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Everyone knows what a stamp is. What about a philatelic sheet? It is a publishing form of stamps, which includes not more than sixteen identical or different pieces, and not less than five identical ones. A philatelic sheet often occurs with labels or margins with occasional writing.

One of the many attractions prepared by the University of Wrocław to mark the 80th anniversary of Polish scholarship in Wrocław was the illumination of the University’s main building in blue – the official UWr colour, known as the university azure.

By decision of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the strategic importance of ACTRIS for science and public policy has been confirmed: from the high quality of the research conducted, through open access to data, to support for innovation in the fields of air quality and climate change adaptation. As a result, ACTRIS maintains its position on the Polish Research Infrastructure Map as a nationwide infrastructure for aerosol, cloud and trace gas research.

On 27 November at 3:00 p.m., in room 218 at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, ul. Uniwersytecka 22/26, an open lecture entitled „Jeden pas i jedna droga, współpraca Chin z krajami Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej oraz strategia dyplomatyczna Chin” will be delivered by Professor Ju Hao from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

W imieniu dr Joanny Małgorzaty Banachowicz z Centrum Studiów Niemieckich i Europejskich im. W. Brandta Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego serdecznie zapraszamy na wykład otwarty pt. “Niemieckie debiuty. Polscy twórcy w RFN: Czesław Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Tadeusz Różewicz i Wisława Szymborska”, który wygłosi prof. Przemysław Chojnowski z Uniwersytetu Wiedeńskiego w ramach programu profesorów wizytujących IDUB. Wykład odbędzie się we wtorek 25 listopada o godz. 16.30 w Centrum im. W. Brandta, ul. Strażnicza 1-3 (sala 13). 

The past few days have been filled with intensive discussions and strategic decisions shaping the future of the Arqus Alliance:

Work is underway at the Botanical Garden of the University of Wrocław on the implementation of the project „Centrum namnażania i utrzymania ex situ gatunków z II załącznika Dyrektywy Siedliskowej oraz zagrożonych wymarciem i chronionych w Polsce – Ogród CERES.”

On 20–21 November 2025, the third international conference in the series “Transformacje Europy Wschodniej w ostatnim stuleciu” was held in the hospitable setting of the Ossolineum, organised by the Historical Institute at the University of Wrocław. This year’s edition was titled: “1945 – między wojną a pokojem”. During the opening of the conference, conducted by the Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, dr hab. Paweł Klint, prof. UWr, the Director of the Historical Institute, dr hab. Filip Wolański, prof. UWr, and the Director of the Ossoliński National Institute, dr Łukasz Kamiński, the figure of prof. Stanisław Ciesielski (d. 2020) was recalled. He was the founder and first head of the Department of Eastern European History at the Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław, and a renowned scholar of the history of Russia and the USSR.

On 18–19 November, dr Anna Grochowska and mgr Piotr Sobkowiak from the Institute of Geography and Regional Development delivered the training course “Planowanie przestrzenne w gminach”, organised as part of the project „Uniwersytet Wrocławski: Rozwój kadr dla dolnośląskiego rynku pracy” (no. FERS.01.05-IP.08-0451/23), funded under the European Funds for Social Development 2021–2027 programme.

XIII Polish Scientific Conference “Local Ethnic-Religious Communities” took place on the 20th of November in Ostrów Wielkopolski. The event was organised by the Research Centre on Jewish History and Culture from the Southern Greater Poland and the Scientific Society together with the Culture Centre in Ostrów Wielkopolski. It is an effect of more than thirteen years of academic and local government cooperation, which has brought many initiatives and projects. These were accomplished by the Research Centre instituted by the Rector of the University of Wrocław and the President of Ostrów Wielkopolski on the 14th of May 2013.

Wrocławscy geografowie przygotowali szereg wydarzeń, aby uczcić jubileusz 80-lecia Instytutu Geografii i Rozwoju Regionalnego UWr

The Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wrocław, will host a visiting professor under the IDUB programme from 24 to 27 November 2025 – prof. Clovis Salgado Gontijo (Federal University of ABC [UFABC] / Seminário Provincial Sagrado Coração de Jesus, Diamantina, Brazil). During his visit, three events will take place: a public lecture at the Library of the University of Wrocław and two workshops/seminars held on the Faculty of Social Sciences campus at ul. Koszarowa.