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The authorities of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship have concluded an agreement with the University of Wrocław which not only reaffirms their long-standing cooperation but, above all, heralds a series of new strategic initiatives of major importance to the region.

The Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Faculty of Letters at the University of Wrocław warmly invite you to a series of academic lectures delivered by international guests visiting under the University’s IDUB Visiting Professors Programme. The meetings will take place during the international seminar Transcultural and Transnational Perspectives on Children’s and Young Adult Literature (as part of Reading – Experiences – Emotions. Books for Children and Young Adults – Theory and Practice of Reception [X]) and the anniversary celebration of the journal Filoteknos.

The Historical Institute invites you to a lecture by Professor Mary P. Erdmans from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio (USA), entitled A Rebellious Generation: Activism over the Life Course of Return Solidarity Refugees. The lecture will take place on Monday, 20 October, at 12:30 p.m. at the Historical Institute at ul. Szewska 49, Room 322.

The Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Wrocław would like to invite you to a series of scientific lectures as part of the Visiting Professors programme. Distinguished scientists from the Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology, Minho University, Braga, Portugal, will be our guests on October 21st and October 22nd, 2025.

On 3 October 2025, the 20th Polish-Belarusian Academic and Practical Round Table, entitled “Shaping Civil Society in Belarus and the Polish Experience of Transformation,” took place at the Institute of International and Security Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

We asked professor Ewa Marcinkowska from the Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Wrocław – an expert conducting research at the interface of haematology and immunology, focusing on therapies inducing the maturation of blasts in acute myeloid leukaemia – to explain what the immune system is all about and why research into it is so demanding and multifaceted.

Martyna Janaszek, a student at the University of Wrocław, has won a gold medal and the title of European Champion under-23 in bench press. The championships were held in late September in Malta.

The Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education at the Institute of Pedagogy of the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences invites to an open lecture by Professor Emma Pearson from Maynooth University (Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education) entitled Preparing Children and Teachers for Sustainable Futures through Ethics of Care.

Staff of the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Wrocław, invite students, teachers, and all those interested in youth rights to the panel “Together in Rights” – an intergenerational dialogue on freedom and participation, featuring both young people and adults.

The Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures invites to an open lecture by Belgian scholar Professor Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven), entitled The Anthropocene: A Literary Career. The lecture will take place on 20 October 2025 at 12:00 at the T. Taube Chair of Jewish Studies, ul. św. Jadwigi 3/4, Wrocław, in the J. Woronczak Hall.

The Heisig Prize for a physicist from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

We encourage you to read the exquisite lecture that was given by prof. Marek Krajewski titled: The academic experiences of a writer and differentia specifica of crime novel. A few autobiographical remarks. The writer gave the lecture as part of the 2025/2026 academic year inauguration at the University of Wrocław