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Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Hanna Wróblewska appointed professor Krzysztof Ruchniewicz as director of Witold Pilecki’s Institute of Solidarity and Courage.  His five-year term in office starts on 5 November 2024. Dr Wojciech Kozłowski, who had been the acting director of the Institute, will assume the position of vice-director.

Elections to the regulatory bodies of the University of Wrocław Student Self-Government for the 2024-2026 term were held on 17-18 October.

Jakub Stachurka, a fourth-year student at the UWr College for Interdisciplinary Individual Studies, has joined the ranks of Sur-Place Scholarship (Sur Place Stipendium) laureates. The Scholarship is awarded by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

In 2024, the University of Wrocław received a prestigious grant as part of the international DUT call 2022 competition, announced under the co-financed partnership Horyzont Europa Driving Urban Transitions. This initiative involves 27 European countries, including Poland. The competition aims to support international research projects addressing the challenges faced by modern cities.

Thirteen new tutors graduated from the fourth edition of the Tutoring Academy of the University of Wrocław.

Recruitment for the MOST student and doctoral student mobility programme and supplementary recruitment for the summer term 2024/2025 has started.

The Academic Award “Leopoldina” was established in 2003 by the German-Polish Society of the University of Wrocław. The Award is granted to an author or authors of an outstanding academic work in humanities which features Polish-German or European themes and which was realized at the University of Wrocław.

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Prof. dr hab. Anna Brytek-Matera from the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław is developing a scientific project concerning the analysis of factors sustaining the symptoms of eating disorders. The research is being conducted at the University of Tokyo Medical School Hospital, which ranked 17th in the World’s Best Hospitals 2024 ranking and was named the best hospital in Japan.

The pilot and multidisciplinary research about the churchyard graveyards located near the Polish-Czech border is presented by scientists dr inż. Alicja Krzemińska, dr inż. Anna Zaręba from the Institute of Geography and Regional Development. The research results will be presented in the form of scientific articles, popular science lectures, and cyclically organised photo exhibitions, which will be available to see until the end of 2025. The first exhibition took place in the June of 2024, and the next on the 25th of October 2024.

On Tuesday, 29 October 2024, the Solemn Meeting of the Council of the Faculty of Social Communication and Media was held at the Oratorium Marianum.