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The Heisig Prize for a physicist from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

We encourage you to read the exquisite lecture that was given by prof. Marek Krajewski titled: The academic experiences of a writer and differentia specifica of crime novel. A few autobiographical remarks. The writer gave the lecture as part of the 2025/2026 academic year inauguration at the University of Wrocław

The Military Recruitment Centre in Wrocław encourages students and graduates to explore the Academic Legion programme.

At the busy start of the academic year, the IDUB office at the University of Wrocław has prepared further activities to support scientific activity and reward researchers’ achievements.

On Tuesday, 7 October, at 1 p.m., in the Senate Hall of the University of Wrocław (Main Building), pl. Uniwersytecki 1, representatives of the Lower Silesian Region authorities and the Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. Robert Olkiewicz, will sign a framework agreement on cooperation.

In 2025, two equal awards in the category of theoretical aspects of computer science were given to dr Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja from the University of Wrocław and Marek Sokołowski from the University of Warsaw, and in the category of applied computer science to Marcin Sendera from the Jagiellonian University.

Another year at the University of Wrocław, as part of the ARQUS European University Alliance, has begun. Thanks to these projects, initiatives constantly come to life, crossing not only national borders, but also redefining academic life. In the interview with dr Katarzyna Kajdanek, sociologist and ARQUS project participant, we can take a closer look at an international collaboration in urban research and reflect on academic culture.

The Institute of Geography and Regional Development of the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environmental Management at the University of Wrocław invites you to an open lecture by Prof. Amy Holt (Florida State University, USA) entitled From Ice to Rivers: Glacier Organic Carbon and Shifting Watershed Biogeochemistry in a Warming World.

On Wednesday, 1 October, the community of the University of Wrocław officially inaugurated the 2025/2026 academic year in the Aula Leopoldina.

– With the planting of the first of eighty trees, we are beginning a series of initiatives that not only symbolise our history and tradition, but also our responsibility towards the future – said the Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. Robert Olkiewicz, as he planted the first tree, thus launching the cycle of planting eighty trees to mark today’s anniversary of the University’s 80th year, celebrated on 1 October.

The traditional singing of Gaude Mater Polonia marked the opening of the environmental inauguration of the new academic year for the universities of Wrocław and Opole.

Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy invites for an open lecture of the visiting professor – Dr Christian Pfeifer (ZARM – Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, University of Bremen, Germany) entitled From kinetic gases to an accelerated expanding universe – The Finsler Friedmann equation.