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.

Dr hab. inż. Anna Diowksz, TUL prof., Institute of Fermentation Technology and Microbiology at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, is a specialist in fermentation technology particularly interested in technologies used to improve the production of bread.

Adam Niziołek, who recently graduated from TUL with a first degree in Architecture, received two awards for his thesis on The Evolution of space: Narutowicza Street in Łódź (Ewolucja przestrzeni na przykładzie ulicy Narutowicza w Łodzi). The thesis was supervised by dr. inż. arch. Aneta Tomczak. Adam Niziołek is currently pursuing a second degree in Architecture also at Lodz University of Technology.

Written by dr inż. Aneta Tomczak, Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning TUL

Strefa Biznesu (The Business Zone) has grown bigger yet with the addition of another teaching room sponsored by a company cooperating with the Faculty of Organization and Management. The opening of the laboratory, equipped and furnished by Geis PL sp. z o.o., was attended by quite a large number of students who were introduced to the prospects of internships and apprenticeships by Dorota Wójcik, the company's head of HR.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka, editor-in-chief

In the 3rd edition of the international SHENG competition for Polish-Chinese research projects, the National Science Centre will fund 13 projects with a total value of more than PLN 15 million. Among them is a project from Lodz University of Technology on the remediation of contaminated land, led by Prof. Piotr Paneth.

Lodz University of Technology and the Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital - Research Institute (ICZMP) presented the results of a three-year collaborative project to advance cancer diagnosis. The conference concluding the MDB-Medical Data Bank project was held at the EEIA Faculty, with the individuals who managed that tremendous undertaking in attendance.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka, editor-in-chief