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Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Szkudlarek from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdańsk has been awarded the Jan Hevelius Award for the year 2024 in the humanities and social sciences category. The award, presented for 38 years and known as the ‘Pomeranian Nobel Prize’, was given to prof. T. Szkudlarek for his outstanding achievements in the…
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Year after year, we break new records - this is how five years of the University of Gdańsk's involvement in supporting the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity can be summarised. Thanks to the University's academic community, auction participants, volunteers and donors, more than PLN 58,000 will go to the needs of paediatric oncology and haematology!…
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Home Army soldier sent to a labour camp in Siberia, scientist, teacher and educator - the activities of prof. dr Eugeniusz Andrzejewski, which prof. Iwona Sagan described as ‘versatile, but above all deeply humanistic’, are difficult to summarise in a few words. The celebration of prof. Eugeniusz Andrzejewski's…
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The Kashubian Parliamentary Group, chaired by Senator Kazimierz Kleina, met on January 22 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Act on National and Ethnic Minorities and Regional Language enactment. The meeting was attended by dr Justyna Pomierska, Chair of the Kashubian Ethnophilology Programme Council, who gave a lecture on the 10th anniversary of…
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Developing strategic tasks assigned to individual operational objectives, as well as linking the University of Gdańsk's strategy to the strategies of its faculties - these were the main objectives of the next training session held on January 16, 2025 at the University of Gdańsk Library. The meeting, prepared by…
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Blue Monday - the third Monday in January - has for 20 years been regarded as the most depressing day of the year. To what extent does this belief coincide with the facts?
'The concept of Blue Monday was ‘given’ to us by Cliff Arnal, who presents himself as a psychologist from Cardiff University,' says dr Agata Rudnik, director of the UG Academic…
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More than a hundred people from among students, doctoral students, and staff who all have one thing in common - a passion for being active. On 15 January, the University of Gdańsk Library hosted the Student and Doctoral Activity Gala. This was already the third edition of the event, which is gaining momentum every year and its programme is enriched…
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Author meetings with national and international academics, writers, and theatre makers, screenings of theatre performances, theatre, discussion and translation workshops as part of the Between.Pomiędzy Dispersed Festival, international academic and student conferences, a research project Theatre - Literature - Management - these are just some of the…
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This Friday, January 17, the Faculty of Law and Administration of UG will host a lecture by the Minister for Equality, Katarzyna Kotula, combined with an open discussion. The lecture will cover, among other things, good practice and solutions to equality issues.
The event will take place on January 17 at 01:15 p.m. in auditorium C at the UG Faculty of Law and Administration. The first part of the meeting will include a…
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What role does the fruit fly play in science, why are tardigrades so unusual, which genes make a cat have white patches, and how does climate change affect different populations? The University of Gdańsk took part in the nationwide Biologists' Night for the 14th time. The Faculty of Biology of UG and the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and…