01 November 1945
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Agriculture with the Department of Horticulture are formally established
04 January 1947
First Master's Degree in Agricultural Sciences
01 July 1947
The first is awarded by the Council of the Faculty of Agriculture
17 November 1951
The Council of Ministers regulates the establishment of the University of Agriculture in Wrocław
1951
The departments of Water Melioration and Zootechnics are established
03 January 1952
The first meeting of the Senate of the University of Agriculture in Wrocław takes place
1952
The Main Library and the Physical Education College are established
1953
The Foreign Language Centre is established
1954
The Editorial Board of WSR Scientific Journals is appointed
23 September 1961
The first habilitation degree is awarded by the Council of the Faculty of Agriculture
1962
The first honorary is awarded by the University of Agriculture in Wrocław
01 January 1966
Clinics of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Obstetrics are commissioned
1969– 1972
The buildings at Plac Grunwaldzki 24 and ul. Grunwaldzka 53 are commissioned
28 September 1972
The Council of Ministers regulates the change of the name of the university into the Academy of Agriculture in Wrocław
1977
The autonomous Faculty of Food Technology is established
05 September 1980
The Founding Committee of the NSZZ "Solidarity" at the Academy of Agriculture in Wrocław is established
1981
- The first university statutes by the Senate is adopted
- The first democratic election of the Chancellor takes place without the need for approval from the PZPR Provincial Committee
13–15 December 1981
Occupational strike of university employees and students in protest against the imposition of martial law takes place
12 December 1983
The Surgical Clinic is commissioned
01 April 1991
The Faculty of Water Melioration changes its name to the Faculty of Water Melioration and Environmental Engineering
1993
The Sudetes Agricultural Experimental Station in Radomierz; known today as the Research and Education Station, is established
01 October 1995
A credit system in teaching is introduced
1996
- The sports centre in Biskupin is commissioned
- The Faculty of Zootechnics changes its name to the Faculty of Animal Biology and Breeding
1998
The Electronic Journal of Polish Agricultural Universities, EJPAU is established
2000
- Studies in English for foreigners are established at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- The Education Commission of the European Union gives accreditation to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and admits it to the European Association of Veterinary Faculties (E.A.E.V.E.)
- The Faculty of Water Melioration and Environmental Engineering changes its name to the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy
- The Academy of Agriculture Alumni Association is established
2001
- The Faculty of Food Technology changes its name to the Faculty of Food Sciences
- The manor and palace complex in RZD in Pawlowice is completed for teaching and scientific purposes
- A national journal of agricultural universities, Acta Scientiarum Polonorum is established
2002
- Commission of the teaching and research building in Piastów
- The scholarship of Prof. Stanisław Tołpa is established for young academics of Polish origin and students from countries of the former USSR
2004
The university obtains the ECTS Label, awarded to universities by the European Commission, as one of ten in Europe and the only one in Poland
2005
- Accession to the European University Association (EUA)
- TELC Examination Centre approves the Foreign Language Centre
- The Lower Silesian Centre for Advanced Technologies is established with other partners
- Commission of the Didactic and Scientific Centre and naming the hall after John Paul II
2006
Commission of the indoor swimming pool at Chełmońskiego Street in Biskupin
18 October 2006
An act changing the name of the university to Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences is created
2007
The university gets an honourable mention in the category of "QI ORDER - top quality management" in the first Highest Quality International competition
2009
- The name of the Faculty of Agriculture is changed to the Faculty of Life Sciences and Technology
- Commission of the Bioengineering Centre for the Institute of Agricultural Engineering
- First New Year Concert
2010
- The Pawłowice Declaration is signed
- First Naturalists' Days
2011
- Commission of the Centre for Food Science and Nutrition and Swojczyce Agricultural Knowledge and Practical Training Centre, and modernisation of the Agro- and Hydrometeorological Observatory
- The university gets awarded a Gold Emblem in the QI SERVICES category of the second Highest Quality International competition
2012
- The Computed Tomography Laboratory at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is open
- A licence agreement concerning water sorbing geocomposites is signed - which was the first case of development research results applied into the economy in Poland
- The Polish Centre for Accreditation (PCA) accreddits the Centre for Analysis of Environmental Quality (CAJŚ) at the Institute of Soil Science and Environmental Protection of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology
2013
- First Quality of Education Survey
- An agreement regarding English second-year Studies in Landscape Architecture and Double Diplomas of UPWr and Hunan Agricultural University in Changsha was made
- The university obtained a quality management certificate in accordance with ISO 9001:2008 for the management of education, training, research and service activities
2014
- The magnetic resonance laboratory at the Centre for Experimental Diagnostics and Innovative Biomedical Technologies is opened
- The university is accessed to Horizon 2020
- Wrocław Biotechnology Centre Consortium, formed by eight entities, including three faculties of Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences: The Faculty of Animal Biology and Breeding, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Food Sciences were among the winners of the second competition of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for National Leading Research Centres (KNOW)
- First edition of the Cheese and Wine Festival
- First ever University's Gaudeamus wine tasting (Solaris from 2013)
2015
The Geo-Info-Hydro, a research and education centre at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, is opened
2017
- The Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences Museum opens in Wrocław
- Work on the Atlas of Open Science Resources (AZON), an online information platform that gathers and provides access to the resources of Wrocław science, starts
- Funds for the construction of the Regional Centre for Innovative Technologies in Production, Processing and Food Safety, called Centre for Innovative Technologies (CIT) for short, are granted
- Shares in Wrocław Research Centre EIT+ from UPWr, Wrocław Municipality and 3 other Wrocław universities are transferred to the State Treasury
- The university is awarded Human Resources Excellence in Research logo by the European Commission
- First students graduate the Polish-Chinese studies in the specialisation of Chinese and Polish Traditions in Shaping of the Landscape in landscape architecture
- Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences for the first time ever is ranked in the international Shanghai ranking within the discipline of food science and technology
- The Digitisation Centre is opened
2018
- Photovoltaic panels are installed on the Didactic and Science Centre and the swimming pool of the Physical Education and Sports College
- The international researcher identifier - ORCID is introduced
- The Centre for Genetic Engineering is established
2019
- Nutrition education centres are set up in Radomierz and Hoyerswerda
- The university takes 12th place in the "Initiative for Excellence - Research University" programme (IDUB) - the first competition to select research universities of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- Leading Research Groups are established
- UPWr takes 1st place among agricultural universities, and veterinary science and food and nutrition science, becoming the best in the country according to the "Perspektywy" ranking
- University Statutes and a new division of scientific disciplines and academic credentials are introduced - 7 Discipline Councils were established and a Doctoral School was created. The changes result from the act on "Constitution for Science"
- A Complex of eleven teaching and research laboratories is created. A new building of the Institute of Agricultural Engineering is opened on the Biskupin campus, as well as housing, a prototype laboratory, a drying laboratory, a biomass and waste laboratory, a soil agrophysics laboratory, plant technology, protection and traction research laboratory. The building also houses the Training Centre for Plant Protection Technology
2020
- The university is involved in 3 out of 70 research infrastructure projects included in the Polish Research Infrastructure Map
- The university takes 347th place in the world and 8th in Poland in a ranking based on Web of Science UPWr database in terms of scientific impact of publications and 330th and 3rd place respectively in a ranking including gold open access publications
- PLN 12 million from programmes from the National Science Centre is won by leaders of Leading Research Groups, becoming a historic record
2021
- A new evaluated discipline, Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, is created
