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We invite you to an exhibition showcasing Wrocław’s architectural designs that never saw realization. Inspired by an exhibition organized by the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław titled “Gdyby” (“What If”), we decided to present materials from the collections of the Wrocław University Library. These allow us to see how the city might have looked if the bold ideas of Wrocław’s best visionary architects from the early 20th century had been brought to life.

We know the winners of the 32nd competition in the START programme of the Foundation for Polish Science. Prestigious scholarships will be awarded to 100 outstanding people from Polish universities, including five of our young scientists: Elżbieta Górka, Michał Pieniak, Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja, Marta Kowal and Karolina Kocemba. Congratulations!

There’s a lot going on at the University of Wrocław Press and we want to keep you informed!
With this post, we start #mondayswithWUWr. We will keep you informed about the most important book launches, events and promotions, invite you to publications and describe what’s new! Today is the first Monday summary. For more, visit wuwr.eu!

While conducting research in the Lviv archive, dr Magdalena Gibiec comes across two unusually labeled folders. Intrigued, she borrows them, not yet knowing that this decision will completely change the course of her research and result in a publication by the prestigious academic publisher Routledge.
On 19 April 2024 (online), under the patronage of the dean of the UWr Faculty of Letters, prof. UWr dr hab. Arkadiusz Lewicki, the eighth edition of the National One Novel Competition took place, this time devoted to the novel ‘War with the Newts’ by Karl Čapek. The event, chaired by dr Marcin Maksymilian Borowski, […]

Dr Sandra Kozieł from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Wrocław was recognised by Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti in the ‘Innovation in Biotechnology’ category during DemoDay organised by Colorado State University. The award was accepted on her behalf by dr hab. Urszula Komarnicka. The award-winning achievement is the subject of a patent currently in preparation between the UWr and Colorado State University, whose authors are: Sandra Kozieł, Urszula Komarnicka, Andrew Bates, Skyler Markham and Debbie C. Crans.

An international team of researchers led by prof. UWr Marta Osypińska, under a grant from a consortium of the University of Wrocław and the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the UW, undertook research again last season at a unique site in Egypt, a first- and second-century pet cemetery in Berenike.

We have been in the European Union for 20 years now. To mark the anniversary, many attractive events are taking place all over Poland and abroad throughout the year. Meetings, festivals, exhibitions, competitions, sports competitions, workshops, school plays, conferences, European May Day and open days at projects that have come about as a result of our presence in the EU.
‘I dream of Koreans from all over the world meeting in the Aula Leopoldina.’ – says dr Haesung Lee, head of the Korean Studies team at the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies at the University of Wrocław It is said that when Koreans from Wrocław do an ‘outing’, they often go first to […]