The Publishing House of the University of Gdańsk announces a competition for the best scientific book, didactic book and book presenting the results of doctoral thesis published by the Publishing House of the University of Gdańsk. The purpose of the competition is to select and award the best book in three categories: scientific book, didactic book and book presenting the…

The call for applications for the 21st edition of the L'Oreal-UNESCO Scholarship Programme for Women and Science is open until May 11. For years, Polish female scientists researching the broadly defined life sciences have been given the opportunity to present and promote their scientific achievements and have received annual scholarships. - 'The L'Oreal UNESCO For Women and…

AZS University of Gdańsk invites all students, lecturers and activists to the online conference 'Be Better! Your way to the goal'. During the event specialists in such fields as mental preparation, nutrition, prevention in sport or preventive tests will share their knowledge. The event starts on Saturday, April 24th at 15:00 on the MS Teams platform. During the meeting, you…

A skeleton of a sileasaurus. Source: Wikipedia The skeletons of a metoposaurus and a sileasaurus, casts of the skulls of a metaposaurus, a cyclotosaurus and a stagonolepis, as well as ammonites, will go to the Faculty of Biology of the University of Gdańsk, where an exhibition of ancient organisms will be organised. The animals come from the Triassic and…

The latest issue of the University Gazette will soon be in your hands. The April issue is quite large, as many as seventy-five pages. We will read about current events, research and the university's successes, as well as about the history and a summary of the jubilee of our Alma Mater. The issue traditionally begins with a calendar of events including a review of the most important events, e.g. naming one of the trams…

The three largest national institutes involved in marine research - the Sea Fisheries Institute, the Institute of Oceanography of the University of Gdańsk and the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences - have presented a joint position on the protection of the Baltic Sea. Subsequent announcements by scientific circles on the state of the Baltic are meant to be a way of verifying untrue information…

Lord Mansfield was indeed astonishing, in ninety cases out of a hundred he was right, and if he was wrong, only one lawyer in a hundred was able to recognise it. Join us for a meeting with the author of Lord Mansfield. To Be a Judge! prof. Jerzy Zajadło. The book about Lord Mansfield is a journey through history: law, jurisprudence and politics of 18th century England.…

Applications for the competition for the best debut book of the year in the field of contemporary history, concerning the period 1939-1989, announced by the prof. Tomasz Strzembosz Foundation in cooperation with the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences will be accepted until the end of April. The Foundation aims to promote reliable and objective presentation of history and to popularise the…

Kamil Kowalczyk, student of the Faculty of Management at the University of Gdańsk. He is a scholarship holder of the PISCES programme, addressed to Polish students who wish to pursue their future in the fishing industry. Kamil Kowalczyk, a student at the Faculty of Management at the University of Gdańsk, admits that the study trip to Iceland opened his…

Monday, April 19, marks the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the International Holocaust and Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day. We asked dr hab. Miłosława Borzyszkowska - Szewczyk, prof. UG from the Faculty of Philology and dr hab. Grzegorz Berendt, prof. UG from the Faculty of History, to explain the situation of Kashubian and Gdańsk Jews during the Holocaust. - 'I must ensure that their memory…

Dr Hanna Wolska ( Department of Public Economic Law and Environmental Protection) and mgr Olga Zinkiewicz-Będźmirowska ( Department of Civil Procedure) from the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk, were invited to carry out an international scientific project on Polish and German legal professions in a comparative perspective. The project is being carried…

dr hab. Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, prof. UG. Photo: Arek Smykowski/UG. Masculinity is not the same as being a man. The results of an international research project carried out at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdańsk, indicate that in most cultures masculinity is understood as a social status that is difficult to…

For two more days, you can join a sporting and charity event organised by students from the University of Brest. The initiative is organised as part of the European Universities of the Sea - SEA-EU. Each kilometre run will contribute to the account of organisations working for the benefit of people with disabilities. Employees of the UG Academic Sports Association and the UG Centre for Physical Education and Sport…

On April 21, the premiere of the radio reportage and photo essay 'A city in a block of flats' will take place. - a journalistic project telling the stories of residents and supporters of falowce. - 'Stories we have heard and some kind of magic that falowce simply have, prompted us to take action. Talking to people who lived in falowiec convinced us that we would find really…

Researchers at the University of Gdańsk and other member universities of the Association of Fahrenheit Universities, i.e. the Gdańsk University of Technology and the Gdańsk Medical University, can take advantage of training materials on writing scientific articles. The training entitled. 'How to write a scientific article?', organised by the scientific publisher Elsevier, was held on Monday, April 12 in an online format…

The theatre festival Figuratywni, which brings theatre and the art of acting closer, is one of the projects of the Independent Students' Union UG. - 'Participation in the theatre festival is a great opportunity to develop one's improvisation skills thanks to valuable exercises in theatre and make-up, but not only,' - say the organisers. Changing the convention of Kashubian legends - this is the title of the second…

The winner of the competition for the fairy tale Baltic Tales is Karolina Budzisz, a third-year student of Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Gdańsk. Her fairy tale 'Early bird' in a form of a radio play will be soon heard on Radio Mors. The Baltic Tales competition was organised by the Student Event Organisation Group operating at the ACK Alternator. The competition was aimed at students, PhD…

- 'There is no need to be afraid and believe in stereotypes because girls can handle such majors,' says Ewa Bojke, a second-year student of mathematical modelling and data analysis at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, University of Gdańsk. Our faculty participates with twenty leading Polish universities in the action of the Perspektywy Educational Foundation Girls go Science!, which aims to…

The Polish-American Fulbright Commission has published a list of the winners of the BioLAB 2021-2022 Programme. Among the 42 winners who will receive a one-year internship in one of the four renowned research centres in the U.S., there are students from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and GUMed and the Faculty of Chemistry UG. The BioLAB programme is intended…

We invite you to another meeting within the project 'Scientific Cafés at the University of Gdańsk'. This time the lecture 'Genetically enhanced plants - a chance to feed humanity and not an unnecessary interference in food production' will be presented by prof. dr hab. Ewa Łojkowska from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and GUMed. The meeting will take place on…

Being human in different epochs and cultures is the title of a series of seven online lectures organised by the Pomeranian Philosophical and Theological Society. The speakers will be mainly scholars from the Faculty of History and Philology of the University of Gdańsk. It will begin on April 15 at 7 p.m. The first lecture of the series entitled The Gdansk real and imaginary world in the 17th century will be given by…

The Foreign Languages Centre of the University of Gdańsk would like to invite you to another meeting within the Sunday Sessions - Swedish Edition series. It is a new project aimed at students and enthusiasts of Scandinavia. The series of online meetings are open to students and enthusiasts of Scandinavia, mainly popularising Scandinavian culture. - 'The topics discussed will…

A scholarship funded by the Bavarian State Chancellery for a research stay in Würzburg was awarded to dr Karol Kłodziński from the Faculty of History UG. Dr Karol Kłodziński took part in the competition for the Polish Historical Mission scholarship funded by the Bavarian State Chancellery. The scholarship will be used for a research stay in 2021 in a project entitled Otto Hirschfeld (1843-1922) as a researcher of Roman…

To Whom It May Concern, Due to a great interest in the issue of vaccination of the UG administration employees, we would like to inform you that the University of Gdańsk is logistically and infrastructurally prepared to realise the vaccination programme for the administration employees. We are waiting for the possibility to start the vaccination programme and if the governmental side allows us to do so, we will…

A temporary exhibition entitled 'The Road to the University. UG and its predecessors 1945-1970' presents selected fragments of the history of the Higher School of Pedagogy in Gdańsk, the Higher School of Maritime Commerce, the Higher School of Economics in Sopot and the first year of activity of the University of Gdańsk. It is a synthetic description of the history of the…

Almost two hours of presentations of the University of Gdańsk, faculties, scientific clubs, student life, educational offer, etc. Almost 1,000 people watched the live broadcast on Facebook and YouTube, several hundred questions - mainly about recruitment. And several dozen people involved in the event - that is the shortest summary of yesterday's Open Day at the University of Gdańsk. The online broadcast started…

Fot. Archiwum AZS UG On April 9-11, 2021 in Chełmno a Semi-final Tournament for promotion to the Second League took place. The organiser was the UKS Culmen Chełmno club. Our team - AZS Akademia Siatkówki University of Gdańsk - placed second, scoring 5 points (two wins, 1 loss). Report by: Piotr Walczak The charges of Coaches Adam Miotk and Edward Pawlun…

- 'The rates of burnout in sport were already alarming before the lockdown and could affect up to 15 per cent of athletes,' says dr Anna Ussorowska. Photo: Arek Smykowski/UG. She recently defended her doctoral thesis on burnout in competitive sport in young basketball players. For years she trained basketball…

Photo: Pixabay University committees of OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza addressed the Minister of Education and Science with a request to "take into account the difficult situation of female academics taking care of children during the pandemic". The situation in which they have found themselves has affected their productivity, while the way in which they are…

- 'Container shipping on the Vistula, like on the Oder, has great potential, but not in all cases. This applies mainly to cargo that is not time-sensitive, but lower costs are more important for them,' - says dr hab. Ernest Czermański prof. UG from the Faculty of Economics UG. The cruise of a barge with containers on the Vistula River has finished. It aimed to establish whether at the present level of navigability of…