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30 years of Erasmus+
12-06-2017…for the past 30 years. First exchanges were in 1987. Approximately 3 200 students from 11 countries went abroad. Over 30 years, the programme developed. In 2015, 678 000 people from 33 countries – members of the EU and Turkey, Macedonia, Iceland, Norway and Lichtenstein. Nowadays, people can take part in volunteering, trainings, mobility programmes etc. 9 million people who have gone abroad supported by Erasmus+ programme. Poland has been par…
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A third detection of Gravitational Waves
01-06-2017…pected population of stellar-mass black holes that are larger than 20 solar masses – says Jo van den Brand of Nikhef and VU University Amsterdam, the newly elected spokesperson for the Virgo Collaboration, a body of more than 280 international scientists who perform gravitational waves research together with the LIGO Collaboration. – The entire LIGO and Virgo scientific collaborations worked together to make these amazing detections of such extrem…
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Open Day at the UW
19-04-2017…will also have a chance to find out about student life, cultural and sport events and activities. Programmes of study taught in English which are available in the academic year 2017/2018: American Studies – first and second cycle, Applied Petroleum Geosciences – second cycle, Archaeology – first and second cycle, Chemistry – second cycle, Economics – second cycle, English studies – first and second cycle, Environmental management – second cycle…
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UW in social media
30-01-2017…st started tweeting. It shares information regarding science, academic and scientific events, and important issues. On Twitter it is also possible to observe many employees of the UW, among others, the Rector of the University of Warsaw – Professor Marcin Pałys and the spokeswoman of the University – Anna Korzekwa. Students and employees of the UW receive e-mails with information on rules of terms, scholarships, studies or social matters. People…
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Competition for foreign students
22-11-2016…be active in such fields as culture, social life, ecology or sports and promote multicultural ideas among the others. He or she is also expected to be in a good academic standing. In order to participate professors, tutors, university authorities, international offices, student governments, as well as candidate’s colleagues ought to submit applications. The results of the contest will be known in January 2017 at the annual conference “Foreign…
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Inauguration of the new academic year
30-09-2016…lopment of the University and decided to found it. On 3rd November 2015 the government adopted a special resolution supporting the UW. Until 2025 the University will receive PLN 945 m (about EUR 230 m). We called this programme “Good investment” because it will bring profits to the whole country – added Rector Pałys. The aim of the UW is to maintain strong position among best universities in Europe and strengthen the research recognition. Realiz…
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UW representative in Rio
08-09-2016…studies, he develops his career in sport. Disability is not an obstacle to him. He was born blind. In the 2014 European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven he was ranked third in 100m freestyle. One year later, he won a bronze medal in 100m backstroke in Glasgow 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. In the 2016 IPC Swimming European Open Championships he was the best in 100m backstroke and he won bronze medal in 100m freestyle. In the 15th S…
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Second detection of gravitational waves
17-06-2016…hem were Professor Tomasz Bulik and Doctor Izabela Kowalska-Leszczyńska from the University of Warsaw. Professor Bulik with Professor Belczyński, also a University of Warsaw scholar, were involved in simulations of binaries that showed that binary black holes are the most likely objects to be detected by LIGO. Prof. Bulik was a co-editor of one chapter of the discovery paper. Doctor Kowalska-Leszczyńska was carrying out research on astrophysical c…
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Programming contest in Thailand
17-05-2016…athematics, Informatics and Mechanics: Wojciech Nadara, Marcin Smulewicz and Marek Sokołowski will represent the UW. The team is called “Warsaw Eagles”. The contest has begun on 15th May and it will last six days. The 2016 ACM-ICPC World Finals will take place on 19th May from 4.30 to 10.00 Polish time (from 9.30 to 15.00 local time). Prof. Jan Madey, Prof. Krzysztof Diks from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics and Vice-Rect…
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Good news for UW
03-12-2015…t EUR 220 m). – The slogan of our anniversary which will be celebrated in 2016 is “Two centuries. Good beginning”. The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the University could not have a better start. That investment comprises not only buildings which will help to solve problems with working and studying conditions, but it is a source of new stimuli for research and education – says the Rector of the UW. University’s goa…
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