UL: Competitions and prizes

Dr Anna Grochowska from the Department of Spatial Planning of the UWr Institute of Geography and Regional Development, together with a team of dr hab. Sylwia Dołzbłasz, prof. UWr (UWr Department of Land Management), dr Aneta Marek (UWr Department of Regional Geography and Tourism), and prof. Francesco Pagliacci (Università degli Studi di Padova), received a NAWA 2024 Intervention Grant in January for the project: ‘Flood risk awareness and management: the analysis of the effectiveness of measures and public perception’.

The Fulbright Programme is the most prestigious and beneficial programme for travel to the USA.

The Minister’s Lifetime Achievement Award is an individual award that enjoys great prestige in the community. It is a recognition of the laureate’s achievements, which have left a measurable and recognisable contribution to science. Prof. Krzysztof Redlich received the award at the Polish Science Gala in Toruń on 19 February. Our sincere congratulations! 

All young science enthusiasts from grades 5 to 8 of primary school who are familiar with scientific experiments are invited to take part in the Universiada! The Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Wrocław and the Polish Association of Chemical Engineers – Wrocław Branch are organising a unique competition for science enthusiasts for the third time.

The Artificial Intelligence Olympiad is a competition directed to students of Polish high schools. It is also a unique opportunity to support young talents – people who are just entering the world of AI and want to expand their knowledge, gain new experiences and develop their skills at the highest level. The aim of the competition is to popularize the key knowledge and technologies underlying artificial intelligence. The first stage will begin on February 17. You can register your participation until February 15 via the oai.cs.uni.wroc.pl website. 

Once again, the UWr Institute of Computer Science will be the organiser of the ICPC Central Europe Regional Contest. From 13 to 15 December, our university will host seventy three-person teams consisting of programming enthusiasts from top universities in Central Europe, who will face complex algorithmic tasks.

Two University of Wrocław scientists received this year’s Prime Minister’s Award. In the category for outstanding dissertation, the winners were dr Rafał Mudafrom the Institute of Psychology and dr Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański from the Astronomical Institute.

Two researchers from the University of Wrocław were awarded this year’s Prime Minister’s Award in the category for an outstanding doctoral dissertation: dr Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański from the Institute of Astronomy, and dr Rafał Muda from the Institute of Psychology.

On 13 November 2024, at the Honorary Consulate of India in Wrocław, a ceremony was held to award two vouchers for air tickets to India, for flights Warsaw – Delhi – Warsaw, which were funded by the Honorary Consul of India in Wroclaw, Mr. Kartikey Johri. The persons honoured with the award of the Honorary Consul were Ms Zofia Błasińska and Katarzyna Piróg, outstanding students in the first year of graduate studies in Indian Studies. The two awarded students were selected from among all students of Indian philology from the second year of undergraduate studies, as a result of a secret ballot of the staff of the Department of Indian Studies (ISKŚiO UWr).

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to a South Korean writer, Han Kang. Dr Hae Sung Lee from the Korean team at the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies believes this is a sign that Korea is transforming from a cultural power into a truly culturally rich nation. Here is the full commentary from the university’s Korean Studies scholar:

Nagroda Nobla z chemii – komentarz naszego eksperta z Wydziału Biotechnologii UWr. Jakie znaczenie mają odkrycia trzech badaczy Davida Bakera, Demissa Hassabisa oraz Johna M. Jumpera?