The University of Gdańsk shared with other universities in the region its experience from the implementation of European projects STARBIOS2, RESBIOS and MINDtheGEPs implemented under Horizon 2020. The webinar entitled Gender equality in research and innovation was organised in June 2021, by the Regional Office of the Pomorskie Voivodeship in Brussels. The topic of the meeting was activities conducted for gender equality…

Each of us can become a discoverer of areas where plant species alien to our ecosystem appear and contribute to the creation of an interactive Pomeranian database of the distribution of such plants. The Biological Station of the University of Gdańsk invites you to joint actions for the protection of nature. We often hear about alien animal species threatening native ecosystems, while some species of flora are equally…

The University of Gdańsk shared with other universities in the region its experience from the implementation of European projects STARBIOS2, RESBIOS and MINDtheGEPs implemented under Horizon 2020. The webinar entitled Gender equality in research and innovation was organised in June 2021, by the Regional Office of the Pomorskie Voivodeship in Brussels. The topic of the meeting…

Scientists from the University of Gdańsk, Jagiellonian University and a scientific-industrial consortium including Producent Stolarki PCV i AL 'BEWI' Bernard Wójcik (project leader) obtained funding for the implementation of a project entitled: 'Development of innovative technology for removing coronaviruses from the air, including SARS-CoV-2 with the use of photocatalytic layers implemented in an air purifier'. The…

The latest issue of the journal 'Trends in Food Science & Technology' published a scientific article prepared by the staff of the Toxicology and Radiological Protection Unit of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk. The authors of the review article 'Beta-emitting radionuclides in wild mushrooms and potential radiotoxicity for their consumers' are employees of Toxicology and Radiological Protection Group of…

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…