The Andrzej Wajda UG Film Centre and the Faculty of Philology will host the 28th edition of the 'Visible Evidence' conference from August 10-14. This is one of the most prestigious conferences devoted to film and media globally. Invented almost 30 years ago, it travels the world, organised in a different location every year. Its hosts have included university centres in cities such as Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Istanbul…

Fot. Pixabay Elephants found ways to avoid Cancer – Article to come out in Molecular Biology and Evolution (IF: 16.2): https://academimc.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msac149/6632613   Every day our cells replicate. For this the genes in each cell are copied by the process of DNA replication. Ideally, all new cells are exact copies of the…

The proposal of SEA-EU FOR ALL, whose main novelty is the incorporation of 3 partners and of which the University of Cadiz continues to be the coordinator, has been positively evaluated obtaining the support and funding of the European Commission.   Today the results of the call for the renewal of Partnerships belonging to the European…

The Department of Russian Language and Translation Studies and the Department of Pragmatics of Communication and Didactics of the Russian Language at the Institute of Russian Studies and Oriental Studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Gdańsk are the organisers of the Third International Scientific Conference "World's Great Religions in Language and Culture.…

The University of Gdańsk has become one of the scientific partners in the European Network for Skin Engineering and Modelling (NETSKINMODELS), a newly funded COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). Each COST Action is an extremely prestigious international endeavour - the current one has 101 participants from 29 countries. The aim is to build, within four years, a network of scientists and…

International Chess Day has been celebrated on July 20, since 1966. The initiative for this holiday was taken by the International Chess Federation, which was founded precisely on July 20, 1924, in Paris. According to FIDE, there were 605 million adults playing chess regularly worldwide in 2012. On the occasion of International Chess Day, we invite you to read an interview with our alumnus, FIDE International Chess…

A paper by the team of dr hab. Michał Szymański, prof. UG on RNA primer deletion and DNA end formation has been published in the prestigious journal Nucleic Acids Research. Co-authors of the publication include MWB UG and GUMed Dean dr hab. Ewelina Król, prof. UG.  In recent months, the group of scientists led by prof. Michał Szymański has enjoyed several successes. In December 2021, the team received an extension of…

This Saturday, 23 July, the fourth online lecture will take place as part of the 20th Summer Meetings with Science organised by the Institute of Hydroelectric Engineering PAS, the Institute of Oceanology PAS and the Faculty of History of the University of Gdańsk. The paper entitled. "Those magnificent Vikings in their armoured Volvos ... The image of Sweden and its…

After a thorough evaluation of the documents and a two-day visit to the University of Gdańsk, the European Commission decided to extend the HR Excellence in Research award for another three years. - 'Importantly, we have been awarded the highest possible rating,' - says dr Katarzyna Świerk, MBA Director of the UG Office of Science. For six years now, the University of Gdańsk…

Katarzyna Kamińska-Korolczuk's book 'Politics and the media versus the crisis of trust. Information Policy of the State Powers in Times of Danger' was awarded in this year's eleventh edition of the competition for the dr Paweł Stępka Award for the best doctoral dissertation and publication in the field of electronic media, organised by the National Broadcasting Council, the…

Dr Magdalena Łągiewska from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the UG took part in the 80th International Conference on 'International law: our common good' organised by the Portuguese branch of the International Law Association (ILA). The lawyer delivered a paper entitled 'Digitisation of International Courts', in which she discussed the issue of digitisation of international courts as well as the Chinese concept…

Rising temperatures have been worrying climatologists, farmers and hydrologists for some years now. While some associate the increasingly warmer days with pleasant recreation, for others they make work impossible. In Poland, there is currently an agricultural drought in every province. Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Niemirycz from the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk talks about how we can prevent…

Fot. Pixabay. In Poland, the so-called car culture is very strong. What is more, the level of our habituation to the car is constantly growing. And although we are increasingly willing to use alternative means of transport, micromobility in our country is only in its infancy. I talk with dr Agnieszka Szmelter-Jarosz from the Faculty of Economics about what…

The last meeting of the UG Senate in this academic year began with thanks for years of work and the presentation of the silver medal of the University of Gdańsk 'Bene merito et merenti' to the Director of the Main Library, Grażyna Jaskowiak. Amendments to the UG Statutes and a report on the activities of the University Council were unanimously adopted.  Director Grażyna Jaskowiak has been associated with the University…

Choosing a degree often involves some kind of loss. One has to let go of one's other passions or interests to explore one field well and professionally. However, this does not always have to be the case. Przemysław Rudź, a composer, electronic music performer, sound engineer, music producer, populariser of astronomy, author of books and guides, and employee of the Polish Space Agency, talks about his professional path…

The Rector, prof. Piotr Stepnowski, met today (Wednesday 13.07.2022) with representatives of the Trade Unions operating at the University of Gdańsk: NSZZ Solidarność, ZNP and OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza, to work out a joint position on raises for the lowest-paid employees of our university - administrative staff, maintenance staff and young academics. A joint appeal on this issue was signed to the Minister of Education…

Get hooked on one of your favourite magazines (Vogue, The New Yorker, Forbs, Total Film, National Geographic, Homes & Gardens and many more) wherever you are - at home or on the move, by the sea or in the mountains, in Poland or abroad.  You can read magazines on any device: laptop, tablet or smartphone. Using the Flipster app (iOS and Android), you can also download and read selected titles offline - anywhere…

Three students teams from the University of Gdansk had the opportunity to take part in the international university startup competition STup!2022 in Croatia, which took place in the second half of June. The event was organized by one of the SEA-EU's partner universities, the University of Split. 42 teams entered the competition, representing 21 universities from 16 countries worldwide. The University of Gdansk was…

More than two million euros has been awarded to the University of Gdańsk by the European Union's Horizon Europe programme. Such a high grant places the UG fifth among Polish universities and ninth in terms of all Polish research centres. A total of more than EUR 110 million has gone to Polish project participants, placing our country in 14th place among EU members.  The…

Thanks to the Mobility in Higher Education project, two students from the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography went on an internship to the University of Iceland in Reykjavík. They have been staying at the Hύsavík Research Centre since the beginning of July this year. The students take part in expeditions with the University of…

According to the international Leiden Ranking, the University of Gdańsk is the 10th university with the highest PA(F|FM) ratio. This means that at UG, the ratio of female authors in scientific publications to the number of all male and female authors is very high at 53.2%. The Leiden Ranking analyses more than 1,300 research centres from all over the world in terms of science, collaboration, open access publications and…

As part of the 'Active Univeristy' course, seventeen children of employees of the University of Gdańsk took part in a five-day artistic and recreational summer play centre organised by the UG Centre for Physical Education and Sport and the UG Academic Sports Club. Children love to acquire new information and learn about the world through experience, touch, contact with nature…

UG dormitory in Oliwa. Photo by Alan Stocki/UG. Are you planning a holiday by the Polish seaside? If you intend to visit the Tricity and not spend a fortune on accommodation, check out the offer of the UG student dormitories. During the summer holidays, the university offers accommodation in its student dormitories - in comfortable conditions and a great…

We would like to invite students, doctoral students and employees of the University of Gdańsk to participate in one-day Saturday excursions in the series "Historical holidays with CASiD", organised by the Centre for Student and Doctoral Activities in cooperation with the UG Students' Parliament, the Student Self-Government Council of the UG Faculty of History and the editors of the 'University Gazette'. This project…

A meeting to summarise the performances of the volleyball teams of the Academic Sports Association of the University of Gdańsk in the last academic year was held on July 7, with UG Rector prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski. Changes to the U23 competition were also discussed. The promotion and development of women's volleyball at UG has long been one of the top topics in the AZS.…

Improve your skills. A Chinese language course organised by the Confucius Institute is launching this summer. There are courses available for the basics (HSK 1-2), intermediate (HSK 3-4) and seasoned learners (HSK 5-6).  Classes will run from July to September. Participants will improve their communication and cultural skills in Chinese under the guidance of a qualified and experienced teacher. The entire course…

The Congress of Young Science is an international and multidisciplinary scientific conference that will take place at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Gdańsk from July 7 to 10, 2022. In dozens of panels, scientists will present the results of their research, discuss their theses, establish scientific contacts, and more. The topics to be presented at the conference will not be limited, with…

Fot. Archiwum UG We had no shortage of ideas for projects to make UG's facilities and outdoor areas more welcoming and environmentally friendly. A total of 58 projects were submitted to the first University of Gdańsk Academic Citizens' Budget, including 31 staff and 27 student projects. The deadline for submitting projects was Thursday June 30. There were…

Dr hab. Maciej Wojciechowski (from left) and the Editor-in-Chief of "State and Law", Supreme Court Judge prof. Andrzej Wróbel. Dr hab. Maciej Wojciechowski from the Department of the Theory and Philosophy of State and Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk has won first prize in the prestigious competition - organised…

Prof. dr hab. Maciej Żylicz, a UG graduate and former Vice-Rector for Science at our University, talks about his turbulent path from student to President of the FNP. Marcel Jakubowski: - You finished secondary school with a sports profile in Zielona Góra, almost 500 km from Gdańsk. What made you choose to study physics at our university, which is not related to sport?  - It was a bit the other way around. I was born in…