More than 500 entries on Kashubia, including symbols, myths, memory, beliefs and stereotypes, can be found in the Kashubopedia, an online encyclopaedia created and developed thanks to the work of many people, including researchers from the University of Gdańsk. The publishers of the publication are the Kashubian Institute and the Joseph Conrad-…

For the seventh time, the University of Gdańsk has the opportunity to invite the inhabitants of the Tri-city to the Nordic Focus Festival (NFF) - the Festival of Nordic Culture, which will take place from November 25-27, 2022 on the academic campus. It is a major cultural and media event created within the UG Academic Cultural Centre to promote, but also to better introduce Nordic culture.  Participants in the NFF will…

The UG Careers Office invites STUDENTS OF ALL MAJORS to participate in the Mini Job Fair - Career Day The fair will take place on November 16, 2022 (Wednesday) from 09:00 to 15:00 at the Faculty of Social Sciences UG   The Day with Careers is an excellent opportunity to: - talk to employers, - find out about interesting job offers, internships, - benefit from expert advice, - CV consultations. The fair is an opportunity…

For her passion and commitment to the care of the cultural heritage of the Gdańsk Shipyard, the Special Award of the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship was awarded to dr Magdalena Staręga, who is professionally connected with the European Solidarity Centre and the University of Gdańsk. At our university, the researcher works at the Institute of Art History.  The 15th anniversary of the European Solidarity Centre was…

Tens of thousands of kilometres cycled, thousands of reported rides, millions of calories burned. The 'Cycling to university' campaign lasted at the University of Gdańsk from May to September 2022. The time has come, to sum up, the campaign. On November 9, at the UG Faculty of Social Sciences, the participants who completed the most rides were ceremoniously presented with their prizes. The first edition of the 'Cycling…

The Archive team of the University of Gdańsk invites you to take part in a campaign to recognise events and figures immortalised in old photographs from the collection of the University of Gdańsk Archive entitled 'Sign the history'.   - 'Every month we will prepare for you a set of 10 photographs,' - informs the Director of the Archives dr Monika Płuciennik. - 'Please read them and share information about the people and…

In November, full of reverie and memories, we would like to invite you to the All Souls' Day concert 'There were so many days...' Vocalists from the Vocal Studio at the University of Gdańsk and excellent instrumentalists will take listeners on a unique journey, recalling songs by Polish authors who are no longer with us. Songs by such great artists as Marek Grechuta, Grzegorz Ciechowski, Anna Jantar or Kora will resound…

Dr Beata Karpińska-Musiał and Piotr Sobolczyk will discuss different ways of looking at universities. We would like to invite you today, November 10, to ul. Długa 35, where the meeting will begin at 6:00 pm. Both guests are authors of books on universities, but they have chosen completely different forms to describe these institutions. Dr Beata Karpińska-Musiał's book is an autoethnography, a personal account of her…

Italy is one of the most culturally rich countries in the world. From the Etruscan civilisation to the works of modern artists, Italian museums and monuments are one of the country's main tourist attractions. These items are also of great interest to criminals, which is why a special Carabinieri Unit for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Italian: Il Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale) was set up in 1969…

Univentum Labs, a special purpose vehicle of the University of Gdańsk, in cooperation with the UG Technology Transfer Centre, is organising the second edition of the Univentum Labs Ideas - Young Fahrenheit competition. It is aimed at young employees, doctoral students and students of the University whose research has commercialisation potential. The aim of the competition is, on the one hand, to promote interesting…

The University of Gdańsk Library has prepared a new service called 'Ordering Books to Faculties'. It is aimed at the academic staff of the University of Gdańsk who have an active library account, unencumbered by overdue items. Under this service, books can be ordered from the book collection available for lending from both the Main Library and specialist libraries (except for the Oceanographic Reading Room in Gdynia).…

At the request of the Rector, prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski, the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland established the University Internationalisation Commission, which will be based at our university. The first Chair of the UKU for the period 2023-24 was appointed Vice-Rector for International Cooperation, dr hab. Anna Jurkowska-Zeilder, prof. UG. - 'This is one of the proofs that the University of…

The Erasmus and Erasmus Plus programme has been running for 35 years! The anniversary was celebrated as part of the 5th Education Congress. The discussion panels and lectures organised as part of the congress focused on internationalisation in education in its broadest sense, mainly through the prism of values that unite Europe. Above all, however, the event was an opportunity to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the…

You meet them during X-ray scans or other diagnostic imaging. Medical physicists perform some of the most important research in modern medicine, but where do they acquire these skills? On Medical Physics Day, we take a look at how the course with this name has evolved after 11 years at the UG Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science. The first recruitment for medical physics at the University of Gdańsk…

The European University of the Seas (SEA-EU), within the ReSEArch-EU project, invites you to the next webinar for young researchers as part of the Spin-Off Competence Lab - a virtual training program aimed at enhancing the skills of SEA-EU researchers to develop entrepreneurial initiatives based on their fields and research projects.   On 9.11.2022 at 11:00 a.m. we invite you to the webinar entitled: ‘Grant funding and…

The SEA-EU European University of the Seas (SEA-EU), as part of the ReSEArch-EU project, invites you to the next webinars for young researchers as part of the Spin-Off Competence Lab - a virtual training programme aimed at enhancing the skills of SEA-EU researchers to develop entrepreneurial initiatives based on their fields and research projects. On 9.11.2022 at 11:00 am, please join us for a webinar entitled. 'Grant…

prof. dr hab. Alicja Węgrzyn; photo by Alan Stocki The Polish Patent Office has decided to grant four patents to a team of scientists from the Faculty of Biology of the UG and the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences for an invention preventing and combating infections in humans and animals,…

November is a month that can be associated with moustaches, thanks to the combination of the terms moustache and November into the word Movember. This catchy neologism was coined not just for the sake of it, but to help promote an important health campaign that takes place in November. The campaign, which began in Australia in 1999, has been promoted around the world to raise awareness and direct people's attention to…

The impact of innovations that arise from the dialogue between science and business on specific areas of life was the leading theme at a conference to mark the 15th anniversary of the National Centre for Research and Development. The Rector of the University of Gdańsk, prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski was invited to participate in the international plenary panel. During the anniversary conference, which took place on…

XX edition of the Summer Meetings with Science Dr Wacław Kulczykowski, prof. dr hab. Ewa Kulczykowska (Institute of Oceanology PAS) and dr hab. inż. Marek Kulczykowski (Institute of Hydroengineering PAS) were nominated for the prestigious Populariser of Science award in the Team category. The three scientists have been organising…

The book A Fairytale City by Paulina Siegień, which tells the story of Kaliningrad - a city not far from our border, built on the ruins of Königsberg, was appreciated by the jury of the Conrad Prize competition as well as the audience and announced the best prose debut of the past year. The award ceremony took place during a gala on the last day of the Conrad Festival held in Kraków. The organisers of the Conrad…

Smart city - that is, a city that uses modern technology to improve the quality of life and public services. How far are we from modern trend-setting metropolises in this area? This was discussed by experts at the Economic Convention at the Association of Fahrenheit Universities in Gdańsk. The Economic Convention, which took place on Friday, October 28, in the Hydromechanics building at Gdańsk University of Technology…

Graduates of the University of Gdańsk can be found in many different industries. For some, their studies at our university were preparation for a predetermined profession, while others, after gaining their diploma, went in search of the right path for them. We talk about the latter process with Bartosz Kucharski, a second-degree graduate in Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Gdańsk, who recently…

Dr Beata Czechowska-Derkacz talks about new and traditional forms of burial and cemetery design with mgr Krystian Puzdrakiewicz from the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdansk. November is a time when we talk about death in the context of spirituality, religion and philosophy. But I would like to talk about the more tangible aspects of…

In the photo is Marika Knapp, author of the award-winning thesis. Ms Marika Knapp's bachelor's thesis, written under the supervision of dr Katarzyna Pastuszak at the UG Artistic Institutions Management Faculty, won first place in the Project Master 2022 competition in the bachelor's thesis category. The award ceremony took place on…

Another webinar embedded in the topic of inventions and patents - 'Good practices in the commercialisation process' - is ahead of us. The event is organised by the Technology Transfer Centres UG, PG and GUMed and is addressed to all those interested in the topic. The webinar entitled. 'Good practices in the commercialisation process' will be held on November 3, 2022, from 11:…

Photo by Alan Stocki/UG. Ambassador Sultana Laila Hossain of Bangladesh met with the Rector of the University of Gdańsk, prof. Piotr Stepnowski, and the Vice-Rector for International Cooperation, dr hab. Anna Maria Jurkowska-Zeidler, prof. UG. The topic of discussion was international academic cooperation in its broadest sense. The main point of Tuesday's…

Fot. Paweł Sudara/GUMed Teams of students from GUMed, PG and UG will prepare proposals for solutions and concepts for the functioning of future stops of the PKM South. The works are being developed as part of the second edition of the Railway to the South competition, organised jointly by the Fahrenheit Universities (FarU) and the Pomeranian Metropolitan…

The ŻakArt project comprises a total of 45 cultural events in 15 cities in Poland. The initiative grew out of a collaboration initiated in 2019 within the framework of the National Student Culture Forum between student culture centres from 15 academic centres across Poland. Three years of continuous contact have allowed a framework for cooperation to take shape, which…

On October 25 between 11:10 and 13:27 in Gdańsk we will be able to enjoy a partial eclipse of the Sun. At its peak, 41 per cent of our star will be obscured. It is worth remembering that this unusual coincidence, when two bodies with a very similar angular diameter can meet in our sky, has made a significant contribution to the development of science. We asked dr hab. Marcin Wieśniak, prof. UG from the Institute of…