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.

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