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The podcast “Łatwo powiedzieć. Tomasz Piekot” has been nominated for the Grand Press 2025 Award in the category “Specialist Journalism and New Forms of Journalism.” The author of the podcast is dr hab. Tomasz Piekot, linguist and Head of the Centre for Plain Polish at the University of Wrocław.

On 9 December 2025 at 9:00 a.m., the international scientific conference “Public Sector Innovation: Insights from Multiple Disciplines” will take place in Room BC at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław.

On behalf of the Ex-centre of Olga Tokarczuk at the Academic Research Centre, we cordially invite you to an event from the series “Ex-centric Dialogues” entitled “The Translator’s Map.”

Sarah Mebarki, a student from the French partner university Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, spends the winter semester of the academic year 2025-2026 at the Institute of Romance Studies (IFR) at the University of Wrocław (UWr) within the framework of the agreement “Arqus Multiple Master’s Degree Programme in Translation”.

The personal diary kept by eighteen-year-old student Tadeusz Kolbuch during the student strike of March 1968 has recently been donated to the Archives of the University of Wrocław.

From 5 to 7 December, the University of Wrocław will welcome programming enthusiasts from the best universities in Central Europe, who will compete in challenging algorithmic tasks.

On behalf of His Magnificence, the Rector of the University of Wrocław, professor Robert Olkiewicz, we cordially invite the entire academic community of the University of Wrocław, staff, doctoral candidates and students, to take part in a training session conducted by counter-terrorism officers of the Regional Police Headquarters in Wrocław.

We are proud to announce that dr hab. Anna Oleszkiewicz, prof. UWr, from the Institute of Psychology of the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, has received the prestigious “Iuvenes Wratislaviae 2025” award in the category of social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The award is presented by the Wrocław Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences in recognition of outstanding academic achievements.

We are pleased to announce that the University of Wrocław was successful in the prestigious “Wektory Nauki” contest organised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In this year’s edition, our university received financial support for two scientific projects.

The major in Spatial Economics conducted at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environmental Management at the University of Wrocław succeeded on the international stage. The fact that the major received the prestigious AESOP Quality Recognition (QR) certificate for the years 2025-2031 proves that the quality of education realized as part of the programme meets the highest European standards for planning education. Moreover, it corresponds to the modern requirements placed on universities that educate future specialists in the field of spatial planning.

The award ceremony of the Felicija Bortkevičienė Language Prize took place at the Palace of the Grand Dukes in Vilnius. The 2025 recipient of the prize was dr Tatjana Vologdina, Head of the Centre for Lithuanian Language and Culture Studies at the University of Wrocław. The award was granted in recognition of her significant contribution to promoting the Lithuanian language and culture beyond the country’s borders, as well as for nurturing Lithuanian academic and cultural traditions in the diaspora.

On 12 December, we will host a creative meeting with Andrei Khadanovich entitled “Contraband of Hope”. The event will focus on the power of words and the sources of hope, the kind we carry across borders and through bans like contraband.