…ill include eleven meetings in the form of video conferences. The meetings will cover various aspects of Open Science, such as: research integrity, publishing and searching papers in open access, FAIR data management or open research software.   The workshops will be conducted in English by experts from the 4EU+ Alliance member universities and other organisations. The classes are dedicated to doctoral candidates and researchers, as well as anyone…

…thusiast of languages – Polish as well as foreign – besides Russian and English, she speaks German, Czech and Portuguese. She is also interested in all topics that relate to water: watercraft, river history, aquatic fauna and flora, and more recently ecohydrology.   Barbara Chmielewska is the guest of the next episode in the #ReadwithUW series, presenting a novel by Japanese author Ito Ogawa.   The art of correspondence Tsubaki Stationery Store is…

…men. They usually do this by hiding in shells left behind by dead crustaceans. One such hiding place is not enough for a lifetime because of the crab’s development, but also because of intra-species competition,” Prof. Marta Szulkin says.   The scientists analysed photos of hermit crabs from the Coenobitidae family published on social media and other online platforms.   “In the photographs, we discovered a total of 386 individuals using ‘artificia…

…the University of Warsaw developed a new, highly efficient technique that makes quantum information transmission dozens of times faster. In Old Dongola the team of researchers led by Prof. Artur Obłuski from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA) discovered unique wall paintings of saints and King David, one of the last rulers of Christian Makuria. The archaeologists from the PCMA were also involved in the discovery of the mediaeval…

…Merry Christmas to the entire academic community of the University of Warsaw and its Friends. We wish you joyful moments in good health, satisfaction with your endeavours, and happy New Year! Video with Christmas wishes from the UW Rector and the Academic Community…

…nderstand what is hard and what is easy in the quantum world. We are also curious to know what the laws of physics might look like inside black holes,” Prof. Paweł Caputa says. “To be exact, the project aims to develop precise measures of the complexity of states and operators in QFTs and apply them in the holographic correspondence and quantum gravity models,” the researcher explains. The video is available at the University’s YouTube channel. In…

…oined the Erasmus programme on 1st March 1998, but already in February 1997 the Senate of the UW decided to begin preparations for participation in the programme.   The first twenty-three students came to the University in the 1998/1999 academic year; 176 students and thirty-seven members of academic staff left the UW. The project budget the university received for organising the exchange was EUR442,000.   Currently, the UW cooperates with around…

…brings them into the reality of the Maghreb world, the Arab world, and the Islamic world,” Dr Marta Widy-Behiesse says. The author of the collection of ten fairy tales is Tahar ben Jelloun, who was born in the Moroccan city of Fez. He studied philosophy, sociology and psychiatry. In 1971, he emigrated to France, and two years later he published his first novel, Harrouda. In 1987, he was awarded the Goncourt Prize for his book Holy Night, which wa…

…test.   Application deadline is 3rd January 2024 at 10.00 am.   Course implemented under Action II.2.3. “Support of the relocation process of employees from abroad by introducing solutions facilitating involvement of new foreign employees to work at UW and preparation to stay in Poland” of the Excellence Initiative – Research University (IDUB) at the University of Warsaw.   More details are available on the Welcome Point UW’s website>>…

Planetary health is among new categories used in research. It helps to describe the current state of the environment and climate in relation to the wellbeing of the population. Scientists from the UW’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling are also involved in this kind of analyses. MOSAIC – the international project in which they are involved has received funding from the Horizon Europe programme. The Multi-site ap…