The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre and the Gdańsk Scientific Society would like to invite you to a meeting with prof. dr hab. Ewa Łojkowska, the winner of the Jan Hevelius Science Prize of the City of Gdańsk for 2021. The meeting will take place on 24.11.2022 (Thursday) at 6:00 pm in the Old Town Hall in Gdańsk. During the event, the Laureate will give a lecture: Plant biotechnology- the technology that will solve the…

The Office for Occupational Safety and Health invites willing employees, doctoral students and students of the University of Gdańsk to donate blood. This is the next blood donation event, following October's Wampiriada, taking place at our university. It will be possible to donate blood twice at the Campus: on November 23, 2022, at the Faculty of Chemistry (room F16) and on December 8, 2022, at the Faculty of Social…

Tens of thousands of kilometres cycled, thousands of reported rides, millions of calories burned. The 'Cycling to university' campaign lasted at the University of Gdańsk from May to September 2022. The time has come, to sum up, the campaign. On November 9, at the UG Faculty of Social Sciences, the participants who completed the most rides were ceremoniously presented with their prizes. The first edition of the 'Cycling…

The Archive team of the University of Gdańsk invites you to take part in a campaign to recognise events and figures immortalised in old photographs from the collection of the University of Gdańsk Archive entitled 'Sign the history'.   - 'Every month we will prepare for you a set of 10 photographs,' - informs the Director of the Archives dr Monika Płuciennik. - 'Please read them and share information about the people and…

Univentum Labs, a special purpose vehicle of the University of Gdańsk, in cooperation with the UG Technology Transfer Centre, is organising the second edition of the Univentum Labs Ideas - Young Fahrenheit competition. It is aimed at young employees, doctoral students and students of the University whose research has commercialisation potential. The aim of the competition is, on the one hand, to promote interesting…

The University of Gdańsk Library has prepared a new service called 'Ordering Books to Faculties'. It is aimed at the academic staff of the University of Gdańsk who have an active library account, unencumbered by overdue items. Under this service, books can be ordered from the book collection available for lending from both the Main Library and specialist libraries (except for the Oceanographic Reading Room in Gdynia).…

November is a month that can be associated with moustaches, thanks to the combination of the terms moustache and November into the word Movember. This catchy neologism was coined not just for the sake of it, but to help promote an important health campaign that takes place in November. The campaign, which began in Australia in 1999, has been promoted around the world to raise awareness and direct people's attention to…

The book A Fairytale City by Paulina Siegień, which tells the story of Kaliningrad - a city not far from our border, built on the ruins of Königsberg, was appreciated by the jury of the Conrad Prize competition as well as the audience and announced the best prose debut of the past year. The award ceremony took place during a gala on the last day of the Conrad Festival held in Kraków. The organisers of the Conrad…

In the photo is Marika Knapp, author of the award-winning thesis. Ms Marika Knapp's bachelor's thesis, written under the supervision of dr Katarzyna Pastuszak at the UG Artistic Institutions Management Faculty, won first place in the Project Master 2022 competition in the bachelor's thesis category. The award ceremony took place on…

We invite you to read the latest, very comprehensive, issue of the University Gazette. You will find information about such events as the inauguration of the academic year, an exhibition of paintings by prof. Aneta Oniszczuk-Jastrząbek, the 6th Congress of the Polish Society of Social Communication, the Euro-Trans 2022 conference, the SEA-EU Intensive Course 'Secrets of the…