A record number of 95,972 works were submitted for this year's Design Biennale in Peru. In the category of visual identification, 9,596 works were submitted, including "The project of a generative system of dynamic visual identification of Lodz University of Technology" Dr Krzysztof Guzek from the Institute of Information Technology at Lodz University of Technology, which was among the three highest rated by the jury.
The results of the next edition of one of the most prestigious international rankings, U.S. News Best Global Universities, were published in the institutional and by subject classifications. This year, TUL was classified in four disciplines.
The project concerns an extremely important topic: data protection in cloud applications. A team of scientists from the Institute of Information Technology at TUL and specialists from the LTC company intend to develop a new technology using artificial intelligence algorithms and Data Science. The National Centre for Research and Development has granted a 2.5 million PLN grant from the Operational Programme "Intelligent Development" for this purpose.
Lodz University of Technology in cooperation with the IT company LTC sp z o.o. has undertaken a project related to cyber security. The aim is to protect data that are processed by applications running in the cloud.
Article written by Ewa Chojnacka
A team of young chemists under the direction of Professor Anna Masek from the Faculty of Chemistry at TUL was awarded this year's "Łódzkie Eureka" prize. The award was presented during the inauguration ceremony of the 20th jubilee Festival of Science, Technology and Arts.
Potatoes are the most common vegetable grown on large acreages in the countryside and in kitchen gardens. Unfortunately, they are very susceptible to diseases, which can cause an average loss of up to 20 percent of the crop. This problem is being tackled by a team of scientists from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences.
Lodz University of Technology has received funding of EUR 1,164,770 (over PLN 5 million) for the implementation of four international projects in the Erasmus+ programme under Action 2 Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education. They concern the development of innovative educational activities, including a significant use of virtual reality.
Lodz University of Technology has received funding of EUR 1,164,770 (over PLN 5 million) to implement 4 international projects in the Erasmus+ programme. They concern the development of innovative educational activities, including a significant use of virtual reality and ICT techniques.
Article written by Dorota Kamińska, Institute of Mechatronics and Information Systems
For the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, TUL has managed to organize an event that integrated the international academic community of our university.
Can an international team of designers from different fields, who have never met before, create ideas and produce a prototype of a new product in a fortnight? It turns out that they can. Two new products promoting Lodz were presented at the Pop'n'art gallery. They were created by a workshop team working under the Erasmus+ project "Project - Product - Promotion. International Collective for Design" project, which worked intensively at the Faculty of Material Technologies and Textile Design at TUL.