Researchers from UG were among the winners of the MINIATURA 5 competition organised by the National Centre for Science. Funding for individual scientific activities was granted to researchers from the Faculty of Biology, the International Centre for Research on Cancer Vaccines and the Faculty of Law and Administration of UG. The MINIATURA competition aims to support scientific activities leading to the preparation of a…

Mgr Sandra Żukowska and Mgr Beata Chmiel, second-year PhD students at the Doctoral School won second place in the national competition 'EkoMasters'.   The subject of the competition was to present a postulate, an idea or a project concerning a change in the way of functioning of the university, a selected organizational unit of the university or persons forming the academic community, which could result in a decrease in…

The University of Gdańsk, as the first public university in Poland, has received official accreditation from Ashoka - Journey to Changemakers' Campus. This distinction is awarded for the course of pedagogy of innovation, which engages students to introduce concrete, socially necessary changes. The distinction awarded to the University of Gdańsk by Ashoka (an international non-governmental organisation of social…

On Thursday, November 4th, the Gdansk University of Technology hosted the first of three debates for academic communities, entitled 'Why do we need the Farenheit Universities' Union?', which was attended by the Union's authorities: the rectors of GUMed, PG and UG and the Union's director, prof. Adriana Zaleska-Medynska. Other guests invited to the event included Dariusz Drelich, Voivode of Pomerania, Mieczysław Struk,…

To streamline the circulation of documents between the MUG, Gdańsk Tech and UG, the Fahrenheit Universities is launching interuniversity post. Each of the member universities will collect and deliver documents in the morning hours in a monthly cycle. The University of Gdańsk will be the first to undertake this task, and the Medical University of Gdańsk and Gdańsk University of Technology will follow.   The FarU Post…

In the third edition of the Polish Language Promotion Programme of the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), two grants were awarded to the University of Gdańsk. The Academic Centre for Polish Language and Culture in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Development will carry out a project between Gdańsk and Dublin. Grants from NAWA for the promotion of the Polish language and culture abroad will be…

  Economists and representatives of financial institutions from Poland and Europe met in Sopot on September 13-15. The European Financial Congress was attended among others by presidents and board members of the 50 largest institutions from the financial sector, over 150 panellists from Poland and abroad, 150 media representatives and 60 students and doctoral students from Polish and foreign universities…

Over 11 million new cases of cardiovascular disease are recorded every year in Europe. Also in Poland, these diseases constitute a major social problem and the greatest threat to the health of our country's inhabitants. One of the basic diagnostic tools in cardiology remains the ECG recording - a non-invasive test that shows the bioelectrical activity of the heart. It is ECG recordings that provide valuable data for…

The University of Gdansk has been selected to participate in LOTUS Leadership Development Programme under the EU-funded LOTUS (Leadership and Organisation for Teaching and Learning at European Universities) project. The Leadership Development Programme offers an opportunity for European higher education institutions to address the key challenges in learning and teaching that they are currently facing, by fostering…

The role of the WZ UG researcher in the GUMed study was to select statistical methods appropriate to the stated aim, perform statistical analyses and statistical inference. Dr hab. Ewa Wycinka, prof. UG from the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Management, University of Gdańsk, participated in medical research of the Medical University of Gdańsk…