Rector UG prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski and the Director of the Gdańsk Museum, dr hab. Waldemar Ossowski, prof. UG have signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement provides, among other things, for the organisation of joint events and the popularisation of science and culture. It also opens the way to formalising the hitherto unofficial cooperation between the institutions.  

‘We first established cooperation by signing a letter of intent as part of the ‘RadUNIA Kultury’ partnership network between the University of Gdańsk, the Museum of Gdańsk and four other institutions,’ says University of Gdańsk Museum Director Marta Szaszkiewicz. ‘We had already noticed similar areas of activity between our museums. And when the UG website dedicated to women of science in Gdańsk appeared, we decided to prepare an exhibition about these researchers together with one of the departments of the Gdańsk Museum - the Science Museum of Gdańsk.’

The result of the informal cooperation so far is the exhibition ‘Pioneers, researchers, leaders. Women of Gdańsk Science’, which was displayed at St Catherine’s Church in Gdańsk, the University of Gdańsk, Gdansk University of Technology and the Medical University of Gdańsk. In February this year, the project received the Fahrenheit University Main Prize.

The cooperation agreement allows not only the formalisation of the relationship between the two museums but also the involvement of the entire University in joint activities. ‘The idea is to create various cultural and scientific events together. We have already blazed a trail in this respect with the organisation of Children’s Day under the slogan ‘Pioneers, researchers and leaders discover the world of science with children’, which involved the University of Gdańsk’s Chemistry Department through the involvement of students from the Scientific Association of Chemical Business, the Scientific Association of Chemists and the Scientific Association of Environmental Protection,’ explains Marta Szaszkiewicz.

According to the agreement, the two institutions will undertake joint initiatives to popularise science, knowledge, art and culture, organise scientific, educational and cultural events, and conduct information and promotional activities concerning joint cultural and scientific events.