In the latest Ranking of Secondary Schools 2021 announced by the Perspektywy Public Education Foundation, the Public Secondary School of Lodz University of Technology was once again ranked first in the Łódź Voivodeship.

On January 4 this year President Andrzej Duda granted two professorial nominations to scientists of the Faculty of Materials Technologies and Textile Design of Lodz University of Technology: Prof. Katarzyna Grabowska and Prof. Dawid Stawski.

Recently, at Lodz University of Technology, we open admissions dedicated to foreign candidates twice before each semester. First round of admissions ended at the beginning of January, and the next one is just ahead of us.

At its first online meeting (29.01), the Council of Lodz University of Technology deliberated in a partially altered composition. As of January 1, 2021, it is chaired by dr inż. Mirosław Sopek - MakoLab Vice President for Technology, a graduate of Lodz University of Technology.

The new Council of Lodz University of Technology gathered at its first meeting. The TUL Senate elected the Council for the term lasting from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2024, and it is chaired by Dr. Mirosław Sopek, founder and vice-president for technology of the MakoLab SA Board. Other Members of the Council are: dr inż. Tomasz Krysiński, Vice President for Development and Innovation of Airbus Helicopters, mgr inż. Dariusz Wojciech Szewczyk, President of the Board of Radio Łódź, and from the academic community of the university: prof. Andrzej Bartoszewicz, prof. Wojciech Wolf and dr hab. inż. Jacek Sawicki assoc. prof. Among the members of this body is also the president of the student government, Julia Chojnacka.

Lodz University of Technology, in cooperation with international partners, implements didactic projects related to the use of mixed reality, including virtual and augmented reality, in the educational process. Introducing the latest technologies to transfer knowledge and skills is a more engaging form of education for students.

In three projects financed under the Erasmus+ programme, consortium members from Croatia, Estonia, Portugal, Czech Republic and Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź are working on didactic materials to support education in management, universal design and anatomy.

Despite the difficulties associated with the pandemic and remote teaching, the students of the Public Secondary School of Lodz University of Technology do not stop preparing for competitions and subject olympiads. Recently, the "team of chemists" under the supervision of Dr. Krzysztof Klimaszewski and Dr. Elżbieta Szubiakiewicz achieved significant success..

#EKOlogicznie with TUL is the title of discussions that will appear on the university's Facebook page on Tuesdays, every two weeks. The ecological awareness of a growing part of the society, which is almost universal among young people, proves how important the subject of a clean environment and a healthy lifestyle is. Experts from TUL, for whom ecology is not only a passion but also a subject of scientific research, will advise on how to be a conscious consumer, suggest what decisions are worth making while caring for the environment. They will answer questions and doubts, because also in the subject of ecology there is no shortage of "false truths".

Students of Lodz University of Technology have chosen the company which in their opinion is the best employer in the Lodz region in 2020. The winner of the vote was Ericsson. On 21 January, the Rector of the Technical University of Lodz, Prof. Krzysztof Jóźwik, presented the representatives of the company with a commemorative statuette and a diploma.

Prof. dr hab. inż. Jacek Jachymski is a graduate of the Faculty of Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics (currently Faculty of Technical Physics, Information Technology and Applied Mathematics). His scientific specialties are functional analysis, fractal theory and fixed point theory.