Events: December 2021

Employees' Wellbeing
YUFE invites you to a session of virtual meetings devoted to "Employees' Wellbeing", which will take place on December 1, 2 and 3. The full program is available here.
The event was prepared for people working at universities. The session is organized as part of the YUFE Academy, the theme of which in this year's edition is the well-being of citizens.
The topics that will be covered on the 1st and the 2nd of December 2021 are:
- Making Antwerp University an attractive place to work
- Supporting early career researchers on the institute level - before, during and after the pandemic
- Mental Health Strategies for Employees
- Practices that promote work-life balance
- How we work at Essex: developing people to support the delivery of our strategic ambitions
- Recovery workshop
- Mindfulness at Work: Wellbeing of Employees
- Workers’ health in the third millennium
- Well-being of students, Ph.D. students and employees of NCU in Poland and supporting them by University Centre for Support and Personal Development
- Measuring wellbeing
- Multi-location work at the University of Eastern Finland
On the 3rd of December, the U Essex will chair the Employee’s Wellbeing Roundtable. The aim of the event is to share with colleagues how institutions have implemented their wellbeing programmes from an internal perspective, to provide inspiration and advice to other universities.
Staff from all YUFE universities are invited to participate in this three-day learning experience.
For more details, please see the attached calendar of the events or visit the YUFE website (https://yufe.eu/academy-2021/ ) , and follow the registration link to the event(s) you wish to attend.

XVIII Bridge Tournament at NCU
The tournament will take place on Sunday, December 5, 2021, from 10:00 - 16:00.
The tournament will be played in room 1A on the 1st floor of the Faculty of Theology of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń at 37 Gagarina Street.
Applications are accepted in pairs. At least one person from the couple must have a NCU Alumni Card or a NCU student ID.
To participate in the tournament, you must complete an application (by November 30, 2021) and pay the entry fee (on the spot):
- PLN 20 for holders of the NCU Graduate Card or NCU student ID
- PLN 25 for other people
- "ecological discount" PLN 5 for all people who will bring their own cup and spoon

XVIII Bridge Tournament at NCU
The tournament will take place on Sunday, December 5, 2021, from 10:00 - 16:00.
The tournament will be played in room 1A on the 1st floor of the Faculty of Theology of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń at 37 Gagarina Street.
More information

General IA Seminar
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics invites for dr Robert Beswick's lecture "Star-formation and accretion in galaxies from near to far: the LeMMINGs and eMERGE e-MERLIN legacy programmes" on 20th of December.
Find the abstract at Institute of Astronomy webpage.
The General Seminar takes place in the virtual seminar room. The seminar starts at 11:15 a.m.