Photo by dr Kamila Stańczak What tasks should clinical psychologists perform in psychiatric care? Will they gain new competencies and support psychiatric wards? These questions are to be answered by specialists - members of a new team appointed by the Minister of Health. Among them is dr hab. Małgorzata Lipowska, prof. UG from the Faculty of Social…

Every student has probably thought about going to a foreign university for a semester or two during their academic journey. The University of Gdańsk can help such people in many ways - from the initiatives of the SEA-EU European Alliance of Coastal Universities to information meetings about the programmes in question. Find out what opportunities studying abroad at the UG opens up. SEA-EU - the five seas and an ocean…

The Herbert-Stolzenberg Prize was awarded to dr Magdalena Jaś-Nowopolska for her scientific research on the legal conditions of freedom of doing business in Poland and Germany and the impact of the European integration process on economic relations in these countries. This was carried out jointly with the Faculty of Law and Administration of the UG as part of a scientific…

Photo by Alan Stocki/UG The agreement signed between the University of Gdańsk's Faculty of Philology and Brzeski County is aimed at mutual cooperation in the popularisation of education and support for initiatives to this end. It will also enable students to participate in selected classes conducted at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Gdańsk.…

Fot. Błażej Zabłotny/UG Drought, high temperatures, low water levels in rivers and forest fires. Climate change is visible to the naked eye. The transformation of the climate system must go hand in hand with systemic change. Public sector entities, local governments, companies, NGOs and universities are all taking action on this issue. Climate change is…

As part of the Erasmus+ KA107 project and a training trip to Georgia, University of Gdańsk staff visited the Caucasus University in Tbilisi. The topic of the five-day training was the internationalisation of the university and modern forms of promotion and project management. The University of Gdańsk was represented by Dominika Brulińska, Head of the International Cooperation…

Thanks to the cooperation between the Department of Strategy of the City Hall in Gdynia and the Department of Regional Development of the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management at the University of Gdańsk, headed by prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Palmowski, a publication on service and commercial points in Gdynia was created. First-year geography students, as part of a field exercise, stocktaking the local…

Fot. Pixabay Elephants found ways to avoid Cancer – Article to come out in Molecular Biology and Evolution (IF: 16.2): https://academimc.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msac149/6632613   Every day our cells replicate. For this the genes in each cell are copied by the process of DNA replication. Ideally, all new cells are exact copies of the…

The University of Gdańsk has become one of the scientific partners in the European Network for Skin Engineering and Modelling (NETSKINMODELS), a newly funded COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). Each COST Action is an extremely prestigious international endeavour - the current one has 101 participants from 29 countries. The aim is to build, within four years, a network of scientists and…

Thanks to the Mobility in Higher Education project, two students from the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography went on an internship to the University of Iceland in Reykjavík. They have been staying at the Hύsavík Research Centre since the beginning of July this year. The students take part in expeditions with the University of…