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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.

On November 28th, the National Science Centre (NCN) announced the results of the PRELUDIUM 24 competition. Among the awardees are as many as twelve doctoral students from the University of Wrocław. Congratulations!

During the official opening of the 33rd Historical Book Fair in Warsaw, held on 27 November 2025 in the Great Hall of the Royal Castle, the final results of the KLIO Award 2025 were announced and the prizes were presented to the laureates.

The next session of the Committee of Programmes of the III Congress of Polish Czech Studies and Czech Polish Studies together with the Board of the Polish-Czech Scientific Association took place on the 27th of November 2025 at the University of Wrocław. At the beginning, dr Andrzej Krawczyk presented his newest book Edward Benesz. Polityk z Europy Środkowej. Later on in the session, several matters connected to organising the Congress mentioned above were discussed. The Congress is planned for spring 2028. Thirty-three institutions and partner organisations from Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia participate in the preparations. The University of Wrocław plays a significant role among them, and the central part of the proceedings of the Congress of Polish Czech Studies took place at the University in 2016.

The Institute of Polish Studies at the University of Wrocław, together with the Society of Friends of Wrocław Polish Studies, invites you to the 30th edition of the popular-science lecture series in Polish studies, “Meetings at Nehring Hall”, organised in the 2025/2026 academic year. The series opened by a lecture by Prof. Jan Miodek entitled “Język sportu w moim życiu”, which took place on 5 October.

The University of Wrocław Academic Scientific Associations Council cordially invites you to the latest edition of the Academic Scientific Associations Fair – the largest event dedicated to student academic societies and organisations of Leopoldina!

The rowing section of the University of Wrocław has once again showcased excellent form. In the Lower Silesian Inter-University League, the UWr women’s team won gold, while the men’s team claimed third place.

On Tuesday, 2 December, we invite all physics enthusiasts to attend a lecture by prof. Karol Życzkowski from Jagiellonian University, entitled: „Przeglądając się w zakurzonej szybie… Determinizm w mechanice klasycznej i kwantowej”. 

The astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski visited Wrocław in November as part of his technological-scientific tour “IGNIS – Polska sięga gwiazd”. Students and doctoral students from the University of Wrocław attended the meeting.

On 7 December at 6.00 pm, recitals by the laureates of this year’s 19th International Chopin Competition will take place in the Aula Leopoldina of the University of Wrocław (Plan Uniwersytecki 1).