The University of Gdańsk announces the call for applications for the ‘Art Award for UG Students and Doctoral Students for Achievements in Culture and Creativity’, the originator of which is the UG Chancellor, dr hab. Aneta Oniszczuk-Jastrząbek, prof. UG. The competition promotes creativity and recognises the contribution of young artists to the…

On the occasion of the forthcoming Christmas and New Year, the Rector of the University of Gdańsk, prof. dr hab. Piotr Stepnowski, sent greetings to the academic community. 'Dear University of Gdańsk academic community, may this magical and unique Christmas season make us stop for a while and spend wonderful moments with family and friends. Let us enjoy them, and may the happiness and magic of these special festivities…

How were people with mental illness treated in the 19th century? Have our ways of dealing with the epidemic changed over the last 100 years? What was the political situation like in the Prussian partition? This is what we discussed with prof. Satoshi Warita, who came from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo as part of the ‘Visiting Professors UG’…

Live Christmas music, a performance by children from the University Kindergarten, charity events and more than 30 exhibitors at the fair: on December 12, the Faculty of Social Sciences once again hosted the University Christmas Meeting, organised for the benefit of our university's academic community by the Centre for Student and Doctoral Activities…

The skeleton of a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) found on the beach in Stegna nine years ago has become part of the permanent exhibition at the Krzysztof Skóra Marine Station in Hel. The exhibition's opening ceremony was held on December 6 and was attended by representatives of the UG, local authorities, and regional institutions. Speakers at the…

More projects created thanks to the Academic Citizens' Budget are flourishing at UG. The Oliwa Campus has already seen the creation of, among other things, an outdoor exercise zone and a pocket park - now the time has come for Sopot, where on December 11 the grand opening of two spaces took place: the Co-economy coworking zone and the eco-nomic park.…

Participants from 15 countries attended the Staff Week event ‘Happiness at Work 2024’ organised by the University of Gdańsk's Office for Cooperation and Internationalisation. It was an excellent opportunity to exchange experiences on internationalisation. From November 18 to 22, 2024, participants from 15 countries, including the USA, Finland,…

The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity will soon be playing for the 33rd time, and we as an academic community can make our contribution to make this world a better place for the fifth time. This year's edition is being held under the slogan ‘We Are Playing for Children's Oncology and Haematology’. According to the GOCC: ‘Cancer is the second most…

Christmas kits, quality clothing with the UG logo and beautiful ceramics - these are just a few of the gift ideas from the UG Shop, which have inspired the mysterious envoy from the North Pole! Take a look at the Christmas promotional spot! There's a certain place in the University of Gdańsk Library teeming…

‘This year's Nobel Prize winners Baker, Hassabis and Jumper used an approach that is de facto an extension of three previously known methods: homology modelling, sequence threading and dynamic fragment assembly. In this situation, having at their disposal quite a large database of sequences, they applied machine learning methods to approximate an…