A new project - ‘Early Childhood and Sustainable Citizenship Routes in the Digital Era’ (EACH) - has received €250,000 in Erasmus+ funding, with a budget of over €23,000 for the University of Gdańsk researchers. The project on the UG side is led by dr Jarosław Jendza from the Institute of Pedagogy. The EACH project is primarily a study of preschool education, which combines a deep understanding of the environment and…

The second round of the Academic Citizens' Budget is behind us. Among the winning projects of the previous editions, some serve the purpose of rest, quiet and peaceful work in the faculties. We checked how they functioned and asked students what they thought of them.   CHILLOUT ZONE A student project called 'CHILLOUT ZONE at WNS' was realised in 2022…

The athlete of the athletics section of ASA University of Gdańsk Weronika Mikołajewska (Faculty of Economics) has been appointed to the Polish National Team for the Academic World Championships in cross-country running in Oman. The competition will take place on 17-18.02.2024 in Muscat. Weronika Mikołajewska, in the colours of ASA…

Experts, local government representatives, and journalists will discuss landscape as a challenge, a media topic, or a legal issue. Social-Scientific Forum Landscape and People. People in the Landscape will take place on March 1, 2024, in J. Limon Theatre Aula in the Neophilology building. ‘I understand Social-Scientific Forum Landscape and People.…

Employees of the Research and Implementation Laboratory, from left: dr Agata Motyka-Pomagruk, dr Natalia Kaczyńska, Weronika Babińska-Wensierska, M.Sc. Wojciech Śledź, prof. dr hab. Ewa Łojkowska, trainee mgr Michał Prusiński. Photo: Alan Stocki The Research and Implementation Laboratory of the Intercollegiate Faculty of…

Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, in cooperation with the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, is looking for young, talented researchers for post-doc positions. KiTE - Kiel Training for Excellence - is an excellence and development programme for researchers from all over the world interested in conducting independent,…

Scientists from the UG Faculty of Social Sciences are carrying out comprehensive studies of memory, smell, and attention in post-COVID-19 patients. The team is trying to establish the long-term effects of COVID-19 on the central nervous system, particularly on the right hemisphere of the brain. The psychologists are currently looking for volunteers to…

photo by Alan Stocki/UG Director of the UG Office of Science, dr Katarzyna Świerk, has been awarded this year's Stars of Internationalisation in the Star of Development category! This is an award for people who have contributed most to the internationalisation of Polish universities. ‘This is a great distinction and a great joy for…

The Dean of the Faculty of Languages, dr hab. Urszula Patocka-Sigłowy, prof. UG, and dr Justyna Pomierska, specialising in the didactics of the Kashubian language, from the Department of Applied Polish Studies at the Institute of Polish Philology, UG, met in Warsaw on February 6, 2024, with the Minister of Education Barbara Nowacka and senators of the…

Exhibition space It is a matter of the next few months before the University of Gdańsk Museum, based at 5 Bielańska Street in Gdańsk, opens a permanent exhibition dedicated to the university's history. It will include artefacts relating to the most significant events in the 54 years of the University of Gdańsk's existence and more!…

Based on research in Myanmar in southern Asia, a team including dr hab. Jacek Szwedo, prof. UG from the Faculty of Biology prepared a publication on the evolutionary history of cicadas. The article appeared in ‘Nature Communications’, a journal with an impact factor of 17,694, which is among the journals highest-ranked by the MEiN. The publication was…

Notes, fiches, letters, photographs, and priceless books - a ceremony was held on the last day of January to hand over the legacy of Prof. Lech Mokrzecki (1935-2021) to the University of Gdańsk Archives. The rich historical materials and personal memorabilia are available in the Reading Room of the UG Archives. After the scholar passed away, his heirs…

A month full of inspiring meetings at the Andrzej Wajda Film Centre of the University of Gdańsk lies ahead. Come and join us! On February 9 at 6 p.m., we will play Hundreds of Beavers (2022) by Mike Cheslik, a slapstick comedy that pays tribute to the best Buster Keaton films with its wit and unpredictability! After the screening, we will talk to…

The University of Gdańsk is once again breaking the record for the amount of money collected for the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation. This time, thanks to auctions organised by the academic community, we managed to collect as much as PLN 35,416.99. In 2020, when the UG played for the GOCC for the first time, PLN 8 630 was collected,…

Are you looking for products with the University logo? The Foundation for the Development of the University of Gdańsk would like to invite you to the UG Souvenir Shop located in the Main Library building on the Oliwa Campus! The UG Shop offers products with the University logo. The range includes clothing, conference items, electronics, coffee, tea,…

The Head of the Aquaculture Laboratory of the Department of Marine Biology and Biotechnology at the WOiG, dr hab. inż. Konrad Ocalewicz, prof. UG has been appointed to the Scientific Council of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split (Croatia). The competencies of the Scientific Council are advisory in nature. The scope of the Council's…

How to view migration? Is it a weapon, a political fuel, a humanitarian crisis, or perhaps an opportunity for development? We discuss the influx of migrants and refugees into Europe from the South and East with dr Martin Kilgus from Ifa Academie. In January this year, the German researcher visited the Institute of Political Science UG to teach a class…

Prof. Hanna Mazur-Marzec from the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography UG talks about blue, green, white and red biotechnology and the resources of the Baltic Sea. We would like to remind you an interview with this year's winner of the Jan Hevelius Science Award of the City of Gdańsk, conducted by dr Beata Czechowska-Derkacz. Dr Beata Czechowska-…

What was Adam Mickiewicz's lost utopia about? Who writes the most popular utopias today? And why does the dystopian vision of the world appear so often in young adult literature? This is what we are discussing with this year's winner of the Jan Hevelius Science Award of the City of Gdańsk in the field of humanities, prof. dr hab. Artur Blaim from the…

English scholar, a specialist in utopia and dystopia in culture prof. dr hab. Artur Blaim and oceanographer and chemist prof. dr hab. Hanna Mazur-Marzec are this year's winners of the Jan Hevelius Science Award of the City of Gdańsk. ‘Prof. Artur Blaim became famous for his research on literary utopia and dystopia in English culture. A spectacular…

Researchers from four departments at the University of Gdańsk have prepared a comprehensive diagnosis of Tricity from the legal, technological or socio-cultural perspective. The interdisciplinary monograph entitled. 'The potential of the Tricity agglomeration and the methodology for measuring its use' was created as part of the activities of the UG’s…

Due to his appointment as Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Interior and Administration, the previous President of the University of Gdańsk Council, dr hab. Maciej Duszczyk, prof. UW stepped down. By a decision of the UG Senate of January 25, dr Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, prof. SGH became a new member of the Council from outside the University community. Prof. Maciej Duszczyk will be replaced as President by dr hab…

If you love the sea and its wildlife and want to gain practical experience in caring for seal pups and helping stranded Baltic seals return to the wild - you are more than welcome to support our team at the Prof. Krzysztof Skóra Marine Station of the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of the University of Gdańsk in Hel and the Foundation for the…

Prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski will head the University of Gdańsk for the next four years. The decision was made by the Electoral College on January 25, 2024; in a secret ballot, the College entrusted him with the function of Rector of the University for the term 2024-2028.   Rector prof. Piotr Stepnowski was the only candidate in the election of the…

mgr Vladyslav Ievtukhov In the third edition of the Young Fahrenheit competition, aimed at young employees, doctoral students, and students of the University of Gdańsk, the winner was mgr Vladyslav Ievtukhov. The third edition of the Young Fahrenheit competition, organised by Univentum Labs (a special purpose vehicle of the UG) with…

Fifteen butterflies have taken up residence in the paludarium on the first floor of the Faculty of Biology. They are specimens from the collection of Kacper Krajewski, a first-year Biology undergraduate student. They represent five species, all native to Asia, except Papilio demoleus, which is found in the Middle East. Dr Elizabeth Sontag from the…

Is it possible to prepare sports activities for everyone and - at the same time - for each individual? Mgr Małgorzata Aftańska from ASA UG, who runs the Sports Section for People with Disabilities (SON) at our university, had to find the answers to these questions. After more than three years of operation, the SON provides a space to play, train and expand boundaries. How did it come to be? We invite you to read the…

prof. Paulo Águas Results of scientific research conducted during the first SEA-EU cruise, international fields of study, and an exhibition of paintings 'SEA EU by the Sea' - the SEA-EU Congress is behind us. The international conference in Algarve - co-organised by the University of Gdańsk - brought together representatives of…

The first BSL-3+ laboratory in northern Poland is about to begin work. On January 22, the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG held the official opening of a unique space where research into, among other things, coronavirus and tick-borne encephalitis virus will be conducted. The Minister of Science and Higher Education, Dariusz…

Memling Research Center UG  invites you to a new series of popular science lectures entitled 'Around Memling' on the works of Hans Memling and his contemporaries. Lectures will be delivered by the researchers lectures from the Institute of Art History, the Institute of History of the UG and guests. In the coming months, every last Thursday at 6.00 p.m., we invite you to Instytut Kultury Miejskiej, Kunszt Wodny, Gdańsk…