The prestigious Nature Nanotechnology journal has published an article on the challenges of the effective use of nanomaterial safety data. The paper is part of the NanoReg2 project carried out by an international scientific consortium and funded by the HORYZONT 2020 Framework Programme, in which the University of Gdańsk participated as a partner. One of the co-authors of the paper is prof. dr hab. Tomasz Puzyn from the…

Marta Skorek, a doctoral student at the Institute of Scandinavian and Fennist Studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Gdansk, received the prestigious Baltic Sea Science Award 2021 for her research project Discourse shapes marine space: Representations of the macro-regional governance of the Baltic Sea and their social-ecological implications.   The award…

The Small Grants Programme - UGrants has been designed to meet the needs of researchers at different stages of their careers - from PhD students to young scientists and to advanced researchers. It aims to encourage researchers to plan scientific projects and obtain funds for their implementation.   The competition attracted 62 applications. The competition committee, with the help of external experts, qualified 35…

This year’s QS World University Rankings reveals the top 1,300 universities from around the world. University of Gdańsk maintained its position in the range of 801-1000 among the best listed universities. In the list of 2022 classified 19 Polish universities,  only three are available over 801-1000 qualified (University of Warsaw in 308 position in…

The research of the interdisciplinary team selected in the grant competition will concern the birth, development and transformation of the idea of biodynamic agriculture in Poland, as well as its implementation in Poland, Central and Eastern Europe. - 'This is an unusual project, as it involves close cooperation between humanists from various disciplines and representatives of sciences from Poland and abroad, as well as…

A recently published article in Nature Methods entitled „The emerging landscape of single-molecule protein sequencing technologies” jointly led by researchers including dr Javier Alfaro from the ICCVS, University of Gdansk and dr Adam Pomorski from the University of Wrocław, was developed in cooperation with scientists from around the world including significant contributions…

The Herder Centre of the University of Gdańsk and the Centre for German Language Culture and Books invite you to participate in the three-week summer German-language online course 'Die Sprache ist der Schlüssel zur Welt'. Registration for the courses lasts until July 2. The summer courses are ideal for those who are very busy during the academic year or for those who want to practice their German skills. - 'During the…

Prof. Janusz Rak is the winner of the international CEUS-UNISONO competition for bilateral or trilateral research projects for teams from Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Poland, and will receive over PLN 1.6 million for implementation of the project entitled "Radiosensitizing derivatives of pyrimidine or purine bases: mass spectrometry and quantum chemical methods…

In the competition of the National Science Centre Sonata 16 grant, dr Michał Studziński from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science UG received over PLN 1 million. Thanks to this, for three years he will realise a project entitled Symmetries and entanglement in quantum circuits. The National Science Centre announced the SONATA 16 competition for research projects, intended for scientists who obtained…

- 'The first multicultural canon of utopian literature available in one language will be created, which will be unique in the world,' explains prof. dr hab. Artur Blaim from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Gdańsk, the head of the highest evaluated project in the competition in module Universalia 2.2 of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities. 53 applications were submitted in the…