UL: University in the world

Report from the working meeting of Arqus alliance members as part of Package 9

Commentary by an expert from the University of Wrocław on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

Another year at the University of Wrocław, as part of the ARQUS European University Alliance, has begun. Thanks to these projects, initiatives constantly come to life, crossing not only national borders, but also redefining academic life. In the interview with dr Katarzyna Kajdanek, sociologist and ARQUS project participant, we can take a closer look at an international collaboration in urban research and reflect on academic culture.

Stanford University and Elsevier have published another edition of the ranking of researchers who have had the greatest impact on the development of science worldwide (the so-called TOP 2% list). We are delighted that every year more and more researchers from the University of Wrocław appear in this ranking.

In September, the University of Wrocław hosted the 18th edition of the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages.

On September 25, at 11 a.m., a seminar summarising the project “Alma Mater Leopoliensis. History of Lviv humanities 1661-1946” will take place at the Library of the University of Wrocław. Among those who participated in this landmark event were staff members from the UWr Institute of Polish Studies, the Library of the University of Wrocław, and Polish and Ukrainian archivists and researchers.

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.

W sobotę, 13 września, zapraszamy na kolejną edycję Falling Walls Lab Wrocław. Wydarzenie odbędzie się w Oratorium Marianum o godz. 13.00

The jubilee, 20th Polish-Belarusian Scientific and Practical Round Table, titled “Kształtowanie społeczeństwa obywatelskiego na Białorusi a polskie doświadczenia transformacyjne” (eng. “The Relation between Shaping the Civil Society of Belarus and Polish Experiences with Democratic Transformation”), will take place on Friday, November 3. The event will be held at 9 a.m. at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of International and Security Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences located at ul. Koszarowa 3, room 114. The co-organisers of the event are the Municipal Office of Wrocław and the Free Belarus University Foundation.

Poles in Brazil fought not only pumas and snakes, but also for the Polish language. Dr Fabricio Wichrowski, a Brazilian historian and archaeologist of Polish descent, talks about the Polish diaspora in Brazil. Dr Wichrowski is currently at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław as a fellow of NAWA’s Polonista programme.

For another consecutive year, the University of Wrocław has climbed the ranks in one of the most prestigious university rankings, the QS World University Rankings 2026, published on 19 June. The university is placed in the 801–850 group among the best higher education institutions worldwide. In the previous edition of the ranking, it was positioned within the 851–900 band. Among Polish universities, we are ranked fifth, while among classical universities we hold fourth place. In the Lower Silesian region, we are the highest-ranked institution.

We are pleased to announce that prof. Marta Osypińska from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław has signed a cooperation agreement with the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI), concerning the implementation of the first Polish archaeological project in Tanzania’s history.