Lodz University of Technology students keep an open mind and, as Rector of Lodz University of Technology professor Krzysztof Jóźwik likes to accentuate, it is important that their research ideas should meet the needs of industry. - Following the talks we had with Biotechnika, the time has come to sign a sponsorship agreement. It is a new approach, although the idea itself is somewhat similar to what used to be called an endowed scholarship. Working in partnership, the company and Lodz University of Technology provide new opportunities for capable students.

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The 180-year-old Oak Fabrykant reigns supreme in the Bishop Michał Klepacz Park that is part of the TUL campus. This natural monument of extraordinary beauty has been voted the European Tree of the Year 2023.

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" (...) I am convinced that anyone who wants to deal with mathematics will find something in it that interests them". - says Adam Błoch, M.Sc., a doctoral candidate and mathematics enthusiast who is preparing his thesis in this discipline.

During the gala event of the 13th edition of the LEADER Programme, young researchers received grants awarded to them in the competition, in the form of symbolic cheques. A researcher from the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering at Lodz University of Technology, Lucyna Bilińska, Ph.D., received a cheque for PLN 1.5 million.

The results of the latest edition of the QS by subject ranking, one of the most prestigious international rankings, have been published. Lodz University of Technology was ranked in it for the first time, in as many as four disciplines.

On the first day of the calendar spring (21.03), the winners of the European Tree of the Year 2023 contest were announced. The first place went to the oak Fabrykant with 45,718 votes of internet users cast in favour of the tree which grows in Klepacz Park on the campus of Lodz University of Technology.

The team of Dorota Kaminska, PhD, from the Institute of Mechatronics and Information Systems at TUL, was the winner of the Selfie+ photo competition - "Imagine, inspire others".

In January 2023, the Faculty of Organization and Management, TUL, joined the Polish-Romanian-Moldovan consortium formed to carry out an Erasmus+ education project called Developing and improving the STEAM skills of students and teachers for curriculum innovation and sustainable development of higher education institutions and local businesses. The name of the project succinctly explains its objectives: the EU members of the consortium shall support the non-EU members in the development of innovative education by sharing their best practice and experience.

Wiktoria Gerlicz, a student of biotechnology at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences at Lodz University of Technology, won the Rector's Award of Lodz University of Technology in the first edition of the programme for exceptionally talented students - E2TOP.

The winner of the first edition of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education's Pearls of Science competition was Emilia Brancewicz-Steinmetz, a doctoral candidate at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at TUL.