The inauguration of the new 2017/2018 academic year

28.09.2017

Nearly 1600 students will start their studies at the MUG. The inauguration of the new 2017/2018 academic year at the Medical University of Gdańsk will take place on October 6, 2017, at 9 am at the Auditorium Primum named after Olgierd Narkiewicz, the Atheneum Gedanense Novum (AGN) building.

• National anthem
• Inaugural speech of rector prof. Marcin Gruchała
• Awards and distinctions
• Matriculation
• Gaude Mater Polonia (“Rejoice, oh Mother Poland”, the medieval Polish anthem)
• Student representative’s speech
• Guests’ speeches
• Inaugural lecture by prof. Paul F. Grundeman, “Cardiovascular innovation: lucky failures”
• Gaudeamus igitur

The inauguration will be preceded by a solemn mass for the MUG’s deceased and present employees, students and doctoral students which will take place on October 1, 2017, at 7 pm in the church of Our Lady of Czestochowa (pw. Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej) in Gdansk-Wrzeszcz at 3B M. Skłodowska-Curie street.