UL: University in the world

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.”

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.

We talked with professor Jarosław Byrka from the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Wrocław. Prof. Byrka participated in the prestigious FOCS 2024 conference in Chicago at the end of October, presenting his work titled The Bidirected Cut Relaxation for Steiner Tree has Integrality Hap Smaller than 2.

November 18th , 19th and 21st , 2024 (Monday-Tuesday-Thursday)

The University of Wrocław ranked among the top 1201-1500 universities worldwide in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025, announced on 9 October 2024. We performed best in the International Outlook category, achieving 3rd place in
Poland.

Stanford University and the Elsevier publishing house have published the next edition of the ranking of researchers with the greatest impact on the development of science in the world (the so-called TOP 2% list). Every year, more and more scientists from the University of Wrocław appear in the list.

More than 30 valuable archaeological sites, previously unknown cave paintings, fragments of pottery and stone tools have been identified by Polish archaeologists in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. This is the first Polish research at the site.