A record 15 entries from 8 faculties and a new category for social sciences and humanities - this is what the fifth edition of the Young Fahrenheit competition organised by the UG Univentum Labs special purpose vehicle in cooperation with the Technology Transfer Office looked like. The final took place on 9 February 2026 at the Rector's Office of the…

Prof. Michał Horodecki from the International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT UG) has won the Jan Hevelius Science Award of the City of Gdańsk for 2025 in the category of natural and exact sciences. ‘Jan Heweliusz was a symbol of knowledge and a man who looked at the sky not just to look, but to discover what we cannot name. Today's…

The ‘Nature’ journal has published a groundbreaking article on the HepS protein in Salmonella enterica bacteria, co-authored by dr Grzegorz Grabe from the Department of Structural Biology at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG. ‘The knowledge gained in this work can be used to optimise phage therapy, an increasingly important…

On 28 January, QS published the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2026, covering 958 universities from across Europe. The University of Gdańsk was once again included in this ranking, improving its position and taking 321st place. It is worth noting that this year's edition of the ranking was much broader, with nearly 300 newly…

The results of the 6th call for applications for the ‘UG Visiting Professors’ programme are now known. This year, thanks to funding under this programme, fifteen researchers from thirteen countries around the world will visit our university! The visits will take place in ten faculties and units of the University of Gdańsk. ‘UG Visiting Professors’ is a programme created as part of the ‘Excellence Initiative - Research…

Two researchers from the University of Gdańsk will travel to the United States as part of the Fulbright STEM Impact Award grant programme. In the 2025/2026 recruitment process, grants were awarded to eight people in Poland. The Fulbright STEM Impact Award is a scholarship programme for researchers representing STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields employed at Polish academic and scientific…

Researchers from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG have published a paper that sheds new light on how bacteria interact with each other in the natural environment. The article, authored by prof. Robert Czajkowski's team, appeared in the prestigious journal ISME Communications, one of the leading international periodicals devoted…

The results of the Mieczysław Bekker Scholarship Programme (Bekker NAWA) for 2025 are now known. Among those selected to receive funding for research trips abroad are three scientists from the University of Gdańsk. Dr hab. Maria Kaźmierczak, prof. UG, will undertake a three-month research internship at Ghent University in Belgium, where she will…

An innovative agent combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (blue pus bacillus), based on the synergy of naphthoquinone and silver nanoparticles, has been granted patent protection by the Polish Patent Office. The invention was developed by scientists from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG, the Faculty of…

The leading ranking agency Times Higher Education has published the results of its global subject rankings - World University Rankings 2026 by Subject - for eleven subjects. The University of Gdańsk was listed in nine rankings - all those in which it was possible to apply for an assessment due to the university's profile. Our University was…