• 2022-01-24

    Gdańsk Tech is intensifying activities for the country's defense

    Representatives of the army, science and industry, that is three natural stakeholders in the process of planning the purchase of military equipment, met at Gdańsk University of Technology. In December 2021, the Center of Maritime Military Technologies of Gdańsk University of Technology and the Polish Armaments Group and PGZ Stocznia Wojenna concluded the so-called confidentiality agreements,...

  • 2022-01-24

    Scientists will turn food waste into compounds more valuable than biogas

    Compounds of greater value than methane sourced from household scraps and food production waste? Scientists from Gdańsk University of Technology and China are working on a new technology for processing food waste, thanks to which it will be possible to recover carboxylic acids needed to produce polymers, pharmaceuticals, solvents or food additives.   The project, carried out under the...

  • 2022-01-24

    FarU research infrastructure at hand

    Scientists of the Fahrenheit Universities have gained a new tool, which will make projects and research work significantly easier. As part of the grant project titled Supporting University Consolidation Processes, a system of joint management of member universities’ infrastructure was developed. 133 items of large apparatus and 59 laboratories (core lab), including 2 strategic ones, were...

  • 2022-01-17

    SeaSentinel - port drone preventing contamination. New SimLE project

    Students from the science club SimLE are working on a new project. It is SeaSentinel, a port drone that will monitor the cleanliness of the port basin from the water level, but also prevent any contamination. The originator of the project is Igor Rusiecki, a first-year student of ocean engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Ship Technology. He started working on the drone...

  • 2022-01-14

    HumMilkPres project – obtained funding in the Small Grant Scheme 2020 competition

    The research project entitled. "Storage of human milk in unfrozen state under high pressure-subzero temperature conditions – new method of preservation" received funding in the Small Grant Scheme 2020 competition, announced by the National Centre for Research and Development under the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 and the Applied Research Programme. The Principal Investigator is...

  • 2022-01-12

    What’s new in the field of superconductors?

    Wondering what’s new in the field of superconductors? Join us this Thursday, Jan 13, at 16:00 pm and get the latest information from a world-class specialist in this field, Professor Tuson Park from the Department of Physics of Sungkyunkwan University! Professor Tuson Park is the Head of the Center for Quantum Materials and Superconductivity of the Department of Physics of Sungkyunkwan...

  • 2022-01-11

    Virtual tour inside a ship thanks to an application

    What would it be like if you could immerse yourself in virtual reality and see the hull of a ship from a previously unavailable perspective? MSc. Ewelina Ciba from the Institute of Ocean Engineering and Ship Technology is working on an application that will make it possible. Ewelina Ciba's project "Virtual Reality (VR) in designing the hull structure, application for Android and IOS systems"...

  • 2022-01-05

    Rapid COVID-19 screening

    Scientists from Gdańsk University of Technology designed a device that analyzes air samples of exhaled air for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Ultimately, the device will allow to obtain a result within a minute, for a symbolic “penny”, less inconveniently for the patient than the currently applied methods. Recognized by American media popularizing scientific achievements, the device is being tested...