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The fifth edition of the ‘Climate Person of the Year’ competition, co-organised by the Ministry of Climate and Environment, has been concluded. In the ‘Young Scientist’ category, the main award went to Mateusz Baluk, a PhD student and employee of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. The award ceremony took place on 13 November in…
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The time when we visit cemeteries is a time of encounters - both with our deceased loved ones and with the living who visit them. These encounters have been present in human cultures for thousands of years, as have customs related to burial and commemorating the dead. We talked about the earliest known rituals, their probable significance - both for the deceased and for the living community - and their traces in the…
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Prof. Roman Cieśliński, Head of the Hydrology and Water Management Laboratory at the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdańsk, has been appointed Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Słowiński National Park for a second five-year term (2025-2030). The Scientific Council of the SNP is an advisory and consultative body supporting…
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Prof. Mirosław Przylipiak - an eminent historian and film theorist, founder of the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Gdańsk, initiator and first director of the Andrzej Wajda Film Center at the University of Gdańsk - has been awarded the Knight's Cross…
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Dr Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda; fot. Szpitale Pomorskie.eu
Following Prime Minister Donald Tusk's decision to reorganise the government, Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda has been appointed Minister of Health. The Minister is a graduate of law at the University of Gdańsk. She also obtained a PhD in social sciences in the field of economics…
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The Academic Centre for Psychological Support was created out of necessity: to help UG students looking for support in crisis situations (one such situation was the COVID-19 pandemic). For five years, it has been developing forms of support to best meet the mental health needs of the academic community at the…
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The Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Hanna Wróblewska, handed out appointment letters to members of the Archival Council for the new term of office covering the years 2024 - 2027. Among the members of this important body is dr Monika Płuciennik - Director of the Centre for Document Management and Archives at the University of Gdańsk and Vice…
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Dr Katarzyna Warska has received the Prime Minister's Award for her contribution to science. The government honoured the literature researcher on the basis of her doctoral dissertation entitled. 'Bruno Schulz Goes to School. A Thematic Biography'.
The justification for the award appreciated the depiction of Bruno Schulz's life and the description of the circles of Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian intelligentsia from the…
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland has designated dr hab. Adam Wisniewski, prof. UG as one of four ad hoc judges of the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of Poland. Ad hoc judges of the ECHR are appointed by the President of the Court in cases where a national judge is unfit to sit in the Chamber, excludes himself or if…
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, submitted to the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe a list of three candidates for the office of Judge of the European Court of Human Rights. One of them is the Head of the Department of Public International Law dr hab. Adam Wisniewski, prof. UG. Following…