‘It is the duty of the academic community to engage in building the European Democracy Shield, protecting elections from foreign interference. This is the protection of fundamental European values, such as democracy and the rule of law.’ Dr hab. Arkadiusz Modrzejewski, prof. UG, director of the Institute of Political Science, has been invited to the Advisory Council for Resilience to International Disinformation at the…

Dr Rafał Raczyński, coordinator of the Migration Observatory operating within the structures of the Centre for Sustainable Development of the University of Gdańsk, has been appointed as a member of the Pomeranian Regional Labour Market Council in Gdańsk for the 2025-2029 term. The Regional Labour Market Council is an advisory body to the Marshal of the…

The next phase of the project 'Increasing migrants' access to vaccine information in the Tri-City', funded by the National Academic Exchange Agency's Intervention Grants programme, has been completed. As part of the project, six meetings between doctors and migrants from Ukraine were organised in February and March 2024. Participants had the…

The University of Gdańsk is launching the first special edition of the Academic Citizens' Budget called Green University of Gdańsk - Zielony Uniwersytet Gdański (Green UG - Zielony UG). Projects that will contribute to the green transformation of our university can be submitted to the competition. Students, doctoral students, academics and…

photo by Marcel Jakubowski More than 100 members of the UG academic community took part in the preparation of the University of Gdańsk's exhibition at the Edu Offshore Wind Fair. Together, they created the largest exhibition among all universities. Students and staff members talked about UG's potential in the offshore and green…

The second edition of the 'Including gender in research' competition for the best-scoring masters and doctoral theses incorporating a gender perspective in research has been concluded. The competition is organised as part of the MINDtheGEPs project under the EU-funded Horizon 2020 programme. As part of the EU Horizon 2020 Modifying Institutions by Developing Gender Equality Plans (MINDtheGEPs) project at the University…

'Many sustainable development advocates point to the important, if not leading, role of universities as opinion leaders in education in the broader sense, also in terms of reducing the carbon footprint,' says Hanna Łądkowska from the Department of Marine Ecology at the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of the UG, author of the report 'Carbon footprint monitoring generated in research and development activities' (pol…

- In order to reduce the carbon footprint and strive for sustainability, it is first necessary to define the baseline. Data is needed on how large a carbon footprint we generate is - says dr hab. Wojciech Pokora, prof. UG. A researcher from the Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology at the Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, is conducting research on the development of a tool to evaluate the carbon footprint generated…

Prorektorka prof. Anna Jurkowska - Zeidler podpisuje deklarację MCU The University of Gdańsk, together with 35 universities from around the world, has joined the signatories to the Magna Charta Universitatum. Signing the MCU signifies a declaration and affirmation of the principles on which the mission of universities should be…

The conference of the Office of the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship 'On the road to sustainable development – challenges of monitoring the goals of the 2030 Agenda' is behind us. On Friday, September 22, at the Hevelianum Centre in Gdańsk, the report 'Monitoring the SDGs in Pomorskie region, Poland' was presented as part of the pilot project '…