UL: Popularisation of science

Prof. Michał Tomczak from the University of Wrocław’s Institute of Astronomy was elected the new president of the Polish Astronomical Society.

The Department of Renaissance and Reformation Art History at the Institute of Art History of the University of Wrocław, is organising, from 22 to 27 September 2025 in Gdańsk, the Polish-German Seminar Wrocław–Halle–Siegen “Religion and Art in Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Confessional Gdańsk in the Early Modern Period”. The participants in this event, prepared in cooperation with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Siegen, will include scholars, doctoral candidates and students of art history, Protestant and Catholic theology and church history from the institutions named above.

On 13 September, the 28th edition of the Lower Silesian Science Festival, the largest popular science event in the country, will commence.

We spoke with the DFN coordinator at the University of Wrocław, dr Aleksandra Ziober, about this year’s festival theme and the events awaiting participants.

The Historical Institute invites to the last ‘Szewski Czwartek’ of this academic year.

The University of Wrocław has been selected by the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) as one of two Polish universities that will conduct a live connection with the International Space Station (ISS). Our University has defeated multiple academic centres in prestigious eliminations, winning recognition for its involvement in science popularisation and educational activity.

On May 17th, we invite you to visit some of the University of Wrocław facilities, which open their doors to host the Long Night of Museums. The academicians of Wrocław, under the auspices of the Academic Museums Association, have also prepared an exterior exhibition, Wrocław na szlaku dziedzictwa akademickiego (eng. ‘Wrocław on the Trail of Academic Heritage’), which will open on May 13th at 13:00. However, it will be visible the day before at ul. Kuźnicza. Certainly, this exhibition might be an inspiration for those who are interested in spending the Night of the Museums in the academic institutions of Wrocław.

The Artificial Intelligence Olympiad is a competition aimed at students from Polish secondary schools. It also represents a unique opportunity to support young talent – individuals who are just beginning their journey into the world of AI and are eager to expand their knowledge, gain new experiences, and develop their skills at the highest level. The goal of the Olympiad is to promote key knowledge and technologies at the foundation of artificial intelligence. The competition began on February 17, and its first stage has just concluded.

Staff from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science invite you to a meeting as part of a new initiative: Mathematics and Computer Science meetings at the University.

The Library of the University of Wrocławpresents the most valuable objects from its collections! All on the occasion of the double and exceptionally round jubilee of two important events in Polish history, which falls in April 2025: The 1000th anniversary of the coronation of its first king and the 500th anniversary of the Prussian Homage.

On 16 April from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., we warmly invite to attend an in-person revision workshop at the Library of the Institute of Geography and Regional Development (Plac Uniwersytecki 1, 2nd floor). The workshop is designed to help and prepare high school graduates for the geography Matura exam.