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Plants across Europe are responding to climate warming—high mountain areas are rapidly losing species adapted to lower temperatures, while there is an increasing share of warm-adapted species in forests and grasslands. Unfortunately, these findings are not encouraging. The study, recently published in “Nature”, provides the most comprehensive Europe-wide comparison to date of how different ecosystems respond to climate change.

Once again,the Lover Silesia Capital Club is organising the Young Talents competition. If you are an ambitious and passionate student or doctoral candidate, do not hesitate—complete the application form (attached below) and submit it, together with your CV and a brief description of your achievement, to the Faculty of Social Communication and Media Studies of the University of Wrocław: Collegium Antropologicum, ul. Kuźnicza 35, ground floor, room 13 (the building next to the Main Building). Submit your application by 24 March! We are available Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Professor Helena Duffy from the Department of French Literature and Culture at the University of Wrocław has been awarded the prestigious Käte Hamburger Fellowship for her interdisciplinary research project “Embodied Trauma Beyond the Human: Reparative Potential of Holocaust Literature”. Professor Helena Duffy will conduct her research at the CURE Research Centre (Cultural Practices of Reparation) at Saarland University in Germany during the upcoming academic year.

The Technology Transfer Centre (СTT) of the University of Wrocław announces applications for the competition: “TRACTT – Theory » Development » Acceleration with the Technology Transfer Centre”.

A researcher from the University of Wrocław is a co-author of a paper published in Ecological Letters

Dr Dominik Lewiński from the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication was awarded the PR Lwów2025 by the Polish Public Relations Association Chapter in the Educator/Researcher category on 15 March 2026.

A new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) has been released as part of the B-SHAPES project (Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies) and is available to all interested participants. The University of Wrocław is a partner in the project.

The Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław and the Library of the University of Wrocław invite you to the lecture: “The Wrocław Walloon Book – guides to the gold of the Sudetenland in a 15th-century alchemical codex”, which will be delivered by MSc Sabina Kwiecień from the Doctoral School of History at the UWr. The meeting will be hosted by dr hab Dagmara Adamska, prof. UWr, from the UWr Historical Institute.

Karolina Mieszała, a graduate of the Pedagogy programme, shares her professional experience and reflections on working with children, adolescents, and young adults in the latest episode of the UWr Talks: Ciąg dalszy nastąpił series.

Czterech naukowców z UWr otrzymało nagrody w konkursie Sonata BIS, organizowanym przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki.

The Institute of Philosophy invites you to two open lectures by eminent foreign researchers, held as part of the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” (IDUB) programme. In the coming days, University of Wrocław will host prof. Gregory Reichberg from Norway and prof. Mark Cherry from the United States. Both presentations will be devoted to current and vital philosophical issues related to personal identity, human embodiment, and artificial intelligence.

Institute of Geological Sciences invites you to the next online lecture in the popular science series “Mysteries of the Earth and the Universe” (Tajemnice Ziemi i Wszechświata). This edition is part of the Critical Raw Materials Days (CRM Days), an initiative of the Arqus European University Alliance.