What should the recipe for successful cooperation with the industry look like? It's a bit like an English lawn - you have to sow it and then systematically care for it for at least 100 years. It is true that the cooperation between BSH and Lodz University of Technology does not last that long, but today it can be said that its results are promising.

Written by Łukasz Szymański, Institute of Mechatronics and Information Systems

Lodz University of Technology is proud of the numerous successes of students involved in scientific circles. These activities have also been appreciated by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. As part of the competition "Students' scientific circles create innovations", it awarded almost PLN 0.5 million. Funding for the projects was granted to as many as 8 scientific circles, the highest number among all the universities in Poland.

In autumn, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, TUL will start offering doctoral studies to additional students selected through a joint admission process between the university and the National Centre for Research and Development. This is the effect of the agreement signed by the Rector of Lodz University of Technology, Professor Krzysztof Jóźwik and the President of IDEAS NCBR, Prof. Piotr Sankowski.

The Minister of Economic Development and Technology granted the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Lodz University of Technology the status of an accredited Innovation Centre for services provided under programmes financed from European funds. Having such a status allows the unit to provide professional pro-innovation services.

Faculty of Organization and Management concluded an agreement with TÜV NORD, a certification partner with a long experience and tradition, operating in over 100 countries worldwide, including 25 years in Poland.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka editor-in-chief

Miss Poland Karolina Bielawska, a student of management at the Faculty of Organization and Management (OiZ) of Lodz University of Technology, has won the title of Miss World 2021, the most beautiful woman in the world. The 70th Miss World contest, which took place in Puerto Rico on March 16, will go down in our history.

The Business Council of the Faculty of Material Technologies and Textile Design was established. The inaugural meeting brought together many entrepreneurs, as well as representatives of the Marshal's Office and scientific institutes and industry associations.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka, editor-in-chief

The inauguration of the first edition of the programme Excellence in Engineering: Talents in Research with Opportunities (E2TOP) took place on 10 March. We met seven of the most talented first-year students from various fields of study at TUL.

The workshop "Prospects for development of air transport and logistics in the Łódź agglomeration" has just come to an end. Last week (3.03), the perspectives of changes in the global and local aviation market, as well as the evolution of distribution systems in urban areas were discussed by a group of experts and panellists in the TUL Sports Bay.

Our Olympian, Kajetan Duszyński, a doctoral student at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of Lodz University of Technology, turned out to be the best in the 400 m indoor run, thus setting his new personal best record. On Sunday, 6 March, at the Polish Senior Indoor Athletics Championships in Toruń, he clocked 46.71 seconds.