…y organised together with Prof. Ohno the first Polish-Japanese Symposium on Magnetic Semiconductors. In the following years these symposia were continued both in Warsaw and Japan,” Prof. Twardowski indicated. Contemporary information technologies use semiconductors to process information and ferromagnetic materials to store it. Prof. Hideo Ohno pioneered the development of a new class of materials – ferromagnetic III-V semiconductor compounds, whi…

…ientific discussions, joint publications and access to unique samples produced in Prof Ohno’s laboratory.   In 1997, the Polish-Japanese Symposium on Magnetic Semiconductors took place, organised jointly with the scientist. In the following years, such symposia were continued in Warsaw and Japan.   For his research and scientific achievements, Prof. Ohno has been honoured with a number of prestigious awards, including the IBM Japan Science Award (…

…cial responsibility of universities. The 4EU+ Alliance aims to create a comprehensive research-intensive European University.   The 4EU+ Alliance organises meetings for its community members every year. The first annual annual meeting meeting was held in 2019 at Sorbonne University, and the second – in an online formula – was organised by Charles University. The 2021 Annual Meeting was hosted by Heidelberg University. Last year, the representative…

…n the EU Horizon Europe Framework Programme:   participation in the implementation of 64 funded projects, coordination of 13 funded projects, more than EUR 25 million in funding received, 6.69% of the HE budget. The largest amount of funding awarded to the University of Warsaw (EUR 16.18 million) projects in the Excellent science pillar. EUR 8 million in funding was awarded to projects in the Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitivene…

…nguage. The programme also included a guided walk around the UW campus at Krakowskie Przedmieście, film screenings, national presentations, and visits to the Warsaw Uprising Museum and Museum of Warsaw.   “This year, thematic walks devoted to the old Praga district or Warsaw street art were highly popular. Participants also had the opportunity to discover and develop their musical talents. They learned to sing Polish songs during vocal workshops,…

…ceived the prestigious IJCAI Computers and Thought Award for his contributions to computational social choice, and to the theory of committee elections. On the ERC project The project “Proportional Algorithms for Democratic Decision” is set in the field of computational social choice. It was awarded with an ERC Starting Grant in the amount of €1,479,938. The main goal of the project is to analyse formal models describing scenarios, where a group o…

…Courses should be taught using innovative methods and techniques (examples of good practices and recommendations can be found here and here); Courses should support the development of competences recognised by the 4EU+ Alliance as key in European education: multilingualism, digital literacy, societal engagement, critical thinking and entrepreneurship. For more information on sharing courses with students of other 4EU+ member universities, please f…

…sas University into the 4EU+ family. The University will be an important asset to the 4EU+ Alliance and will help us drive the Alliance forward in accomplishing our ambition to create an even stronger alliance of European research-intensive universities”, highlighted Prof. Henrik Wegener, Rector of the University of Copenhagen and incumbent Chair of the Governing Board.   Considered as the direct successor of the Faculty of Law of Paris, which was…

…eszka Brylak will conduct the project “The concept of teotl: a complex approach to the principal religious category of pre-Hispanic Central Mexico”. This is the first independent grant given by the European Research Council to a researcher from the UW Faculty of Modern Languages.   Various meanings The main goal of the project is to unfold the notions of the pre-Hispanic Nahua principal religious category teotl by analysing its four crucial aspect…

…and the member of the 4EU+ Management Committee, said.   In April 2021, the Alliance gained legal personality with the establishment of a not-for-profit association “4EU+ European University Alliance e.V.” under German law. The Association’s headquarters are in Heidelberg, Germany. The 4EU+ European University Alliance brings together seven comprehensive, research-intensive, public universities from four regions of Europe: the University of Warsaw…