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…

The Brikolaż Theatrology Research Club would like to invite you on 12.04.2021 at 18.30 for the next part of the series BACKSTAGE. This time we will meet Mirosław Niebodajew and Monika Bieszke from the Technical Department of Musical Theatre in Gdynia. The organizers invite the guests to talk about the process of working on a musical from the perspective of the technical team and about the production of the show. They…

The University of Gdańsk publishes a monograph by prof. Janina Ciechanowicz-McLean from the Faculty of Law and Administration, entitled 'Global Environmental Law. Basic issues'. The author attempts to provide answers to several important questions: whether ecological security for present and future generations is ensured, whether the human right to live in an ecologically…

A new book by prof. Bogdan Skwarc entitled 'Radiochemistry of the Environment' has been published by the University of Gdańsk Publishing House. The book gives the reader not only the basics of knowledge about ionizing radiation, radioactive isotopes in the environment and their importance to man but also explains several doubts, shows the benefits and losses arising from the…

- 'It was fantastic. The seals took herrings from our hands, fetched them and gave us kisses. We were all very happy,' says Michał Krawczyk, a programmer from Łódź, who visited the prof Krzysztof Skóra Marine Station of the University of Gdańsk with his wife Ismena. He auctioned off his visit to Hel in support of this year's WOŚP final. The auction of the 29th Great Finale of…

Reneta Frydrych receives an award from Maja Komorowska in Gdynia. Renata Frydrych A graduate of Polish Philology at the University of Gdańsk and of the Screenwriting Studium at the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. Writer, screenwriter (award in Gdynia for the best screenplay 'Odwiedź mnie we śnie'). She writes scripts and hosts series…