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The flooding in south-western Poland is over, but its effects persist. It is not only destroyed roads, bridges or houses, but also fear, sadness, anger or helplessness that have remained in the psyche of many people. With the youngest children in mind, experts from the University of Wrocław and SWPS University have developed a therapeutic fable to help children get through this difficult time.

On 15 October 2024, the Wrocław Academic Centre is launching a call for applications in a new scholarship programme for students and doctoral students studying in Wrocław who are working towards the goals of sustainable development.

The University of Wrocław is cooperating with the Belarus Free University Foundation to implement the Belarus Free University (WUB) project in 2024-2025. The project is supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and aims to develop a platform offering a European level of online postgraduate education for Belarusian youth, both those who live in the country and those in exile. The Institute of International and Security Studies at the University of Wrocław has a leading role in implementing the project.

Nagroda Nobla z chemii – komentarz naszego eksperta z Wydziału Biotechnologii UWr. Jakie znaczenie mają odkrycia trzech badaczy Davida Bakera, Demissa Hassabisa oraz Johna M. Jumpera?

Mental health promotion at the University of Wrocław is a task aimed at strengthening mental health, processes supporting the maintenance of good health and creating conditions conducive to health. It is also a process that enables people to increase control over their own health and to improve it, to actively improve their health and not only to defend themselves against illness or disorder.

The Breslau botanist and teacher Theodor Schube (1860-1934) was not an office researcher. For 40 years he covered more than 120,000 kilometres by bicycle and on foot. Very successfully. In 1904 he published the monumental ‘Flora von Schlesien preussischen und österreichischen Anteils’ in the distinguished Korn publishing house, and two years later the ‘Book of Silesian Forests’. I walked and cycled (also by bicycle) in his footsteps to see with my own eyes the oldest, thickest and most valuable trees of the region, and above all to describe their significance in culture and collective memory. I call this dendrochronology .

The programme aims to strengthen partnerships and the role of Polish higher education institutions in the alliances concluded under the European Universities Initiative in the Erasmus+ programme.

Two of our young researchers are among the laureates awarded with prizes and distinctions by the Polish Physical Society and in the International Stefan Banach Prize – a physicist Damian Śnieżek and a mathematician Karol Duda. 

At first, the choice of the Nobel committee came as a big surprise to me, because from the point of view of physics, the Hopfield and Hinton models do not seem to be crucial for its development – comments dr hab. Krzysztof Graczyk, prof. UWr, Vice-Dean of the UWr Faculty of Physics and Astronomy.

The fourth edition of the Melodies of Three Generations concert, which took place on 6 October at the Oratorium Marianum, is behind us. The event was organised by the Institute of Slavic Studies, the Centre for Culture and the Arts in Wrocław – a cultural institution of the Lower Silesian Provincial Government, the UWr Centre for Student and Doctoral Activities and the UWr International Cooperation Office.