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Symposium about Latin America
20-04-2015…nce ambicious social programmes has led Latin American governments to adopt exctractivist policies as a pillar of development. The new extractivism, but also expanding agro-industrial monocultures, road infrastructure and energetic mega projects like hydro-electric dams, provoke growing number of conflicts with local communities over control of land and resources, often leading to serious human rights abuses. Observers report violence and reppresi…
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University Mergers
09-04-2015…c Sea University Network (BSRUN) has specialised in the governance, management and administration of universities. BSRUN organises also events on e.g. internationalisation, university-business cooperation, regional development and EU-Russia relations. The network is a strategic partner of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and looks forward to contributing to the Polish presidency of the organisation which starts on 1st July 2015. In or…
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Best masters and MBA programs
21-01-2015…riteria of this ranking were: the notoriety of the programs, the salary of first employment after graduation, student satisfaction. The results are published on www.best-masters.com….
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Action zone in DELab open
16-12-2014…We would like to use this initiative to support the broadly understood academic entrepreneurship. These are the ideas of students, graduates and the staff of the university on how to channel their daily work – i.e., the science – into business”, said professor Marcin Pałys, the Rector of the University of Warsaw, during the inauguration. Since last year, DELab is supported by Google. The University of Warsaw cooperates also with the Warsaw Unive…
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How to improve the programmability of Java applications?
11-12-2014…the applicability of the framework on a set of carefully selected applications that are deemed key for the future – says prof. Piotr Bała. – We will work with key Big Data applications and kernels that are ubiquitously used by our massive target user base. To achieve this, we develop and adapt our preexisting parallel Java library to parallel heterogenous and distributed platforms. In view of candidate exascale platforms, we will investigate solut…
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The University of Warsaw most popular among foreigners
02-12-2014…he foundation and the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland. The data refers to students of undergraduate and graduate (master) courses; it does not cover international students who come to Poland for a one-semester or one-year exchange. The number of participants of various scholarship programmes in the University of Warsaw reaches around 1.4 thousand annually. So, each year the University of Warsaw hosts over 3 thousand internation…
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Sky in sight
24-11-2014…ding 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 them is Professor Udalski from the University of Warsaw. This is a film about him. More about the series. Andrzej Udalski P…
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Hydrogen storage materials
20-11-2014…ents, which permits synthesis of metal borohydride while “dead mass” (LiCl or NaCl) is separated by filtration in the first step. They have successfully synthesized light weight lithium/zinc and sodium/zinc borohydrides using their new approach as well as extend the range of known compounds in the family of alkali metal/yttrium borohydrides. Synthesis of many more systems based on Mg, Sc, Mn and other transition metals, is now carried out at CeNT….
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Second place for programmers
20-11-2014…as five teams made it to the finals, this time taking place in Morocco. As each university may be represented by only one team, the teams number 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8 from among the top eight will qualify for the finals – explains professor Krzysztof Diks. TOP 10 ranking 1. University of Zagreb (Stjepan Glavina, Ivan Katanic, Gustav Matula), 10 tasks 2. University of Warsaw (Kamil Dębowski, Błażej Magnowski i Marek Sommer), 8 tasks 3. University of…
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Seeking inspiration? Choose University of Warsaw
20-10-2014…an Commission awarded us many times for our participation in the Erasmus academic exchange programme. We also want the scientists from all around the world, when looking for an internship, job or cooperation project, to take Warsaw into account. To this end, we have prepared – for example – special programmes for visiting professors. We are open to everyone and invite them to visit the University, Warsaw and Poland. We are looking for people who d…
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