Improve your skills. A Chinese language course organised by the Confucius Institute is launching this summer. There are courses available for the basics (HSK 1-2), intermediate (HSK 3-4) and seasoned learners (HSK 5-6).  Classes will run from July to September. Participants will improve their communication and cultural skills in Chinese under the guidance of a qualified and experienced teacher. The entire course…

Are you a PhD student conducting interdisciplinary research? Would you like to undertake a year’s internship in one of the best universities in northern Poland? This proposal is for you. The Mayor of Gdańsk in cooperation with the Fahrenheit Universities have created Fahrenheit scholarships for the best three PhD students from abroad. The Gdańsk-born world class physicist,…

Eight participants of the Erasmus+ KA107 programme from Caucasus University and two participants from the I. Franko National University of Lviv were hosted by the University of Gdańsk as part of a training course on the internationalisation of universities and modern forms of promotion and project management.  The training participants' stay began on 21.06.2022 with a meeting at the Faculty of Law and Administration…

What should the stops of the new PKM South line look like and what should be done to make the passenger railway as environmentally and resident-friendly as possible? The winners of a competition organised by Fahrenheit Universities and the local government company Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna SA (PKM) have been announced.   The students' task in the competition was to prepare an architectural and urban design study…

The pollution of the Baltic Sea, its causes, the scale of the threat and the prospects for improving the environmental situation of the basin were discussed by the guests of the second episode of the podcast 'Conversation with Fahrenheit'.  'Pollution of the Baltic Sea' is the title of the second episode of the Fahrenheit University podcast. You can find the it online now.…

140 teachers from Ukraine will take part in a training organised by the Faculty of Philology of the University of Gdańsk. The aim of the course is to teach refugees the Polish language at B1 level, taking into account pedagogical aspects. The project was prepared by the WF and won nearly PLN 800,000 in a tender organised by the Teacher Education Centre.   The offer on the part of the University of Gdańsk was prepared by…

During the QS Higher Education Summit: Europe 2022, one of the largest international events in the field of higher education management, a Keynote Speech was delivered by prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski, Rector of the University of Gdańsk. The lecture concerned the short- and long-term support of the higher education system in Ukraine from the perspective of the Polish academic community. This year's summit is held under…

A team consisting of scientists from the University of Gdańsk and the Wrocław University of Technology has won the ninth edition of the 'Eureka! DGP - we discover Polish inventions". Thanks to the solution developed by the scientists from the UG and PW it is possible to effectively, inexpensively and ecologically destroy antibiotics that get into rivers and lakes. This year,…

We invite you to join the POLCA Summer School "POLlutions in Coastal Areas", taking place in September on the dates 5-12, 2022, organized by the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of the University of Gdańsk (Poland) in Professor Krzysztof Skóra Hel Marine Station (Poland). The POLCA Summer School is open to international students of the last three semesters of Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Earth and Environmental…

Photo by Krzysztof Krzempek/PG   The first-ever joint ceremony of the academic year opening by UG, PG and GUMed may take place already on October 1, 2022. A letter of intent in this matter was handed over to the President of Gdańsk by Rectors representing the Assembly of the Fahrenheit Universities (FarU). The meeting took place on June 8 this year at the…