On Wednesday, February 24, the first in a series on topics related to scientific integrity, a lecture entitled 'Copyright infringement in science - consequences and examples,' will take place. Prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski, Rector of the University of Gdańsk and dr hab. Sławomir Steinborn, prof. UG, Ombudsman for Scientific Reliability invite for the cycle of lectures. The lectures are aimed at academic teachers and…

Prof. dr hab. Ewa Łojkowska from the Interuniversity Faculty of Biotechnology UG and GUMed was appointed to the Committee of Experts of the Task Force created by the RE-IMAGINE EUROPE Programme, All European Academies (ALLEA) and European Sustainable Agriculture through Genome Editing (EU-SAGE) on 'Sustainable Agriculture and Innovation.' The Task Force aims to better…

The project entitled. "Innovative competence in on-line higher education" (InCompEdu), which aims to develop a methodology and international tools to support online education, was on the list of projects co-financed under the Erasmus+ Programme. The leader of the project is the University of Gdańsk, and its manager is dr Olga Dębicka from the Faculty of Economics of the…

On Wednesday, February 10, 2021, in the headquarters of the Polish Economic Society in Gdańsk, the results of the 17th edition of the Witold Andruszkiewicz Competition for Bachelor's Theses and the 24th edition of the Lucjan Hofman Competition for Master's Theses for the year 2020 were announced. Distinctions in the competitions went to graduates of the Faculty of Economics…

Dr Karol Kłodziński from the Faculty of History of the University of Gdańsk has become a specialist member of the Committee on Ancient Culture Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the term 2021-2024. For more than two years, the scientist has participated in archaeological works and discoveries in North Africa. In addition to dr Karol Klodzinski, the following were…

Open meetings in the form of scientific cafés bring the scientific activities of university staff closer to a wider audience. In the next part of the series of meetings, the lecture "Brain in cyberspace" will be presented by Dr Wojciech Glac from the Faculty of Biology, UG. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, at 18:00, via MS Teams platform. Those who…

Researchers from the University of Gdańsk, under the direction of dr hab. Sebastian Mahlik, prof. UG, intend to create modern infrared luminescent phosphors that could be used, among others, in the food industry or medicine. The project entitled. 'Perovskite and Broadband Infrared Phosphors for Lighting-Emitting Diode Applications' is implemented under the Polish-Taiwanese…

In conjunction with the beginning of the national programme for monitoring the variability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Poland, scientists of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology (MWB) of the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk under the direction of dr Łukasz Rąbalski performed a pilot high-throughput study of the full genome sequences of the…

Dr Jakub Szlachetko of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk, has been appointed to the expert team preparing an update to the National Urban Policy. The team works under the auspices of the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy and the Institute for Urban and Regional Development. The National Urban Policy is addressed to all Polish cities (regardless…

Photo: Dominik Paszliński/Gdansk.pl Professor Maria Mendel from the University of Gdańsk, a social pedagogue and an outstanding figure in the Polish humanities and social sciences, has been awarded the Johannes Hevelius Award 2020 of the City of Gdańsk in the humanities and social sciences. This most important scientific distinction in Pomerania was…