The Office for Occupational Safety and Health invites willing employees, doctoral students and students of the University of Gdańsk to donate blood. This is the next blood donation event, following October's Wampiriada, taking place at our university. It will be possible to donate blood twice at the Campus: on November 23, 2022, at the Faculty of Chemistry (room F16) and on December 8, 2022, at the Faculty of Social…

The key question today is how to continue helping Ukraine wisely, so that Polish universities play a strategic role in rebuilding its higher education system. This is a great opportunity for true reconciliation between our countries, building on the tremendous good that has already occurred in recent months. Prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski, Rector of the University of Gdańsk, talks about the activities carried out by the…

From November 9th until November 11th, 2022, the representatives of the University of Gdańsk visited the coordinator of the SEA-EU alliance – the University of Cadiz. The delegation attended the "Polish Days" staff week, being a part of the internationalization initiative set within the consortium. The Chancellor for Infrastructure and Administration, Leszek Fiertek, MSc, along with delegates of the Faculty of Law…

The call for applications for the third instalment of the UG Visiting Professors Programme is now open. Meanwhile, as part of the two previous editions, 17 professors from, among others, Italy, the United States and even Lebanon will visit the University of Gdańsk by the end of 2022. The main objective of the UG Visiting Professors Programme is to establish international contracts to support the development of academic…

Three overseas PhD students have been selected to receive the Daniel Fahrenheit Scholarship funded by the Mayor of Gdańsk in consultation with the Fahrenheit Universities. This is the first edition of a new category of scholarships awarded by the City of Gdańsk.   The winners will continue their interdisciplinary research as part of their doctoral…

The second conference in the series 'University of Gdańsk Educates Personnel for Offshore Wind Energy' is ahead of us. The event is aimed at students and will introduce them to the rapidly growing offshore sector and give them the opportunity to talk to future employers. The event will be attended by guests from the offshore industry. A newly created…

The Gdańsk Scientific Society and the Gdańsk Society of Friends of Art invite the academic community of the University of Gdańsk to a meeting which will conclude the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of GTN, this Friday 18.11.2022 at 15.00 in the Library of the University of Gdańsk. The event will be accompanied by the promotion of two jubilee publications.  November 18, 2022, was not chosen at random, as exactly…

Joint projects ranging from research to cultural projects, summer and winter schools for foreign students, the promotion of Solidarity-related issues as subjects for bachelor's and master's theses - these are just a few of the many initiatives that the University of Gdańsk and the European Solidarity Centre have committed to under the agreement. The cooperation agreement was signed on November 15, 2022, in the library…

The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdańsk and the Gdańsk Scientific Society would like to invite you on 17.11.2022 at 6 pm to a meeting with prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Omilanowska-Kiljańczyk, winner of the Jan Hevelius Science Prize of the City of Gdańsk for 2021. A week later - on 24.11.2022 - a meeting with the second laureate - prof. Ewa Łojkowska - will be held. Prof. Małgorzata Omilanowska - Kiljańczyk received the…

Male and female students express themselves artistically in many ways. Some of them write, publishing, for example, in the student art collection Almanax, while others make films, which will already be presented on 17 and 18 November in the auditorium of the UG Library during the sixth edition of the Cinerama Festival.  - 'This year's edition is exceptional. The festival is changing its formula. Abandoning the current…

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…