Fot. Błażej Zabłotny/UG Drought, high temperatures, low water levels in rivers and forest fires. Climate change is visible to the naked eye. The transformation of the climate system must go hand in hand with systemic change. Public sector entities, local governments, companies, NGOs and universities are all taking action on this issue. Climate change is…

Although Antarctica might appear to be an unspoilt, pristine area, it has been the target of research expeditions for years. I talk to dr Dominika Saniewska from the Department of Oceanography and Geography at the University of Gdańsk, who is conducting a project entitled Benthic Organisms as an Indicator of Mercury Sources in the Antarctic Coastal Zone, based on the example of Admiralty Bay, about what this region of…

As part of the Erasmus+ KA107 project and a training trip to Georgia, University of Gdańsk staff visited the Caucasus University in Tbilisi. The topic of the five-day training was the internationalisation of the university and modern forms of promotion and project management. The University of Gdańsk was represented by Dominika Brulińska, Head of the International Cooperation…

Dr Sylwia Dobkowska: 'I am fascinated by the fact that theatre is different in different places around the world. That's why, during my PhD at the Royal Holloway University of London, I focused on presenting the phenomenon of absence in theatre. This is extremely difficult because absence is about what doesn't exist. For that, it is everywhere and it is very…

Bumblebee (Bombus). Source/Blog Ms entomologist.   'Ms Entomologist' is a blog about the identification, life, biology, husbandry and usefulness of invertebrates. It is run by dr Paulina Kozina from the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk. If you want to learn more about this group of animals, we…

We would like to invite you to take part in the fourth one-day Saturday tour in the series 'Historical holidays with CASiD', organised by the Centre for Student and Doctoral Activities in cooperation with the UG Student Parliament, the UG Faculty of History Student Government Council and the editorial board of the 'University Gazette'. Below are the details of this trip. Tour IV - Owidz (Festival of Slavic Mythology…

Thanks to the cooperation between the Department of Strategy of the City Hall in Gdynia and the Department of Regional Development of the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management at the University of Gdańsk, headed by prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Palmowski, a publication on service and commercial points in Gdynia was created. First-year geography students, as part of a field exercise, stocktaking the local…

A PhD student from the Cancer Immunology group at the University of Gdańsk's International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science (MCBSP), Ines Papak, has received funding from the ExCELLent Grant Programme created by the Polish Stem Cell Bank. Ines was awarded 4th place in a competitive programme aimed at young scientists. She was thus awarded a financial prize to be used to…

The exhibition will be on display from August 5 to September 30 in front of St Catherine's Church in Gdańsk. Until September 30, a new exhibition can be seen in front of St Catherine's Church in Gdańsk: 'Pioneers, researchers, leaders. Women of Gdańsk science'. On the day of the opening - August 5 - a panel discussion was held at Hevelius Square with three…

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…