UL: University in the world

Prof. Dorota Nowak and her team have been recognized by the Minister of Science and Higher Education. The award for significant achievements in scientific activity was presented on February 19 during the Polish Science Gala 2025 in Toruń. Congratulations!

On Wednesday, 19 February, during the Welcome Ceremony at the University of Wrocław, the staff of the International Office and dr Łukasz Prus, Vice-Rector for Student Affairs, welcomed around 150 students from all over the world! In the current semester, the group of students at the University of Wrocław has been joined by participants of the Erasmus+ programme and other exchange programmes from European Union countries, as well as from Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Canada, Chile, Morocco, Tanzania, Jordan, Moldova and Kosovo. The event marks the beginning of the Orientation Days at the University of Wrocław.

Dr Zbigniew Mogiła from the Department of International Economic Relations and European Integration at the Institute for International and Security Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences) has been elected to the Committee on Spatial Economy and Regional Planning of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). This is one of the most important expert bodies in Poland, dealing with regional policy and the spatial management of the country.

The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wrocław will be implementing the WEAVE UNISONO research grant in a trilateral cooperation between the German Research Foundation agency, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Polish National Science Centre agency.

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.

On the basis of a decision of the Scientific Council of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim, prof. dr hab. Joanna Szczęk has been appointed as a member of the International Scientific Council of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language.

Dr hab. Adam Mrozowicki, prof. UWr and Head of the Department of Sociology of Work and Economy, participated in the inauguration of the Work-Net International network at the University of Manchester on 21–22 January 2025.

The collection of a German researcher, Hermann Klaatsch, as a starting point for a discussion on the sensitive heritage at the University of Wrocław.

The oldest, the biggest and the most important – that’s what “Archaeological Sensations 2024” is! And among them are papyri discovered in Egypt by our archaeologists as the “Największy skarb 2024” (eng. “Greatest Treasure of 2024”).

Seven Polish-Czech and two trilateral projects involving teams from the Czech Republic, Germany and Slovenia have been selected for funding in the Weave-UNISONO 2024 competition. Among them is a project by dr hab. Małgorzata Zakrzewska, prof. UWr at the Faculty of Biotechnology.

The January issue of Nature Communications published a paper showing how ribosomes (the translational machinery) change their position during the sporulation process in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. The research was carried out by a team of dr hab. Agata Starosta from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in cooperation with scientists from our University’s Faculty of Biotechnology – dr Joanna Hołówka and prof. Jolanta Zakrzewska-Czerwińska.

The staff of the Faculty of Biological Sciences invites you to an open lecture by prof. Tomas Pinos Figueras, entitled: “Molecular insights into McArdle’s disease. Similarities and differences with other glycogen storage diseases and current therapeutic strategies.”