Gdansk citizens and their passions - St Mary's Church in Gdansk - is a lecture series organised by the Gdansk University Institute of Art History in cooperation with the Institute for Urban Culture. The next online meeting, devoted to conservation works and research on the most valuable works of art of the Gdansk church, is scheduled for May 11, 2021. dr hab. Andrzej Wozinski prof. UG from the Faculty of History UG will…

The programme of the 12th Between Literature and Theatre Festival. Pomiędzy will feature a Beckett Seminar and the Youth Island Student-Doctoral Conference. These are scheduled online on May 11, 12 and 13, 2021. - 'This is the 12th Festival of Literature and Theatre Between. Pomiędzy. It is an excellent opportunity to promote humanistic research conducted at the University of…

Weekend reading: prof. Grzegorz Węgrzyn in Prestiż Trójmiasto on research and treatment of Alzheimer's disease A wallet in the fridge, an empty pot left on the gas, and eventually problems recognising the faces of loved ones. Alzheimer's disease is an insidious thief of the human personality. The statistics are inexorable. It is predicted that in 2050 already more than a million Poles will suffer from the disease…

Kolorem niebieskim  zaznaczono kraje pochodzenia pracowników i studentów ICTQT, a czerwonym grupy badawcze, współpracujące z ICTQT. - 'Quantum physics and quantum technologies are among today's greatest scientific challenges. This is a very good time for such ambitious research initiatives because currently, quantum technologies are of interest not only to…

We would like to invite you to another open meeting within the framework of the project 'Scientific Cafés at the University of Gdańsk' which will bring closer the scientific activities of the University employees. The lecture entitled 'Minima Iuridica - reflections on some (un)obvious legal issues' will be presented by prof. dr hab. Jerzy Zajadło from the Faculty of Law and…

The Flag Day of the Republic of Poland is a holiday established in 2004. Ewa Karolina Cichocka talks to prof. dr hab. Beata Możejko from the Faculty of History of the University of Gdańsk about the heraldic meaning of the Polish flag's colours. - We think that we know what the colours of our flag mean, but according to heraldry the answer is probably not that simple. What do the red and white colours mean? - Heraldry,…

The University of Gdańsk has been placed second among the laureates of NAWA SPINAKER - Intensive International Education Programmes. The University will receive PLN 799,911.80 for the project entitled 'International Summer School - Pollution in Coastal Areas' (POLCA). The project leader is dr Ilona Kamińska from the Department of Oceanography and Geography. The project '…

For the third time, Times Higher Education has published a compilation of universities implementing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out in Agenda 2030. The University of Gdańsk scored highly in terms of implementing Goal 14, 'Living underwater', being ranked between 101 and 200 out of 379 participants from around the world. It is ranked in the same range in terms of…

Researchers at the University of Gdańsk and other universities which are members of the Association of Fahrenheit Universities, i.e. the Gdańsk University of Technology and the Medical University of Gdańsk, can take advantage of numerous training courses on preparing scientific articles. During the second online training, conducted by dr inż. Katarzyna Gaca-Zając from Elsevier, scientific employees could learn, among…

Over 5.6 million for 2 UG spin-offs: QSAR LAB and NANOEXPO and the Institute of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine for the creation of a digital platform enabling the design and development of molecular diagnostic tests, both for known diseases and newly emerging ones, such as COVID-19. Two Pomeranian companies, QSAR Lab and NanoExpo, as well as the Institute of…