On August 26-28th 2016 an international workshop “Biological roots of prosociality and rescue behavior” was held at the Hydrobiological Station in Mikolajki. It was organized by the Laboratory of Ethology of the Nencki Institute under the guidance of prof. Ewa J. Godzińska, with the participation guests from France (Elise Nowbahari, Université Paris) and the US (Karen L. Hollis, Mount Holyoke College) (TJ).