The second edition of the "City Development Forum" will take place on 12th and 13th September 2018. This time the conference will be devoted to urban logistics. This edition is co-organized by the City of Poznań (City Development and Foreign Relations Department) and Volkswagen Poznań

Team Folks would love to invite all of you for the International Picnic in the Cytadela Park in Poznań on 29th of July (at 1 PM). Right under the Bell we will eat, dance, sing and play.

Good news! The conversation club meetings will be continued.

We live in an era of information tsunami and fake news, easily spread especially after the digital revolution in the media. Even global news agencies, like the BBC state that 2017 was record-breaking when it came to the fake news plague. That's why from 9th July to 12th July 2018 an international group of educators, journalists and NGO workers covered the topic of critical thinking skills and critical media content analysis during the "News Literacy Summer Institute in Poznań 2018".  

Researchers from the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Materials and Nanotechnology (Faculty of Chemistry), working under the guidance of prof. Jerzy J. Langer have recreated a recipe for Medieval tombstones dark coloring mass along with its application technology.

In the following months a high number of Adam Mickiewicz University students is going to begin their studies at the partner universities as part of the Erasmus+ programme. Moving to another European country owing to the scholarship makes it compulsory to fulfil many formal obligations. For the young people, however, it is also an "exam" in language, intercultural and organizational skills. To support facing the challenges the activists from the Local Section of Erasmus Students Network UAM Poznań are doing their best to give practical guidelines and organise meetings about the student mobility.

Eight AMU faculties are involved in hosting another edition of Polish-Israeli PhD workshops for 72 PhD candidates from Israel, including: Historical Studies, Political Science and Journalism, Social Sciences, Educational Studies, English, Modern Languages, Law and Administration as well as Mathematics and Computer Science.

IT experts from all over the world, lectures on current trends, debates, networking meetings, and the opportunity to give one's own speech. All this is waiting for the participants of the World Computer Congress. The WCC will be held in Poznań from the 17th to 21st September. Registration is already open.

During the academic year, the walls of Poznań's universities host not only students and lecturers, but also prominent figures from the worlds of science, economy, politics, and art. Thanks to the initiative of the City of Poznań, more than 260 open lectures by top-class specialists have been delivered in the city over the last 10 years. Poznań was visited by Prof. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a well-known American psychologist, Prof. Robert Cialdini and Prof. Ben L. Feringa, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

Yesterday before midnight Polish Sejm (lower chamber of Polish parliament) adopted, with more than 80 amendments, the Law on Higher Education and Science (Ustawa 2.0 - so-called Constitution for Science) and its introductory regulations. 233 deputies voted for the new law, 195 were against it and 1 abstained from voting. The next step in the legislative process will be voting on the act in the Senat and submitting the project for signature by the President.