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Electronic PhD Student ID Card (ELD)

The Electronic PhD Student ID is a plastic card with a built-in contactless microchip. It includes an owner’s image and personal data, the document validity date and a visible record of PhD Student’s rights to allowances confirmed by a small hologram. One plastic card plays the role of 4 documents:
   1. a traditional PhD Student ID card,
   2. a library card,
   3. a city card.
   4. entry card for PG parking.
The library card will give you access to the libraries of the Tri-City universities, while the city card (after activation and recharging) serves as a ticket for public transport.

The Electronic PhD Student ID pattern has been defined in the Regulation of the Minister of Science and Higher Education.The PhD Student receives one Electronic PhD Student ID Card for the entire duration of PhD training (unless it is necessary to issue a duplicate or a new Electronic PhD Student ID Card

An Electronic PhD Student ID card will be transferred to production only after the amount due is booked in the system!

It requires 7 days to record the payment at the GUT bank account (in the case of an ordinary transfer).

  • It is not possible to facilitate the procedure of receiving the Electronic PhD Student ID Card by providing a confirmation of transfer.
  • If the issue of an Electronic PhD Student ID Card is cancelled, or if the payment is made to an incorrect account, a PhD Student must submit a request for reimbursement to the University Centre for Personalization (Main Building B, room 202).
  • In order to submit an application for the issuance of an Electronic PhD Student ID Card,  please log on to https://my.pg.edu.pl/ (login@student.pg.edu.pl).
  • If you do not have an account in the student.pg.edu.pl domain, please activate your account on the following page  https://my.pg.edu.pl/,  tab "Aktywacja konta" (tab "Activate Account"). After activating your account you will be given a login and password required to log into the portal. The login is also your student e-mail address, which all the messages both from the faculty offices and from the system will be sent to. Your address is:  login@student.pg.edu.pl , the access to your e-mail is via the webmail.pg.edu.pl. Please remember not to share your login and password with any third party.
  • After the first login, please check the accuracy of your personal data and then submit an application for the issuance of an Electronic PhD Student ID Card. To submit the application select the ‘Złóż wniosek” tab ("Apply" tab). If your personal data in the system and the photo to be placed on a card are correct, select   "Wydanie ELS” tab (" Electronic Student ID Card Issue" tab). If the personal data are incorrect or if you want to change the image, select "Wydanie ELS ze zmianą danych osobowych” (‘The issue of an Electronic PhD Student ID Card with the change of personal data"),
  • Any notifications about the change of the application status are sent to the student’s e-mail and can be seen on the website - section ‘Wnioski’ ("Applications"). The issuance of an Electronic PhD Student ID Card is connected with the fee payment and the relevant information, including the amount payable or the payment form, is available in the "Płatności" ("Payments") section in the "Należności" ("My invoices") tab. The payments must be credited to an individual and unique bank account number which was generated especially for this purpose. Please download the payment forms from the website. This is to avoid mistakes in transfer details.

Instruction of submission of an application for an Electronic PhD Student ID Card (ELD) you can find here.

In case of questions or problems with accessing the website and its operation, please contact IT Services Centre ( personally - in Main Building of GUT, room no. 256 C, by phone +48 58 348 63 37, throught the website (recommended) → here.


How to encode a season ticket on your Electronic PhD Student ID Card?

ZTM Gdańsk (City Transportation Office in Gdańsk)
1. Submit an application for encoding a season ticket on your Electronic PhD Student ID Card and the card itself to one of the application processing centres listed below:

  • Customer Service Centre no. 2, ul. Wyspiańskiego 9A
  • Customer Service Centre no. 3, Gdańsk Main Railway Station (in the tunnel) 
  • Customer Service Centre no. 4 ul. Świętokrzyska 15 (Łostowice - Świętokrzyska tram terminus) 
  • Complaints Centre, ul. Na Stoku 49

2. Take your Electronic PhD Student ID Card back from the same application processing centre where the application has been submitted (the maximum execution period is five working days)

3. Encode a season ticket on your Electronic PhD Student ID Card at any point of sales or transfer a valid electronic season ticket onto your PhD Student Card. 

A current list of points of sale and an application form are available on the website of the City Transportation Office in Gdansk:  www.ztm.gda.pl 

ZKM Gdynia:  www.zkmgdynia.pl 

Contact for Electronic PhD Student ID Card:
University Centre for Personalization
Building B, room no. 202,
tel. +48 58 347 22 58, +48 58 347 19 32
email: els@pg.edu.pl