Dr Paweł Petasz, University of Gdańsk Disciplinary Ombudsman for Students and Doctoral Students, synthesises the disciplinary and criminal law consequences of misappropriating the authorship or misrepresenting the authorship of all or part of another person's work or artistic performance in a video. Although the anti-plagiarism systems in force are helping to detect plagiarism in diploma theses more and more effectively…

The University of Gdańsk's Faculty of Law and Administration hosted the National Meeting of Deans of Law Faculties, whose participants included deans and vice-deans of law faculties at universities and leading private universities. In addition to representatives of the academic world, the event was also attended by representatives of local authorities and law corporations.…

Grafika Alan Stocki/UG Students, doctoral students and employees of the FarU Universities are encouraged to participate in the 'Chess with Fahrenheit' competition. The event is, on the one hand, promotion of chess as a sport and, on the other, an encouragement to spend time with intellectual effort. The tournament will be commentated on in real-time by…

The first edition of the Fahrenheit Collaborative Champions competition is taking off. All students and postgraduates affiliated with Fahrenheit University's research clubs are invited to participate. Projects can be submitted until November 20, 2022. The prerequisite is that the project is carried out by a minimum of two scientific clubs or one intercollegiate club from different Fahrenheit Universities. The total…

Universities from all over Poland are taking part in the campaign. - 'By spending around 15-20 minutes, we can save someone's health or even life!' - says Przemysław Sadowski, Vice President for Finance of the Independent Students' Union. From October 19 to 21, 2022, there will be a so-called 'blood bus' at the UG campus as part of the initiative of the…

From today, October 17, you can vote for selected projects in the first edition of the University of Gdańsk's Academic Citizens' Budget. Voting will continue until October 24. The University of Gdańsk's Academic Civic Budget ('ABO UG') is a project in which students, doctoral students and employees of the University of Gdańsk could submit their ideas for the development of the university's infrastructure. There is PLN…

How do you find your way in a foreign city where you don't know the area and nobody speaks your language? Foreign students from UG, PG and GUMed took part in a sightseeing tour organised thanks to the cooperation between Fahrenheit Universities and the City of Gdańsk. During the event, they were able not only to see the most important places in our city (including the Main…

At the request of the Student Parliament, I declare October 31 (Monday) as Rector's Day, free from teaching. Therefore, granting the requests of the University's employees, I kindly inform you that 31.10.2022 will remain a day off (following the announcement of October 27, 2021), but the manner of its working off will change. It is to be worked off in a task-based manner agreed upon with the supervisors by the end of…

In the latest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Ranking (THE WUR) 2023, published on October 12, 2022, the University of Gdańsk moved up one place and was ranked fourth in the category of classical universities in Poland (behind the Universities: Jagiellonian University, Warsaw University and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) surpassing Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń compared to last year…

Due to the deteriorating economic situation of HEIs in Poland, the Rectors gathered in the Presidium of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland issued a dramatic appeal 'to the Authorities of the Republic of Poland to take decisive steps, as soon as possible, to protect the units of the national system of higher education and science from the financial and staffing crisis threatening them'. Let us recall…