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This year’s best Master’s thesis in tourism was written at the Department of Regional Geography and Tourism at the University of Wrocław!

Fiasco Fest is a workshop dedicated to a constructive approach to failure in an academic career, aimed at doctoral candidates of the UWr Doctoral School. The event is held in Polish and is the result of collaboration within the ARQUS alliance under the project Fiasco Fest goes Arqus, funded by the Arqus Innovation Fund.

The results of research conducted by a team of scientists from University of Wrocław, recently published in Nature Communications, contribute to a deeper understanding of the processes underlying cancer cell transformation and may in the future help to better explain how DNA repair defects contribute to the development of cancer in humans.

On Wednesday, 10 December, after the meeting of the Rector and Dean’s Council in the Senate Hall, a ceremony was held to celebrate the promotion of individuals who received the title of full professor or were promoted to the position of university professor this year (from June to December 2025).

The Historical Institute at the University of Wrocław warmly invites you to the next online lecture in the “Szewskie czwartki” series!

The Polish Patent Office has accepted an application to grant the research team another important patent for an invention. This is the result of collaboration between researchers from the Department of Mycology and Genetics at the University of Wrocław and the Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in Wrocław.

Last weekend (5-7 December), the University of Wrocław hosted the Central European Regional Contest of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The competition brought together 70 three-person teams from Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Poland, all competing for qualification to the World Finals, which will be held for the fiftieth time this year.

In early December, the Doctrine and Training Centre of the Polish Armed Forces, together with the University of Wrocław, organised a scientific seminar titled “National Security in the Context of Social Transformations and Urbanization Challenges – an Interdisciplinary Diagnosis and Perspectives”.

On Friday, 5 December, a special event entitled “Nauka na Fali – GeoArctic Expedition 2025” was held in the Professor A. Mycielski Lecture Hall at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław. The meeting brought together nearly 300 secondary school pupils, university students, academic staff, and enthusiasts of sailing and science. Through a premiere screening of documentary films, participants were transported to the harsh and captivating landscapes of the Arctic.

The podcast “Łatwo powiedzieć. Tomasz Piekot” has been nominated for the Grand Press 2025 Award in the category “Specialist Journalism and New Forms of Journalism.” The author of the podcast is dr hab. Tomasz Piekot, linguist and Head of the Centre for Plain Polish at the University of Wrocław.

On 9 December 2025 at 9:00 a.m., the international scientific conference “Public Sector Innovation: Insights from Multiple Disciplines” will take place in Room BC at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław.

On behalf of the Ex-centre of Olga Tokarczuk at the Academic Research Centre, we cordially invite you to an event from the series “Ex-centric Dialogues” entitled “The Translator’s Map.”