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The gold and bronze medals were brough home from the Academic Championship Poland (AMP) by the AZS University of Gdańsk chess team. The event took place in Szczyrk this year. The UG team stood on the podium of the AMP again, now for the 2020/2021 edition.
Media coverage: Piotr Wlaczak, Managing Director of AZS UG:
Checkmate and… a medal. The last tournament within the…
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Dr hab. Izabela Morska from the UG Faculty of Modern Languages, prof. dr hab. Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński from the UG Faculty of Social Sciences and retired University of Gdańsk professors, prof. dr hab. Józef Borzyszkowski and prof. dr hab. Zenon Ciesielski received the 2019 Pomeranian Literary Awards.
Pomeranian Literary Award ‘Wiatr od morza’ was established in 2018 to express gratitude towards the creative work and…
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Dr hab. Michał Roch Kaczmarczyk, prof. UG from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Gdańsk, author of the book ‘Aporia wolności. Krytyka teorii społecznej’ (The aporia of freedom. Criticism of social theory), won the 2020 Jan Długosz Literary Contest.
The Jan Dlugosz Contest statue award, designed by late Professor Bronisław Chromy, together with the cash prize…
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On the 8th of October 2020 at 19:00 in the occasion of inauguration of the academic year 2020/2021 and opening of INDEX café, an online concert of Roomieńce band took place. They play alternative music. This event started a series of musically themed meetings and concerts named “Fala Dźwięku,” organized by the Academic Culture Centre “Alternator”.
Because of the current situation, both club’s owners and viewers…
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Now you can borrow not only books from the University of Gdańsk Library (BUG). Employees, students and doctoral students can borrow e-book readers, choosing from twenty Kindle Paperwhite devices and twenty Kindle Oasis devices.
Lending e-book readers is one of the new services offered to readers by the University of Gdańsk Library.
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The Photography Competition organized by the University of Gdańsk is held under the Baltic Heritage Routes. Development of Heritage Tourism Infrastructure in the South Baltic Area Project within the framework of Interreg South Baltic Program. The submitted photographs may enter 8 distinctive categories and must be sent by the end of September 2020.
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The 2020 ‘Nike’ Literary Award nominations were announced on 26 May 2020. The outstanding novel by Izabela Morska, UG Faculty of Languages Professor, called ‘Znikanie’ (Disappearing), published in 2020 by Znak publishing house, has been selected as one of the twenty nominees. The list of finalists include names of outstanding poets, essayists, novelists, reporters, like: Ewa Kuryluk, Ewa Lipska, Mikołaj Łoziński…
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Symbiotyczność tworzenia VOL.2 (Symbioticity of creation VOL.2) [Self Cells Portrait] is a laboratory incubator designed and constructed to grow microorganisms, created by Polish artist associated with Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts – Elvin Flamingo/ dr Jarosław Czarnecki, in cooperation with Jowita Nowakowska-Gołacka, doctoral student at the Department of Medical Biology and Genetics of the UG Faculty of Biology. The…
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Due to the pandemic, Gdańsk University Choir has not been able to get together and rehearse, they are counting the days till it is possible again but have not become complacent. Out of this difficult experience, a beautiful online record came into being, ‘ We move the world’ by Gdańsk University Choir under the artistic director, professor Marcin Tomczak. Extraordinary, mutual remote work, being… at the choristers…
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It’s been a long time now since the astronauts started getting locked up for months, far away from their families, deprived of comfortable bed, delicious food, bike rides in the park, walking beloved dog, holding romantical partner’s hand, playing with children on the playground, drinking coffee on their balcony or porch, and to top all that deprived of gravity. They do it all for science, having no issue with that.…