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Over a month has passed since the catastrophic flood which in September 2024 affected a huge area of Central and Eastern Europe. We followed its enormous social and economic effects in the media. About the difficult job of our scientists in the flooded areas, about their emotions and dilemmas talks dr inż. Matylda Witek, assistant professor in the Department of Geoinformatics and Cartography, head of the Laboratory of Unmanned Aerial Earth Observation.

On Friday, 18 October, the First University Conference “Artificial Intelligence ∀” was held at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. It brought together nearly 200 participants interested in research and other activities related to artificial intelligence at the University of Wrocław.

The group of scientists honored as part of the Polityka Science Awards already includes 392 people, who have received awards worth a total of more than PLN 7 million. This group expanded last month, when the Professorial Chapter selected fifteen finalists for this year’s edition. Among them, dr Ewa Górska (Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, Academic Excellence Incubator – Digital Justice Center UWr).

There’s a lot going on at the University of Wrocław Press and we want to keep you informed! In our series #MondayswithWUWr, we keep you up to date with the most important events, book news and issues important to the Publishing House! We also encourage you to follow the wuwr.eu website and the Publishing House’s social media – Fb, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Ladies and gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, in the last days of October- as in the previous years – the University Committee for the Care of Graves of the University of Wrocław Deserved Members will organise the “Academic Memorial Candle”. Its aim is to cultivate the memory of the deceased professors and other distinguished members of our university community and to take care of their graves in the cemeteries around Wrocław. For this purpose, we will clean together their graves, put flowers and light the candles.

Teachers, educators, caregivers and all those interested in the topic of air protection are invited to a free classroom training course entitled “GIS w pomiarach jakości powietrza”.

The time has come to summarise the conference “Social Boundaries of Work. Critical Labour Studies in the Times of a Polycrisis,” held at the Institute of Sociology from 16 to 18 October 2024.

The Free Belarusian University is continuing enrollment in the course “Narodziny białoruskiego Lewiatana. Dlaczego demokracja parlamentarna przekształciła się w dyktaturę personalistyczną (grudzień 1991 – listopad 1996)?”, which allows participants to expand their knowledge, gain analytical skills and competence in the history of Belarus from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, related to the attainment of sovereignty and the country’s subsequent transition to authoritarian rule.

An interview with dr Ewa Górska from the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław nominated for the ”Polityka” award. Since 2001, the ”Polityka” Weekly Foundation offers a scholarship program “Stay with Us!” addressed to young researchers – since 2011 under the name of Science Awards. In the pages of “Polityka,” the project promotes a valuable career model and achievements of the young researchers in Poland. You are among the 15 finalists, from whom five laureates will be chosen this Sunday, October 20. Why did you decide to take part in the contest?

The Department of Applied Linguistics of the UWr Institute of German Studies invites you to two open masterclasses as part of the IDUB UWr guest professorship. Our guest will be Prof. Dr. Heinz-Helmut Lüger of Koblenz University.

The journal Comptes Rendus Paleovol published an article co-authored by dr hab. Adrian Marciszak, professor of University of Wrocław, from the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the University of Wrocław, on the analysis of the rich paleozoological material of mustelids from the well-known, Bavarian site in Hunas. The text is also co-authored by dr Brigitte Hilpert and dr Dieta Ambros from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany.