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Kinga Koranyi and Aleksandra Maatsch took part in the public debate “How to restore democracy? Roundtable discussion on Hungarian elections and lessons from Poland” moderated by Michael Blauberger at Paris Lodron University Salzburg on April 15, 2026.

https://www.plus.ac.at/news/roundtable-discussion-on-hungarian-elections-lessons-from-poland-how-to-restore-democracy-roundtable-discussion-on-hungarian-elections-lessons-from-poland/?pgrp=227&is_paged=1&pg=639557
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“Queens of third places, masters of the second plan” is the title of a paper co-authored by Anna Pacześniak, who co-organized the “Local Government Women Leaders” conference together with the Lower Silesian Voivodeship Office. The event brought together dozens of women serving as mayors, commune heads, county heads, secretaries, or treasurers at various levels of local government in Lower Silesia. At the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Wrocław, they received concise political science analyses on the specific nature of women’s functioning in local politics, took part in workshops on diplomacy, personal branding, and coping with stress related to public office, and expanded their professional networks at the intersection of public administration and academia.

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Prof. Anna Pacześniak, as a panelist in the debate “Equality in the workplace – different perspectives” during the conference of the Ogólnopolskie Porozumienie Związków Zawodowych titled “Facts instead of myths – how knowledge and dialogue build an equal society”, compared European and national solutions for counteracting discrimination, promoting women’s participation in decision-making processes in politics and business, and discussed the role of trade unions in building inclusive workplaces. The nationwide conference, held at Politechnika Wrocławska on March 12, 2026, was attended by trade unionists from across the country representing all sectors of the economy.

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Students from Lower Silesian schools and teachers from School European Clubs were the audience of a lecture by Anna Pacześniak on March 6, 2026, titled “European education between the hammer of politics and the anvil of deepfakes”, delivered during the conference “Common Europe: European education and youth civic engagement”, organized by the Lower Silesian Superintendent of Education at the Lower Silesian Film Centre. Issues of disinformation and manipulation techniques were addressed in order to strengthen critical thinking and independent reasoning.

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On two Saturdays in February and one in March, Anna Pacześniak met with children aged 10–11 during political science workshops organized by the Fundacja Uniwersytet Dzieci. During classes devoted to the characteristics of European monarchies and republican systems, the children developed critical thinking skills and the ability to cooperate in an organized way with others, expanded their civic competences, and learned through a method based on questions and hands-on experience.

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New HORIZON project

The Jean Monnet Chair participates in the HORIZON project “Digital Transformation for Building Democratic Resilience,” which has reached the Grant Agreement Preparation stage under the EU Funding & Tenders Portal. The project is coordinated by Prof. David Ramiro Troitiño (Tallinn University of Technology). The University of Wrocław (prof. Aleksandra Maatsch, Jean Monnet Chair at the…
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PhD Defence by Bastian Küntzel

We are pleased to announce that on Friday, 23 January 2026, Bastian Küntzel has defended his PhD thesis entitled “From Openness to Closure: the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Transnational Identity at the Polish-German Border.”The dissertation was conducted within the framework of a cotutelle agreement between the University of Wroclaw, the Faculty of Social…
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Kinga Koranyi spoke at a panel EU Governance and Rule of Law Conditionality in Hungary, organized by LUISS University and Sapienza, November 25th 2025.

https://redemo.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251125-Rule-of-Law-Conditionality-in-Hungary-KKoranyi-Flyer.pdf
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Aleksandra Maatsch attended the Pariser Platz Dialogue organized by Delors Centre and Herite and contributed as a speaker to the panel “Opening Options: Weimar+, coalitions of the willing and the need for a European avant-Garde” moderated by Thu Nguyen (Delors Centre) and Pascal Lamy (Coordinator Delors Network), Oliver Linz (Federal Foreign Office, Germany), Nicolai von Ondarza (German Institute for International and Security Affairs), 4-5 December 2025.

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Aleksandra Maatsch attended a conference “Poland, Czechia, Germany, the European Union and the new world order” organized by the Silesian Institute in Opole, where she moderated a panel on EU (des)integration with prof. Zdenek Jirasek (Opava University), prof. Arkadiusz Stempin (Uczelnia Korczaka) and dr Błażej Choroś (UO), November 18-19, 2025.

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