UL: Popularisation of science

Seven Wrocław research centres, including our University represented by Rector prof. Robert Olkiewicz, signed an agreement to consolidate activities in order to jointly build strong research and development facilities and strengthen the city’s position as a significant scientific centre. This is the first step towards a Wrocław centre of excellence.

What’s new at the University of Wrocław Press?
In our series #MondayswithWUWr, we keep you up to date with the most important events, book news and issues important to the Publishing House! We also encourage you to follow the wuwr.eu website and the Publishing House’s social media – Fb, LinkedIn and Instagram and YouTube. We encourage you to follow!

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.
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. The date of the holiday, set for 27 January, commemorates the liberation of the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau – now one of the most important Holocaust Memorials […]

What’s new at the University of Wrocław Press? In our series #MondayswithWUWr, we keep you up to date with the most important events, book news and issues important to the Publishing House! We also encourage you to follow the wuwr.eu website and the Publishing House’s social media – Fb, LinkedIn and Instagram and YouTube. We encourage you to follow!
Dr Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider of the Centre for Research on the Antique World was a guest on the Eureka programe on Polskie Radio Program 1. She talked about the history of the Aramaic language and its use today, as well as the transmission of biblical traditions in the language. In a conversation with editor Katarzyna Kobylecka, […]