The results of the second edition of the international QS World University Rankings: Sustainability were announced on December 5, 2023. For the first time, Lodz University of Technology was included and ranked 10th among Polish universities and 2nd among Polish universities of technology.
As part of the Ulam NAWA programme Bengi Yilmaz, PhD from the University of Health Sciences Turkey, Department of Biomaterials, will come to Lodz University of Technology. The applicant will complete a two-year scientific internship at the International Centre for Research on Innovative Biobased Materials (ICRI-BioM).
Representatives of Marmara University in Istanbul visited Lodz University of Technology in the framework of an international project called the Interdisciplinary University Entrepreneurship Support Program (InterHEI). Sema Gunduz, prof. Oğuzhan Gündüz, and doc. Nazmi Ekren toured the laboratories of several faculties and that of ICRI-BioM. Dr inż. Iwona Staniec, the TUL InterHEI coordinator, gave a presentation of the research infrastructure that was involved in the RIC Academy held in the course of the project.
Written by dr inż. Iwona Staniec, Institute of Management
The end of November 2023 saw a two-day meeting of the representatives of the Office of the City of Cracow and members of the European consortium implementing the project 'Complex Awareness Raising and Behaviour Change for the Mercury-Free City Environment (LIFE MERCURY-FREE)', or living free of mercury.
Written by prof. Volodymyr Mosorov, Lodz University of Technology and prof. Marcin Zych, AGH University of Science and Technology
I interview dr hab. inż. Katarzyna Nawrotek of ICRI-BioM about the grant for the project 'Biomaterials inducing of DNA demethylation as tools for neuronal regenerative therapies of the future', won in the NCN OPUS 25 call. The research will be carried out in collaboration with dr Przemysław Płociński of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology at the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection at the University of Lodz. This interdisciplinary group also includes international scientists: dr Anika Nagelkerke, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy in the Netherlands, and dr Ksenia Skvortsova, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia.
Interviewed by Ewa Chojnacka
Please find attached the Announcement on the rules for accounting and documenting educational forms implemented by the students of Lodz University of Technology within ECIU.
I asked two researchers from the Bioactive Phytochemicals and Nutrigenomics Group to meet me to talk about how diet affects our health. We sat down together at the Institute of Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology, home to TUL's largest collection of cell lines (mainly human, but also animal ones), available for use by other researchers at our university and in Poland.
Interviewed by Ewa Chojnacka
Dozens of meetings, thousands of coffees drunk and lots of experiences exchanged – this is what this year's mobility week looked like, organized by TUL International Cooperation Centre between November 20 and 24, 2023.
Written by Małgorzata Spodenkiewicz, International Cooperation Centre, TUL
The Business Zone in the Faculty of Organization and Management has grown larger yet with the new functional space designed and paid for by the company that is well-established in Łódź and in Poland, namely BSH Sprzęt Gospodarstwa Domowego Sp. z o.o., present in the Polish market for 30 years now.
Written by Ewa Chojnacka, editor-in-cheif
The National Science Centre has announced this year’s last competition results: OPUS 25 and PRELUDIUM 22. Scientists from Lodz University of Technology have received funding for four innovative projects.