Tons of dead fish, mass extinction of all living organisms in the Oder, in other words, a great ecological disaster. Theories to explain this phenomenon have arisen and continue to arise. We know for sure that one of the factors wreaking havoc in the Oder is algae - the so-called golden algae. How and why did they get there? Can we do anything to avoid further blooms and an ecological crisis in the future? We ask prof…

A PhD student from the Cancer Immunology group at the University of Gdańsk's International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science (MCBSP), Ines Papak, has received funding from the ExCELLent Grant Programme created by the Polish Stem Cell Bank. Ines was awarded 4th place in a competitive programme aimed at young scientists. She was thus awarded a financial prize to be used to…

Rising temperatures have been worrying climatologists, farmers and hydrologists for some years now. While some associate the increasingly warmer days with pleasant recreation, for others they make work impossible. In Poland, there is currently an agricultural drought in every province. Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Niemirycz from the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk talks about how we can prevent…

More than two million euros has been awarded to the University of Gdańsk by the European Union's Horizon Europe programme. Such a high grant places the UG fifth among Polish universities and ninth in terms of all Polish research centres. A total of more than EUR 110 million has gone to Polish project participants, placing our country in 14th place among EU members.  The…

According to the international Leiden Ranking, the University of Gdańsk is the 10th university with the highest PA(F|FM) ratio. This means that at UG, the ratio of female authors in scientific publications to the number of all male and female authors is very high at 53.2%. The Leiden Ranking analyses more than 1,300 research centres from all over the world in terms of science, collaboration, open access publications and…

The Congress of Young Science is an international and multidisciplinary scientific conference that will take place at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Gdańsk from July 7 to 10, 2022. In dozens of panels, scientists will present the results of their research, discuss their theses, establish scientific contacts, and more. The topics to be presented at the conference will not be limited, with…

The project led by dr hab. Kazimierz Musiał, prof. UG "Young People Network for Balticness 2.0."(YoPeNET) has received a grant of EUR 65 000 from the Council of Baltic Sea States programme. The project aims to organise summer schools, during which secondary school pupils, students and doctoral students will develop podcasts and films on identity for their peers.  Two summer schools will be held as part of the project.…

- From the data of the World Tourism Organisation, which you presented in your speech at the InfoGlob 2022 conference on 'Mass tourism or virtual tourism? Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic', we see that before the pandemic, around 1.5 billion people moved annually. On the one hand, this seems like a lot, with some cities like Venice, Dubrovnik and Barcelona limiting, under the influence of residents, the access of…

Dr Aleksandra Maria Kocot from the Faculty of Biology of UG, dr Hanna Obracht-Prondzyńska and dr Marcin Połom from the Faculty of Social Sciences, as well as dr Illia Serdiuk from the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of UG, have been awarded the Minister's scholarship for outstanding young scientists for significant achievements in scientific activity in 2022. The…

We would like to invite you to the panel 'Faces of young science'. The panel, which will take place on July 7, 2022 in Room S208 in the Faculty of Social Sciences, will explore the career paths of young, outstanding scientists who have significant achievements despite their age. Guest speakers will talk about what they faced when starting their careers, what scientific challenges and institutional obstacles they…