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

The project dealing with carbon capture and utilization is scheduled to end in December 2023. Its activities have been carried out with the financial support of the governments of Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary provided through the Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund.

Prof. Andrzej Marcinkowski from the Department of Organization and Management at the Lodz University of Technology (TUL) is involved in his research work, including life cycle assessment (LCA), production engineering, industrial symbiosis and energy efficiency.

The Perspektywy Educational Foundation has published (29.06) the results of this year's rankings. Lodz University of Technology was ranked ninth in the Ranking of Academic Institutions. This is one place higher than last year.

Lodz University of Technology representatives successfully competed in the Polish Academic Championships in beach volleyball. Maciej Kaszewiak, a student at the Faculty of Organization and Management, and Miłosz Kruk, a student at the Faculty of Chemistry, won the title of Polish Vice-Champions. Their coach is mgr Piotr Piotrowski, TUL Sports Center.

Written by TUL Sports Center

We are very pleased to announce that the fourth edition of the project 'Masters of didactics-implementation of the tutoring model' has brought about great achievements for many students of Lodz University of Technology. Among them is Anna Magnuszewska, a second-year student pursuing a degree in Advanced Design and Technology at the Faculty of Materials Technology and Textile Design. Read on to learn more about this young person, who for several years now has been successfully blending her passions into her studies.

Written by Alina Wujcik, International Cooperation Center

The challenge in today's education is to keep up with all the changes taking place in the social and economic environment of the university. Nowadays, universities are no longer the sole and overriding center of learning, as many companies are opening their own research, development, and training centers. Thus, the need to diversify competencies and enable their advancement at every stage of life is becoming increasingly pronounced.

Written by Ewa Chojnacka, editor-in-chief

June 23 is the International Day of Women in Engineering. This celebration was initiated in 2014 by the Women's Engineering Society (established in London in 1919). On such an occasion, it is worth getting to know the engineers working at Lodz University of Technology, where you can conduct research in 12 disciplines. Among them are 4 engineering disciplines: chemical, land, materials and mechanical.