dr Katarzyna Świerk The University of Gdańsk joins the European discussion on the future of academia. During the MSCA Presidency Conference 2025 in Lyngby (Denmark), dr Katarzyna Świerk, Director of the Science Office and Head of the RAR UG project, funded under CoARA Boost Funding, participated in discussions and networking devoted…

Euro-Trans 2025 Conference. Challenges in the transport and logistics sector On September 22-23, 2025, the Faculty of Economics at the University of Gdańsk will host the 21st International Euro-Trans Conference ‘Towards Sustainable and Interconnected Transport and Logistics Networks’. Scientists, experts and representatives of carriers and…

Fascinating lectures, inspiring discussions and new contacts. The 4th Bacteriophage Symposium, which brought together scientists from all over Poland, is now behind us. ‘The idea behind the first symposium, which took place four years ago, was to bring together scientists who work on bacteriophages in Poland,’ says prof. Grzegorz Węgrzyn, Head of the…

Participants of the Conference; photo by B. Jętczak The 22nd edition of the European Conference on Foundations of Physics, largely devoted to the 100th anniversary of quantum theory, took place on June 30 - July 2, 2025. This year's event was hosted by the International Centre for Theory Of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT) and the…

The Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk hosted a remarkable scientific conference - the ‘FarU Immunology Meeting’. It was the first event of its kind in Poland, bringing together academic communities from all three institutions forming The Fahrenheit Union of Universities in Gdańsk (…

Three universities, three days and more than 20 events on the programme! The second edition of the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & INNOVATION DAYS conference will take place from 1 to 3 April 2025. The theme of the event is: ‘PATENTS, INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURS - Science 4 Business cooperation’. Last year's edition of the conference, initiated by the Technology Transfer Office of the University of Gdańsk, proved to be a…

During a ceremonial gala accompanying the conference ‘International Students in Poland 2025’, prizes were awarded to the best foreign students studying in our country and to people connected with the academic community who support the internationalisation of Polish universities in a special way. Dr hab. Danuta Gutowska-Owsiak, prof. UG from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG, was among those awarded…

- A gigantic amount of work has been done in the last 20 years - we have gone from a level of a few thousand foreign students to an impressive number of one hundred thousand, reaching a European average internationalisation rate of 8.7% of international students in the past year. Opportunities for Polish science related to internationalisation, as well as the problems and difficulties facing higher education in this…

The strategy for the internationalisation of higher education and the challenges, opportunities and threats that this entails are the main topics that will be discussed by experts at the annual conference ‘Foreign Students in Poland 2025’, organised as part of the ‘Study in Poland’ programme. It is part of the 55th anniversary of the University of…

photo by Marcel Jakubowski/UG The changes on the contemporary labour market and the related challenges facing the State Labour Inspectorate were discussed during a conference on ‘The modern dimension of labour protection’, organised as part of the celebrations of the 105th anniversary of the State Labour Inspectorate and held on 14…