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Archaeological works connected with a new investment of the University of Wrocław, located at the junction of Kuźnicza and Uniwersytecka Streets, on the site of the former Kalogródek area, are coming to an end. In the final stage of the research, the remains of a tenement house erected in 1866 were uncovered. The building was destroyed during the siege of the city in 1945.

On 9 December, the Aula Leopoldina of the University of Wrocław hosted the concert “Artists for an Artist”, dedicated to the Senior Rector of the University of Wrocław, professor Adam Jezierski. The event had a formal academic character and served as a symbolic summary of the professor’s many years of presence in the scholarly and cultural life of the University.

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.

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!