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With spring comes new growth opportunities! Santander Open Academy invites you to seize exciting possibilities. Right now, you have the chance to travel to the heart of the EU—Brussels—and visit the European Parliament. Or perhaps a six-month free language course is exactly what you’ve been looking for?

Wolny Uniwersytet Białoruski (eng. Free University of Belarus) invites students from Belarus, both at home and in exile, to participate in certified online courses. Programmes enable students to deepen their knowledge of key historical, political and economic processes that shape the modern world. WUB courses are more than theory – they provide practical skills, critical thinking development and the opportunity to gain new professional competencies that open doors to future success.

Current climate change rapidly reduces the glacier area in the Northern Hemisphere, including marine-terminating glacier areas in the Arctic and subarctic regions. As a result of this process, vast areas of new coastlines that were previously inaccessible to scientists are now being exposed. An international group of scientists from Poland, the Czech Republic, the United States, and Canada has united in an initiative, supported by a grant from the National Science Centre, to address the knowledge gap concerning coastlines that have emerged due to glacial recession in the 21st century.

This method, developed by hydrogeologists from the University of Wrocław, makes it possible to provide city planners and developers with data on rainwater management options and assist them in making land-use decisions.

The highest-ranked discipline at the University of Wrocław in the QS World University Ranking by Subject 2025, published in March, is Linguistics. The UWr was placed among the top 301–350 universities worldwide in this discipline. In the broader category of Arts & Humanities, which includes linguistics, the university moved up to the 401–450 range. The university also achieved strong positions in the natural sciences: Physics and Astronomy ranked 451–500, Mathematics 501–600, and Chemistry 551–600.

Multinational corporations are among the most frequently chosen workplaces by graduates of our university. A diverse business profile, a multicultural environment, interesting career paths are just some of the advantages that attract young people.

An open lecture organised by the IDUB programme will be held on 27 March 2025 at 12:30 p.m. at the Institute of English Studies of the University of Wrocław. The lecture entitled ‘Demystifying second language pronunciation: Insights from researcher-practitioner collaboration’ will be delivered by Prof. Andrew Lee (Université Laval, Canada).

On 17-18 March 2025, the University of Wrocław hosted the first meeting of the participants of the project to develop a joint degree programme BA Programme in Applied Physics implemented as part of the Arqus alliance. The programme is being implemented with the support received by the University of Wrocław from the National Academic Exchange Agency programme Support for European University Alliances (FERS.01.05-IP.08-0219/23).

Australian Ambassador Benjamin Hayes was a guest of the UWr Rector, prof. Robert Olkiewicz on 14 March.

We have great news for all those who are planning to publish a scientific book. On Friday, 14 March 2015, Ordinance No. 65/2025 of the Rector of the University of Wrocław concerning the possibility of obtaining funding from the Rector’s Fund for publishing with WUWr came into force. The University of Wrocław Press has already prepared an iconography and compiled the most important information summarising the changes to the regulations on support for publications from the Rector’s Fund.

The Department of Bohemian Studies at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Wrocław is organising an innovative scientific and didactic-training programme Wine in Language, Literature and Culture from 17-21 March 2025, during which students from partner universities – L’Orientale University of Naples, Masaryk University in Brno and the University of Ostrava – together with students of Czech philology, will take part in interdisciplinary activities with the theme of wine culture in its broadest sense and its echoes in contemporary humanities.

On Thursday, March 13, Ambassador of Mexico, Juan Sandoval Mendiolea, was the guest of the Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. dr hab. Robert Olkiewicz.