During the QS Higher Education Summit: Europe 2022, one of the largest international events in the field of higher education management, a Keynote Speech was delivered by prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski, Rector of the University of Gdańsk. The lecture concerned the short- and long-term support of the higher education system in Ukraine from the perspective of the Polish academic community. This year's summit is held under…

A team consisting of scientists from the University of Gdańsk and the Wrocław University of Technology has won the ninth edition of the 'Eureka! DGP - we discover Polish inventions". Thanks to the solution developed by the scientists from the UG and PW it is possible to effectively, inexpensively and ecologically destroy antibiotics that get into rivers and lakes. This year,…

We invite you to join the POLCA Summer School "POLlutions in Coastal Areas", taking place in September on the dates 5-12, 2022, organized by the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of the University of Gdańsk (Poland) in Professor Krzysztof Skóra Hel Marine Station (Poland). The POLCA Summer School is open to international students of the last three semesters of Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Earth and Environmental…

Photo by Krzysztof Krzempek/PG   The first-ever joint ceremony of the academic year opening by UG, PG and GUMed may take place already on October 1, 2022. A letter of intent in this matter was handed over to the President of Gdańsk by Rectors representing the Assembly of the Fahrenheit Universities (FarU). The meeting took place on June 8 this year at the…

Meetings of the consortium implementing the international grant INDEPTH: Frontiers of life: Diversity, adaptation strategies and biotechnological potential of Arctic deep-sea microorganisms are ahead of us. The project concerns research on the biosphere of the deep ocean and is implemented under the GRIEG competition financed from the Norwegian funds. On June 9-11, the…

The first workshops and meetings under the project 'Business Day at the Faculty of Philology. Face to face with employers'. The project was an opportunity for students of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Gdańsk to take their first steps in the labour market and come into contact with the immediate economic environment. On May 23, 2022, in the conference room on…

On 23-27 May we hosted students from SEA-EU partner universities in Cadiz, Brest, Kiel, Split and Malta, who participated for a whole week in an intensive course "ShakEspeAre-EU". The main objective of the event was to broaden the knowledge of Shakespeare's works and their impact on European culture. Thanks to multidisciplinary lectures and workshops, participants had the opportunity to look at the works of the…

It is time for news from sunny Split, where the "SEA-EU Service Learning Conference - Community-engaged University" took place. The event was attended by researchers and students from SEA-EU partner universities, who exchanged their experiences on the method of teaching through community engagement. The University of Gdansk was represented by experts from the Faculty of Social Sciences: dr Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski and…

Fahrenheit Universities, that is the Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk University of Technology and University of Gdańsk, together with Hevelianum and partners, on Sunday turned Góra Gradowa into a unique scientific town. The picnic, under the patronage of the famous Gdańsk scientist Daniel Fahrenheit, attracted not only employees of the universities and their families, but also many residents of Gdańsk. Daniel…

During the fifth edition of the FOR-UNI Forum of University Centres for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, on May 27, 2022, the Centre for Foreign Languages of the University of Gdańsk hosted representatives of language teaching centres from over a dozen universities in Poland. The meeting once again became an opportunity to exchange experiences in the organisation of language teaching and improving the quality of…