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The personal diary kept by eighteen-year-old student Tadeusz Kolbuch during the student strike of March 1968 has recently been donated to the Archives of the University of Wrocław.

From 5 to 7 December, the University of Wrocław will welcome programming enthusiasts from the best universities in Central Europe, who will compete in challenging algorithmic tasks.

Prof. dr hab. Zbigniew J. Przerembski from the Department of Systematic Musicology in the Institute of Musicology at the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences became a leader of the international European Union grant “Historical and Ethnographic Study of Belarusian Bagpipes: Symbolism, Music and Cultural Revival” as part of the EU4 Belarus Salt III programme. Uladzimir Lobach and Eugen Baryshnikau are Belarusian researchers who also participate in the project.

On behalf of His Magnificence, the Rector of the University of Wrocław, professor Robert Olkiewicz, we cordially invite the entire academic community of the University of Wrocław, staff, doctoral candidates and students, to take part in a training session conducted by counter-terrorism officers of the Regional Police Headquarters in Wrocław.

We are proud to announce that dr hab. Anna Oleszkiewicz, prof. UWr, from the Institute of Psychology of the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, has received the prestigious “Iuvenes Wratislaviae 2025” award in the category of social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The award is presented by the Wrocław Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences in recognition of outstanding academic achievements.

We are pleased to announce that the University of Wrocław was successful in the prestigious “Wektory Nauki” contest organised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In this year’s edition, our university received financial support for two scientific projects.

The award ceremony of the Felicija Bortkevičienė Language Prize took place at the Palace of the Grand Dukes in Vilnius. The 2025 recipient of the prize was dr Tatjana Vologdina, Head of the Centre for Lithuanian Language and Culture Studies at the University of Wrocław. The award was granted in recognition of her significant contribution to promoting the Lithuanian language and culture beyond the country’s borders, as well as for nurturing Lithuanian academic and cultural traditions in the diaspora.

On 12 December, we will host a creative meeting with Andrei Khadanovich entitled “Contraband of Hope”. The event will focus on the power of words and the sources of hope, the kind we carry across borders and through bans like contraband.

On November 28th, the National Science Centre (NCN) announced the results of the PRELUDIUM 24 competition. Among the awardees are as many as twelve doctoral students from the University of Wrocław. Congratulations!

On Friday, 16 January 2026, the 15th edition of the nationwide “Biologists’ Night” event will take place under the slogan: „Biologia pełna sygnałów – odkryj jak mówi życie”.

During the official opening of the 33rd Historical Book Fair in Warsaw, held on 27 November 2025 in the Great Hall of the Royal Castle, the final results of the KLIO Award 2025 were announced and the prizes were presented to the laureates.

The next session of the Committee of Programmes of the III Congress of Polish Czech Studies and Czech Polish Studies together with the Board of the Polish-Czech Scientific Association took place on the 27th of November 2025 at the University of Wrocław. At the beginning, dr Andrzej Krawczyk presented his newest book Edward Benesz. Polityk z Europy Środkowej. Later on in the session, several matters connected to organising the Congress mentioned above were discussed. The Congress is planned for spring 2028. Thirty-three institutions and partner organisations from Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia participate in the preparations. The University of Wrocław plays a significant role among them, and the central part of the proceedings of the Congress of Polish Czech Studies took place at the University in 2016.