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The International Office’s application in the PROM competition for short-term academic exchange received funding from the National Academic Exchange Agency to the tune of nearly PLN 2 million. The funds will enable academic staff, doctoral students and UWr students to travel to academic centres all over the world (excluding the Russian Federation) and receive visitors to Wrocław.

Can keeping a healthy diet lead to a pathology? How social media can influence nutrition habits and what increases the risk of orthorexia? We are discussing the issue with prof. dr hab. Anna Brytek-Matera, a specialist in the field of orthorexia nervosa and eating disorders, the author of the first scientific monograph about orthorexia nervosa in the world, Orthorexia Nervosa: Current Understanding and Perspectives, published by Cambridge University Press.

The Cymeliad, which is the adaptation days for students at the University Library, starts in October! We invite you to your first encounter with the University Library, where you will spend many enjoyable moments throughout your studies.

Dr Kamil Blaszczyński from the Faculty of Social Sciences received a research grant entitled ‘Test przekonań religijno-nacjonalnych – narzędzie badawcze’. Five of our young researchers were included in the next NCN Miniatura grant.

The seventh international congress of the Central European Germanist Association (Mitteleuropäischer Germanistenverband) was held at the Universitatea Tehnică de Construcții din București (UTCB) in September. More than 130 speakers from 20 countries worldwide attended the congress.

I would like to thank you once again for your commitment to securing our buildings, collections and research apparatus during the floods. Fortunately, in Wrocław it ended only in danger. But moments like these make us realise how important it is to act together and help each other.

NCN has allocated PLN 5 million in the MINIATURA8 competition for 132 female researchers. Among them are two of our young researchers and three female researchers.

Prof. Dorota Koczanowicz from the Institute of Cultural Studies will spend the coming academic year at one of the world’s most prominent research institutions, the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) in Princeton.

An article titled ‘Enhancing Crossflow Dynamics through the Gas Injection from Multiple Cylinders’ has been published in the prestigious International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer by University of Wrocław physicists: dr Sahrish Batool Naqvi and dr hab. Maciej Matyka, prof. UWr, along with Sadia Siddiqa (University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea), Rama S. R. Gorla (Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, USA) and Md. Mamun Molla (North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

A book about “post-German” items, co-authored by our scientist Anna Kurpiel and Katarzyna Maniak from the Jagiellonian University has just been awarded by the Polish Ethnological Society. The text, along with a visual essay by Łukasz Skąpski is a surprising description of attitudes and practices evoked by pre-WWII items in contemporary Wrocław and Szczecin.

The International Office of the University of Wrocław organises Orientation Days and a Welcome Ceremony every semester for all international students who come to study at our university.

Representatives of six Polish academies have signed an agreement concerning the support of the development of biotechnology on Monday, 23 September 2024, at the University of Gdańsk. University of Wrocław was represented by the Vice-Rector for projects and international relations, prof. Patrycja Matusz.