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Culture is what made man something more than just a random event in nature.
– André Malraux
From 20 to 21 March 2025, the Library of the University of Wrocław hosted the Trade Fair Heritage, accompanied by the academic conference ‘Transcending Borders – Interdisciplinarity and Cooperation in Research, Preservation, and Dissemination of Cultural Heritage’.

With the help of modern remote sensing tools such as aerial photography, geophysical surveys, and airborne laser scanning, scientists will be mapping archaeological sites. The head of the Polish part of the project Long-term land use dynamics within the areas of prehistoric ritual places, carried out by the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław in collaboration with the Universities of Pilsen, Hradec Králové, and Prague will be dr Agnieszka Przybył, who specialises in research on the Neolithic period.

Student Scientific Association of Contemporary Humanities Cultural Theories (Kulturowych Teorii Współczesnej Humanistyki ) has the pleasure of inviting you to a master lecture “Excluded! ‘Intellectual Disability’ and Political (In)Correctness in Cristina Morales’ Simplified Reading – A Perspective of Crip Theory and Decolonial Feminism” by dr Łukasz Smuga. The meeting will take place on April 3rd in room 125 at the Institute of Polish Studies of the University of Wrocław.

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 method in question is called DIS (depth of water tables – D, impact of vadose zone – I, and soil media – […]

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.

The University of Wrocław is implementing the project ‘Uniwersytet Wrocławski uczelnią bardziej dostępną’ (eng. University of Wrocław as a more accessible university) as part of the programme European Funds for Social Development 2021-2027 co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus, contract no: FERS.03.01-IP.08-0161/24.

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).
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 […]