…m from Zakopane. After reconstruction, the building was reopened and made available to guests in May 2024. The four-storey building has 13 hotel rooms with bathrooms, including 2 rooms fully adapted to the needs of people with disabilities. Functional features in the building include manoeuvring spaces for wheelchair users, contrasting signage, barrier-free entrances and push-button call system. There is an outdoor gym adapted to the needs of peop…

…is it known that a state was established. Written sources therefore usually appear too late. This is why the Piast state is an accidental exception: we can now trace its rise and subsequent fall on the basis of two very precise sets of data – coins from the Islamic world and pollen. This creates a unique opportunity to understand what determined the rise and disappearance of states,” concludes Marek Jankowiak, PhD, from the UW’s Faculty of “Artes…

…plete beginnings of the emergence of the automobile industry. Back then, it was also impossible to predict how and where development would end up, and what state-of-the-art cars would look like. We are now in a very similar place in terms of the development of artificial intelligence,” Prof. Piotr Sankowski from the UW’s Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, said. “We should invest in basic research and look very closely at the new id…

…Alojzy Z. Nowak, the UW Rector. The Chamber of Physicians and Dentists (PL: Naczelna Izba Lekarska, NIL) was represented by, among others, its president, Łukasz Jankowski.   The agreement will enable, for instance, the organisation of educational events, including postgraduate training for doctors, and the implementation of joint research and expert activities.   As part of the cooperation, UW lecturers will conduct classes, as well as develop tr…

…hese situations are described on the newly created website: bezpieczenstwo.uw.edu.pl. You can also find information about evacuation rules and assembly points on campuses, the location of automatic external defibrillators at the UW, pre-medical first aid, legal assistance, data protection and the safe organisation of events and gatherings at the university.   Directly from the website, you can dial the UW emergency phone number and report an emerg…

…ture space engineers in designing the novel atomic receivers: a prototype of Rydberg radio receiver for space missions is to be developed and tested in the Quantum Optical Devices Laboratory. The project is carried out under a programme of and funded by the European Space Agency.   – RYDAR: Rydberg Detector for Advanced RF Payloads is the awarded project in the European Space Agency’s call for tenders concerning the development of atomic receivers…

…ment, critical thinking and entrepreneurship; Courses taught in all languages can be accepted. Classes taught in languages other than English or the official languages of the 4EU+ Alliance universities can also be submitted. Language courses (PL: lektoraty) cannot be provided as part of the initiative unless the unit offering the course agrees to accept 4EU+ university students free of charge. For more information on sharing courses with students…

…ve solutions,” Prof. Sambor Grucza, the UW Vice-Rector said, adding: “We are part of the 4EU+ Alliance, creating the European University with seven other European universities. This is a means of opening up, creating a European melting pot and attracting the best students.” A transcript of the event broadcast is available on NAWA’s YouTube channel.       The 2nd Internationalisation Congress was organised by the National Agency for Academic Exchan…

…hese extinct animals: their diet, behaviour and relatedness to other similar forms,” Dr Mateusz Tałanda said. The scientists also found bones of terrestrial reptiles from the Procolophonia, resembling today’s small lizards.   The discovered fossils date back 240 million years and belong to both terrestrial and marine animals.  …

…m Warsaw, and the South Station at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. For the last twenty years, the North Station has been conducting observations of a part of the sky with a camera recording the passage of extraterrestrial matter in the Earth’s atmosphere – meteors and bolides. The research is conducted as part of a nationwide network of observing stations – the Polish Fireball Network (PFN).   Researchers point out that the detection of bol…