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We announce with deep sadness that prof. dr hab. Gerard Koziełek (in fact, Gerhard Kosellek), born in Racibórz (Ratbior) on 5 March 1928, passed away on 24 May 2024 in Krefeld, in the age of 96.

27 researchers from our University will receive a total of more than PLN 40.5 million for the implementation of projects in the recently concluded OPUS26 and SONATA19 competitions of the National Science Centre.

European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) chose 60 new Actions, which will be granted with a four-year funding for creating and managing international research networks. Among chosen projects there is only one Action from Poland, submitted by prof. Michał Jacuński from the Institute of Political Science, University of Wrocław.

The fourth edition of the international conference of young researchers BEYOND LANGUAGE 2024 is already a thing of the past. This year, speakers from Israel, Romania, Ukraine, Dresden, Ireland, Wrocław, Poznań, Kraków, Olsztyn, Gdańsk and Warsaw met for four days in May at the Jagiellonian University (UJ), the University of Wrocław (UWr), Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) and online to discuss, among other things: humor, Chinese novels, Georgian verbs, Dongba symbols, the language of poetry, the etymology of words, map grammar, mythical heroes, Homeric comparisons, syncretic cultural forms, interference of worlds and melic translation.

On Saturday 25 May, the final round of Potyczki Algorytmiczne 2024, the largest and most important nationwide individual programming competition, ended in Zielona Góra. The winner was our student Łukasz Pluta!

27 of our researchers will receive a total of more than 40 and a half million PLN for the realization of their projects in the recently concluded OPUS 26 and SONATA 19 competitions of the National Science Centre (NCN).

On 25th of May 2024, the Student Nobels were awarded at the final gala in Warsaw. One of the awarded is Kacper Rosner-Leszczyński, a History student of our UWr.

On 11th of May 2024, the 12th charity Bieg Firmowy [eng. Company Run] took place. It was a 5 x 5 kilometers relay. The idea behind the run was to promote a healthy rivalry and physical activity among the employees through running, integration and cooperation within and between companies. Above all, however, it was to contribute to charity for disabled and ill children. The main originator and organiser has been the Everest Foundation.

The 12th International Staff Training Week organised by the International Office began on 20 May.

On 17 May, on the eve of the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the capture of Monte Cassino by General Władysław Anders’ soldiers, two representatives of the University of Wrocław paid tribute to the fallen soldiers buried at the Polish War Cemetery on Monte Cassino. Rafał Tomczak from the University Centre for Physical Education and Sport, the initiator of the bicycle rally organised by the Lower Silesian Association of Health Culture and Sport NSZZ ‘Solidarność’, in which he holds the position of president, and Tomasz Kalota – Director of the University Centre for Digital Humanities, a participant in the bicycle rally after running 10 km, reached the Polish War Cemetery on Monte Cassino in the evening hours.

The University of Wrocław participated in the EU-funded EDUPART project, offering distance learning courses in the field of public policy and public administration via Teams app (February-May 2024)

The University of Wrocław and Sokhumi State University of Tbilisi (Georgia) have solemnly confirmed their willingness to continue their ongoing cooperation from 2019.