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It is with deep regret that we inform you that prof. dr hab. Mroziński passed away on 23 October 2024. Retired academic teacher at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław. Long-time Head of the Molecular Magnetism Group and Head of the Department of Chemistry Didactics.

The fourth World Conference on Physics Education was held at the Jagiellonian University in August. One of the organisers of the event was the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Wrocław.

Over a month has passed since the catastrophic flood which in September 2024 affected a huge area of Central and Eastern Europe. We followed its enormous social and economic effects in the media. About the difficult job of our scientists in the flooded areas, about their emotions and dilemmas talks dr inż. Matylda Witek, assistant professor in the Department of Geoinformatics and Cartography, head of the Laboratory of Unmanned Aerial Earth Observation.

On Friday, 18 October, the First University Conference “Artificial Intelligence ∀” was held at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. It brought together nearly 200 participants interested in research and other activities related to artificial intelligence at the University of Wrocław.

The group of scientists honored as part of the Polityka Science Awards already includes 392 people, who have received awards worth a total of more than PLN 7 million. This group expanded last month, when the Professorial Chapter selected fifteen finalists for this year’s edition. Among them, dr Ewa Górska (Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, Academic Excellence Incubator – Digital Justice Center UWr).

Ladies and gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, in the last days of October- as in the previous years – the University Committee for the Care of Graves of the University of Wrocław Deserved Members will organise the “Academic Memorial Candle”. Its aim is to cultivate the memory of the deceased professors and other distinguished members of our university community and to take care of their graves in the cemeteries around Wrocław. For this purpose, we will clean together their graves, put flowers and light the candles.

The 2024/2025 academic year also began with the UWr University of the Third Age students. In the presence of the Vice-Rector for student affairs of the University of Wrocław, dr Łukasz Prus, representatives of the authorities of the City of Wrocław, senior organisations, friendly institutions, the banner of the University of Wrocław were introduced for the first time in the history of the University of the Third Age at the opening ceremony of the new academic year. In the banner’s guards – students of the University of the Third Age. In this way, 25 years of seniors’ presence in the structures of the University of Wrocław were highlighted.

Teachers, educators, caregivers and all those interested in the topic of air protection are invited to a free classroom training course entitled “GIS w pomiarach jakości powietrza”.

The time has come to summarise the conference “Social Boundaries of Work. Critical Labour Studies in the Times of a Polycrisis,” held at the Institute of Sociology from 16 to 18 October 2024.

The Free Belarusian University is continuing enrollment in the course “Narodziny białoruskiego Lewiatana. Dlaczego demokracja parlamentarna przekształciła się w dyktaturę personalistyczną (grudzień 1991 – listopad 1996)?”, which allows participants to expand their knowledge, gain analytical skills and competence in the history of Belarus from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, related to the attainment of sovereignty and the country’s subsequent transition to authoritarian rule.

An interview with dr Ewa Górska from the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław nominated for the ”Polityka” award. Since 2001, the ”Polityka” Weekly Foundation offers a scholarship program “Stay with Us!” addressed to young researchers – since 2011 under the name of Science Awards. In the pages of “Polityka,” the project promotes a valuable career model and achievements of the young researchers in Poland. You are among the 15 finalists, from whom five laureates will be chosen this Sunday, October 20. Why did you decide to take part in the contest?