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Sky in sight
24-11-2014…igator Grant. European Research Council was established by the European Commission. It is the first pan-European agency providing funding for frontier research, in other words: pioneering projects leading to fundamental discoveries and breakthrough results. ERC Advanced Grant is available to researchers with established reputation as independent researchers. Only three Polish scientists received the Advanced Investigator Grant so far – one of…
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Buildings are open
21-11-2014…. The seat is also interesting in architectonic terms. The complex is composed of several smaller buildings, connected by glass corridors. There is also a garden on the roof and a parking underneath the building. – We are discovering the universe in all possible scales. From gamma ray flashes from distant galaxies and processes occurring in the Earth’s atmosphere or under its surface, to studies of signals coming from the human brains, to the rese…
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Computer pine
17-11-2014…ild logical languages understandable for a computer which would allow for discerning natural properties. The research team, funded by the ERC grant, proved theorems related to the application of logic in computer science. Professor Bojańczyk admits that they managed to prove only the easy ones. He invited three researchers from Paris (one of them is professor Bojańczyk’s PhD student), two from Aachen and three of his PhD students from the Universi…
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Honorary Degree for a French historian
12-11-2014…or Besançon for many years was engaged in Polish struggle for independence and democracy. He appealed many times to the broad public in the West for respecting of human rights and sovereignty of our country. In 2007, in the light of his enormous contribution and engagement in the affairs of Poland, he received the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland….
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Citizens and the state in Eastern Europe
12-11-2014…73 million euro – was used by the team to carry out a comparative public opinion survey in 14 post-communist countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine). Nearly 21 thousand respondents were interviewed. They responded to questions on their attitudes to public goods, local community and the state. The results of the study were merged with data avai…
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Pioneering library
03-11-2014…ibrary of approximation algorithms – says prof. Piotr Sankowski. In 2015 professor Sankowski received an ERC grant in the competition – the Proof of Concept – for the commercialization of research results. …
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Cross-cultural communication
27-10-2014…should be directed on the laureates of the European Research Council competitions. The funds from ERC are available to scientists from all around Europe, so Polish scientists compete on equal grounds against their peers from all other countries of the continent. So far, Poland won 14 ERC grants, of which 7 went to the University of Warsaw. In other two projects University participates as the institutional partner, cooperating, among others, with…
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GlobE – Asian
07-10-2014…ectations leading to the emergence of new styles of communication, patterns of social interaction, or types of social positioning on others? Does global multilingualism call for a redefinition of self- and group concepts in both cultural environments? What consequences does it imply for research and educational programs in cross-cultural communication, translation and language pedagogy? Conference will be held on 16th and 17th of October at Inst…
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Inauguration of the academic year
02-10-2014…the motto: “the sooner – the better”. A wise human being will be a good employee, not the other way round. We are to educate people who will change the world, and not cogs in a corporate machine, where mediocrity is elevated to the status of virtue. There is no scientific development without taking risks I want to encourage everyone to undertake great challenges, to pose really important questions and find answers to them. There is no developme…
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Maps, brochures, flyers and presentations
08-08-2014…06.2020 4EU+ Brochures and Flyers 4EU+ flyer (pdf) 4EU+ brochure (pdf) Publications “The University of Warsaw – The University in action” (2018) Main sites of the UW – guidebook 2018 (pdf) Welcome Point leaflets Welcome Point leaflets >> Maps and guidebooks Main campus – printable map (2017) UW map for international students and employees (2017) UW in Warsaw – printable city map (2014) Residence halls – printable map (2014)…
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