…inated by the Centre is to strengthen respect for human rights, tolerance and acceptance, and to promote modern ways of resolving conflicts. More information >>   Psychological support The UW Psychological Counselling Centre (CPP) is a unit that offers UW students and employees help and support. Individual counselling and walk-in-clinic interventions take place online. The day before a scheduled appointment, a person will receive an email from a t…

…ayments into employee capital plans (PPK)”, available on the UW Human Resources website (PPK subpage) >>   Each PPK participant can declare a voluntary additional payment – up to 2% of gross remuneration. PPK participants can, at any time: Declare a voluntary additional payment; Change the amount of the additional payment; Resign from making the additional payment. “Declaration on financing the additional payments into employee capital plans (PPK)…

…Izdebski, the corresponding author and the leader of the Palaeo-Science and History Independent Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.   More information >> Publication details Giovanni Zanchetta, Monica Bini, Kevin Bloomfield, Robert Wiśniewski, et al., “Beyond one-way determinism: San Frediano’s miracle and climate change in Central and Northern Italy in late antiquity”, Climatic Change 165, 25 (2021), DOI…

On 25th-26th March, the UW Welcome Point and the UW Human Resources Office organise cultural orientation training for the international staff of the university. The registration closes on 23rd March. The training aims to get participants acquainted with elements and mechanisms of Polish culture. It will be conducted in an interactive and practical mode. Participants will be able to share their experience and concerns connected with relocation and…

…ronic signature or a trusted profile need to be sent on szczepienie_covid@uw.edu.pl or deliver to the UW Human Resources Office (Kazimierz Palace, 2nd floor, room no. 25).   Documents that will be delivered by Wednesday (3rd March 2021, 10:00) will have proceeded.   The Ministry of Education and Science issued the following procedure: The University of Warsaw collects declarations of participation in vaccinations from eligible people; UW prepares…

…the advances in technology, and how the human race has adapted to technological change. The world is so ideal that it is annoyingly unrealistic,” points out Prof. Turzyński.   The book chosen by Prof. Turzyński was written in the early 1960s when the dream of travelling to the stars was present in pop culture. “Today, it belongs to the past. We are not planning to fly to Mars. NASA Space Center Houston is more of a showcase of past conquests and…

…information provided by the Ministry of Education and Science on 12th February: On 15th February (Monday), the National Information Processing Institute of the National Research Institute (OPI PIB) will provide universities with the registration form. People authorised by a university rector will enter the data. The data will be passed on to the National Health Fund, and then to vaccination centres. Vaccination centres will contact universities to…

…t the following features: Innovative educational ideas and solutions, new designs or new activities that may attract students across the whole 4EU+ Alliance, Include an active involvement of students, both in the creation of educational activities and in their implementation, Be sustainable in long-term collaboration. In the second call for educational proposals, applicants are encouraged to: Design activities and propose formats that will be devo…

…tember, he took office together with four Vice-Rectors: Prof. Sambor Grucza (Vice-Rector for Cooperation and Human Resources), Prof. Ewa Krogulec (Vice-Rector for Development), Prof. Zygmunt Lalak (Vice-Rector for Research) and Prof. Sławomir Żółtek (Vice-Rector for Students and Quality of Teaching).   New faculties and faculty authorities When established in the early 1800s, the University of Warsaw had five faculties. Today, this figure has incr…

…focus on a broad range of rural and small urban communities, but with the consideration of larger urban contexts that will spawn comparative insights. This approach will build on and expand the emerging research on small-scale rural and ‘egalitarian’ multilingualism in Africa, Australia, America, and Oceania. It will also explore how (post)colonial languages transform this ‘egalitarian’ multilingualism at local levels where languages often have fl…