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As part of the IDUB programme (short-term visits), the Faculty of Biological Sciences and the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Wrocław will host two distinguished scholars, who will deliver open lectures on the determinants of human behaviour. The event will take place at the Institute of Psychology, ul. Dawida 1, in room 18/lecture hall.

W ramach programu IDUB (short-term visits), Wydział Nauk Biologicznych Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego będzie gościł prof. Marka Thomasa z Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, który wygłosi wykład otwarty pt. Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe. Wydarzenie odbędzie się 23 września 2025 roku w godzinach 15:00–16:00 w dużej sali przy ul. Sienkiewicza 21 (budynek Muzeum Przyrodniczego UWr).

The Rectors of Wrocław public universities are honoured to invite to the Inauguration of the Academic Year 2025/2026 of Wrocław Universities. The inaugural speech will be delivered by ks. prof. dr hab. Sławomir Stasiak, Chairman of the Collegium of Rectors of Wrocław and Opole Universities.

Must contemporary democracy be dominated by negative emotions? Are we doomed to ever-growing hostility between political opponents and to enthusiastically supporting “our side” at all costs? Or might it be possible to improve the emotional climate within European democracies while preserving citizens’ identities and, at the same time, respecting the worldview diversity essential for public debate? These and other equally compelling questions are being explored by political theorists dr Paweł Nowakowski and dr Mateusz Zieliński.

From 24 to 29 August 2025, the University of Wrocław hosted the European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy, EUCMOS 2025) was held at the University of Wrocław. It has been organised regularly since 1947 and has already been held twice in Poland: in 1977 in Wrocław and in 2004 in Krakow. The Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy is one of the most important international conferences on spectroscopy and its applications.

We spoke with the DFN coordinator at the University of Wrocław, dr Aleksandra Ziober, about this year’s festival theme and the events awaiting participants.

The Institute of Archaeology at the UWr Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, invites you on Friday, 5 September 2025, to two open lectures as part of the Visiting Professors programme, implemented under the Excellence Initiative – Research University project.

As part of the visiting professors programme implemented under the Initiative of Excellence – Research University project, the Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Wrocław will host Prof. Ben Boyd from Monash University (Australia).

Obesity is a global problem, but in Poland it is an especially important issue for consideration. Hence, Wroclaw Medical University introduces the health campaign raising awareness about obesity, which is supported by the University of Wrocław.

The project “W kierunku stosowalnych nadprzewodzących stopów o wysokiej entropii o wysokich gęstościach prądu krytycznego” (eng. ‘Towards applicable high-entropy superconducting alloys with high critical current densities’) has received support from the National Science Centre. The Miniature grant will go to dr Piotr Sobota, assistant professor at the Department of Nuclear Physics and Dielectrics of the Institute of Experimental Physics of the UWr Faculty of Physics and Astronomy.

Applications are open until 31 August for the third edition of the IDUB Teaching Award. In this article, we present an interview about didactics in the administration field with the winner of the IDUB first edition teaching award – dr hab. Magdalena Tabernacka, prof. UWr from the Institute of Administrative Sciences. Prof. Tabernacka received IDUB teaching award also for co-authoring the publication “Europa, dialog i perspektywy młodych ludzi w zwierciadle wyników badań prowadzonych w projekcie GANESA”.

An international research team led by dr Łukasz Stachnik from the Institute of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Wrocław argues that valley glaciers may make an important contribution to the supply of nutrients to Arctic ecosystems. The team’s findings have been published in the journal Chemical Geology.