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Dr hab. Tadeusz Radoń (1929–2025), associate professor, was one of the fifteen students of the founder of the Wrocław school of surface physics – prof. dr hab. Jan Niklibowiec. Together with professor Niklibowiec’s students – professor Ryszard Męclewski and professor Zbigniew Sidorski – he contributed to the creation of one of the world’s most important field emission centers.

The Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. Robert Olkiewicz, invites the university community to the New Year Concert performed by the Symphonic Orchestra of the University Philharmonic, which will be held on 1 February at 6 p.m. in the Aula Leopoldina of the University of Wrocław (Pl. Uniwersytecki 1).

Prof. Anna Pacześniak of the Institute of European Studies at the University of Wrocław has been nominated – as one of six people in the whole of the European Union – to the Committee of Independent Eminent Persons. This was announced on behalf of the Conference of Presidents by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.

We talk about synesthesia and synesthetics, smells, senses, colors and letters with dr Przemysław Staniewski from the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Wrocław. Dr Staniewski has been conducting research on linguistic synesthesia for several years now. In the academic year 2023/2024, he was a scholarship holder of the Studienbörse Germanistik, which is the result of cooperation between the Hermann Niermann Foundation and the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg.

Conducting scientific research, especially involving the analysis of the laws of a country as distant as Chile, is quite a challenge. Of course, thanks to new technologies, it is possible to complete many research tasks practically without leaving home, but the real value of scientific research is still the opportunity to share your research results with other experts in order to initiate discussion on a given legal problem – emphasises our PhD student Laura Słocka.

The UWr Institute of Political Science and the Robert Schuman Center at the European University Institute invite you to lectures on grant application writing and publishing in foreign scientific journals.

The year 2025 will be a breakthrough for us – says dr Karol Kramarz, head of the Incubator of Scientific Excellence – Research Centre for DNA Repair and Replication at the Faculty of Biological Sciences of University of Wrocław, with whom we talk about the research successes of the Incubator and future plans.

Are you an exchange student, maybe just dealing with your travel arrangements or already enjoying your stay abroad? Share the highs, challenges and surprises of your international mobility experience!

Call for applications for study visits in the form of twinning as part of the project ‘Strengthening the participation of the University of Wrocław in the implementation of the tasks of the Arqus Alliance’.

Work on the European diploma is underway in the European Union. This solution is intended to raise educational standards in Europe and increase the attractiveness of graduates on the labour market – said dr hab. Patrycja Matusz, Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Science for European Affairs and Vice-Rector for Internationalisation at the University of Wrocław.

On Sunday, 2 February, at 11.00 a.m., we would like to invite you to another meeting in the ‘Nehring’ Room. This time dr hab. Tomasz Piekot will answer the question: “Kiedy „poszłem” przestanie być błędem?”

27 January marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 to commemorate Jews murdered by the Germans during World War II.