High school students from different corners of Poland who share a keen albeit general interest in fashion and textile-clothing topics took part in the National Young Fashion Design National TEXTIL2024 seminar at Lodz University of Technology. They visited the Faculty of Material Technologies and Textile Design bringing along a large number of well thought-through and mature design competition works.

Written by dr Agnieszka Cichocka, Institute of the Architecture of Textiles, Chair of the TEXTIL2024 Organizing Committee

Do you study or work at Lodz University of Technology? We invite you to celebrate spring together in an international atmosphere!

The vote for the best ideas dropped by the staff and students of Lodz University of Technology into this year's Idea Box has concluded. TUL's Rector, prof. Krzysztof Jóźwik, presented the authors of the winning proposals with congratulatory diplomas.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka, editor-in-chief

A group of well-regarded scientists, appointed for the Scientific Advice Mechanism of the European Commission, have submitted to the European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager and Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education Youth Iliana Ivanova a report and an independent opinion on the usefulness of artificial intelligence in science.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka, based on  SAPEA resources

Prof. Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska, dean of the Faculty of Organization and Management at Lodz University of Technology, was unanimously elected Chair of the Committee on Organization and Management Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the 2024-2027 term.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka, editor-in-chief

A group of renowned scientists, nominated by academies through the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism, have advised Commissioners on the use of AI in science.

Dr inż. Paulina Gątarek of the Faculty of Chemistry at Lodz University of Technology has been honored by the Committee on Analytical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, which granted her the award for the best doctoral dissertation in analytical chemistry.

On April 10, the results of the latest edition of the prestigious QS by subject ranking were released. This high-profile, internationally recognized ranking ranks universities within certain subjects of scholarship, providing students and researchers with useful insights. To be included in it is quite a distinction – one that Lodz University of Technology has earned for the second time, this time being classified in four subject areas.

Marta Kopytowska is studying Civil Engineering. Since childhood, she has been training karate and participating in international events. This allowed her to thoroughly understand the mechanisms behind human movement and how complex the anatomy of limbs is. In the E2TOP programme, she decided to unconventionally combine her interest in body movement with construction, implementing the project "Intelligent Nodes in Steel Structures Utilizing the Earth's Center of Rotation".

The main lobby of the building of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning of TUL hosted the opening of the exhibition 'The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.’ (John 1:5), which is a quote from Bible, from the Gospel of St. John.

Written by dr inż. Joanna Matuszewska, Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning