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Direct contact with a Mentor, the opportunity to ask questions, time for reflection, and space to share doubts and plans – this is precisely what the Mentoring Programme run by the Academic Careers Office is about.

Thirty-three research groups, six awards with a total value of PLN 13,000, and countless activities, exhibits, mini-games, quizzes and attractions – all of this could be experienced on 4 December, when the everyday greyness and autumn drizzle were swept away by the largest and most colourful event dedicated to the student research groups of the University of Wrocław: the Scientific Associations Fair.

On behalf of the International Office, we invite you to a very special Christmas Concert performed by the International Students Orchestra of the University of Wrocław. As every year, we will gather in the magical atmosphere of music – this year’s concert will take place on 17 December 2025 at 7:00 p.m. in the Oratorium Marianum.

We are pleased to announce that the publication by prof. Urszula Glensk, entitled Pinezka. Zapiski z granicy polsko-białoruskiej, has won the Grand Press 2025 Award in the category Reportage Book of the Year, ex aequo with the book by Adam Zadworny, and has also received the special Audience Award.

The fourth call of the Virtual Research Institute (WIB) has been concluded. An international panel of experts awarded the highest score to the project “Personalised antibody–drug conjugates activated by matrix metalloproteinases for solid tumours (PACMAN)”, submitted by a consortium of research institutions from Wrocław and Warsaw. Funding of PLN 72,854,995 has been allocated to the project from the Polish Science Fund.

Researchers from the University of Wrocław and Angelo State University are conducting a study on compulsive lying.

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming opening of an exhibition of works by the Wrocław-based ceramic artist Magdalena Maros, created as part of a scholarship awarded by the Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship under the project “Szepty Ziemi”.

The monograph by Patrycja Grzebyk (University of Warsaw), Bartłomiej Krzan (Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław) and Karolina Wierczyńska (Polish Academy of Sciences), entitled “Polski dorobek w zakresie międzynarodowego prawa karnego w latach 1918-2018”, was awarded first prize in the Competition for the Best History Book organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

At a meeting of the Committee on Social Communication and Media Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences on 20 October 2025, the winners of the 1st edition of the Committee Award were selected for outstanding scientific publications (articles) and monographs in the field of social communication and media sciences. These awards were presented yesterday at an official gala at the Staszic Palace in Warsaw, the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The winner in the book category is dr hab. Paweł Urbaniak, prof. UWr, for his monograph System odpowiedzialności mediów w Polsce na tle systemów w innych krajach” (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2024) !

On Wednesday, 10 December, during a session of the Kraków City Council, representatives of the scientific community received the Nicolaus Copernicus Scientific Awards. Among the honoured scientists were three from the University of Wrocław!

This year’s best Master’s thesis in tourism was written at the Department of Regional Geography and Tourism at the University of Wrocław!

Fiasco Fest is a workshop dedicated to a constructive approach to failure in an academic career, aimed at doctoral candidates of the UWr Doctoral School. The event is held in Polish and is the result of collaboration within the ARQUS alliance under the project Fiasco Fest goes Arqus, funded by the Arqus Innovation Fund.