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On Wednesday, 4 December 2024, the first integrative bus trip of the UWr Faculty of Letters students to Dresden took place. It took the form of a workshop addressed to students of Polish Studies (second year, pursuing a course in Romantic literature) and German Studies. The purpose of the trip was a monographic exhibition of paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, organised as part of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the prominent Dresden painter – a precursor of Romanticism in European painting – considered one of the most important cultural events of the past year.

ACTRIS is the biggest infrastructure in the world dedicated to atmospheric research in various locations. In Europe, it is formed by over 100 entities from 20 countries. What role does University of Wrocław play in it? It is one of the partners called as National Facility, and it has just become the leader of a scientific project with a budget of almost PLN 22 million!

Anna Ślusarczyk, a doctoral student at the University of Wrocław, has been named the winner of the third edition of the competition for the best research master’s thesis carried out in the 2023/2024 academic year at a university headquartered in Wrocław. The competition, organised by the Wrocław Branch of the Polish Chemical Society, aims to recognise outstanding research work by young scientists.
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The subject “Personality and linguistic and cultural mediation” (3 ECTS; ref. 2023-1-ES01-KA131-HED-000118257-1), organized as part of the Erasmus+ short-term mobility, the so-called Blended Intensive Program/BIP, was very successful. The coordinator of the project from Spain, the University of Murcia (Universidad de Murcia/UMU) – Faculty of Letters (Facultad de Letras) – invited the University of Wrocław to cooperate (the largest group, with 42 students), Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan (UAM; 7 students), Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI; 5 students), and Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI; 4 students).

Good science isn’t just about publishing and citability, it’s also about getting the results of our research out to institutions that have a say in shaping reality, including those that are the objects of our research. It is very important, therefore, that the results of the research work of our UWr political scientist dr hab. Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecki, prof. UWr, have reached the President of the European Parliament herself, Roberta Metsola.

University of Wroclaw and Academy of Land Forces named after General Tadeusz Kosciuszko have stepped up cooperation. The agreement in this regard was signed on 6 December 2024. Rector of AWL Lieutenant General dr Marek Tomaszycki and Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. dr hab. Robert Olkiewicz.

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On 11 December 2024, at 9:00 a.m., the 19th Polish-Belarusian Scientific and Practical Roundtable will be held at the Institute of International and Security Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Wrocław entitled “Edukacja i nauka Białorusi przed wyzwaniem transformacji demokratycznej. Doświadczenia Polski” (eng. “Education and Science of Belarus before the Challenge of Democratic Transformation. Experience of Poland”). The event is co-organised by the City Hall of Wrocław and Wolny Uniwersytet Białorus Foundation.
Today is the premiere of prof. Leszek Berezowski’s Santa Claus lecture! Who was really the man commonly believed to be St. Nicholas or Santa Claus? What is his true story? Has his image changed over the centuries? During the lecture, prof. dr hab. Leszek Berezowski will talk about the history of St. Nicholas and Santa […]