A group of researchers in the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Science, including dr inż. Joanna Grzelczyk, dr inż. Gałązka-Czarnecka, and dr inż. Joanna Oracz, have been working edible packaging and dishware. The technology they have been developing takes advantage of vegetative waste. Their innovative project called Mixture for the production of disposable biodegradable packaging and tableware, especially for use in the food industry, and a method of their production took second place in the competition "Eureka! DGP - discovering Polish inventions".

Three student-athletes from Lodz University of Technology will represent Poland at the 31st Summer Universiade in Chengdu, China. Two will compete in swimming and one in athletics.

The latest Hot Topics in Science and Technology series featured dr. Jacek Gwizdka, Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, who delivered a lecture on “Neuro-physiological evidence as a basis for understanding human-information interaction”. In an interview for Życie Uczelni, Jacek talks about his professional career trajectory and research.

Lodz University of Technology, together with Veolia Energia Łódź, has been organizing a competition for the best master's thesis on energy for several years. The results have just been announced.

The 10th edition of the "Eureka! DGP - we discover Polish inventions", was lucky for Lodz university of Technology. Researchers from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, with team leader Joanna Grzelczyk, PhD won second place.

A team of TUL students has won an impressive victory in the finals of International Small Wind Turbine Contest. They return to Poland with two of the three main prizes. Their innovative wind turbine won first place, beating teams from Canada, the Netherlands, Egypt or Denmark.

With the beginning of July, the second edition of the Spinaker project, funded by NAWA with EU funds, kicked off at the Faculty of OiZ. The first one was successfully held in April.

Written by dr Sebastian Bakalarczyk, Institute of Management

The project has been in development since 2015. New students have been joining the team in place of those graduating, yet one thing has remained constant - the GUST turbine has been a tour de force project. At the International Small Wind Turbine Contest in the Netherlands, the team working on the GUST project have just achieved another spectacular win. Their small but highly innovative wind turbine won first place, achieving in addition the best result in the category of the highest per annum energy production.

Written by Marcin Walczak, Team GUST

Lodz University of Technology is among the best universities in Poland! Again! This year, however, it has been ranked one notch higher than last year among technical universities.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka, editor-in-chief

Year 2023 has been rather special for the discipline of Management and Quality Studies on account of the Summer School of Management (SZL), an event regarded as iconic by the scientific community of the discipline. The conference has been held biannually since 1973. The organization of the latest, 22nd edition, was granted to the Faculty of Organization and Management of Lodz University of Technology and the Faculty of Management of the Wroclaw University of Economics. It was held under the auspices of the Committee on Organizational and Management Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as of the Rectors of both universities, Professor Krzysztof Jóźwik and Professor Andrzej Kaleta.

Written by dr hab. Anna Adamik, TUL professor, Institute of Management