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On 28 August, the 17th edition of the Paralympic Games began in Paris. 4,400 athletes from 182 countries have entered the competition. Until 8 September—the last day of the Games—competitions in 22 disciplines will be held, and 549 sets of medals will be handed. The slogan of this year’s both Olympic and Paralympic Games is “Games Wide Open.”

Candidates! We are starting additional recruitment for studies at the University of Wrocław for the year 2024/2025! If you did not manage to get into the university during the first recruitment and you saw the status ‘not accepted’ in IRK, we invite you to participate in the recruitment for the faculties where we still have free places!

Orbis Sensualium Pictus is a remarkable work that revolutionised education in the 17th century. In fact, it was one of the first encyclopaedias written by Jan Amos Comenius in 1658, which taught basic concepts and made learning more accessible and engaging.

The Książ Castle in Wałbrzych and the Princess Daisy von Pless Foundation would like to invite you to another meeting as part of the ‘O historii na żywo’ series. This time it will also be an opportunity to have a scientific discussion with our master’s students of art history.

Employees of the UWr Astronomical Institute and the Centre of Scientific Excellence ‘Solar and stellar activity’ have published a unique report in the renowned Astrophysical Journal Letter on the location and correlation of up to three phenomena that are manifestations of stellar magnetic activity. For one very young and rapidly rotating star, they managed to link the location of both large spots, a strong and unusually long-lived flare and slowly rising loops filled with cool matter in the atmosphere of this star. Such combinations of phenomena have long been observed on the Sun. However, even through the best telescopes, we cannot observe details on the disk of other stars. Retrieving information about the position of different structures always requires special methods or unique instruments. In this case, a very precise and careful analysis of one of the simplest types of observations, the measurement of a star’s brightness, proved sufficient. These were made by the TESS mission, which is characterised by the exceptional accuracy of its measurements.

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education has announced the results of the call for Partners for the implementation of Task 1 ‘Development Incubator’, as part of the project ‘Science4Business – Science for Business’.

The full-sea twelve-day Baltic expedition of the UWr Geoscience Student Scientific Association is over! The scientific adventure aboard the sailing ship Generał Zaruski, the ‘GeoBaltic Adventure – Sailing Through Time’, ended in Świnoujście on 15 August 2024. Research is now beginning on the basis of the materials collected during the voyage.

Her name means ‘bringer of light in the darkest of hours’, and now she brightens up the courtyard of the former Saint Joseph’s Convent even more.

Restoration work is underway on the statue of Saint Lucia adorning the courtyard of the former Saint Joseph’s Convent, UWr building at ul. Kuźnicza 35 in Wrocław.

Prof. Jakub Kierczak from the Department of Experimental Petrology of the Institute of Geological Sciences at the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Management has been awarded the European Mineralogical Union Medal for Research Excellence 2022. The medal was officially presented to him at last week’s European Mineralogical Conference 2024 in Dublin.

A team of researchers led by prof. Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka from the University of Wrocław is conducting research related to the development of a diagnosis of the model of cooperation between NGOs and the City of Wrocław as part of a project funded by the University of Wrocław’s Fund for Cooperation with the Social and Economic Environment.

In Poland, ticks search most intensively for a host in spring and autumn. The increase in interest in ticks (Ixodida) noted especially in recent decades is primarily related to the ability of these mites to transmit numerous pathogens. It is not without reason that ticks are considered one of the most important carriers of viruses, bacteria and parasites. The biology and ecology of ticks, as well as the pathogens they transmit and the diseases associated with them, are the subject of numerous studies, discussions and questions.