UL: University in the world

From 5 to 7 December, the University of Wrocław will welcome programming enthusiasts from the best universities in Central Europe, who will compete in challenging algorithmic tasks.

What lies behind the intriguing name of the Facilex project? Can – and if so, how – the influence of Elon Musk on the stability of financial markets be limited? And what does the law have to do with plain language? We invite you to watch a film about the research activities of the Digital Justice Center, which touches on these and other topics in the fields of international law, criminal law, banking and new technologies.

In October, the University of Salerno hosted an international academic conference „Diskurse der Nachhaltigkeit. Sprachliche Perspektiven auf Ökologie und Gesellschaft.”

Our expert’s commentary on the Nobel Prize in Literature

Commentary by an expert from the Institute of Sociology at the University of Wrocław on the Nobel Peace Prize.

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

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.

Na Uniwersytecie w Segedynie na Węgrzech, zakończyło się wydarzenie „Urban Post-COVID Recovery in the V4 Countries: Towards Effective Sectoral Policies?”. Zgromadziło badaczy i praktyków zajmujących się problematyką funkcjonowania samorządów miejskich w warunkach odbudowy po pandemii COVID-19. Wzięli w również udział naukowcy z Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego.

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.