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On Friday, 25 July 2025, our team set off on a morning train from Wrocław to Warsaw, from where they will fly to Longyearbyen via Oslo. They will board the STS Generał Zaruski on the morning of 28 July. The destination: Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic.

Poles in Brazil fought not only pumas and snakes, but also for the Polish language. Dr Fabricio Wichrowski, a Brazilian historian and archaeologist of Polish descent, talks about the Polish diaspora in Brazil. Dr Wichrowski is currently at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław as a fellow of NAWA’s Polonista programme.

There has been considerable discussion within the academic community at the University of Wrocław regarding the current situation and future of the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies (CWB), which the University co-manages with the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). We provide clarification.

Applications are open until 31 August for the third edition of the IDUB Teaching Award. We speak with a previous recipient of the IDUB teaching award – dr hab. Maciej Matyka, prof. UWr, from the Institute of Theoretical Physics – about teaching in the field of physics.

The academic conference “1000 years of Poland in Europe – a balance of experience and visions for the future”, held in June 2025 at the University of Wrocław, provided an interdisciplinary platform for debate on Poland’s place in Europe.

On 18 July, 185 students from English-language degree programmes took part in the Graduation Ceremony held in the magnificent Aula Leopoldina — a formal celebration marking the awarding of diplomas to graduates.

As every week, the University of Wrocław Press brings you a new release. This time, we are pleased to present the latest publication edited by prof. Jerzy Skorupka and dr Artur Kowalczyk: Fundamenty nowego procesu karnego.

The “Switch on classy Passenger Mode” awareness and education campaign has been launched with the aim of raising passengers’ awareness about the consequences of inappropriate behaviour, promoting a culture of kindness and responsibility during air travel, and reducing the number of incidents that disrupt both flight comfort and safety.

The 44th Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA) conference — the world’s largest academic event dedicated to stochastic processes and their applications, one of the key areas of modern mathematics — is drawing to a close in Wrocław.

Applications are open until 31 August for the third edition of the IDUB Teaching Award. On teaching in the field of biotechnology and the new programme in Medical Molecular Biotechnology established as part of IDUB – a conversation with prof. Dagmara Jakimowicz