Can games truly change a person? How can they be used in shaping positive values? Professor Sarah L. Bowman, who visited the University of Gdańsk as part of the Visiting Professors programme, explains that it’s not just a game itself that matters. What do we need if we want to use role-playing games as a teaching method? Karolina Żuk-Wieczorkiewicz: -…

A groundbreaking study covering 58 countries shows that people’s willingness to engage in intergroup violence is not a uniform way of thinking. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), the findings indicate that extremist intentions have two fundamentally different psychological underpinnings…

The RESSAC Festival - Festival of Research in Science, Arts and Creation - is an event that brings together science, art and creative research presentations. Its fourth edition took place in Brest (France) from 10 to 14 March. An important - and visually spectacular - element of the festival was the (Very) Big Data! competition, organised as part of…

Applications for the Fahrenheit Synergy Programme can be submitted until 25 April. Under this programme, research groups from the Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk University of Technology, and the University of Gdańsk can secure funding for a project worth up to 750,000 PLN. Teams consisting of three research groups are eligible to apply for a…

Prof. Charles H. Bennett - a leading expert in quantum physics and information, doctor honoris causa of the University of Gdańsk, a researcher collaborating with the University of Gdańsk, and an employee of IBM in New York - has been awarded the Turing Award for encryption technology that is theoretically unbreakable. Prof. Charles H. Bennett was…

The Fahrenheit Synergy Programme is set to launch by 25 March at the latest, offering research groups from the MUG, GdańskTech and the University of Gdańsk the chance to secure funding of up to 750,000 PLN for a project. The programme is jointly organised by the Fahrenheit Universities and the investGDA Foundation. The maximum funding…

From left: dr Estera Rintz and dr Beata Chmiel; photo by Grzegorz Mehring/gdansk.pl The City of Gdańsk Jan Uphagen Award for Young Scientists for 2025 has been presented. As was the case last year, the awards in both categories went to researchers from the University of Gdańsk! In the natural and exact sciences category, dr Estera…

The University of Gdańsk has achieved significant success in the competition organised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as part of the project ‘Support for teaching processes through the NAVOICA platform’. Three projects prepared by teams of researchers from various departments of the university received funding for the development of…

‘Combining DNA analysis, fingerprints and biomarkers can significantly increase the evidential value of traces,’ argues dr hab. Aneta Lewkowicz, prof. UG. The team she leads has developed a new forensic method that allows more information to be obtained from a single sample than with the methods used to date. This innovative solution, combining…

Dr Sebastian Susmarski from the Faculty of Management will be implementing the following project under the Horizon Europe programme: ‘Enabling and Connecting Interoperable FAIR Digital Objects’. ‘The University of Gdańsk, thanks to its scientific projects and presence in the SEA-EU alliance, is seen as a valued partner in marine research,’ explains dr…