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…

Meetings of the consortium implementing the international grant INDEPTH: Frontiers of life: Diversity, adaptation strategies and biotechnological potential of Arctic deep-sea microorganisms are ahead of us. The project concerns research on the biosphere of the deep ocean and is implemented under the GRIEG competition financed from the Norwegian funds. On June 9-11, the…

The first workshops and meetings under the project 'Business Day at the Faculty of Philology. Face to face with employers'. The project was an opportunity for students of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Gdańsk to take their first steps in the labour market and come into contact with the immediate economic environment. On May 23, 2022, in the conference room on…

On 23-27 May we hosted students from SEA-EU partner universities in Cadiz, Brest, Kiel, Split and Malta, who participated for a whole week in an intensive course "ShakEspeAre-EU". The main objective of the event was to broaden the knowledge of Shakespeare's works and their impact on European culture. Thanks to multidisciplinary lectures and workshops, participants had the opportunity to look at the works of the…

It is time for news from sunny Split, where the "SEA-EU Service Learning Conference - Community-engaged University" took place. The event was attended by researchers and students from SEA-EU partner universities, who exchanged their experiences on the method of teaching through community engagement. The University of Gdansk was represented by experts from the Faculty of Social Sciences: dr Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski and…

Fahrenheit Universities, that is the Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk University of Technology and University of Gdańsk, together with Hevelianum and partners, on Sunday turned Góra Gradowa into a unique scientific town. The picnic, under the patronage of the famous Gdańsk scientist Daniel Fahrenheit, attracted not only employees of the universities and their families, but also many residents of Gdańsk. Daniel…

During the fifth edition of the FOR-UNI Forum of University Centres for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, on May 27, 2022, the Centre for Foreign Languages of the University of Gdańsk hosted representatives of language teaching centres from over a dozen universities in Poland. The meeting once again became an opportunity to exchange experiences in the organisation of language teaching and improving the quality of…

A screen capture from the adaptation of the novel 'The Tin Drum' We would like to invite you to another Grassovian lecture organised by the Research Workshop on Borderland Narratives as a prelude to the celebrations of the 95th birthday of Günter Grass at the University of Gdańsk. Under the patronage of the Rector Major, prof. Piotr Stepnowski, together…

During a joint meeting of the Academic Councils of the Medical University of Gdańsk, the Technical University of Gdańsk and the University of Gdańsk, their members discussed the activities of the Fahrenheit Universities (FarU) to date and agreed on a common position regarding further development of the agreement between the three strongest universities in Gdańsk. The meeting of the members of the Academic Boards and the…

On May 23-24, 2022, the University of Gdańsk had the pleasure to host members of the Mobility Committee of the SEA-EU consortium. The team was welcomed by the Vice-Rector for International Cooperation - dr hab. Anna Maria Jurkowska-Zeidler prof. UG, and then the substantive discussion on the exchange of good administrative and curriculum practices started. There was also a debate on the next edition of the SEA-EU 2.0…