hosted representatives of doctoral schools from Wrocław’s higher education institutions at the Collegium Antropologicum. The meeting was held at the invitation of prof. Artur Błażejewski, Vice-Rector for Research, and prof. Robert Klementowski, Rector’s Plenipotentiary for the Doctoral School of the University of Wrocław.

His Magnificence, Rector of the University of Wrocław, professor Robert Olkiewicz, cordially invites you to the “Wrocław Freedom” honorary badge award ceremony,which will take place on Friday, 13 June 2025, at 3:30 p.m. at Oratorium Marianum (main building of the University of Wrocław, pl. Uniwersytecki 1).

The University of Wrocław will host the third edition of the Forum of European University Alliances, which will take place on 12-13 June 2025 at the Library of the University of Wrocław, located at ul. Fryderyka Joliot-Curie 12.