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.
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.
The feeling that the voice of young scientists can be heard and can change something gives me power to work, says Assoc. Prof. Eng. Marta Gmurek, professor at the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering at TUL, the new Vice-Chairman of thePolish Young Academy - Polish Academy of Sciences.
A team of Robotics students from the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering at Lodz University of Technology has once again achieved international success. They took third place in the grand finals of the World Robot Summit in Japan.
This significant project provides about PLN 1 billion of funding for the digitization of public offices. It will be implemented by the Digital Poland Projects Centre(CPPC) and Lodz University of Technology.
The National Agency Erasmus+ Programme and the European Solidarity Corps awarded Lodz University of Technology the EDUinspirations prize in the Digital Skills category for the international project Virtual Mechatronic Laboratory, coordinated by our university.
Students of Lodz University of Technology Vice-Champions of Europe
The President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda, on 27th July, awarded the academic title of professor of social sciences in the discipline of management and quality sciences to Magdalena Grębosz - Krawczyk, PhD, from the Faculty of Management and Production Engineering at TUL. The researcher has joined the group of the youngest professors at TUL.
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, granted the title of professor of engineering sciences to Assoc. Prof. Eng. Dorota Kręgiel, from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences and Assoc. Prof. Eng. Marcin Janicki, from the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering
International Cooperation Centre successfully applied to the Welcome to Poland programme run by the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) and has obtained almost 400 thousand PLN for initiatives supporting the university internationalisation. 181 projects applied for co-financing at NAWA, of which only 39 have been selected for implementation, including Lodz University of Technology.
It is difficult to describe the happiness of the academic community of Lodz University of Technology with the Olympic gold medal of the 4x400 mixed relay at the Tokyo Olympics, in which Kajetan Duszyński, a doctoral student at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School TUL who crossed the finish line. He is a young man with a great passion for sport and science. I am extremely proud of the success of our doctoral student. I am glad that he decided to develop his passion and career at Lodz University of Technology, the university which provides excellent prospects for talented people with great scientific potential
- said the rector of Lodz University of Technology, Prof. Krzysztof Jóźwik, commenting on the great success of Poland.
The Patent Office of the Republic of Poland has published the annual report for 2020. Lodz University of Technology has moved up one place in the ranking according to the number of granted patents filed for protection by domestic and foreign entities. Thus, TUL has come second with 73 patents received.
The problem of insufficient management of vegetable waste from food processing, food waste and the still dynamically growing amount of used packaging and disposable plastic tableware result in ecological, economic and ethical problems that affect most developed countries