Senators of the University of Gdańsk passed, during today's Senate meeting, a resolution which is an appeal on vaccination and safety of the University's academic community. A sharp rise in covid cases and deaths is also evident at the University, although not on such a dramatic scale as nationwide. The latest figures (and these are changing by the hour) presented to the Senate by the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs,…

Dr hab. Anna Machnikowska, prof. UG has been elected Chair of the Science Policy Committee. The Professor thus continues the work she started after her appointment to the Committee in 2020. The Committee for Scientific Policy is an auxiliary body of the Minister in the area of state scientific policy. The Committee evaluates the implementation of the state's scientific policy and gives its opinion on documents presented…

  Researchers from the University of Gdańsk were among the winners of the MINIATURE 5 competition organised by the National Science Centre. Funding for individual scientific activities was granted to researchers from the Faculties of Biology, Chemistry, Philology, Social Sciences, Law and Administration and the International Centre for Cancer Vaccines Science. In total, 13 projects were submitted by UG scientists. The…

The Rector of the University of Gdańsk, prof. dr. hab. Piotr Stepnowski is interviewed by dr Beata Czechowska-Derkacz A year ago, on November 23, 2020, elections for the rector of the University of Gdańsk were held. You won by a decisive number of votes, receiving a large credit of trust. Such an election is also a huge commitment to the academic community. Has it been a difficult year? Very difficult. Even with my…

- 'Looking into the depths of the Polish tradition we keep reading it anew,' - says Barbara Madany, the organisational manager of the Ensemble. - 'The idea behind the jubilee celebrations can be summed up in one sentence - "Jantar is a history written by people".'. Jubilee concerts of the Ensemble have been announced for the coming weekend. The Gdańsk University Song and Dance Ensemble Jantar, comprising of students and…

Piotr Pawlak, a student of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk and a graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics at the University of Gdańsk, and the Student Scientific Association 'Passionate Pediatricians' from the Medical University of Gdańsk were the winners of this year's Red Rose Competition. The edition was hosted by the University of Gdańsk. The competition, which selects the best student and the…

The 11th final of the StRuNa 2021 National Competition was held on the stage of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Among the winners of prizes for scientific clubs was the Psychological Research Circle 'Experior' from the University of Gdańsk. Once again, as part of the StRuNa 2021 competition (the name comes from the first letters of the words Studencki Ruch Naukowy [Student Scientific Movement]), prizes were awarded…

Researchers from UG were among the winners of the MINIATURA 5 competition organised by the National Centre for Science. Funding for individual scientific activities was granted to researchers from the Faculty of Biology, the International Centre for Research on Cancer Vaccines and the Faculty of Law and Administration of UG. The MINIATURA competition aims to support scientific activities leading to the preparation of a…

In the information on the results of enrolment for the academic year, 2021/2022 at universities supervised by the Minister of Education and Science, the University of Gdańsk was among the universities most frequently selected by university candidates. According to the status as of December 31, 2020, provided by the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS), 349 HEIs were operating in the academic year 2020/21, of which…

The SEA-EU Virtual Language Courses is an activity based on the principle of reciprocity: On this virtual language platform, we list courses offered by each SEA-EU partner university to participants from other partner universities.  We strengthen our alliance by coordinating and maintaining an up-to-date list of language courses. Thereby, SEA-EU students and staff can obtain centrally all the information needed for …

Mgr Sandra Żukowska and Mgr Beata Chmiel, second-year PhD students at the Doctoral School won second place in the national competition 'EkoMasters'.   The subject of the competition was to present a postulate, an idea or a project concerning a change in the way of functioning of the university, a selected organizational unit of the university or persons forming the academic community, which could result in a decrease in…

Dr Paulina Nastały, from the Translational Oncology Department at the Institute of Medical Biotechnology and Experimental Oncology, GUMed, has received funding from an EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant for a project entitled: 'The interplay between nuclear envelope architecture, glucocorticoid signalling and YAP pathway leading to prostate cancer progression', which will be carried out with prof. Giannino Del Sal at the…

On November 2nd this year, the Minister of Health awarded prizes for scientific activity in the year 2020 to a team from the Institute of Medical Biotechnology and Experimental Oncology of the Medical University of Gdańsk, from the Department of Cell Biology and Immunology, consisting of mgr Anna Felberg-Miętka, mgr Aleksandra Urban, dr Grzegorz Stasiłojć and dr hab. Marcin Okrój, prof. GUMed.   On November 2nd this…

University of Gdańsk team as part of SEA-EU alliance together with all partner universities: University of Cádiz (Spain), Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest (France), University of Kiel (Germany), University of Split (Croatia) and University of Malta (Malta) had a pleasure to organize an open webinar SEA-EU Experts Panel: Implementing Gender Equality Plans in Academia. This Expert Panel meeting allowed…

Virologists from the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Gdańsk are working on the creation of an effective new-generation vaccine protecting against infection with hepatitis C and B viruses. A decision has already been made to grant a patent for the invention entitled 'Chimeric virus-like particles exposing HCV antigenic sequences for use in the preventive treatment of HCV and/or HBV infection'. Hepatitis C…

The University of Gdańsk, as the first public university in Poland, has received official accreditation from Ashoka - Journey to Changemakers' Campus. This distinction is awarded for the course of pedagogy of innovation, which engages students to introduce concrete, socially necessary changes. The distinction awarded to the University of Gdańsk by Ashoka (an international non-governmental organisation of social…

November 11, National Independence Day “The day of November 11, as the anniversary of the Polish nation regaining its independent existence and as a day for all times associated with the great name of Józef Piłsudski, the victorious leader of the nation in the fight for the freedom of the homeland, is a solemn Independence Day”. November 11, we celebrate the 103d anniversary of Poland regaining independence after 123…

On Thursday, November 4th, the Gdansk University of Technology hosted the first of three debates for academic communities, entitled 'Why do we need the Farenheit Universities' Union?', which was attended by the Union's authorities: the rectors of GUMed, PG and UG and the Union's director, prof. Adriana Zaleska-Medynska. Other guests invited to the event included Dariusz Drelich, Voivode of Pomerania, Mieczysław Struk,…

The Index Copernicus Value (ICV) calculated by ICV experts for the journal published by the scientists of the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of the University of Gdańsk amounted to 149.53, which places 'Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies' in first place among journals specialising in Oceanography in this database and very high in the entire database of journals. The quarterly scientific journal…

The University of Gdańsk, in the Arts and Humanities domain rankings published on November 3, 2021, takes the 5th position among Polish universities. In the field of Arts and Humanities, our University is listed among 8 Polish universities and is ranked 5th behind Warsaw University (ranked 201-250 in the world), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Jagiellonian University (ranked 301-400) and Nicolaus Copernicus…

For the third time, the Day of Sustainable Development took place at the University of Gdańsk. Special lectures and workshops were organised on this occasion at the Faculty of Chemistry. The theme this year was water and its importance for life on the planet. Katarzyna Bosacka, a journalist, author of programmes on health and cooking, and special guest of the event at the UG talks about the state of consciousness of the…

The UG research vessel R/V Oceanograf made its first cruise after sea trials. During it, scientists conducted biological and hydrological research. Further cruises using the most modern scientific research vessel on the Baltic Sea are being carried out. The research vessel UG R/V Oceanograf underwent a month-long class overhaul, carried out after the first five years of operation. - 'The individual components were…

Ladies and gentlemen, on November 8th , 2021, registration of people willing to be vaccinated with another dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will begin. Registration will be available online via https://szczepienia.ug.edu.pl/  . You can choose the date and time of vaccination. You can also change the date or cancel the vaccination via website. In case of any problems with the application / change of date, employees of the…

To streamline the circulation of documents between the MUG, Gdańsk Tech and UG, the Fahrenheit Universities is launching interuniversity post. Each of the member universities will collect and deliver documents in the morning hours in a monthly cycle. The University of Gdańsk will be the first to undertake this task, and the Medical University of Gdańsk and Gdańsk University of Technology will follow.   The FarU Post…

Dr Beata Czechowska-Derkacz talks about the importance of communication in society and the situation of media with Prof. Iwona Hofman, Chairman of the Committee on Social Communication and Media Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Social Communication and Media Sciences at Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin. - This year's conference is Media - Business - Culture. Pomerania…

The deep-sea is one of the least understood areas of our planet. This great abyss is often seen as a frontier area for life, due to the lack of light, high pressure, limited nutrient availability and extreme temperatures ranging from 2-4°C in most habitats to over 100°C in areas with hydrothermal fields. Photo: Pixabay - 'Even though water covers more than…

The UG research vessel R/V Oceanograf made its first cruise after sea trials. During it, scientists conducted biological and hydrological research. Further cruises using the most modern scientific research vessel on the Baltic Sea are being carried out. The research vessel UG R/V Oceanograf underwent a month-long class overhaul, carried out after the first five years of operation. - 'The individual components were…

They started in a modest, friendly group. The pretext for setting up the group was the graduation concert of the choir's founder and current conductor, Beata Borowicz. At the time, the line-up was limited to a group of a dozen or so friends, and the name Non Serio, as they say, seemed adequate for the planned one performance. They recently played their 30+ Jubilee concert, with many achievements to their credit and…

The deep-sea is one of the least understood areas of our planet. This great abyss is often seen as a frontier area for life, due to the lack of light, high pressure, limited nutrient availability and extreme temperatures ranging from 2-4°C in most habitats to over 100°C in areas with hydrothermal fields. Photo: Pixabay - 'Even though water covers more than half of the Earth's surface and is home to 2 to 20 million…

30+ Jubilee Concert, UG Theatre Hall. Photo Monika Buller. They started in a modest, friendly group. The pretext for setting up the group was the graduation concert of the choir's founder and current conductor, Beata Borowicz. At the time, the line-up was limited to a group of a dozen or so friends, and the name Non Serio, as they say, seemed adequate for…