…ty of Warsaw uses G Suite for Education, providing various tools useful in online communication.   One of them is Hangouts Meet enabling video-conferencing and other virtual meetings (talks, presentations, lectures, etc.). Join a video meeting from a Google Calendar or an invitation email.   Schedule a video meeting using Google Meet Log in or sign up to your Gmail account (for UW students and employees). Create a Google Calendar event. Invite gue…

…of them, online consultations with Szymon Chrząstowski, head of PCC are planned from Monday. Group classes and training sessions have been suspended. For detailed questions, please contact the Psychological Counselling Center directly.   UPDATE: (16th March 2020) On the UW website, one can find an article about the psychological support of CPP during the period of suspension of classes >>   17. Is it possible to visit the University campus in Krak…

…p://en.uw.edu.pl/recommendations-for-students-considering-coming-back-to-residence-halls/ Accommodation fee reduced by 50% (23.03.2020) https://en.uw.edu.pl/accommodation-fee-reduced-by-50/ Organising online teaching at UW – lists of remote classes (20.03.2020) https://en.uw.edu.pl/organising-online-teaching-at-uw-lists-of-remote-courses/ Rector’s order on the temporary limitation on the obligation to work on the university campuses (18.03.2020) htt…

…CoV-2 (in Lombardy: Codogno, Castiglione d’Adda, Casalpusterlengo, Fombio, Maleo, Somaglia, Bertonico, Terranova dei Passerini, Castelgerundo, San Fiorano; in Veneto: Vò Euganeo, Padua).   Following the recommendations of the Ministry and the Inspectorate, the University of Warsaw advises to: cancel trips of employees, students and doctoral students to the 11 Italian municipalities in quarantine; contact UW Italian partners from the 11 municipalit…

…and who have alarming symptoms (temperature above 38 degrees Celsius, coughing, shortness of breath) should report to hospital wards of infectious diseases. Detailed information on symptoms and a list of hospital units is available at: https://www.gov.pl/web/zdrowie/byles-w-chinach-i-zle-sie-czujesz-sprawdz-co-robic.   Central administration units of the University of Warsaw are in direct contact with Chinese universities and are monitoring the de…

…maintained by the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, UK, scans daily the huge amount of data coming from Gaia and alerts astronomers to the appearance of new sources or unusual brightness variations in known ones, so that they can quickly point other ground and space-based telescopes to study them in detail. The phenomena may include supernova explosions and other stellar outbursts.   In this particular instance, follow-up obse…

…apable of empowering students, researchers and society as a whole to take on the challenges facing Europe. For more information, please visit www.4euplus.eu….

…tments of the multiannual development plan In 2019, UW completed the realisation of its first investments funded by the multiannual development plan. Students and employees can use the sports halls situated in the University of Warsaw Library undergrounds. Also, thanks to the funding, the eastern part of the building at 4 Aleje Ujazdowskie Street was reconstructed. It will house offices of the Cooperation and Dialogue Centre, the UW new unit which…

…o do not feel comfortable in this period or face some difficult situations, to come for short conversations. Christmas is a time of joy and happiness. However, some people feel stressed while thinking of Christmas.   “For many people Christmas is a great opportunity to relax, meet loved ones and finally have some joy. Some people, however, are very nervous about the holidays, they are nervous about meeting their loved ones, they fear how these hol…

…-giving to Olga Tokarczuk by the Nobel Prize Committee, UW undertakes the action “UW congratulates Tokarczuk”. It aims to encourage students and employees of the university to express their congratulations to the outstanding writer. One can do this by taking a photo using a specially prepared photo frame. The frame refers to Tokarczuk’s works and includes a quotation of the writer’s letter to Prof. Marcin Pałys, UW rector.   Each person taking par…