Who is favoured by luck in business? How do you manage your personal finances? How to create a good advertising campaign? These and many other questions will be answered during open lectures organised by the Faculty of Management at the University of Gdańsk. The event is being held as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. On November 13-19, 2023, The…

How do you tell about your research while a match is burning or clearly explain difficult scientific terms such as ‘derivatives’? This is what researchers from the University of Gdańsk, the Technical University of Gdańsk, the Medical University of Gdańsk and the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music found out during a media workshop of the Science…

Renowned researcher of Günter Grass's work, prof. Dieter Stolz was a guest at the University of Gdańsk on Tuesday, November 7 and gave a lecture entitled 'The Writer as Troublemaker. On the role of politics in the work of Günter Grass / Der Autor als Störenfried. Zur Rolle des Politischen bei Günter Grass'. The artist, born in the Free City of Gdańsk (…

The science prize awarded at the nanomedicine conference ChinaNanomedicine 2023: Nanomedicine Discovery and Translation in Guangzhou, China, went this year to Dr Alicja Mikołajczyk from the Environmental Chemoinformatics Laboratory of the UG Department of Chemistry. Dr Alicja Mikołajczyk presented the results of her research conducted within the…

An invention that can be used, among other things, in producing probiotics has received a patent from the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland. A team of scientists led by dr hab. Robert Czajkowski, prof. UG from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG and composed of dr Dorota Krzyżanowska, dr Tomasz Maciąg, dr Joanna Siwińska and…

The next league games of AZS UG athletes are coming up this Sunday. Come and cheer on our teams, or watch the online broadcast! Who will we see on the courts this coming weekend? AZS UG volleyball players will take on visiting Chemik Olsztyn in the second league. The charges of coach Rafał Murczkiewicz have scored 13 points so far, recording four wins…

Prof. Vincent Perrichot, who came to University of Gdańsk thanks to 'Visiting Professors' programme, will give three lectures on palaeoecology and palaeontology! The events will be held on November 9, 16 and 23 at the Faculty of Biology, room C108.  Details:  9.11 at 4 p.m.: The evolution of the ants 16.11 at 4 p.m.: Production and preservation of plant resins through time 23.11 at 4 p.m.: Insect deposits from France…

Fot. Magdalena Wiśniewska-Krasińska, Archiwum FNP Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Liberek, from IFB UG and MUG, has been awarded the Foundation for Polish Science 2023 Prize in the area of Life and Earth Sciences for demonstrating the role of chaperone proteins in the recovery of proteins from aggregates and their folding into an active…

Images, sounds, and the social situation of the Nordic countries will be the theme of this year's Nordic Focus Festival. It is the eighth time that lovers of the North will meet in Gdańsk! In the current edition, we will be getting to know the culture, history and reality of the Nordic countries through, among other things, film screenings…

From left: prof. Waldemar Ossowski and prof. Piotr Stepnowski Rector UG prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski and the Director of the Gdańsk Museum, dr hab. Waldemar Ossowski, prof. UG have signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement provides, among other things, for the organisation of joint events and the popularisation of science and…

Dear Academia! As part of the Pro Juvenes student community competition, organised by the Students' Parliament of the Republic of Poland, the student-doctoral initiative - the online international conference - Baltic Chemistry Conference was awarded and made it to the final of the competition in the University without Borders category! Therefore, we…

The director of the International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Studies (ICCVS), prof. dr hab. Natalia Marek-Trzonkowska was honoured by the Intelligent Development Forum Foundation with the Scientist of the Future 2023 award in the category Woman of Science Who Changes the World. Scientist of the Future is a distinction awarded to Polish and foreign…

According to recruitment data published by the Ministry of Education and Science, the University of Gdańsk was ranked 6th in Poland among the most frequently chosen public higher education institutions and 3rd among universities. As we can read on the Ministry of Education and Science website, a total of 441,823 people were enrolled in the first year of studies in the academic year 2023/2024 at universities supervised…

The continuing gender imbalance in technology fields remains a challenge despite significant progress over the past ten years. This problem is particularly evident at various levels of academic careers and in technology-oriented entrepreneurship. The University of Gdańsk has joined the Perspektywy Foundation's efforts to activate women in this area. Although women comprise more than 40% of European academic staff,…

Tomorrow, October 31, 2023, we invite you to participate in a scientific cafe on climate change, environmental degradation, species and habitat extinction, and the necessary actions to save the Earth. The meeting will be broadcast on YouTube on the University of Gdańsk channel. People have very different ideas about the end of the world.…

Od lewej: Magdalena Dziki, Joanna Zakrzewska, Natalia Lubińska, Marcel Jakubowski Internationalisation, mobility and effective communication were the themes of the last days of October at NORD University in Norway. Two events took place at the SEA-EU alliance partner university: International Week and a meeting…

Prorektorka prof. Anna Jurkowska - Zeidler podpisuje deklarację MCU The University of Gdańsk, together with 35 universities from around the world, has joined the signatories to the Magna Charta Universitatum. Signing the MCU signifies a declaration and affirmation of the principles on which the mission of universities should be…

In the results of the World University Rankings 2024 by subject, published by the leading ranking agency Times Higher Education, the University of Gdańsk has once again not only maintained its position among the world's academic schools but listed for the first time in the new field of Education, ranked highly, at 5th place, among Polish universities. The 3rd place in the Polish classification in the field of Law is…

AZS University of Gdańsk volleyball players are continuing their series of victories. On Saturday, we have another chance to cheer on our players, who will compete against the AZS Warsaw team. The match will take place in the hall at 31 Na Zaspę St. Join us in the stands! After a very successful, victorious match against Futsal Szczecin (7:5), AZS UG's futsal players will face Red Devils Chojnice away. This team has won…

In cooperation with the UG Technology Transfer Centre, Univentum Labs, a special purpose vehicle of the University of Gdansk, is organising the third edition of the Univentum Labs Ideas - Young Fahrenheit competition. It is aimed at young employees, doctoral students and students of the University whose research has commercialisation potential. The aim…

The Herder Centre invites Germanists, students and all supporters of the German language to an author meeting with the German writer Bernadette Conrad, author of the book 'Was dich spaltet'. The event will take place on Friday, November 10, at 5.30 p.m. in the Herder Centre at 26 Ogarna Street and will last approximately two hours. The meeting with the…

On October 13, 2023, the National Library and the University of Gdańsk signed a cooperation agreement. Thanks to the signed agreement, both libraries will work in a joint catalogue environment. The implementation of the Alma system and the cooperation of the libraries in the so-called network zone aims to spread the idea of real-time co-cataloguing…

Honouring the most talented young scholars and encouraging their further scientific development by enabling them to devote themselves entirely to research work - these are the main objectives of the START programme, annual scholarships awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science. The START programme of the Foundation for Polish Science supports…

‘This is the fifth time we have come together to talk about actions for sustainable development and to consider what we can do to improve our lives and halt unfavourable changes. The University of Gdańsk’s Sustainable Development Day aims to promote such actions and is held under the slogan “Stop Emissions! Take Care of the Climate!”’ - this is how the…

What is belonging, where does it come from and is it important to us? Is it possible to feel empowered in a diverse group, to influence its shape and actions, and to share common aspirations among its members? Where do we get the strength to build up our sense of identity and openness in everyday life? Answers to these questions were sought by…

Directions in the development of the concept of sustainable human resources management were the main topic of the 'Sustainable HR for Modern Model of Administration of HEIs' conference organised in the Staff Week formula. The event was hosted by the University of Gdańsk and attended by partners from the SEA-EU 2.0 alliance. On October 17-19, 2023, a conference entitled 'Sustainable HR for Modern Model of Administration…

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 call for applications for the Pomeranian Voivodeship Marshal's Scholarship is now open. The scholarship is intended for outstanding full-time and part-time, first- or second-degree students living in the Pomeranian Voivodeship for academic or artistic achievements. Applications can be submitted until November 13, 2023. Who is the scholarship for? From now on, the best students from the Pomeranian Voivodeship can…

On October 16, the recruitment process for the fourth edition of the UG Visiting Professors Programme began. The main objective of the programme is to internationalise scientific research and teaching activities conducted at the University of Gdańsk. Within the programme, it is possible to obtain funding for visits of outstanding scientists from abroad. The winner of the programme receives reimbursement of travel and…

Basketball, volleyball, and futsal players are back on the courts! This week, all AZS UG teams will play their league matches as hosts, thus in Gdańsk. Fans are invited for sporting emotions! On Wednesday, basketball players will play their first home game of the season in front of their home crowd. A derby in Gdańsk with AZS Szkoła Gortata…