BARI stands for Baltic Science Network Mobility Programme for Research Internships. BARI offers summer research internships with appropriate academic training across the Baltic Sea Region to students with interest in Life Sciences, Photon & Neutron Science and Welfare State. During their internship, students will assist in research and lab work for a proposed project. They will be hosted by research groups…

Dr hab. Zbigniew Kaczyński, prof. UG, the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry serves as the Project Manager for four Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development projects, which aim at obtaining industry commissions’ foreign certificates and accreditations for the University of Gdańsk, hence improving international competitiveness of the university. The planned accreditations are: Eurobachelor Certification…

Dr Ewelina Król from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk and Iwona Pawliczek from the Professor Krzysztof Skóra Marine Station of the Institute of Oceanography of the University of Gdańsk are ranked among '50 bold women of 2019' in Gazeta Wyborcza's Wysokie Obcasy magazine. Dr Ewelina Król has been recognized for  "her work on innovative vaccines…

Professor Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz, 2019 EUI Fernand Braudel Fellow has been nominated the member of the Editorial Board the Oxford Encyclopedia of EU Law On October, 26, 2019 College of Europe in Bruges hosted first meeting of the Editorial Board of the Oxford Encyclopaedia of EU Law. Oxford Encyclopaedia of EU Law is the flagship project of the Oxford University Press whose ambition is to present state of the art in…

On December 18, 2019, in the Senate room of the University of Gdańsk, the 50th defense of a  doctoral dissertation carried out under supervision of prof. dr. hab. Grzegorz Węgrzyn took place. The anniversary dissertation authored by Karolina Pierzynowska was entitled "Induction of autophagy as a mechanism of genistein action in the experimental therapy of neurodegenerative diseases". Dr Dorota Myślińska from the…

“The search for targets of immune system targeted therapy and the search for resistance mechanisms of current immunotherapy methods” was the topic of the XVIII Polpharma Foundation scientific competition to fund research projects. The competition saw 16 applications, all of which were reviewed. On 10 October 2019, the Scientific Council of the Foundation, based on the evaluations and own assessment, ranked the…

Professor Jerzy Piotr Gwizdała, Rector of the University of Gdańsk, received the European Medal awarded by the European Economic and Social Committee, the institution operating at the European Commission and the Business Centre Club. The Rector of the University of Gdańsk was awarded for promoting European ideas in Poland. The European Medal is a non-commercial, nationwide initiative of the European Economic and…

On the 5th of December 2019, Professor Iwona Sagan gave a lecture at the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Its title was: "From communism to neoliberalism and back to populism: changing models of (not only) urban policy". It's been a very important distinction and first Annual David M.Smith Lecture presented by the researcher from Central-East Europe.  Annual David M. Smith Lecture has been one of…

Dr Karol Szczodrowski, a member of the Institute of Experimental Physics, became the laureate of this year's edition of the "French Government Scholarship" (Bourse Gouvernement Francais) program for the research stay. In the framework of the scholarship, he spent a month as a visiting professor at the Chemical Institute of Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF) at the University of Clermont Auvergne in France. The scholarship program…

Professor Stanisław Rosiek from the Institute of Polish Language at the Faculty of Languages of the University of Gdańsk, a tireless researcher of Bruno Schulz's work and a tireless publisher, received an award for intellectual courage from the most important cultural studies journal in Ukraine, "Ji" (Ї). The award was presented in the former Potocki Palace in Lviv on Saturday 14 December 2019. Professor Marek…