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W sobotę, 13 września, zapraszamy na kolejną edycję Falling Walls Lab Wrocław. Wydarzenie odbędzie się w Oratorium Marianum o godz. 13.00

The jubilee, 20th Polish-Belarusian Scientific and Practical Round Table, titled “Kształtowanie społeczeństwa obywatelskiego na Białorusi a polskie doświadczenia transformacyjne” (eng. “The Relation between Shaping the Civil Society of Belarus and Polish Experiences with Democratic Transformation”), will take place on Friday, November 3. The event will be held at 9 a.m. at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of International and Security Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences located at ul. Koszarowa 3, room 114. The co-organisers of the event are the Municipal Office of Wrocław and the Free Belarus University Foundation.

As part of the ‘Initiative of Excellence – Research University’ programme, the Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Wrocław invites you to a seminar led by Professor Francesco Malatesta from Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Biochemical Sciences (Rome, Italy). The lecture entitled ‘Ligand binding to HmuY-heme and mechanism of heme release’ will take place on 7 October (Tuesday) at 10:45 a.m. in room 1.05 at the Faculty of Biotechnology at ul. F. Joliot-Curie 14A.

The Chair of Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures cordially invites you to a guest lecture as part of the IDUB programme.

As part of the visiting professor programme implemented under the Excellence Initiative – Research University project, the Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Wrocław will host prof. Marta Krasowska from the University of South Australia (Australia). During her visit, the professor will give an open lecture entitled ‘Isolating the interface of an emulsion using X-ray scattering and tensiometry to understand protein-modulated alkylglyceride crystallisation’.

An analysis of two decades of pollen concentration measurements in Poland has shown that climate change is increasingly shaping the timing and duration of tree pollen seasons.

“Our research shows that more than eight thousand years ago, the area of today’s Gobi Desert had completely different environmental conditions,” said Grzegorz Michalec, a doctoral student at the Doctoral College of Archaeology, Arts and Culture and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Wrocław.

On 13 September, the 28th edition of the Lower Silesian Science Festival, the largest popular science event in the country, will commence.

As part of the IDUB programme (short-term visits), the Faculty of Biological Sciences and the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Wrocław will host two distinguished scholars, who will deliver open lectures on the determinants of human behaviour. The event will take place at the Institute of Psychology, ul. Dawida 1, in room 18/lecture hall.

W ramach programu IDUB (short-term visits), Wydział Nauk Biologicznych Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego będzie gościł prof. Marka Thomasa z Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, który wygłosi wykład otwarty pt. Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe. Wydarzenie odbędzie się 23 września 2025 roku w godzinach 15:00–16:00 w dużej sali przy ul. Sienkiewicza 21 (budynek Muzeum Przyrodniczego UWr).

Must contemporary democracy be dominated by negative emotions? Are we doomed to ever-growing hostility between political opponents and to enthusiastically supporting “our side” at all costs? Or might it be possible to improve the emotional climate within European democracies while preserving citizens’ identities and, at the same time, respecting the worldview diversity essential for public debate? These and other equally compelling questions are being explored by political theorists dr Paweł Nowakowski and dr Mateusz Zieliński.

From 24 to 29 August 2025, the University of Wrocław hosted the European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy, EUCMOS 2025) was held at the University of Wrocław. It has been organised regularly since 1947 and has already been held twice in Poland: in 1977 in Wrocław and in 2004 in Krakow. The Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy is one of the most important international conferences on spectroscopy and its applications.