Please join us for an online meeting on Tuesday 22.03.2022 at 11.00 a.m. regarding the STEM Impact Award programme. Fulbright STEM Impact Award is a program for people who lead research projects in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) areas, employed in Polish academic and scientific institutions. The scholarship allows for implementation of short-term research and/or teaching project and broadening the…

9 days of seminars and workshops, 19 students, 15 lecturers - this is the summary of the Winter School on Balticness 2022, which took place at the European Solidarity Centre within the YoPeNet (YOUNG PEOPLE NETWORK FOR BALTICNESS) project.  The participants of the School came from Estonia, Germany, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Denmark, India, Turkmenistan and Brazil and were selected from 32 applications. This choice was…

Fulfilling the mission of cooperation for the development of scientific potential and strengthening the position of Gdańsk as a strong, international academic centre in the field of scientific research and modern education, the founding members of the Fahrenheit University in Gdańsk signed an agreement on the establishment of the 'Fahrenheit University' community and cooperation in the creation of the 'Fahrenheit…

- 'If you can do something to change our world, do it,' said Nobel laureate Leymah Roberta Gbowee at a meeting at WNS. The Liberian activist came to Gdańsk to visit her students, who were studying in Kyiv and fled from there due to the war. The students were offered help by the University of Gdańsk. The 1990s were one of the most difficult times for Liberia, a small country in West Africa. A year after the seven-year…

The first meeting of this year's Fahrenheit University Assembly was held on March 3, 2022, at the Medical University of Gdańsk. The meeting was attended by representatives of all FarU member universities. GUMed, the Gdańsk University of Technology and the University of Gdańsk headed by the rectors: prof. Marcin Gruchała, prof. Krzysztof Wilde and prof. Piotr Stepnowski, as well as prof. Adriana Zaleska-Medynska, the…

The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre invites you to shows and concerts. A pool of 100 tickets in good seats has been prepared for UG employees. To get a ticket, send an email to: anna.baldyga@teatrszekspirowski.pl. In the subject line of the e-mail write 'biletUG', and in the body: for which event and how many tickets you wish to order. In response, the sender will receive a link to the purchase and then the tickets. More…

Prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski, Rector of UG and Lawrence Ugwu, Director of the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre. Photo: Alan Stocki/UG The letter of intent signed by the Rector of the University of Gdańsk and the Director of the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre (BSCC) is an official continuation of joint activities of these institutions to strengthen the scientific…

Once again a research vessel from the University of Gdańsk has set out to sea. This time the 'Oceanograf' was mapping the Baltic seabed with a sonar to see if it was a suitable place to store historic shipwrecks. On board were representatives of the Maritime Museum in Gdańsk, UG researchers, as well as students. As of 2019, the 'Oceanograf' serves as a research unit of the Institute of Oceanography UG. Various external…

What should the stops of the new PKM South line look like and what should be done to make the passenger railway as environment- and resident-friendly as possible? This will soon be decided by students of the universities which are part of the FarU, in cooperation with the local government company PKM SA. The competition entitled 'SOUTHBOUND RAILWAY. An architectural and urban study of shaping an environmentally and…

Dr hab. Arkadiusz Modrzejewski, prof. UG. Dr hab. Arkadiusz Modrzejewski, prof. UG from the Department of Political Thought and Recent History of the Institute of Political Science UG will take part in the expert roundtable 'War Against Ukraine. The Struggle for the Future of Europe and the World'. The experts also include a dozen political scientists,…