UL: Cooperation

The International Office’s application in the PROM competition for short-term academic exchange received funding from the National Academic Exchange Agency to the tune of nearly PLN 2 million. The funds will enable academic staff, doctoral students and UWr students to travel to academic centres all over the world (excluding the Russian Federation) and receive visitors to Wrocław.

Prof. dr hab. Dorota Nowak, dean of the UWr Faculty of Biotechnology, has been elected for another term as a member of the Molecular Cell Biology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

On Saturday, 14. September, the Falling Walls Lab Wroclaw 2024 will take place in the Oratorium Marianum (Music Hall) of the University of Wroclaw Main Building, as a part of the opening day programme for the Lower Silesia Festival of Science (Dolnośląski Festiwal Nauki – DFN).

From 17-21 June 2024, students from the UWr Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics participated in a summer school on constitutional law in Madrid co-organised by FLAE UWr and the Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, the UK’s The Open University, Germany’s FernUniversität in Hagen and Spain’s Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Facultad De Derecho.

Last semester, students of the translation specialisation from the Institute of German Studies participated in an international teaching project Literaturübersetzung im deutsch-polnischen Kulturdialog [Literary translation in German-Polish cultural dialogue].

Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies invites you to events in May: meeting centered around the book “Bitwy o przeszłość. Nauka, polityka, media, edukacja” with the author, prof. Jan M. Piskorski and the lecture by dr. Ansbert Baumann „Gastarbeiterfußball. Fußball und Migrationen in Deutschland”.

On May 24th, the opening of the photo exhibition titled “Little Essen: A Polish-German Place of (Non-)Memory” by Prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz will take place at the Ravensbrück Memorial Site. The pretext for organizing the exhibition is the meeting of the Polish-German Textbook Commission, established under the auspices of the UNESCO commissions in Poland and Germany in 1972. The organizers of the exhibition are: the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media, the Georg Eckert Institute, the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław, the University of Wrocław itself, and DAAD.

The UWr team composed of: Krzysztof Boryczka, Antoni Buraczewski, Łukasz Pluta, ranked 5th and won the bronze medal in the first ever European Team Programming Championships!

On October 10, 2023, in the Senate Room of the University of Wrocław, an agreement was signed between Wrocław and Opole universities and the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, the National Energy Conservation Agency and the Bank Ochrony Środowiska [Bank for Environmental Protection]. The agreement concerns the development of a pilot nationwide model for the energy transformation of university operations.