This year's International Conference MEDIA-BIZNES-CULTURE. Pomerania 2023 brought together more than 100 guests from scientific centres in Poland and abroad and featured many unique events. Vasilisa Stepanenko, the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize, acted as a keynote speaker and met with students of the University of Gdańsk. The conference included the awarding of University of Gdańsk medals to the staff of the…

The 26th Polish Peptide Symposium, organised by the staff of the Department of Molecular Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, was held from September 3–7, 2023, in Stare Jabłonki. The Polish Peptide Symposium is a cyclical event organised every other year for over 50 years. Due to the epidemiological situation, the last meeting…

Dr Marcin Pawłowski, prof. UG and honorary doctor prof. Anton Zeilinger - these are just some speakers at this year's 48th Congress of the Polish Physical Society. Between September 1 and 7, the Gdańsk University of Technology and the University of Gdańsk will host interactive exhibitions, physics demonstrations, and lectures on quantum cryptography or teaching methods…

For the 12th time, scholars from the University of Gdańsk participated in the International Medieval Congress organised by the University of Leeds. The event, initiated in 1994, is Europe's largest and most prestigious forum for the discussion of the Middle Ages. For more than a dozen years, it has been attended by over 2,000 people, not only from Europe but also from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, or Japan…

Good OSH practices during remote working, working conditions and health, and fire safety are the topics of the conference 'Safety and Health at Work'. On September 27, as many as 12 expert panels will take place during the event organised by the Office of Occupational Safety and Health UG. The 'Safety and Health at Work' conference creates a space…

For the third time, young researchers from all over Poland and Europe met at the University of Gdańsk to present the results of their scientific endeavours. From July 6 to July 8 this year, the Congress of Young Science, one of the largest multidisciplinary scientific conferences in Poland, was held. Approximately 200 papers and posters from various…

The Institute of Political Sciences of the University of Gdańsk was a partner of the international conference 'Rolling back authoritarianism', organised in cooperation with the European Solidarity Centre. Referring to the 21 demands of the Interfactory Strike Committee, conference participants signed the 'Gdańsk Declaration of Solidarity with Democracy'. Among the signatories was dr Arkadiusz Modrzejewski, prof. UG. The…

The University of Gdańsk has won the European Universities - Alliances of the Future competition in the Support for Ukraine category. At the European Universities Conference in Warsaw, the award was received by the Rector, prof. Piotr Stepnowski.  Sharing experiences and taking joint initiatives leading to the development of long-term, structural,…

How is social energy influenced by the contact between institutions of different spheres of social life: universities, businesses, local government, NGOs, and educational institutions? Does it dynamise the exchange of energy, or does it make the energy annihilate and drain away? What should be done so that the first type of process dominates? There is…

Art historians, lawyers and medievalists will discuss the inspiration and context of the work of one of the pioneers of the Renaissance between April 20 and 22. During the conference, 'Artists, Bankers, and Sailors. Contexts of the times of Hans Memling' we will learn, among other things, what role pirates played in the transportation of the 'Last…