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The management of the Institute of Geography and Regional Development and the Prof. Tadeusz Dorobisz Regional Centre for Blood Donation and Haemotherapy in Wrocław invite you to an action of honour blood donation, which will take place on 24 February 2025 between 9:00 and 13:00 in the Library of the Institute of Geography and Regional Development of the University of Wrocław (pl. Uniwersytecki 1, room 228).

Seven Wrocław research centres, including our University represented by Rector prof. Robert Olkiewicz, signed an agreement to consolidate activities in order to jointly build strong research and development facilities and strengthen the city’s position as a significant scientific centre. This is the first step towards a Wrocław centre of excellence.
An interuniversity team of scientists, including University of Wrocław biologist dr Katarzyna Kliś, presents in the journal Scientific Reports how air pollution affects human biological development. For many years, we have encountered information about air pollution levels in Poland during the winter season on an essentially daily basis, and much has been said about its […]

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Dr hab. Tadeusz Radoń (1929–2025), associate professor, was one of the fifteen students of the founder of the Wrocław school of surface physics – prof. dr hab. Jan Niklibowiec. Together with professor Niklibowiec’s students – professor Ryszard Męclewski and professor Zbigniew Sidorski – he contributed to the creation of one of the world’s most important field emission centers.

The Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. Robert Olkiewicz, invites the university community to the New Year Concert performed by the Symphonic Orchestra of the University Philharmonic, which will be held on 1 February at 6 p.m. in the Aula Leopoldina of the University of Wrocław (Pl. Uniwersytecki 1).

Prof. Anna Pacześniak of the Institute of European Studies at the University of Wrocław has been nominated – as one of six people in the whole of the European Union – to the Committee of Independent Eminent Persons. This was announced on behalf of the Conference of Presidents by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.

We talk about synesthesia and synesthetics, smells, senses, colors and letters with dr Przemysław Staniewski from the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Wrocław. Dr Staniewski has been conducting research on linguistic synesthesia for several years now. In the academic year 2023/2024, he was a scholarship holder of the Studienbörse Germanistik, which is the result of cooperation between the Hermann Niermann Foundation and the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg.

Conducting scientific research, especially involving the analysis of the laws of a country as distant as Chile, is quite a challenge. Of course, thanks to new technologies, it is possible to complete many research tasks practically without leaving home, but the real value of scientific research is still the opportunity to share your research results with other experts in order to initiate discussion on a given legal problem – emphasises our PhD student Laura Słocka.
The UWr Institute of Political Science and the Robert Schuman Center at the European University Institute invite you to lectures on grant application writing and publishing in foreign scientific journals. – The lectures, which will be delivered by experts from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, including Prof. Erik Jones, Director of the Robert […]