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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.

We spoke with the DFN coordinator at the University of Wrocław, dr Aleksandra Ziober, about this year’s festival theme and the events awaiting participants.

On 11-13 September 2025, the Institute of German Studies will host the 10th jubilee edition of the international scientific conference series ‘Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław’. The theme of the conference is: Quo vadis, germanistische Linguistik? – Aktuelle Fragestellungen und Forschungsfelder. The conference is organised by the Department of Applied Linguistics, the Department of German Language and the Linguistic Research Group of Germanists. The partners of the conference are the Adapa Foundation and the Atut Publishing House.

The Institute of Archaeology at the UWr Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, invites you on Friday, 5 September 2025, to two open lectures as part of the Visiting Professors programme, implemented under the Excellence Initiative – Research University project.

As part of the visiting professors programme implemented under the Initiative of Excellence – Research University project, the Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Wrocław will host Prof. Ben Boyd from Monash University (Australia).

The project “W kierunku stosowalnych nadprzewodzących stopów o wysokiej entropii o wysokich gęstościach prądu krytycznego” (eng. ‘Towards applicable high-entropy superconducting alloys with high critical current densities’) has received support from the National Science Centre. The Miniature grant will go to dr Piotr Sobota, assistant professor at the Department of Nuclear Physics and Dielectrics of the Institute of Experimental Physics of the UWr Faculty of Physics and Astronomy.

Applications are open until 31 August for the third edition of the IDUB Teaching Award. In this article, we present an interview about didactics in the administration field with the winner of the IDUB first edition teaching award – dr hab. Magdalena Tabernacka, prof. UWr from the Institute of Administrative Sciences. Prof. Tabernacka received IDUB teaching award also for co-authoring the publication “Europa, dialog i perspektywy młodych ludzi w zwierciadle wyników badań prowadzonych w projekcie GANESA”.

An international research team led by dr Łukasz Stachnik from the Institute of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Wrocław argues that valley glaciers may make an important contribution to the supply of nutrients to Arctic ecosystems. The team’s findings have been published in the journal Chemical Geology.

We announce that our University has been selected as the only Polish institution and one of just two European universities to participate in the prestigious Early Adopters Programme run by Clarivate Analytics.

Bartosz Rusin, our doctoral student, has been awarded the Arkadiusz Piekara Prize of the Polish Physical Society for his master’s thesis devoted to materials that may revolutionise superconducting technology.