]One of the aims of the NCRD's Leader programme is to scientifically solve problems faced by industry. It assumes the transfer of knowledge from the university to the company, as in the case of Lucyna Bilińska, Ph.D., from the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering. With a degree in textiles and conducting research in the Department of Molecular Engineering, she is designing a technology for the treatment of textile wastewater, already used in a dyeing plant.

Advertising makes the trade go round, but emotions are at the beginning of the purchasing decision. They play a key role before the consumer decides to pay for a product. The advertising industry tries to exploit this by influencing our choices. Kamil Lubinski, M.Sc., from the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, investigates nostalgic brand image management in the toy industry.

Lodz University of Technology (30 November) was the venue for the closing session of the OSCE Civic Solidarity Platform meeting. The conference adopted the Lodz Declaration, in which the authors call on the international community to halt Russian aggression against Ukraine, prevent impunity and ensure justice.

The Research Centre for New Biologically Active Compounds Potentially Useful in Medical Diagnostics was opened (1.12) at the Faculty of Chemistry in the Institute of Organic Chemistry of Lodz University of Technology.

Lodz University of Technology has joined the Coalition for Advancement of Research Assessment (CoARA), whose first meeting was held at the beginning of December. The event, held online, was attended by the Rector, Prof Krzysztof Jóźwik.

Written by Magdalena Gajewska-Marcinek, RCDAS

Dr Eng Dorota Kamińska, Dr Eng Grzegorz Zwoliński and Dr Eng Anna Laska-Leśniewicz will participate in the Digital Media Network Doctoral Experience (DiMeNDx) project, which has received funding from the ECIU SMART-ER Seed programme.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka editor-in-chief

A new second-cycle field of study is being created at Lodz University of Technology in response to the demands of an increasingly demanding labour market, in industries based on modern functional materials, numerous in the Lodz region

- We are convinced that the diversity of Lodz public universities shaped over decades, strengthened by the multicultural traditions of Lodz, is not in contradiction, but is the strongest foundation of the unity that we intend to build together as part of the Lodz Academic Partnership (ŁPA) - this is a fragment of the declaration signed (29.11) by the rectors of Lodz public universities at the University of Music.

In the last round of MINIATURA 6 competition, the Polish National Science Center qualified 194 research activities for financing. Three of them are being conducted by young scientists from Lodz University of Technology.

Among the graduates of Lodz University of Technology there is a scientist who is the second Polish person to be able to fly into space. This is Sławosz Uznański, Ph.D., who was included on the list of astronauts announced by the European Space Agency (ESA) in Paris (23 November). This choice is a great success, and it gives us satisfaction that on his way to a career in science and space, he graduated from Lodz University of Technology.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka editor-in-chief