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On 26 June, new full and corresponding members of the Polish Academy of Sciences were elected. Among them are two researchers from the University of Wrocław, who join a prestigious group of over 300 scholars recognised for their outstanding scientific achievements and authority within the academic community.

On Thursday, 26 June, the Academic Career Office, in collaboration with the University Library team, had the pleasure of organising a special event for graduates of our University. The meeting combined both a touch of sentiment and a spirit of discovery – for some of the attendees, it was their first visit to the current BUWr building and a unique opportunity to see the Library’s most valuable items up close.

In early June 2025, a group of second-year Czech Studies students from the University of Wrocław took part in a week-long study trip to Zlín in the Czech Republic. The trip was organised in partnership with Tomas Bata University – a modern institution with a strong international profile and deep roots in the region’s industrial heritage.

How did one manage to remember music before sheet music in its current form was invented? What was the Guidonian hand, and why is it still worth using in musical education? Is it possible to discern logic, emotions, or even elements of violence in medieval musical treatises? We are pleased to invite you to read Maria Kozan’s interview with dr Ryszard Lubieniecki – a musicologist, artist, and practitioner who not only examines music of earlier times, but also creates and shares it. This conversation takes as its starting point his latest book “Musica i memoria w środkowoeuropejskich traktatach muzycznych pierwszej połowy XV wieku”, published in 2025 by Wrocław University Press.

In the nationwide ranking of student university legal clinics (law clinics), published today by Rzeczpospolita, the University Legal Clinic operating at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław has taken first place!

Can the future be predicted? Not necessarily. But it certainly can be consciously shaped – this was the guiding idea behind Future Unlimited, a development programme delivered by Smith+Nephew from March to June.

The Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics (FLAE) at the University of Wrocław has ranked third in the 14th edition of Rzeczpospolita’s Law Faculties Ranking in the category of public universities – and secured first place in the “international cooperation” category.

The Dragon capsule, carrying Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, has successfully arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). The four-person Ax-4 mission crew will spend two weeks on the station.

Three researchers from the University of Wrocław have become laureates of the prestigious MINIATURA 9 grant awarded by the National Science Centre!

On Tuesday, 24 June, we celebrated the successes of young researchers and their academic supervisors at the University of Wrocław in the grand Aula Leopoldina. The event honoured those involved in the “Young Researcher 2023–2025” programme, part of the Initiative for Excellence – Research University (IDUB).

On 1 July at 3:00 p.m., the premiere of the third edition of the book Grupy dyspozycyjne. Analiza socjologiczna will take place in the Oratorium Marianum. The author is dr hab. Jan Maciejewski, prof. UWr, long-time head of the Department of Sociology of Dispositional Groups at the UWr Institute of Sociology.

The University of Wrocław again ranked 5th in the Ranking Uniwersytetów 2025 published by Fundacja Edukacyjna Perspektywy on June 25.