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The Polish Patent Office has accepted an application to grant the research team another important patent for an invention. This is the result of collaboration between researchers from the Department of Mycology and Genetics at the University of Wrocław and the Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in Wrocław.

Last weekend (5-7 December), the University of Wrocław hosted the Central European Regional Contest of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The competition brought together 70 three-person teams from Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Poland, all competing for qualification to the World Finals, which will be held for the fiftieth time this year.

In early December, the Doctrine and Training Centre of the Polish Armed Forces, together with the University of Wrocław, organised a scientific seminar titled “National Security in the Context of Social Transformations and Urbanization Challenges – an Interdisciplinary Diagnosis and Perspectives”.

On Friday, 5 December, a special event entitled “Nauka na Fali – GeoArctic Expedition 2025” was held in the Professor A. Mycielski Lecture Hall at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław. The meeting brought together nearly 300 secondary school pupils, university students, academic staff, and enthusiasts of sailing and science. Through a premiere screening of documentary films, participants were transported to the harsh and captivating landscapes of the Arctic.

The podcast “Łatwo powiedzieć. Tomasz Piekot” has been nominated for the Grand Press 2025 Award in the category “Specialist Journalism and New Forms of Journalism.” The author of the podcast is dr hab. Tomasz Piekot, linguist and Head of the Centre for Plain Polish at the University of Wrocław.

On behalf of the Ex-centre of Olga Tokarczuk at the Academic Research Centre, we cordially invite you to an event from the series “Ex-centric Dialogues” entitled “The Translator’s Map.”

Sarah Mebarki, a student from the French partner university Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, spends the winter semester of the academic year 2025-2026 at the Institute of Romance Studies (IFR) at the University of Wrocław (UWr) within the framework of the agreement “Arqus Multiple Master’s Degree Programme in Translation”.

The personal diary kept by eighteen-year-old student Tadeusz Kolbuch during the student strike of March 1968 has recently been donated to the Archives of the University of Wrocław.

From 5 to 7 December, the University of Wrocław will welcome programming enthusiasts from the best universities in Central Europe, who will compete in challenging algorithmic tasks.

Prof. dr hab. Zbigniew J. Przerembski from the Department of Systematic Musicology in the Institute of Musicology at the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences became a leader of the international European Union grant “Historical and Ethnographic Study of Belarusian Bagpipes: Symbolism, Music and Cultural Revival” as part of the EU4 Belarus Salt III programme. Uladzimir Lobach and Eugen Baryshnikau are Belarusian researchers who also participate in the project.

On behalf of His Magnificence, the Rector of the University of Wrocław, professor Robert Olkiewicz, we cordially invite the entire academic community of the University of Wrocław, staff, doctoral candidates and students, to take part in a training session conducted by counter-terrorism officers of the Regional Police Headquarters in Wrocław.