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You are cordially invited to take part in this year’s eighth edition of the Wrocław Medical University Run. This annual event has become an integral part of the celebration of the inauguration of the new academic year and one of the most important sporting events in Lower Silesia.

On Saturday, 14. September, the Falling Walls Lab Wroclaw 2024 will take place in the Oratorium Marianum (Music Hall) of the University of Wroclaw Main Building, as a part of the opening day programme for the Lower Silesia Festival of Science (Dolnośląski Festiwal Nauki – DFN).

We cordially invite you to the 1st Wrocław Mineral and Jewellery Exchange ‘Pod Platanami’, which will take place on 14.09.2024 on the beautiful Zwierzycki Boulevard by the Pomeranian Bridge.

The event, in which the UWr Institute of Geological Sciences will participate, is held under the patronage of His Magnificence the Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. dr hab. Robert Olkiewicz.

The European Day of Languages is traditionally celebrated across Europe on 26 September. It is dedicated to the idea of a multilingual and multicultural Europe. A Europe in which there is room for all the languages of the world.

Enrolment for the fourth semester of the World Cinema Academy began on 9 September. It will be devoted to the cinema of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In thirteen lectures, we will look at a selection of the most important, interesting and innovative cinematographies of the period – we will get to know the films of South Korea, Greece, Hong Kong, Germany, Poland, Iran and the Latin American countries.

Is mathematics still the queen of sciences? This question will certainly be answered in the affirmative by young and talented mathematics enthusiasts from all over Poland, who will turn out in large numbers at the University of Wrocław for the 9th Congress of Young Mathematicians.

On 5 September 2024, the 2nd European Universities Conference, organised by the Foundation for the Development of Education Systems, ends in Krakow. We could not miss it. European Universities now comprises 64 international consortia bringing together more than 560 higher education institutions from across the continent In the 2024 intake, as many as 9 Polish universities are in new alliances under the European Universities initiative.

Prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, an employee of the Historical Institute and director of the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies at our University, was nominated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, as a member of the Committee for the ‘Prize for special merits for the development of Polish-German relations’.
The Polish-German Prize was established by the Polish–German Treaty of Good Neighbourship and Friendly Cooperation in 1991 for special contributions to the development of Polish-German relations.

In the July distribution of Miniatures, grants from NCN were awarded to five people from our University, among them dr Marcin Borowski from the Department of Russian Literature and Culture at the Institute of Slavic Studies in the Faculty of Faculty of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures for the project ‘Obrazy „psychopatów” w twórczości Fiodora Dostojewskieg’ (PLN 6,325.00)

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On 28 August, the 17th edition of the Paralympic Games began in Paris. 4,400 athletes from 182 countries have entered the competition. Until 8 September—the last day of the Games—competitions in 22 disciplines will be held, and 549 sets of medals will be handed. The slogan of this year’s both Olympic and Paralympic Games is “Games Wide Open.”