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On the University of Twente campus (Netherlands), the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) celebrated its 25th anniversary.

The first pilot Workshop for Active Use of Technology (PAKT) in Poland was opened at Lodz University of Technology on Wednesday (14 December). It will be a place to host educational workshops for children, young people and adults, based on problem-based, project-based work and the three leading STEAM pathways: robotics, programming and multimedia.

A computer game during functional magnetic resonance imaging, developed at the Institute of Information Technology at the Faculty of Technical Physics, Information Technology and Applied Mathematics at TUL, won in the "Transformation Partner/Solution Provider" category. This was the 25th edition of the competition organised by the K.I.D.S. Foundation - 'Children's Hospital of the Future'.

The XV European Economic Forum, organised by the Marshal's Office of the Łódź Voivodeship, begins on 14 December. Once again, clusters in which Lodz University of Technology takes active part will be the content partners of the event: ICT Central Poland Cluster, LODZistics, Łódź Cluster Energy Wave.

]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.

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.

For a few days, from 23 to 27 November, visitors from 7 countries: Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine and Poland, will come to Lodz University of Technology to participate in the 9th international training conference for doctoral candidates from the Baltic Sea region - BUP 9th PhD Students training "Interdisciplinary-Multicultural-International".

Among the young scientists conducting their research at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School is Lin Fu, a native of China. Under the guidance of Professor Łukasz Kaczmarek, she is working on the development of personalized trapezoidal-metacarpal implants.

Yesterday (15.11), the results of the vote of the Lodz Citizens' Budget 2022/2023 were announced. The project "Green campus - garden on Skorupki", submitted by employees and students of Lodz University of Technology, received 886 votes, which ensured it took first place in the Stare Polesie housing estate and implementation in 2023.

The queen of the sciences - mathematics is another discipline on offer at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School. Welcome to a new episode in the series 'Steer your future with IDS'.