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On Tuesday 16 September, the Lower Silesian Congress of Young Explorers will begin – a unique two-day event aimed at secondary school pupils with an interest in mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence.

Prof. Michał Tomczak from the University of Wrocław’s Institute of Astronomy was elected the new president of the Polish Astronomical Society.

The Department of Renaissance and Reformation Art History at the Institute of Art History of the University of Wrocław, is organising, from 22 to 27 September 2025 in Gdańsk, the Polish-German Seminar Wrocław–Halle–Siegen “Religion and Art in Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Confessional Gdańsk in the Early Modern Period”. The participants in this event, prepared in cooperation with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Siegen, will include scholars, doctoral candidates and students of art history, Protestant and Catholic theology and church history from the institutions named above.

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.

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.

The Institute of Polish Studies at the University of Wrocław, together with the Society of Friends of Wrocław Polish Studies, invites you to the 30th edition of the popular-science lecture series in Polish studies, “Meetings at Nehring Hall”, organised in the 2025/2026 academic year. The series will be opened by a lecture by Prof. Jan Miodek entitled “Język sportu w moim życiu”, which will take place on 5 October.

“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.