A new project - ‘Early Childhood and Sustainable Citizenship Routes in the Digital Era’ (EACH) - has received €250,000 in Erasmus+ funding, with a budget of over €23,000 for the University of Gdańsk researchers. The project on the UG side is led by dr Jarosław Jendza from the Institute of Pedagogy. The EACH project is primarily a study of preschool education, which combines a deep understanding of the environment and…

Employees of the Research and Implementation Laboratory, from left: dr Agata Motyka-Pomagruk, dr Natalia Kaczyńska, Weronika Babińska-Wensierska, M.Sc. Wojciech Śledź, prof. dr hab. Ewa Łojkowska, trainee mgr Michał Prusiński. Photo: Alan Stocki The Research and Implementation Laboratory of the Intercollegiate Faculty of…

Based on research in Myanmar in southern Asia, a team including dr hab. Jacek Szwedo, prof. UG from the Faculty of Biology prepared a publication on the evolutionary history of cicadas. The article appeared in ‘Nature Communications’, a journal with an impact factor of 17,694, which is among the journals highest-ranked by the MEiN. The publication was…

The Head of the Aquaculture Laboratory of the Department of Marine Biology and Biotechnology at the WOiG, dr hab. inż. Konrad Ocalewicz, prof. UG has been appointed to the Scientific Council of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split (Croatia). The competencies of the Scientific Council are advisory in nature. The scope of the Council's…

Prof. Hanna Mazur-Marzec from the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography UG talks about blue, green, white and red biotechnology and the resources of the Baltic Sea. We would like to remind you an interview with this year's winner of the Jan Hevelius Science Award of the City of Gdańsk, conducted by dr Beata Czechowska-Derkacz. Dr Beata Czechowska-…

What was Adam Mickiewicz's lost utopia about? Who writes the most popular utopias today? And why does the dystopian vision of the world appear so often in young adult literature? This is what we are discussing with this year's winner of the Jan Hevelius Science Award of the City of Gdańsk in the field of humanities, prof. dr hab. Artur Blaim from the…

English scholar, a specialist in utopia and dystopia in culture prof. dr hab. Artur Blaim and oceanographer and chemist prof. dr hab. Hanna Mazur-Marzec are this year's winners of the Jan Hevelius Science Award of the City of Gdańsk. ‘Prof. Artur Blaim became famous for his research on literary utopia and dystopia in English culture. A spectacular…

mgr Vladyslav Ievtukhov In the third edition of the Young Fahrenheit competition, aimed at young employees, doctoral students, and students of the University of Gdańsk, the winner was mgr Vladyslav Ievtukhov. The third edition of the Young Fahrenheit competition, organised by Univentum Labs (a special purpose vehicle of the UG) with…

Fifteen butterflies have taken up residence in the paludarium on the first floor of the Faculty of Biology. They are specimens from the collection of Kacper Krajewski, a first-year Biology undergraduate student. They represent five species, all native to Asia, except Papilio demoleus, which is found in the Middle East. Dr Elizabeth Sontag from the…

The first BSL-3+ laboratory in northern Poland is about to begin work. On January 22, the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG held the official opening of a unique space where research into, among other things, coronavirus and tick-borne encephalitis virus will be conducted. The Minister of Science and Higher Education, Dariusz…