‘Remember that studies are not only programmes and syllabuses, but they are first and foremost people. It is above all the academic staff, which here are internationally renowned specialists. Take advantage of this as much as you can, because such an opportunity may not come again’ - this is how the academic year at the Intercollegiate Faculty of…

Fot. M. Jakubowski With reflection on history, bold plans for the future, and the spirit of togetherness, the Faculty of Social Sciences officially opened the academic year 2024/2025. During the inauguration ceremony, the role of the social sciences - including sociological sciences, the discipline represented by prof. Andrzej…

Doctoral promotions, awards from the Rector of UG, and a lecture on bird behaviourism - the Faculty of Biology was the first to inaugurate the 2024/25 academic year! ‘Allow me to mention three people who are particularly distinguished for the establishment of the Faculty of Biology in 2008. I am thinking here of Professor Barbara Lipińska, Professor…

photo by Alan Stocki Not only science, but also the university's broadly understood mission related to the shaping of values serving the good of mankind, freedom and democracy became an important motif of the ceremonial Inauguration of the Academic Year 2024/2025 at the University of Gdańsk. An important part of the ceremony, which…

photo by Mateusz Byczkowski Prof. dr hab. Aneta Lewińska has been appointed the Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Gdańsk. ‘I am always open to all talks, proposals and discussions,’ she emphasises. As Director of the CI, prof. Aneta Lewińska plans, among other things, to broaden the scope of the Institute's…

The Rector and Senate of the University of Gdansk are honoured to invite you to the inauguration of the Academic Year 2024/2025 and the conferment of an honorary doctorate title to Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki The ceremony will take place on October 1, 2024, at 10.00 a.m. at the Main Library of the University of Gdańsk   In the programme of…

A new academic year and new attractions organised by the Herder Centre at the UG. We invite you to events, workshops and lectures on Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy, the use of phraseologisms in German or the history of the building in which the most luxurious hotel in Gdańsk was built. This Friday, 13 September, the first workshop in the series will already take place! Open Days at the Herder Centre…

The time has come for Q-Con 2024, the grand conclusion of two weeks dedicated to quantum technology and mechanics at UG. The international event attracted prominent experts from around the world - including prof. Charles H. Bennett and prof. Harald Weinfurter - as well as the authorities of the city of Gdańsk. The speakers talked about issues in…

The International Centre for Theory Of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT UG) invites you to a lecture by the eminent expert in quantum physics and information, prof. Charles Bennett. The event is a prelude to the Q-con Conference: Shaping the Future of Quantum,organised by WMFI and ICTQT . A guest of the Univ. of Gdansk will give a talk entitled. ‘Insights…

The Rector, prof. Piotr Stepnowski, assumed the chairmanship of the Fahrenheit Universities during the Assembly of The Union of Universities in Gdańsk Daniel Fahrenheit. The function was handed over by the previous Chairman, prof. Marcin Gruchała, Rector of the Medical University of Gdańsk. According to the Statutes of the Union, the chairman's term of office lasts two years and formally commences on September 1. The…