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Due to the threat of flooding, the University of Wrocław is launching a special email address: powodz@uwr.edu.pl, to which you can send any information about the need for assistance related to securing the university’s property and announcements related to the flood situation. The information will be published on the university’s website and social media.

It is with great joy that we announce that the Gaudium Choir of the University of Wrocław, under the direction of prof. Alan Urbanek, achieved a significant success at the 13th International Canto Mediterrania Choir Competition in Lloret de Mar, which took place from 10-15 September 2024. After months of intensive preparation and rehearsals, their efforts resulted in winning the Gold Diploma in the Sacred Music category.

Botswana, is located in southern Africa. It is a landlocked country, most of which is occupied by the Kalahari Desert. To the north is the swampy area of the inland Okavango Delta. Botswana’s most important river is the Limpopo on the south-eastern border, where Botswana’s population is concentrated, including the capital Gaborone. What are our archaeologists doing in Botswana?

You are cordially invited to take part in this year’s eighth edition of the Wrocław Medical University Run. This annual event has become an integral part of the celebration of the inauguration of the new academic year and one of the most important sporting events in Lower Silesia.

On Saturday, 14. September, the Falling Walls Lab Wroclaw 2024 will take place in the Oratorium Marianum (Music Hall) of the University of Wroclaw Main Building, as a part of the opening day programme for the Lower Silesia Festival of Science (Dolnośląski Festiwal Nauki – DFN).

The European Day of Languages is traditionally celebrated across Europe on 26 September. It is dedicated to the idea of a multilingual and multicultural Europe. A Europe in which there is room for all the languages of the world.

Enrolment for the fourth semester of the World Cinema Academy began on 9 September. It will be devoted to the cinema of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In thirteen lectures, we will look at a selection of the most important, interesting and innovative cinematographies of the period – we will get to know the films of South Korea, Greece, Hong Kong, Germany, Poland, Iran and the Latin American countries.

Is mathematics still the queen of sciences? This question will certainly be answered in the affirmative by young and talented mathematics enthusiasts from all over Poland, who will turn out in large numbers at the University of Wrocław for the 9th Congress of Young Mathematicians.

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On 5 September 2024, the 2nd European Universities Conference, organised by the Foundation for the Development of Education Systems, ends in Krakow. We could not miss it. European Universities now comprises 64 international consortia bringing together more than 560 higher education institutions from across the continent In the 2024 intake, as many as 9 Polish universities are in new alliances under the European Universities initiative.

Prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, an employee of the Historical Institute and director of the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies at our University, was nominated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, as a member of the Committee for the ‘Prize for special merits for the development of Polish-German relations’.
The Polish-German Prize was established by the Polish–German Treaty of Good Neighbourship and Friendly Cooperation in 1991 for special contributions to the development of Polish-German relations.